potatoz2

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by potatoz2 1y ago
I grew up in Paris and that’s where I’m raising my son right now. I think there couldn’t be a kid-friendlier place (other than cost): - I can walk to a gigantic park with many playgrounds in 5 minutes - I can walk to a small little park wit
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by potatoz2 1y ago
I can’t speak for other cities, but Paris absolutely does not fit that mold: the highest density of people is in the very center of the city (or immediately adjacent cities), where the tourists are. Suburban areas can’t possibly house “most
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by potatoz2 1y ago
You can leave the newborn in the stroller and lower the whole thing yourself or with someone’s help. You can hold the newborn and ask someone to fold the stroller. You can take the bus or the tramway if you really want to avoid the subway.
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by potatoz2 1y ago
I live in outer Paris (19th) and have the exact same experience. I’ve taken strollers on the subway without an issue and people are eager to help you (it should be easier, of course, but it’s doable). I've also taken the bus, the tramw
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by potatoz2 1y ago
> Right now in Paris, when you have a newborn, the only mobility solution is to take an Uber if you need to go somewhere >1km from where you leave. Buses are very slow and crowded, the subway doesn't have elevators for strollers,
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by potatoz2 1y ago
Are they very dangerous for children? Are there statistics? It doesn’t really freeze in Paris anymore so it's a moot point, but you can ride bikes when it does (you need different tires, just like cars, and a city that clears the roads
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by potatoz2 1y ago
I live in the 19th district of Paris—probably the cheapest district within city bounds, with the 20th, and not in the center—and I have no issue living with an under 2-year-old. Hell I even decide to go all the way to the 14th for his pedia
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by potatoz2 1y ago
It’s false that cyclists routinely ride on the sidewalk in Paris, let alone at full speed. They ride on the road (car and bus lanes) and in bike lanes. It’s true, however, that on some very popular bike routes (rue de Rivoli, boulevard Sain
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by potatoz2 2y ago
I'm not sure I follow what you're saying. A blind outside is just like a curtain, except that to whatever extent it heated up it is heating up directly outside (via radiation or convection). A curtain that's hot in the insula
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by potatoz2 2y ago
I'd be interested in a link about low E coatings that depend on the sun angle, a quick search doesn't yield anything. Either way it's not a sufficient solution because AFAIK even the best solar protection glass will let 1&#x2
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by potatoz2 2y ago
Curtains work poorly at keeping heat out, in large part because the temperature differential can be extreme if you let sunlight hit the curtain (that and air convection behind the curtain). The alternative to awnings are shutters or, like y
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by potatoz2 2y ago
Of course they help in those climates too. It's better if it's 100F inside than 120F, which is what you'll get if you let the sun in with no shade-making device. You'll find ways to get shade in every hot climate, whethe
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by potatoz2 4y ago
The opposite would be a more interesting example to argue against the original statement.
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by potatoz2 4y ago
If you don’t trust yourself to have backup keys, you use the Google or Apple ecosystem. As long as you can get back into your Google or iCloud account, you can get back into every other passkey-protected website. You can also use third-part
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by potatoz2 4y ago
That’s not a technical advantage over Yubikeys/SoloKeys, since they also use WebAuthn and are also unphishable.
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by potatoz2 4y ago
It’s not that difficult: you use a PIN/passphrase protected hardware token. Done.
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by potatoz2 4y ago
Imagine your doctor or pilot eschewing “best practices” and what your reaction would be. There’s a reason knowledge communities build consensus. Best practice doesn’t mean you’re at the mercy of the consensus, it just means you have to just
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by potatoz2 4y ago
The benefit of React is that it’s declarative. Vanilla JS is imperative/procedural. If you build anything semi-complicated, you’ll build your own declarative framework.
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by potatoz2 4y ago
The inaccessible to non-sighted users, non-computer interpretable canvas? The one where we’d need to reinvent text flowing, resizability, the box model, etc? That’s what you think we should use to build our Web apps?
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by potatoz2 4y ago
I don’t understand your comment completely. The “traditional” SSR frameworks (PHP, Rails, Express) didn’t make it easy to componentize things, instead trying to divide logic by broad category (MVC, etc.). I don’t know whether it’s orthogona
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by potatoz2 4y ago
I don’t think JS is much worse than other dynamically typed languages to be honest. In Ruby you’d get an exception instead, which is mildly better than `NaN` in your user-visible text, but not much. The DOM though is definitely complex and
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by potatoz2 4y ago
React is orders of magnitudes simpler than K8s. You can write your own React in a day probably.
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by potatoz2 4y ago
I hope these succeed, but we still need transpilation/bundling: - TypeScript needs transpilation and it’s very popular - Bundling is still beneficial with H2/H3, if only so that compression can work well
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by potatoz2 4y ago
Looks like local storage has a max size of 5MB and cookies 180 * 4KB = 0.7MB, so a similar order of magnitude. AFAIK, cookies can be set to expire in hundreds of years by sites and local storage can be cleared the same way as cookies.
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by potatoz2 4y ago
It’s trivial to emulate cookies with other Web APIs (storage + service worker, for one). You’re focusing on the label of the toggle and not user intent. If a website can send information about my visit 2 days ago to an upstream server, clea
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by potatoz2 4y ago
That’s a distinction without a difference IMHO. Local storage (or Cache API, IndexedDB) + Service Worker = Cookies (simply add a header to every request) Local storage + DOM manipulation to add search params with the stored content = Cookie
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by potatoz2 4y ago
I see what you’re saying, but it seems impossible to prove it literally cannot happen if you just assume every safety system we put in place all fail at once, which is _possible_ I guess. We live with worse tail risks daily though: we have
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by potatoz2 4y ago
Isn’t this like comparing the safety of a motorcycle to that of an A380? The “tail risk” of the latter is 800+ dead versus a single rider, but the expected value is way lower in the plane’s case.
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by potatoz2 4y ago
You need a way to deal with the scarcity. Pricing is the default way to do that. If you want to avoid pricing, you need to think through what alternative you’ll use, otherwise pricing happens anyway.
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by potatoz2 4y ago
There are many many things in the world that grow slower than US money supply but nonetheless see their price go down or plateau.

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