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wartijn_··on Formatting code should be unnecessary
Ah yeah, in those cases it is possible to just use the defaults. Come to think of it, I have worked with Deno, which comes with a formatter (and linter and testing library) and I’m a fan. Saves a couple of dependencies, some config files and a bit of mental overhead when creating a new project.
wartijn_··on Formatting code should be unnecessary
Which defaults? The programming languages I’ve worked with don’t have defaults for everything related to formatting. Editor defaults don’t work, since not everybody uses the same editor. So you have to make a choice somewhere.
wartijn_··on Burner Phone 101
In The Netherlands you can buy prepaid sims without any kind of identification.
wartijn_··on Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration
It doesn’t. The comment you’re replying to is referring to tsx, the package that lets you execute ts files, not to running files with the tsx extension.

https://github.com/privatenumber/tsx

wartijn_··on Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban
Good luck!
wartijn_··on The story behind Caesar salad
> Nobody thinks twice in Europe about eating any raw vegetable, fruit, eggs, heck even raw fish or beef in carpaccio.

This is one of the weirder “everybody/nobody in Europe does x” claims I’ve seen. There’s no way you know what the fast majority of Europeans think and I know many Europeans who absolutely do avoid eating raw eggs.

wartijn_··on Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp
Pointing out that WhatsApp was used to spread misinformation before Brazilian elections under the header “Ethical issues with WhatsApp” seems weird to me.

According to the Guardian article[0] this article uses as a source, WhatsApp has had updates to limit the number of times messages can be forwarded. But there’s obviously a limit to what can be done because the chats are e2e encrypted.

What does the author want from WhatsApp? Reading messages and blocking them if they don’t pass Meta’s moral guidelines is the opposite of want you’d want from your private chats and I don’t see any other way to effectively combat spreading misinformation.

And is there any indication that Signal would prevent situations like this if it gets more widely used?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/30/whatsapp-fake-...

wartijn_··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
I would be happy with that. After years of using iOS with the current design it still takes me a few moments before I’ve found the Photos app with its meaningless icon that looks way too much like some other icons.
wartijn_··on Kagi Reaches 50k Users
> This is either not the cost price or relies on people not using their subscription, otherwise you could never recoup R&D costs. It seems pretty save to assume that the average user will search less than 300 times when 300 is the limit. It’s of course possible for users to search exactly 300 each month before they stop searching or use an other provider, but my guess is that most people who regularly hit that limit will either stop using Kagi or move to a more expensive plan.

And that €54/$54 is the price when you pay per year, if you pay per month you’re paying more per search (although at least part of that extra money will go towards handling the payments)

wartijn_··on Just use HTML
But the same can be achieved by using css. Then there's still nothing to install, and it's still something you can change by just opening a text editor. Plus it would be easy to update in the sense your parent poster meant. And with css you're using the right tools to style your website, so you won't have people complaining the website isn't working well on mobile, although you thought it would be.

I'm all for using simple tools and web standards, but this website with its layout build with tables is a terrible example.

wartijn_··on uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
There is an iOS version https://apps.apple.com/app/id1484498200
wartijn_··on Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On
That logical check only makes sense if you assume that the users of Google analytics are people visiting websites. But that’s obviously not the case here Google Analytics is added a website by whoever runs that website, and they very much did enable it.
wartijn_··on ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER)
If I search on that page for “Ancôoidions” or “convunced” I don’t get any results.
wartijn_··on “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
I haven’t really used the iPad’s calculator app, but it looks exactly like a larger version of the iPhone app. So I don’t think there are any technical reasons why it took so long for the iPad to get that app.
wartijn_··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
The plural version is still available. Might be worth it to buy that one.
wartijn_··on Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito
It’s mentioned in the blog the article links to.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/improve-your-app-authentica...

wartijn_··on Why pay for a search engine
> If I make 0 searches, why do I need to pay? Do you ever have months in which you don’t use a search engine at all? If so you might just not be the target audience.
wartijn_··on NumPy 2.0
The GitHub release seems to have the final notes. It has at least the placeholder texts replaced:

> It is the result of 11 months of development since the last feature release and is the work of 212 contributors spread over 1078 pull requests

instead of:

> It is the result of X months of development since the last feature release by Y contributors

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v2.0.0

wartijn_··on Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”
I don’t think John Carmack will gain much knowledge by studying a game engine.
wartijn_··on I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen
That’s fast :) Do you get notified when someone mentions your product, or are you _that_ active?
wartijn_··on Show HN: Name That Nation
Yemen has been in the news lately, because of its location. Ships have been avoiding the Red Sea because people in Yemen were firing rockets at them.
wartijn_··on Orion Browser by Kagi
Wait for the browser to become open source I assume, which is supposed to happen sometime in the future.

> Is Orion open-source?

> We’re working on it! We’ve begun with some of our components and intend to open more in the future.

https://kagi.com/orion/faq.html#oss

wartijn_··on Orion Browser by Kagi
From their docs: “One day, we hope everyone will say Orion is the best browser for all Apple devices.”

So I wouldn’t hold my breath.

wartijn_··on With Firefox on X11, any page can pastejack you anytime (middle button paste)
What makes that feature "not user-friendly" instead of just a personal preference?
wartijn_··on Ruff v0.1.0
It doesn’t look like ruff will get too many options, since its maintainers (or at least one of them) agree with you

https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/discussions/7310#discussio...

wartijn_··on Official Chrome extension to use iCloud Keychain Passwords
A while ago I ran into the first site that told me I couldn't use my fastmail masked email: remove.bg. I don't know if they block every fastmail.com address, or if they somehow check if it's a masked email.
wartijn_··on Firefox address bar
I did mean that, but it is possible to search for tabs, history, or bookmarks by starting your search with an @. E.g. `@tabs ycombinator`
wartijn_··on Firefox address bar
By starting your search with "@tabs" You can change that behavior in the settings
wartijn_··on Firefox address bar
You can do this in Chromium as well. So it might be Chromium's best kept secret too.
wartijn_··on Kagi raises $670k
You can cut out the middle man for those searches, at least on the desktop versions of Firefox and Chrome. You can add a new search engine in the browser settings and add a keyword. If you've done that you can type that keyword in your address bar, followed by the search term you want.
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