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by hot_gril 2y ago
I'm thinking something way less necessary. One example off the top of my head is https://www.apple.com/iphone/ with all the text appearing slowly as you scroll down. It's kinda understandable cause it's
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by hot_gril 2y ago
A lot of modern websites even add an intentional delay for buttons to respond or even load because it "looks nice."
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Maybe I'm in over my head, but that's how I interpreted it too. It's annoying how every news source and even Wikipedia doesn't make it clear what this law does.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
To clarify, the law bans TikTok and also lets the president ban other apps in the future.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
The timing and rhetoric from lawmakers make this ban really seem about Israel. Lawmakers and citizens are pretty disconnected on that in general.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Rep Mike Gallagher, the sponsor of the bill, published this op-ed making it sound like a speech issue: https://www.thefp.com/p/tik-tok-young-americans-hamas-mike-g...
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Epic Games sorta did this to Fortnite, but the reversal wasn't quick
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by hot_gril 2y ago
It's both. It gives the President the authority to designate an app as controlled by a foreign adversary, forcing it to be banned or sold. It also names TikTok in particular. I didn't know about the second part until I read the or
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by hot_gril 2y ago
The actual bad precedent set here is that the US executive branch has the authority to censor the media.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Well, the law as agreed upon by Congress designates it as a personal power.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
A/B testing has the same problem unless you figure out how to treat the same user the same way each time. But yeah I generally don't give much credence to an assertion like this that isn't based on a real-world experience. It
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by hot_gril 2y ago
People are hard for statistics to understand.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Regular A/B testing has the same kind of randomness. But this is more complex for other reasons.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Yeah, if you're going to conditionally add filters, this is mostly the only way with SQL. There are a few tricks depending on the dialect, like =ANY() is more convenient than IN, or COALESCE can avoid some dynamic WHEREs. You're n
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by hot_gril 2y ago
So if one app writes files somewhere random, can another app simply read them? So two apps can share data that isn't something standard like the camera roll. Even then, I don't see why the PC can't back up the whole phone.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Conditional concat should be pretty rare. When are you doing that?
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I've never used Android, so the answers here are surprising. There's really no equivalent to iTunes/Finder that'll just back up your phone to a PC?
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by hot_gril 2y ago
If you can avoid learning SQL or the underlying DBMS then great, I have no problem with people ignoring things that are ignore-able. Problem is you can't. You will need to learn the DBMS, and the ORM will end up just getting in the way
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by hot_gril 2y ago
SQLite has its own use cases. And MySQL was all-around better than Postgres in the past, so it still has more usage in some areas. Nowadays I'll take Postgres over MySQL by default, but it's not a huge difference.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Weird as they seem at first, SQL null handling ends up being convenient the way it is. Part of this is because left/right join give you nulls.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I joined a research project a while back that was mostly about squeezing performance out of something and testing various configurations. The previous researcher had set up a fancy metric collector that was cumbersome, besides also affectin
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by hot_gril 2y ago
That wider problem may simply be that you're using C or C++ with optimized binaries and can't reproduce the bug in the unoptimized/debug build.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Oh wait, regex is a DSL
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Regex is a good counterexample. It's the only useful DSL I can think of. That said, IDE support for regex would be cool, especially considering many languages have special syntax for regex.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Technically yeah, but JSX isn't what people think of when you mention a DSL. I know JS, I know HTML, so I know JSX immediately since it's just templatized HTML inside JS.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I used MySQL before I understood it at the physical level, and now I'm using some other ones that I don't really understand. A MySQL/Postgres noob can get pretty far just knowing to avoid seq scans. It's not ideal, but i
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Maybe for the same reason I stopped using headphones with my phone: There's no headphone jack, and Bluetooth is too finicky. Airlines have also been passing out cheap earbuds for a while. They can't do that for Bluetooth now.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I've seen guides like this before. Would be nice if they showed what the share button looks like, cause that's not obvious to some people. Or, some file sharing websites show an arrow pointing to the downloads button in desktop Sa
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by hot_gril 2y ago
For multiple reasons outside of devs' control, PWAs basically don't fly on iPhones. They don't go to all that extra effort of packing a webapp into a "native" app just for fun.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
iPhones support PWAs on homescreen. However, there's no way to trigger the "install the PWA?" prompt. The user has to do it, which very few know about, and maybe that's what you were thinking of.

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