jackjeff

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by jackjeff 6y ago
Sounds perfectly reasonable. Apple only cares about the data in aggregate. They don’t need to track individual users. An advertiser, on the other hand, wants to know your age, sex, location and what you hard for breakfast.
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by jackjeff 6y ago
I’m very perplexed about the reasoning. Aside from the compiling takes time issue, the rest sounds like trolling. If the code was organized in a way which is inefficient and confusing, I fail to see why checking types at runtime instead of
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by jackjeff 6y ago
Just use Typescript static types where it is useful. If you access a bunch of JSON objects and you don’t need the typing, you can always declare as ‘any’ and move on. At the end of the day those type exist in JavaScript. If you access ‘firs
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by jackjeff 6y ago
Async communication is suitable to resolve some kind of issues. But it has two drawbacks: participants need to be competent at writing and reading prose (it’s harder than it sounds) and even with the best of care your ideas can easily be mi
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by jackjeff 6y ago
Let’s hope this makes the UI useable and less fisher pricy.
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by jackjeff 6y ago
Yeah. So basically wasted space. Seriously can you do a Visual Studio or Photoshop UI with this? I hate the fisher price mode for the control panels on Win10 (which I guess is made using WinUI). It’s so much wasteful of space and half the o
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by jackjeff 6y ago
Indeed. I was wrong to assume Apple would not have yet another XML Parser somewhere else :) In that case it would only work with side loaded Apps signed with enterprise and developer certificates. I stand corrected. That being said I wonder
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by jackjeff 6y ago
It’s a legal thing. Creating such an app goes against the AppStore rules. Same as porn. https://www.wired.com/2009/05/apple-rejects-bittorrent-iphon...
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by jackjeff 6y ago
It would have worked and passed through the App checks. It’s not like the App is using private APIs. Now that Apple is aware of this class of bug, they may add automated checks to the plist files containing a super strict XML parser.
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by jackjeff 6y ago
You’re missing the point: - AppStore or not, you should not be able to access this file in an app. The exploit (plist parsing bug) is about breaking out of the sandbox and getting the permission to access system files (and much more!). - Al
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by jackjeff 6y ago
I’m amazed by how vague this law is. Basically it all depends on what the National Commission decides later on. It could be as simple as a checkbox or some kind of crazy filter database thing... who knows... no doubt it’ll keep changing a
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by jackjeff 7y ago
I share the sentiment but what the article explains is more shocking than basic technical illiteracy. There’s essentially a subgroup of young people (typically poorer and less educated) who do not believe the news but believe their friends
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by jackjeff 7y ago
I have been using “Cookies Autodelete” for years. Except for a short list of 20 sites, nothing can store data on my Firefox. These tracking sites would not be able to show me ads anyway because I have “uBlock origin” And finally “I don’t ca
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by jackjeff 7y ago
I was under the impression that the Spanish flu was very different from the regular flu and COVID-19, because it was the young/old people that survived it and the healthy 20-50 year old that died the most. Most people died of the Spani
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by jackjeff 7y ago
Empirically 3 out of 4 times I get the cold, it is from one of my kids. If things get really bad I imagine schools will close. If kids are “old enough” they may get some remote homework. Not great but doable. But if you have a toddler you a
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by jackjeff 7y ago
Zinc. Evidence shows that if taken before exposure it reduces the risk of catching the cold, and if taken during the first 24 hours of symptoms it reduces the length and severity of the cold. Some evidence suggests it works for the SARS Cor
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by jackjeff 7y ago
I believe they shut down all internet access in Kashmir, for months, following the conversion of Kashmir from a State into a Territory. Internet is now "back", in the sense that only 300+ white sites are now accessible again. htt
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by jackjeff 7y ago
First the 15mins walk thing is probably already true in most district in Paris. But what you do not realize is that only a tiny minority of privileged people can actually afford to live in Paris. It's a bit like if the right of vote wa
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by jackjeff 7y ago
Improved in places. Got worse in others. https://www.airparif.asso.fr/actualite/detail/id/213 Some of the places where it got worse are far away from Paris… so who cares about the poor people who live in a fa
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by jackjeff 7y ago
https://www.airparif.asso.fr/actualite/detail/id/213
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by jackjeff 7y ago
It's obviously great if you live in Paris, especially when the weather is good. I have hanged out there many times in the summer even though I don't live in Paris anymore. But if you're one of these commuters who has to drive
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by jackjeff 7y ago
Car use in Paris has just shifted around. For it to disappear people would need credible alternatives. Remember most Parisians don’t have a cars and have fantastic public transport. It’s workers and commuters from far away that need vehicle
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by jackjeff 7y ago
Most of Paris is basically like that already, and was before she was even mayor. Promising to the happy few who can live in Paris at 15mins while commuters from outside need >= 1hr. Turns out commuters don’t vote.
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by jackjeff 7y ago
No. Because of the vast majority of people who work in Paris can’t afford to live there. And if you live in an area with terrible public transport (not uncommon far from the inner city and the first ring of surrounding suburbs) then you bas
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by jackjeff 7y ago
Yes. But it’s the same problem on steroids. Paris is really really small. About 6x smaller than SF.
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by jackjeff 7y ago
Or Toulouse ranked 4. That may force the government to invest for some infrastructure. I don’t think we’ll ever a TGV there.
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by jackjeff 7y ago
What is considered to be Paris (100km2) is a lot smaller than what people consider to be London (1500km2) or NYC (800km2 of land). Yes. If you’re rich enough and can afford to live in Paris everything is about 15mins away. If you leave “out
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by jackjeff 7y ago
The contactless payment subject to the £30 limit do not use the same protocol as Apple Pay. The limit is lifted because it is a more secure protocol similar to Chip&PIN with a random per transaction CVV. By comparison payment with conta
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by jackjeff 7y ago
I do. Every update of watchOS since version 6 seems to break activity syncing between my watch and phone. So I end up having to restore from backup every time, and thus reset ApplePay. So far my banks have not complained.
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by jackjeff 7y ago
I think "Verlan" is kind of old fashioned. It was a lot cooler when the boomers were young IMHO. Some Verlan words are still in common use in the "banlieues" (i.e. rough neighborhoods), like saying "muff" inste

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