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krispbyte··on The history and legacy of jQuery
I hate the "fun" of debugging jQuery. I'd rather have a plain boring easy api.
krispbyte··on Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing
Probably proving their skills to potential clients.
krispbyte··on Show HN: SponsorBlock – Skip sponsorship segments of YouTube videos
How is this different from using an adblocker?
krispbyte··on Show HN: SponsorBlock – Skip sponsorship segments of YouTube videos
Would this block the whole video about the Glass Age[0] by the MythBusters since the whole thing was sponsored? :)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12OSBJwogFc

krispbyte··on Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018)
Relax it a bit more and you get Neon: https://ne-on.org/
krispbyte··on Arcs of Seniority
If you have juniors, then you are a senior.
krispbyte··on Uno Platform – Cross Platform .NET UI
Does Cross Platform here mean only Windows, Web and Mobile or Mac and Linux as well?
krispbyte··on How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox
I guess it would be possible to run my own local DNS server that connects to these DoH servers. Does any DNS server support DoH? This could also allow the user to override domains using their /etc/hosts file in case DoH on Firefox doesn't support it.
krispbyte··on How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox
Why is this supported at the application level instead of the OS? So other tools like ping or nslookup can use it too.
krispbyte··on Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
According to https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust they use a similar algorithm as uBlock Origin. So not really "new", just reimplemented in rust.
krispbyte··on Show HN: A live map of sunlight on earth
Here is another take at the same: http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth
krispbyte··on The V Programming Language is open source
Is this v.c file not versioned in the GitHub repository?
krispbyte··on Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
Not for free. It's a service the owners of the website give to Google in exchange for letting you post. You are the product here.
krispbyte··on BigInt Shipping in Firefox
Once I was working with a database with large integer ids loading them through json and showing them in the browser. There was a bug where ids didn't match when updating a record. The issue was that the json decoder for Javascript didn't handle large numbers, so an id like 12345678901234567 would show up as 12345678901234568. That was fun to debug.

I wonder if the interpreters will convert between BigInts and small ints automatically now? The backend side was PHP and it did so we never noticed the problem there.

krispbyte··on Show HN: List of Possible Remote Jobs
Nice, but I'd really like it if the links were actual links so I can middle click to open in another tab.
krispbyte··on Remote-Powered Developer Tools
Will this only work on Chromium since VSCode/Electrum are based on it?
krispbyte··on It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse
Game piracy still exists. There's subreddits dedicated to tracking when DRM schemes are broken. Also piracy of region locked and old, difficult to buy now, console games has never disappeared.

The games that are out of this are those that need online accounts to play.

krispbyte··on Errors – Gotta Catch 'Em All
The alternative is the Result or Maybe objects with pattern matching from functional languages. It seems similar to return codes with if/then, but the strong typing and the match forcing you to deal with all possible branches (or pass it along) makes it less spaghetti looking.
krispbyte··on Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
>Eventually they will get tired of paying for worthless clicks

They'll just start paying less per click. A worse outcome for everyone, not just the bad players.

krispbyte··on Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
Every time I click the share button in Android, the icons are in completely different order. Not last recently used, not alphabetically. Completely random.
krispbyte··on Olive, a new non-linear video editor
> Olive is geared towards users who rely on shortcuts: all editing tools and common operations have them, and you can configure your own shortcuts (UI for that could do with more work though).

I wish all programs that rely heavily in shortcuts also had a search bar for users still not proficient with the program. The way Code Editors have been doing in the last years. Searching with a few keywords is much better than having to look through tons of menus for new users.

krispbyte··on The Last Question (1956)
There's also another short story by Asimov called The Last Answer https://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-answer/
krispbyte··on Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?
To other people not getting what free solo is, it means climbing a cliff without ropes.
krispbyte··on Write good git commit messages
My commits are the exact opposite of that comic. My initial commits are unfocused since it's the start of the project and there's a lot going on. As the project stabilizes and changes are smaller and on point, the commit messages become more focused as well.
krispbyte··on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 iOS app
On Android I use DNS66 [0], it creates a VPN server in my phone, redirects DNS traffics through it and filters it. This way I get adblock all the time even if I don't have a PiHole. Edit: I see now this app by CloudFlare does the same. However DNS66 let's you choose your own hosts filters and your own DNS servers.

[0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/

krispbyte··on Show HN: Detect which iOS devices are used on your site
Which reinforces the need to do the lookup in client code since you can't code it into GA.
krispbyte··on Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster: Search Words by First Known Use Date
So when was "Time Traveler" used for the first time?
krispbyte··on iPhones are hard to use
I can change the volume on my headphones independently from the phone so I have it in low. Mine are brandless Chinese headphones btw.
krispbyte··on An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s
But the shredding functionality was part of the work of art all along. A feature, not a bug!
krispbyte··on Mario Kart Wii: The History of the Ultra Shortcut [video]
That's probably because in every Youtube video ever, there's always someone asking what's the song in the background. I think it should be recognized as law akin to Godwin's law, the Darud Sandstorm's law.
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