pontilanda

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by pontilanda 4y ago
ChatGPT is a joke for this. Any interesting/funny topics result into a judgmental response and refusal. I asked to write a 100-words first message for a Tinder match who had "very talkative" in their bio. ChatGPT kept saying
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by pontilanda 4y ago
Re: child labor. It's awful but who sends these kids to work? What will a mother of 3 children do if she can't feed herself? It's a terrible cycle but it takes ages to fix. No foreign company is benefitting from Bangladeshi k
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by pontilanda 4y ago
The point of bringing jobs to Kenya is that they can pay less. If you don't see that as a benefit, why should I, a business, go to the trouble of working with a Kenyan company rather than just do it locally? I could pay a Kenyan $17 an
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by pontilanda 4y ago
> That sounds overly dramatic Try appending this piece of code to your `index.js` and let me know how it goes in Safari: const r = /(<!foo)/ The parser will encounter a syntax error and no code is executed.
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by pontilanda 4y ago
Chrome already won, non-Apple users basically don't have a choice. Please tell me how Chrome has "slowed down" after reaching the current market share years ago. It's not like Safari is the one making on-spec progress li
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by pontilanda 4y ago
Google won the web years ago and it's still "innovating." By "is the new IE" people generally mean the 2007 IE, not the 1999 IE. I don’t think many complained about those shiny new ActiveX APIs in IE 3 and Chrome
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by pontilanda 4y ago
> Also you should rethink your life if you consider yourself a Twitter/Reddit power user. I'm not, but people can make money on those platforms nowadays, so don't be so judgmental.
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by pontilanda 4y ago
Content. If your platform sucks, power users can hang around, using power tools. This isn't so much of a problem on Twitter as much as Reddit, though. Their native experience is okay (it's just the users that are insufferable)
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by pontilanda 4y ago
All that looks good on paper, but a lot of apps require full disk access and can easily run in the background, so how "trustable" can that really be in practice? With iOS at least I know that apps really are sandboxed and cannot a
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by pontilanda 4y ago
Chrome is not the the weakest / furthest behind major browser
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by pontilanda 4y ago
Anyone who disagrees hasn't tried to develop a website on Chrome and Firefox only to find out Safari still doesn't support regex lookbehind (which means zero javascript will now run). It's only been available in Chrome for 5
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by pontilanda 4y ago
Super nice to scroll a 150-lines-long list of countries by swiping on a 1-inch-tall target on my huge screen. Even now it's stupid they don't offer keyboard filtering.
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by pontilanda 4y ago
Are you talking about the OTP delivered via unencrypted SMS? Surely Apple knows how to set up a link with a barebones encryption better than SMS’
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by pontilanda 4y ago
I've been using Safari for years now and I still think it's poor in many areas. URL autocompletion is an absolute joke. Detaching tabs has been browser-crashingly-bad for about a year. Still no way to tell whether the current page
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by pontilanda 4y ago
If you don't trust Apple to enforce that, can you even prove that Apple won't act as a key logger too?
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by pontilanda 4y ago
The sad thing about clickbait is that it works wonders, and you'll never guess what happens next!
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by pontilanda 4y ago
> tests are much better at giving you a glimpse of what the code even does Types do that, they tell you the expected input and expected output. No type nor test is all-encompassing of course, but it gives at least some information. No
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by pontilanda 4y ago
Static as in "the page is pre-generated, not generated on every HTTP request" It's the right setup for write rarely, read often scenarios.
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by pontilanda 4y ago
Are tests useful? Because this is what TypeScript gives you: it helps you avoid regressions. If I change a signature, tests fail. If I pass junk data, tests fail. It's like invisible live tests and people forget this. As in the other
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by pontilanda 4y ago
Even cheaper than a flight and chump change compared to a private helicopter. Apples to oranges.
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by pontilanda 4y ago
Bad programmers are all around us. It could have been fixed with a min() call
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by pontilanda 4y ago
That also loses line breaks, as well as requiring significantly more steps for a single copy-paste.
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by pontilanda 4y ago
It’s just because they were developed by white males /s
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by pontilanda 4y ago
I badly need a "tour" mode
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by pontilanda 4y ago
> This would amaze anyone from before the 70s. I'm not saying that it's impossible, I'm just pointing out your smugness at the fact that it's not common knowledge. > the Starlink stuff You mean the stuff that requi
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by pontilanda 4y ago
What? My wifi barely reaches the other side of my room with a wall in between, how am I supposed to think 350 miles is within reason? Even with clear sky, your signal to a tower an order of magnitude closer would be unusable. If you look at
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by pontilanda 4y ago
Apple is ok but the Music app is still atrocious for streaming, so it’s not like they’re particularly better at it. They made zero improvements to network reliability issues since their streaming service was launched, which is totally laugh
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by pontilanda 4y ago
Browsers and engines are also regularly patched to improve web compat. I remember V8 "recently" released an update to improve the performance of a very common module. The details escape me however.
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by pontilanda 4y ago
> doesn't the new one the bank sends you usually have the same number? Never happened to me using several European banks. Either way the date and CVV change so that's part of the new password. > Yes it does. The more often y
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by pontilanda 4y ago
The interoperability boat has sailed. macOS has had an open Keychain for decades and Google eventually dropped support for it. I don't see them suddenly going back, sharing efforts and allowing cross compatibility. What we need is just

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