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dbxkcichhdfufu··on On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services
Please define hate speech.

Generalizing everyone that disagrees with you as "those types" and then calling me pathetic to group me in with them is exactly the problem is was alluding to.

dbxkcichhdfufu··on On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services
If alarm bells didn't go off when free speech became a dirty word on the left I don't know what to tell you.
dbxkcichhdfufu··on Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?
The state that matters to users. All the rest is lies we tell ourselves.

There's a reason developers are constantly inventing ways to remove state from their code. Managing state is messy. Frameworks simply move it around.

Most react apps would be better off written in PHP, html, and progressively enhanced JS.

This is coming from a react developer. Most of what I do is bullshit work someone else invented for me.

But it pays well so ohwell.

dbxkcichhdfufu··on Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?
Browsers already managed state just fine. We just didn't like the way it looked.
dbxkcichhdfufu··on Congress.gov API
No /trades route?

What's the point without that?

dbxkcichhdfufu··on AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)
The ones I had were around 60usd and had good enough sound for me. The only problem I had with them was the headband was built for small heads. Broke in the same spot twice. After second I just took the refund and got some Sony's.

Sound is pretty nice upgrade though even for someone like me that can't tell. Noise cancelling helps a lot over COVID too.

dbxkcichhdfufu··on Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)
Are they exceptions? I'm sure they had normal families and lives prior to their murderous transitions.

My point is be careful how much you choose to let people get away with a "they're just human" pass. Some people deserve the labels. For anyone that worked with Steve I'm willing to bet they think he deserves the arsehole label they give him.

dbxkcichhdfufu··on An Hallucinated Man: The battles over T. S. Eliot’s legacy
Should just be a "The".
dbxkcichhdfufu··on Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)
Hitler, mao and stalin can all go jump as far as I'm concerned.

I'm sure they weren't pure evil either but sometimes people deserve the label.

dbxkcichhdfufu··on AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)
"Upgrading" to my Sony's was painful. Beforehand I had some cheap Chinese brand that had the best bluetooth experience of my life.

I could switch devices and the one I was using could connect up easy without having to do the whole disconnect from the other device first thing.

I suspect on connect it was also issuing a disconnect to the previous sender as well because I never had an issue of a device reconnecting overtop.

Multiple devices could be paired at the same time and it just latched on to whichever device tried to connect last.

Even apple doesn't do well at this. Apple also has all kinds of weird bugs and sound issues. They are still nice for walking around though so I won't be ditching them anytime soon.

dbxkcichhdfufu··on Accidental complexity, essential complexity, and Kubernetes
At that point it's not an implementation detail anymore and that's kind of the point.

Static binaries are great but they don't solve every problem and they do to have to.

The vast majority of usecases don't need kubernetes, that's fine too.

You don't have to bash kubernetes because you don't specifically need it for your one use case.

There are plenty of other perfectly valid reasons to bash that dogpile.

dbxkcichhdfufu··on Ask HN: As a dev, what made (or almost) you quit from a job?
Never quit a job. Only managers.
dbxkcichhdfufu··on Less is more agile
Waterfall absolutely was practiced. Budgets always overrun and developers had to work overtime to meet deadlines completing all the tasks that weren't mentioned in the plan.