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jefozabuss··on Does creatine make you smarter?
Likely. I did one time a creatine loading week of 30gr a day at 100kg body weight and I had to drink 7L of water to not feel like I have a hangover.
jefozabuss··on Show HN: 18 Words
I think loading the big wordlist (279496 words as of now) is a waste of bandwidth as you only need to load permutations of the words in the selected challenge (e.g. you don't need "ABANDONEES" if you don't have a word with those letters).
jefozabuss··on Seed. LINE's Custom Typeface
The links are using images instead of texts in the footer, which is well not ideal as they are not searchable.
jefozabuss··on Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?
While it does not use a commonly used "framework" it uses many libraries and likely has its own custom framework.

In the past we used http://microjs.com/ and similar to find small libs to work with when we threw together marketing websites, not sure how maintained that list is nowadays but the idea is that you can make websites like lego, sometimes you don't need a whole box of Eiffel tower to make a little tree.

If your functionality is well thought out and not super complicated, don't have 10s or 100s of devs on the same project then working without a well known framework could make sense, otherwise there can be steeper learning curve when onboarding new devs, scope creep / bloat, etc that will likely cause issues down the road.

To learn about this you could try to replicate for example the mentioned Obsidian by yourself and research solutions for all the issues you run into, e.g. minimal routing, custom view renders, reactivity, performance, etc.

jefozabuss··on Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
Rationale is likely the requirements of age verification rules by UK, some US states, etc.

We could likely see a bit more of these data leaks in the future I guess, due to how there are more and more countries/states adopting this.

jefozabuss··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
I think all public package registries have this problem as it's not unique to npm.

The "blind" auto updating to latest versions seems to be also an issue here, simply you cannot trust it enough as there is (seemingly) no security vetting process (I mean if you get obfuscated gibberish pushed into a relatively sanely written codebase it should ring some alarms somewhere).

Normally you'd run tests after releasing new versions of your website but you cannot catch these infected parts if they don't directly influence the behavior of your functionality.

jefozabuss··on You too can run malware from NPM (I mean without consequences)
Seems like people already forgot about Jia Tan.

By the way why doesn't npm have already a system in place to flag sketchy releases where most of the code looks normal and there is a newly added obfuscated code with hexadecimal variable names and array lookups for execution...

jefozabuss··on iPhone dumbphone
You also accumulate screen time if you are using navigation while commuting, etc. I easily rack up 2 hours daily just from driving to my workplace and back home, so there are definitely some "passive" ways to increase those numbers.

I think focusing on numerical stats here is also a bit of a problem and while making these guardrails might help some people but the main issue should be addressed (overconsumption/addiction).

I wonder by reducing the screen time of the phone, how the screen time of the other devices (computer/tv/etc) changed.

jefozabuss··on Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
I just use .npmrc with save-exact=true + lockfile + manual updates, you can't be too careful and you don't need to update packages that often tbh.

Especially after the fakerjs (and other) things.

jefozabuss··on How much energy does it take to think?
Be very careful with these "experimental" (to say in the nicest way possible) things like methylene blue as combining with certain meds like SSRIs could be fatal according to https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2078225/#:~:text=Mo...
jefozabuss··on High vitamin B6 doses over a long period could cause irreversible nerve damage
There was an interesting video by ChubbyEmu where energy drinks fixed his B12 deficiency by accident that caused the insomnia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_qKA6KTvs8
jefozabuss··on High vitamin B6 doses over a long period could cause irreversible nerve damage
I've been taking "Opti-Men" from Optimum Nutrition for like 10 years now and it seems to have 50mg in a (full) serving that I take.

Since B6 is water soluble doesn't it mean most of it might just leave our body if not needed? (No storage in fat)

jefozabuss··on Critical CSS
What was the problem with something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/penthouse ?
jefozabuss··on We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails
I still have some ptsd from payment gateway integrations via iframes about 6-7 years ago. If you thought SPAs are bad by themselves for history tracking imagine those banking iframes randomly adding more entries via inside navigation/redirection that you have to track manually.
jefozabuss··on Nice things with SVG
I think web assembly can be comparable, e.g. unity/unreal/godot can compile to the browser pretty easily.

The problem is that each of these apps can be quite bloated and in the tens of MBs range not the usual single digit MB.

jefozabuss··on We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand
Not to mention in Germany the quarterly/or even monthly tax accountant fees that could bleed into a couple thousand easily in the first year of operation.

I'd say in Germany for starting a new GmbH you'd need at least 4-5k set on the side for lawyer/notary/accountant fees, this can be deducted from the 12.5k/25k bank account but it's a pain in the ... for the average startup.

jefozabuss··on My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%
I wonder what is the tarball size difference on average if you'd for example download everything in one tarball (full package list) instead of 1-by-1 as the gzip compression would work way better in that case.

Also for bigger companies this is not really a "big" problem as they usually have in-house proxies (as you cannot rely on a 3rd party repository in CI/CD for multiple reasons (security, audit, speed, etc)).

jefozabuss··on My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%
I just installed a project with pnpm about 120 packages mostly react/webpack/eslint/redux related

with prod env: 700MB

without prod env: 900MB

sadly the bloat cannot be avoided that well :/

jefozabuss··on ByteDance’s Bytespider is scraping at much higher rates than other platforms
Maybe someone went against the rule of deploying on a Friday, ouch.
jefozabuss··on ByteDance’s Bytespider is scraping at much higher rates than other platforms
In addition to those it's also possible they just found a website that published a scraped list back then and got de-indexed for obvious spammy content.

I would not be surprised if there are still some auto generated link directories left from the "golden ages" of blackhat.

jefozabuss··on Google’s AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon
For me he kind of sounds like a younger Howard Stern
jefozabuss··on Automattic–WP Engine Term Sheet
Automattic is cooking from that Unity cookbook
jefozabuss··on Do AI companies work?
It is used for a while in a lot of places that does not market itself as "AI". Tiktok, instagram, faceapp, facebook, netflix, google ads, youtube, etc... where you can see any complex image/video filters or targeted suggestions there is likely some AI in the background.
jefozabuss··on Beautiful Tailwind CSS Built with Next.js and TypeScript
If you have long running projects, e.g. 10-15+ years you will likely migrate from A to B (sometimes because A is so legacy you cannot even google its docs anymore and/or because B is super easy to hire for compared to the legacy A), it's based on requirements and scale.

Though in this example migrating to something else from tailwind will likely have the tooling (codemods) ready (or should have at least).

jefozabuss··on Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?
Can confirm the 500k+ jobs in HFT/crypto (well the latter might not be a life insurance). I saw a couple of these job postings mostly in the Cyprus/Switzerland area.

You could also make these amounts in adult/gambling marketing but that's another can of worms..

jefozabuss··on Show HN: Learn a new language by speaking with AI
Well the AI could hallucinate the meaning of a sentence in a different way than the original, if that happens then it could be problematic.
jefozabuss··on Show HN: Learn a new language by speaking with AI
It stops the animation for me.

However I think it would be more useful if the figure would say something that converts the user to the signup e.g. "Playtime is over, time to learn" and the button would turn into sign up as well.

jefozabuss··on JSBen.ch – Performance benchmarking playground for JavaScript
they could add a url redirect on the client side if they match the old hash routed url
jefozabuss··on Show HN: I built a IMDB for all kinds of micro-creators
I guess the initial page load size is huge on desktop (31MB due to the big added list compared to mobile), because you cannot use lazy loading in flutter via `<img loading="lazy">` or similar?

If there is an option to do that I think it would be nice.

jefozabuss··on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
The only context I see where Orban could be "liberal" is "siphoning of funds".
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