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pudmaidai··on The Evolution of Jamstack
What’s your point? Technologies come and go. People built Ruby apps that did their job and now good luck finding maintainers for them. It’s just how our market works. We’re lucky if our stack lasts 10 years.
pudmaidai··on The Evolution of Jamstack
Yeah, ok, maybe you’re glossing over the immense difference that there is between what could be done on a mainframe vs what a Lambda allows, including all complementary services like per-second billing and granular permissions and logging. Now tell me that this is just the same thing as “mainframes” from the 80s.
pudmaidai··on Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster
So the answer is “yes, it has to download the index first”? None of these comments answer my question.
pudmaidai··on Tesla Continues to Walk Back Full Self-Driving Claims
Dogecoin, indirectly, without interest
pudmaidai··on Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster
I can't figure out exactly how it knows which chunk to download. Does it always download the whole index first? Or does it include it in the built JS file itself?
pudmaidai··on India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first
What do you mean by “absolutely no border control”? As far as I know quarantine is required to enter Japan.
pudmaidai··on Two Years of Squash Merge (2019)
It's not that those commits are in any way useful, it's that this "fix the error" commit might be 3 commits after the commit it belongs to. If there are no conflicts, `!fixup` will handle it for you; But since this is the real world, you're likely going to waste huge amounts of time solving conflicts that help no one.

My solution is:

- small-scoped PRs

- attempt to keep sub-commits readable, but don't waste time on them

Squashed commits also link to the PR where not only do you get the original commit list, but also get the whole discussion around the code.

pudmaidai··on EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint
I just asked to use Spotify as soon as I updated and now it doesn’t ask anymore. I don’t remember the exact query, but I know it exists.
pudmaidai··on A problem repeatedly occurred with Safari 14.1
I’ll add. Fresh Big Sur install on the fastest MacBook 16” in store now: After changing the selected DOM element it takes several seconds to show its CSS on the right sidebar.

It feels like every dev tool sucks for me though. Chrome regularly froze the whole tab and crashes the tools on my old computer. Firefox I don’t remember exactly but also it was a PITA

pudmaidai··on Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken
To be fair the pronunciation of GLI in Italian is rather unique, so I’ll take Googly-Elmo!
pudmaidai··on Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody has since
It sucks because transactional emails still show up next to important emails. What’s a client that separates this without me manually doing so (via filter or whatever)?

Gmail is good at this when splitting the inbox, but after that it’s all forgotten (unless, once again, you add a manual filter to exclude such emails)

pudmaidai··on I booked my cheapest one-month trip
I think it generally depends on the market and on the route. I got some cheap flights in South East Asia in the week I flew, with prices being lower than average. This led to me postponing “what’s next” decisions to the last possible moment.
pudmaidai··on I booked my cheapest one-month trip
Sigh downvotes on HN.

This is correct. Google Flight is amazing at tracking flight prices over time and lets you see dips in the past on a readable chart.

Something that they could make easier would be to forecast exact price changes based on the same flight flight on other dates.

pudmaidai··on I booked my cheapest one-month trip
I routinely check several times before making a booking. I kept Hipmunk in my apps and bookmarks for years and never turned out a better deal. I deleted it probably only a few months before they closed up.

The interface was cute but that was ‘bout it for me.

pudmaidai··on Ask HN: Please Dark Mode for HN
Gotta love the “alligator energy” that kept approximately 10 lines of CSS from being added in the months since that comment. This isn’t rocket science
pudmaidai··on Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody has since
1. Mark them all as spam. I never accept newsletters so I will consider every newsletter email as spam. They don't last much in my inbox.

2. Try inbox zero and just archive emails aggressively directly from your phone’s notification without even opening email.

My inbox currently has 10 emails that one day I'll get to and the rest of spam and transactional email is just gone from view within the hour or day.

I wish I could have an "important" and a "transactional" email view, but that's not going to happen without a lot of work, so email search still sucks.

pudmaidai··on Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
It’s easier for them to just lock you out than give you any kind of limited access.

But if you can’t login, you can’t request your data either.

pudmaidai··on Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
I just can’t wait for my personal Google accounts as well as several others business accounts I access regularly to suddenly be blocked all at once.
pudmaidai··on Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
If I remember correctly GitHub also locked an entire organization’s repos because someone accessed GitHub from a red-flagged country probably 2 years ago.

I can’t wait for regulation to arrive and stop this kind of behavior.

pudmaidai··on Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
Something very similar happened when I tried to buy a MacBook on Amazon.com with an European credit card. It just would not work, probably due to my **ty bank rejecting the payment… from Amazon. Good job.

Many attempts, calls, and hours later, I used my debit card from N26 and it finally went through.

pudmaidai··on Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
There was a Reddit thread just yesterday asking if the bullying stops once you become an adult.

Evidently not. And sadly there’s no teacher to refer to, unless you can afford to shell some real cash.

pudmaidai··on Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster
I don’t think it would be cost effective. VPNs cost less than $10
pudmaidai··on Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster
I’m almost sure they streamed the Flash player, not the whole page. There was no other way to render flash without streaming a video.
pudmaidai··on Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster
Because the people who made this are not the same people who profit from selling more RAM.

Education should come from the hardware sellers, if anything.

pudmaidai··on Never Pay for Online Dating (2010)
If you’re in the camp that considers every PIV as rape, sure. Every action can be bent into something ominous-sounding: There’s a small group of people in DC forcing a whole country to follow their rules “or else”.

Women here get to choose, it’s hardly pimping.

pudmaidai··on Apple store fake app stole man's life savings in Bitcoin
This stuff happens too often. When there’s no entity to blame this on, it really becomes your responsibility and risk to deal with it. Most people can’t deal with their life savings being in a digital wallet.

This kind of trick, however, would have fooled most people since you’d expect Apple’s devices and store to be safe (relatively to everything else)

pudmaidai··on Google have declared Droidscript is malware
You wish they unbanned things. I think content blocking will still suck in future Chrome versions.
pudmaidai··on Never Pay for Online Dating (2010)
> men’s desperation

I don’t know, if $10 get me a girlfriend in a week without leaving my couch that’s money well spent.

Regarding the evolution of Tinder, I also despise all the options they added while slowly making the default worse. It got to the point that I don’t use Tinder at all because it’s become nearly useless for me at the moment. Probably because I have better options elsewhere.