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by untog 7y ago
The advice around wearing face masks has changed in the last 48 hours. You can stay tuned in to the world around you without collapsing on the ground in hysterics.
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by untog 7y ago
> Very bad and innevitable horrors have been happenning for a while(i.e the war Yemen, Iraq) and the "large populations" that you mention had little to no insomnia. And they’ve had very little effect on me. It’s not irrational
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by untog 7y ago
What an absurd statement. This crisis matters. Social distancing matters. Lockdowns matter. “Stick your fingers in your ears” is awful advice.
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by untog 7y ago
That’s essentially what progressive web apps are once they’re installed. They use all the resources of the browser so they only take up as much disk space as their HTML/CSS/JS.
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by untog 7y ago
I know it’s just the moment we’re living in right now but as I read those questions I just shrug, they couldn’t feel less relevant. The ones on my mind are “how long will large populations be locked down?” “How many people are going to die?
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by untog 7y ago
I struggle with both Civilization and Transport Tycoon in this way: the initial stages are so much more engaging than the management phase that comes afterwards. At least in Civilization I usually end up going to war with someone. (but to b
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by untog 7y ago
You’re conflating “the BBC” with “BBC News”. Given the sheer size and scope of the BBC that’s a mistake. The BBC as a broad organisation is trusted by the public. It's the same mistake you see often when people complain about the licen
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by untog 7y ago
What’s not nice about POST? fetch(url, { method: “POST”, body: “a body” })
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by untog 7y ago
Sure, but those aren’t common uses for $.ajax. Fetch can get you 95% of the way there.
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by untog 7y ago
It really isn't. Teaching newbies to venerate JSX and React is far more harmful in my opinion: it does a really good job of hiding what's actually going on. These days vanilla JS DOM APIs are pretty straightforward. It's well
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by untog 7y ago
For me the Fetch API is basically that: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API fetch("http://www.example.com").then(res => res.json()).then(json => {})
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by untog 7y ago
As someone who grew up in the UK then moved to the US where there is no functional equivalent I have little time for Brits that complain about the BBC. The value for money you get in return for the license fee is simply staggering. And whil
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by untog 7y ago
> the BBC, which is now untrusted by >50% of the British population for the first time. Got a citation for that?
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by untog 7y ago
A total lack of oversight of tech companies is a good thing?
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by untog 7y ago
Well I think buying it was also to the benefit of everyone else using .dev locally. But oh well.
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by untog 7y ago
Sigh. I mean, congratulations to the founders of Dark Sky. It’s a wonderful app and they deserve all the money they’ll get from this and they deserve a lot of credit for not selling user data when almost every other weather app does. But sh
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by untog 7y ago
Hacker News can be a cesspool at times. One important thing to always remember is that unless someone posted their article to Hacker News themselves they might have had absolutely no expectation that a huge audience was about to descend and
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by untog 7y ago
It just amazes me that the "just works" solution here is still a native app. Plenty of reasons to use native apps but in 2020 video conferencing really isn't one: WebRTC is capable and supported by every major desktop and mob
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by untog 7y ago
I might not describe it that way either, but do medical professionals describe it that way?
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by untog 7y ago
I imagine there isn’t a very clear spec per user because it depends on a lot of factors. I imagine you could share one video encode between many users but only if their bandwidth can accommodate the same bitrate. If not there might be two c
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by untog 7y ago
I don’t want to sound dismissive but the fact that a very tech-savvy HN user likes Sign In with Apple isn’t all that indicative of anything broader. I think that’s why the OP wanted to know what things look like on the backend.
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by untog 7y ago
> I haven't heard any complaints from their delivery staff, though this may be on account of their size. This is probably the key part. Does Caviar pay their drivers more than other sites? The cynic in me suggests that no, they don’
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by untog 7y ago
FWIW Google Hangouts/Meet does the same thing. It’s actually a pretty useful feature... as long as you trust the company implementing it, I guess.
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by untog 7y ago
> I don't see why these companies are being demonized, the government should just let them go bankrupt Well, they’re being demonised because they’re pushing heavily for a government bailout that will avoid them going bankrupt.
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by untog 7y ago
IIRC Apple made all device identifiers different between apps so it isn’t possible to do that.
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by untog 7y ago
People crap on the web for its privacy record - justifiably - but at least you can open dev tools and see what the page is doing. Selling apps as being better for privacy just seems like a complete misstatement.
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by untog 7y ago
Who knows how many sites that would mess up, though. Backwards compatibility is both the web’s greatest strength and biggest pain point.
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by untog 7y ago
No, this is all internal to the browser, no requirement to send a remote request.
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by untog 7y ago
Ah OK that makes sense. They should really copy and paste what you just said into their post!
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by untog 7y ago
I'm sorry but I find this argument utterly tedious. A Swift file is no less a "text document" than a JavaScript file is. There are APIs available in the browser to store data offline, so I have no idea what "in ways they

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