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jmull3n··on Why some US restaurants are banning tips
Good service is mostly invisible. Courses paced to how you're eating, not fired all at once or giving you 20 minute gaps between mains. Drinks refilled, plates cleared without asking. Reading the room and knowing when I want to chat or be left alone. Staff that know what their serving, whats in it, how it's cooked, what wine pairs well, etc.
jmull3n··on Australia to AI: Produce More Power Than You Burn, Stop Content 'Theft'
This is a good start considering Australia is the driest continent in the world with very expensive electricity.
jmull3n··on Google Flow Music
It can generate something well produced, but it's really bad at applying taste or direction in the way a human does.

The workflow feels wrong. it should be closer to a DAW with chat, where the model outputs stems, samples and arrangement parts instead of one finished track. Then you could target a specific sound, section or idea and actually develop it.

jmull3n··on Free Course on Security Headers, for Developers
It would be great to get a preview and some more details like a contents page before handing over an email address.
jmull3n··on France rejects backdoor mandate
I suspect Five Eyes already has backdoors into Apple and Google and can remotely push compromised updates to specific targeted devices. How do you know the version of Signal you get from the App Store is the same as everyone else? Australia can compel engineers to implement backdoors, they can't refuse or even talk about it due to gag orders. They can then share that info with Five Eyes to bypass their own laws like they did with ANOM. Australia ran the operation specifically to bypass stronger privacy laws in the other countries. The Snowden leaks with PRISM, showing governments getting data straight from Apple and Google servers. Australia's latest encryption bill lets them force companies to give access to encrypted comms. Seems pretty plausible to me.
jmull3n··on DoubleClickjacking: A New type of web hacking technique
This would be super effective as a form submit button that doesn’t respond, tricking the user into rage clicking
jmull3n··on Minification Is Evil
Don’t agree with this take. Sacrificing the performance for all my users so a minuscule percentage of them can poke around a little easier? All the JavaScript is likely transpiled anyway. They can use dev tools to unminify most of it. Deploying with source maps for production might be a better ask?
jmull3n··on Ask HN: React Native vs. Flutter for iOS/Android apps in 2023?
I actually really enjoy React Native with Expo. The over the air updates allowing me to bypass the app store approval process for minor changes are a game changer. React Native renders Apple's UIKit which looks and feels much better than Flutters attempt to emulate it. It's also much easier to make Android Apps look like an Android app with Material design while iOS apps look like their made for iOS. Flutter for web just draws everything in a canvas so it's not accessible and the resulting file size is massive. While with React Native I can leverage Solito to run the same code base as a Next.js application for the web.
jmull3n··on Box jellyfish demonstrate learning ability
Don't forget to keep an eye out for drop bears too! They're a particularly aggressive species of koala that are known to jump out of trees and attack unsuspecting humans.
jmull3n··on Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification
Our government legally forces companies to create back doors, definitely surprised and impressed to see they made the right decision here
jmull3n··on Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup
This is really good, I wish I saw it before I built something similar. Mine is server-side rendered at the edge. It allows any value but still has no where near the functionality as yours. https://github.com/jmcmullen/qr-kit
jmull3n··on The case for banning children from social media
I'd rather not have to provide my ID and verify my identity like on certain crypto exchanges to watch a youtube video or like a friends post on instagram.

I can't see any other implementation of this working, instead we'd have 2 popups now every time we visit a new site. One for cookies, the other to say "yes I'm over 18".

jmull3n··on Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website
I'm curious what Chromium based browser HN users would recommend for web development.

I stopped using Brave since they added a bunch of crypto garbage. Chrome and Edge both have telemetry and Google/Microsoft account sign in nagging.

Currently using Firefox. Love Orion as well on my phone but the Webkit Devtools make it unusable for development.

jmull3n··on Hijacking Email with Cloudflare Email Routing
Good find. I can't believe it was that easy, tests should have caught this.
jmull3n··on Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client written in Zig
pnpm is much better.

https://pnpm.io/

jmull3n··on Vue 3 as the New Default
Thank you, I was looking for something exactly like this yesterday. How does it compare to Nuxt 3?
jmull3n··on There are six internet links on my office on wheels—seven when Starlink arrives
You're underestimating how terrible internet connectivity is in rural Australia. A lot of places will only have 1 provider that offers service, if any at all.
jmull3n··on Monoliths as a Service
Seems legit
jmull3n··on Cyberespionage Using SS7 via Circles
Is 4G & 5G vulnerable? I wonder if a jailbreak tweak exists to disable 2G and 3G.
jmull3n··on Email a Dumpster Fire
Can I make this my out of office reply?
jmull3n··on Why not use GraphQL?
You don't directly query your database from GraphQL. Similar to REST, you read the parameters from the request and build your database query using the object–relational mapping library of your choice. A popular one at the moment for Node is Prisma.
jmull3n··on MI5 moves UK Terrorism threat level to “SEVERE”
That sounds pretty effective
jmull3n··on PS5 Teardown [video]
They are able to subsidise part of the hardware cost since they'll make money back over time on game sales, subscriptions, etc.
jmull3n··on Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
Curious to see what HN users believe is the best smart TV to buy in terms of OS functionality, privacy and user experience?
jmull3n··on We now consider Moment.js to be a legacy project in maintenance mode
It's been common knowledge in the front end development community for quite a while now to avoid Moment.js due to it's file size. Glad to see the maintainers agree. I'm thankful for the work they did in progressing date/time management libraries as a whole, but just like jQuery there's now better alternatives.
jmull3n··on Vinyl LPs Sell More Than CDs for the First Time in 3 Decades
I'm a DJ that likes pretty underground house and techno. Most of the vinyl I purchase isn't available in any other form, and will tend to be made in a limited quantity. I find that this creates much more memorable performances that make them stand out from others. Vinyl's fun to DJ using turntables but I can't say the same with CD's. They're just inconvenient and I'd rather use an USB that stores more files. I think there's also a pretty big myth around vinyl sounding better, which might contribute to the popularity of it.
jmull3n··on A floppy-disk Walkman using a Raspberry Pi
It's even got a headphone jack!
jmull3n··on Applebot
Being open source will be irrelevant if nobody uses it anymore.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...

jmull3n··on Applebot
I'd be hoping they do something like Edge/Chromium and replace Webkit with Gecko along with everything else that's better in Firefox.
jmull3n··on Applebot
I wish Apple would acquire Mozilla, use it to improve Safari and then create a privacy first search engine.
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