wbobeirne

8 ms·

61.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
Layer 2s such as Bitcoin's lightning network do not use a public ledger for their transactions. The only thing public is the transaction that opens a payment channel, everything after that happens as peer to peer messaging across the n
62.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
Somewhat off topic but I only recently learned that that monkeys and ladder experiment never happened, it's just a thought experiment or story to illustrate the point. But the closest real experiments were not nearly as dramatic and di
63.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
Absolutely! The real complexity comes from conflict resolution. If someone edits the top, and someone else edits the bottom, which version do you go with? What if they're editing the same area? Entire companies exist to provide elegant
64.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
Do you not consider using CSS modules as using CSS?
65.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
Whether it's RAF or CSS, this would only reliably work on a 120hz display (or anything else higher than 80hz and divisible by 40.)
66.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
With regards to the OPs note about headlights being too bright: Has anyone adjusted their headlight angles? I noticed oncoming traffic has occasionally been flashing their brights at me, and I suspect they think I left my brights on and are
67.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
To the OP: It looks like your `button`s have no `color` property, and are just relying on the user agent stylesheet to (hopefully) be a dark text color. This will vary for different users.
68.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
At least in the US, it's very common. The iPhone has ~60% market share here, skewed even higher if you limit to higher income individuals. Text messaging is still the lingua franca of communication here, likely due to the lack of a sin
69.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
> performant I've been away from Drupal for ~10 years, but I recently helped a friend spruce up a Drupal site he's working on and still found it's largely powered in production by heavy caching, and the page load speeds in
70.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
> and from the bottom by those who have yet to grapple with the fact they dont have friends or hobbies and need you in the office so that they dont feel like such embarrassing losers. I can see why office culture doesn't appeal to y
71.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
Christian Rudder (main author of the blog) wrote his own book Dataclysm. It's separate from the blog though, that was called OkTrends and you can find the articles on archive.org.
72.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
I would kill for a major manufacturer to make an e-ink phone that isn't hard to acquire and run. The Hisense A9[1] looks just about perfect, but the difficulty of getting Google services to run on it puts me off. [1]: https:/&#x2
73.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
Looks great! Not sure if this is a Tailwind thing or not, but I think any presence of hex codes in your examples is a little disappointing. It should be trivial to adjust colors from a fixed palette, rather than find-replacing hex codes acr
74.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
You would likely experience a lot of second order effects, even if you don't personally use any Google products.
75.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
I always push back on this argument, because it came up a lot. As someone higher up at the company once put it, if people are sufficiently convinced that you can find them what they're looking for in a dating app, there's almost n
76.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
I worked at OkCupid from 2013-2017 and totally resonate with the author that mid-2010s OkCupid was a really special product, and that it took a steep decline as the decade went on. It's not entirely fair to say that the Match acquisiti
77.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
This is a much needed area for development, most of my extension projects are held together by glue. However, I'm not entirely sure what Bedframe does at first glance. The docs page says coming soon and just 404s, the homepage is just
78.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
I am very anti WEI but I can still have sympathy for anyone who is doxxed or has death threats sent to them. It's a bad proposal and it should be argued on its merits and resisted in its implementation. But even in HN threads I saw com
79.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
Any proper gate for a user to access content should be managed by a server, not on the client side. It would have to be the same for WEI. If they can detect that I'm using an adblocker, there's no reason they couldn't prevent
80.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
Fair criticism that I used "ad revenue" as a generality, I was more specifically thinking of AdSense ads and the like. I think there are plenty of forms of advertising that are better for the relationship and less exploitative of
81.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
I run an ad blocker on all of my devices (mix of uBlock or Brave browser) and I'm pretty surprised how infrequently sites ask me to disable it to access content. Not sure if your experience is different.
82.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
I think this is a little reductive. WEI is likely what some people at Google felt was best for AdSense's customers, i.e. advertisers. It just so happens that Google has a whole other set of customers who this is not best for, e.g. Chro
83.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
I'm not sure any of that refutes the scenario I laid out. Google denying adsense payments is exactly what I said would happen. It would then be up to the site as to whether or not they would continue to allow traffic from users who the
84.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
> The same is not true of web attestation. If a website requires it... I don't think I've made a category error, that again is true of all browser features. If your browser does not support JavaScript or WebSockets or WebGL, ma
85.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
I'm not understanding how giving the client a token that you put in a request header that proves you've paid, or is just an account lookup token to then ask a payment processor whether or not their account is in good standing, is
86.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
While it's a much lesser offense, many APIs are only available in "Secure Contexts", so it's not entirely a new concept https://webidl.spec.whatwg.org/#SecureContext
87.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
> Unfortunately people who have rooted phones, who use nonstandard browsers are not more than 1% of users Depends on what you count as "nonstandard", but various estimates put non-top 6 browser usage at between 3-12% ( https:&#
88.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
There is no reason that can't be done with existing web technology, WEI does not advance that use case in any meaningful way.
89.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
> Can we just refuse to implement it? > Unfortunately, it’s not that simple this time. Any browser choosing not to implement this would not be trusted and any website choosing to use this API could therefore reject users fr
90.
by wbobeirne 3y ago
> We lose this when everything is recorded forever. I'd argue the opposite, we've amplified this affect. Off-hand statements from the past recorded forever get re-examined through a new lens in the present. What previously migh

More ›