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bleuarff··on Show HN: I made an alarm clock
Well, I think blue light less disturbing if the kid sees it in the middle of the night, and more likely to get back to sleep. Also, orange looks more energetic and more appropriate for when the kid can get up. But that kind of perception is culture-dependent. I'm from Europe and this scheme seems natural to me.
bleuarff··on Show HN: I made an alarm clock
Shameless plug: I too made an alarm clock, although quite a different one, since it's for my kids: https://github.com/Bleuarff/teddy-clock
bleuarff··on Apple's Shifting Differentiation
I would agree if us poor souls didn't have to still support ie11.
bleuarff··on Medium is not the home for your ideas
Has the project team any say in this, or is it just Medium doing their thing?
bleuarff··on 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (2018)
Interesting, can you elaborate?
bleuarff··on I won’t buy ebooks anymore
If that were true, Netflix would not have been the success we know. When the user experience of buying anything is easier than the illegal counterpart, that's how you win over piracy.
bleuarff··on Paris to Create 650 Kilometers of Post-Lockdown Cycleways
I don't think people commuting to Paris for work use public parking space, the cost is much too high for everyday 9-to-5 usage. Either they use public transports, or have a private parking space at work. In both case they're not impacted by reducing public park space.
bleuarff··on Fastmail Labels Beta
I have been looking for alternatives to gmail for quite some time but without luck so far aslabels are absolutely essential to me.
bleuarff··on Gadgets That Refuse to Die
All of Verizon's former yahoo/aol properties (techcrunch, engadget, tumblr) have become utterly unusable with no optout (or so deeply buried I haven't found it), I don't even bother following these links anymore.
bleuarff··on 4.2″ and 7.5″ NFC-powered e-Paper Displays Work without Battery
I don't know where you live, but here in France I haven't seen a paper price tag for years. Every chain store has been using e-ink tags for a long time.
bleuarff··on A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidden code
That's not a hack, that's blatant cheating, their solution litterally looked at the anwsers. It bypassed the ML model prediction, so that's not a ML solution, which to my understanding was the constraint of the competition. And in the end, that solution is useless for the adoption site, since the objective is to get adoption predictions (the animal has not been adopted yet). I'm confused too, by how can anyone think it's an acceptable behavior.
bleuarff··on The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City
Add to that The World Inside novel, by Robert Silverberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Inside).
bleuarff··on Linus: Don't Use ZFS
Last time I checked (a few years ago I must say), a 10^15 URE was only for enteprise-grade drives and not for consumer-level, where most drives have a 10^14 URE. Which means your build is almost guaranteed to fail on a large-ish raid setup. So yeah, RAID is still feasible with multi-TB disks if you have the money to buy disks with the appropriate reliability. For the common folk, raid is effectively dead with today's disk sizes.
bleuarff··on My Hardest Bug to Debug (2018)
Not a real story, but in theory a missing semicolon in javascript can lead to unexpected results. The semi-colon is optional but missing it will cause issue if the following line starts with an opening bracket (and maybe other chars too). For instance:

    const foo = [['bar'], ['baz']];
    [0, 1].forEach(x => x*x);
foo will be the array, as expected. But forget the semicolon and foo is assigned the return of forEach, a.k.a undefined. The syntax is valid, but is not evaluated to what you would naively expect.
bleuarff··on Digital pollution
Dropping IE support is a luxury not everyone can afford. So you either write code like it's 2014, or you use modern js features and have to transpile your code. That may add some overhead, but I'm much happier using async/await and babel.
bleuarff··on Performance metrics for web apps
Not only to mitigate timing attacks, but also to limit fingerprinting by data-harvesting entities.
bleuarff··on Lost in Translation: Writing treaties in two languages can lead to problems
Agreed, but that's not a reason to write laws or treaties in a language the general population does not speak. That's too high a barrier to understand the rules of your nation, which should be easily accessible to every citizen. Legalese is complicated enough in your native tongue :).
bleuarff··on Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition
You're right, that works. Either that landed recently, or I'm confusing with another filtering feature that Chrome is missing.
bleuarff··on Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition
Each has their pros and cons. My favorite features in FF devtools which are missing from Chrome are CSS diff and the advanced filtering in the network panel. Chrome filtering only works on hosts, while FF can filter in query strings and other sections of a request.
bleuarff··on A Thriving Civilization in Malta Collapsed 4k Years Ago
It's not unique. Sardinia is another mediterranean island where people relied on cattles much more than fish for food.
bleuarff··on Notre-Dame came closer to collapsing than people knew
Or, perhaps cynically, being one of the most visited monument in the world, it has a non-negligible economic value for Paris and France. Is that worth a few lives?
bleuarff··on Notre-Dame came closer to collapsing than people knew
That was a bonus in addition to the restauration works that took place mid-19th century.
bleuarff··on Cracking My Windshield and Earning $10k on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program
As have done other frameworks for quite some time, btw.
bleuarff··on To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
I get your point, but Samsung is a manufacturer, it sells products. Google and FB can have much more impact leveraging the data they have on everyone, which is why we need as a society to be cautious and keep them in check.
bleuarff··on Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools
Great. Last time I tried Firefox dev edition a few months ago I had huge memory leaks, upwards of 2GB with a single tab after a few hours of use. It seems much better with the latest version.
bleuarff··on Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
3$/month or 25$/year. But yes, it's the same plan.
bleuarff··on Aardman Animation Is Giving the Company to Their Employees
Off topic, but the cookie consent popin wants me to allow a total of more than 2500 different cookies? Only a few are actually created, but come on, do they really partner with thousands of 3rd parties for my precious data?
bleuarff··on When Telecom Companies Search Your Home for Piracy
Permanent copyright? So you're saying your great-grandchildren should be entitled to reap the benefits of something they did not create and has nothing to do with them, long after the death of the original creator?
bleuarff··on Mario Kart Wii: The History of the Ultra Shortcut [video]
I've spent god knows how many hundreds of hours on this game and had no idea such tricks existed. I'm impressed by the dedication some guys put into understanding the mechanics and trying to break them.
bleuarff··on Sweden offers glimpse of a world without Amazon
I didn't know that. Is it well-known & used outside of Australia?
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