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by shrew 2y ago
It's interesting you mention upfront that you travel. Is that travel for work where you might be staying in corporate hotels? I ask because when I have travelled for work, it's the corporate hotels that have often baked a Chromeca
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by shrew 2y ago
iOS18 will still be available for older devices right? From the looks of the preview, it’ll go back to phones from 2018 which is fairly standard for Apple. And I’d imagine older iOS versions will continue to receive security updates for sev
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by shrew 2y ago
Ah, my lack of knowledge rather than a bug then, my bad! Thanks for explanation!
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by shrew 2y ago
Same phone and same OS version down to the patch number. I’ve noticed UI hangs and stutter when changing the grades, and BNW in particular seems to cause the biggest issues. Not yet experienced a crash even if I flick between grades in quic
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by shrew 2y ago
Similar to another reply, my M2 16GB MacBook happily runs Mistral 7B, and it will do a decent job of most requests. I use it where I’m dealing with internal code or data for work where I need to know it’s all staying on-device. I’ve had it
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by shrew 2y ago
Not the parent, but just a few things I’d guess would be Apple Watch specific: - I’ve had employers that require a confirmation step from an app as a form of 2FA. If my phone isn’t awake, the notification comes to my watch and I can approve
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by shrew 3y ago
To be fair, downtime is often posted for services popular among HN readers, I don’t think there’s malicious intent, it’s merely the acknowledgment of an incident. The fact that the headline is USUALLY “GitHub was down” says a lot more than
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by shrew 3y ago
Interesting, I’ve never seen this, thanks! The problem I see with this is that whatever you’re sending this to must have knowledge of the meta information superjson produces, so at that point you’re investing in it as a wrapper library. The
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by shrew 3y ago
I understand your point and I can’t deny that Javascript continues to introduce weird, silent failures and quirks even today when everything is a bit more thought out than “the bad old days”. But I think in the case of JSON.stringify it’s m
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by shrew 4y ago
I thought it was a bit sketchy too and spoke to their support agent about it. It seems this site is run by a partner, SPOT or Service Parts or Tools. Their privacy policy lists servicepartsortools.com as a domain but visiting the domain sho
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by shrew 4y ago
Ah that last point really struck a nerve. - Open lid - Lock screen shows - Screen fades to black as it realises there's an external monitor - Finally unlock, windows are all bunched up on the internal display - Everything becomes unres
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by shrew 5y ago
I'm unsure this is true. I was certainly disappointed when I went for a Samsung S8 at launch and found it laggy and glitchy 12 months in, and unusable at 18 months. As a short term money saver, I bought a 2016 iPhone SE and was amazed
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by shrew 5y ago
You can 100% do these things in React, I don't believe React is a less able framework by any means. If anything it gives you a powerful toolbox and pulls down the guard rails. I do, however, think that working with React changes your m
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by shrew 5y ago
Or as part of display: grid which also has severe quirks with position: sticky despite it being a much newer API.
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by shrew 5y ago
I love no-JS type hacks and solutions as your post has suggested, but I would actually be more concerned about using solutions like your hidden menu in production than what the parent has suggested. Some of them, like the checkbox dark mode
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by shrew 5y ago
Do you have an example you've run into where a DSL such as Svelte's or Vue's has actually stopped you from doing something? Would be genuinely interested to see it as I've never run into such a situation myself.
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by shrew 5y ago
My feelings exactly, it makes for a satisfying separation of concerns, and if you understand what's going on under the hood it makes for cleaner templates and more obvious component code.
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by shrew 5y ago
> Because you sometimes want to filter, sort or project your data. The idea that this type of thing should be happening anywhere near the view rendering loop is the exact reason I've not had a great time picking up React codebases.
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by shrew 5y ago
To be fair, React has been pulling this type of thing version after version. It seems like we MIGHT be settling on functions and hooks now, but only time will tell. The real kicker would be if they removed the options API, for small compone
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by shrew 5y ago
Unfortunately they pretty much dumped the class syntax early on in Vue 3's development, so you'll probably find it quite hard to transition to Vue 3 if you Vue 2 codebase is full on class components. I had a similar issue having a
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by shrew 5y ago
As far as I've seen, what killed it was the issue that Angular "v2" was so different from Angular.js (v1) that the upgrade path simply wasn't there. Eventually an upgrade path emerged where a page ran both a bulky Angula
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by shrew 5y ago
I appreciate React and Angular are difficult to get going without some sort of build step (React can do it, but not JSX, so it's not optimal), but Vue has always made it very easy to start right in the browser. AlpineJS[0] is newer on
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by shrew 5y ago
At a guess, they're probably sticking with it because it enables Javascript/Typescript as an interfacing language for plugins which, given the language's popularity and cross-platform nature, is probably part of the reason th
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by shrew 5y ago
I'm genuinely curious to know what you find severely lacking in fetch compared to $.ajax. - handling cookies fetch('https://example.com', { credentials: 'include' }) - HTTP status codes fetc
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by shrew 6y ago
Very true, for a big company, the time may well be worth it, particularly for the likes of FAANG where they have UK branches of their company. I suppose my only counter left would be "is the UK market alone worth the complexity?"
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by shrew 6y ago
Okay, fair point, they might just re-include the UK in whatever exclusion list they have and that'll be that. But since GDPR came into force, others have followed suit, several other countries have begun implementing similar legislatio
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by shrew 6y ago
The promise of this is great and being a feature of Bitwarden, which is already fairly well trusted, is a plus in terms of peace of mind. But did anyone else find the demonstration a bit underwhelming? I've used sites like One Time Sec
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by shrew 6y ago
Ah this is the best bit! Because many companies cater for a global audience, us Brits will STILL have to endure the stupid little popups AND we'll have no protection or recourse from privacy invasion! Can't wait! /s
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by shrew 6y ago
Gotcha, that's completely fair and not something I'd considered. Thanks! As a vague counter point, I use Firefox Focus[0][1] which touts the tracker blocking and ad blocking I'd rely on extensions for normally. It meets my ne
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by shrew 6y ago
Honest question: is it simply the fact you can't use a Gecko engine on iOS that makes it useless to you? My impression is that the Firefox shell offered is still able to provide the various anti-tracking privacy features that many woul

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