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Not to mention, some major parts of the websocket API have been broken in Google Chrome for over two years now.

Chrome no longer fires Close or Error events when a websocket disconnects (well, at least not when they happen, they get fired about 10 minutes later!). So, your application won't know for 10 minutes that the connection has been severed (unless the internet connection is also lost, but that isn't always the case when a websocket is disconnected).

Here's the chrome bug:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/362210027?pli=1

From that bug report it looks like the Chrome bug is less than a year old, but the Chrome bug is originally mentioned here in April 2023 for a similar bug in iOS (the iOS bug has been resolved):

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75869629/ios-websocket-c...

I kind of suspect Chrome is actually doing this intentionally. I believe they do this so a tab can recover from background sleep without firing a websocket close event. That's helpful in some cases, but it's a disaster in other cases, and it doesn't matter either way... it breaks the specification for how websockets are expected to work. WebSockets should always fire Close and Error events immediately when they occur.

I agree with a lot of that. But, it's a lot easier to get someone to try your web app than install a native app. It's also easier to get the IT department to allow an enterprise web app than install a native app. Web apps do have some advantages over native apps.

Agreed. Some people saw it as quality of life, some people saw it as prosperity, etc. However you want to define it, the point is the same... many people were shocked that the Chinese middle class had more than they did.

Purists will probably disagree, but my favorite version of Tetris is the version for Oculus VR. Forget the 3D/VR part of it, which is fine but not what I like about it... the way it mixes music, colors, scenery, and pace to create an emotional reaction is simple yet brilliant.

The most shocking thing for Americans when TikTok was shutdown for half a day was when they switched to the Chinese version of the app and they saw the truth -- that the middle class in China is living a higher quality of life than they are.

Pix sounds great for most people and probably a good replacement for government issued paper notes and metal coins. But, the crypto purists like crypto that is not controlled by the government or the banks. Pix would obviously fail at attracting those crypto fans.

Not to mention all of the data breach notification laws.

Ya, it's one of those simple design improvements that seem obvious once you see it, but clearly wasn't obvious because it took so long for someone to think of it.

This is cool. I haven't looked a swift since it first came out but I wonder if their documentation is any better now... I remember trying to do things and I'd read about commands on Stack overflow that I couldn't even find in their documentation, or they were listed in the documentation but had literally no useful information about them.

> This is an N=1 trial

Sure, OP addressed that and said it would be especially useful more people did it and "if we find a way to collectively interpret the data".

interesting, what kinds of things are being held back in the meantime? Or, just price/competition?

I use sublime in exactly the same way. I've written hundreds of blog post on it. I use it for light data manipulation and other file editing. For writing, I like how I can move text up/down like code when I want to move around items in my outline. I showed a writer friend of mine this and it blew his mind (he doesn't know anything about text editors).

For data manipulation, I like multi-line cursors. Sure, I have expensive IDEs that can do this too, but sublime is great for non-technical people and it's very affordable and lightweight as you mentioned.

My other friend spends a lot of time in spreadsheets, and he was trying to import a bunch of tabular data one time and it didn't quite work due to the source formatting. I showed him how to pull it into sublime, quickly add some commas and remove some junk data on every line to get it in shape for importing into Excel. He loved it!

Since Google made a big donation, maybe Trump will clear the way for google to plow through the red tape to create more high-speed internet competition, which should lower the price for many Americans. I doubt it will happen, but one can dream.

Yep, our company uses Google Docs/Sheets. If someone wants an MS Office application, they have to prove that Google Docs/Sheets can't do what they need. So most of use Google and it's fine. I even like somethings in Sheets better than Excel (and vice versa).

> adobe costs $30/mo. to edit PDFs with SSO

They now have a $10/mo plan where you pick any one application.

And it includes Outlook.

It's the item in the third column: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/buy/compare-al...

Agreed, and the same way I love reading this thread on HN. :)

I know what you mean, and I wish I kept at it. I DJ'd a couple raves back then but it was something that any of my friends were into so I naturally fell out of it even though I loved it so much. I later got back into it briefly and made a few house and trance tracks when computer DAWs became popular.

There was a sense of freedom and optimism on the dance floor that I've never found anywhere else. I made songs like the songs that I most liked to dance to. Most of it came from Europe back then, but I wish I followed my heart, or at least spent half my time following my heart.

I feel bad for the kids in the video. In my day, and maybe yours, it would have been very unusual to see a cellphone in the club or at a rave. My kids schools don't allow screens and they go away for a couple weeks each summer to a camp that doesn't allow screens. They tell me that they really enjoy it after a couple of days, and I think it gives them a chance to feel the way we did as kids... back then there wasn't a movement of people trying to live more in the moment because everybody lived in the moment all the time.

Crashed on desktop brave as well. I mean, it was still running but I couldn't click on anything.

> The sleazy sales people can build decent pipelines/sales numbers but they are not what I would ever label as 'elite'.

Absolutely. I have had the pleasure of working with a few elite sales people and none of them were sleazy. They were all extremely confident on the inside, but present as humble and even a little vulnerable on the outside. This is strategic as it builds trust, but I think it was also genuine for the most part -- they really wanted their customers to be happy and they wanted their customers to know that.

They dress nicely, but again in a humble way. They're not quite as polished looking as the "slick" sales people, and this too is part of their strategy. They can pull out a post it note or notebook and sketch a rudimentary diagram they've drawn a thousand times, and every time it looks like they just thought of this idea and are drawing it with wavy lines for the first time. I'm not sure if this one is intentional, but they all do it, and it always looks like they don't know how to draw straight lines.

I actually ran into someone like this at lens crafters recently. They were quite young, early to mid 20s I'd say, but after a few minutes of them telling me about the various lens options, I stopped and said, "You're the top salesperson here aren't you?" They gave me a funny look, and asked how I knew. "Just a guess" I said -- but in reality, I had seen all of their human dark-patterns before. Most people wouldn't even know they were being sold to, in fact, they would probably think the opposite... that the salesperson didn't care if they bought anything from them as long as they got the right solution from somebody in the end. Some of them will literally even say that. Of course, this only works when it is 100% believable and you don't identify it as part of their sales strategy.

Apparently it is a structure that holds antennas to keep an aircraft centered on the runway. The antennas have to be there, but experts are saying that the structure supporting the antennas is way over engineered and even internal airport documents had raised concerns about it:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/south-korean-officials-wer...

Maybe they want sites to block them that don't want to be crawled since it probably saves them a lawsuit down the road.

That's true, most are on social media. But as the article says, most kids are the same as mine in several ways. When I talk to my friends, they say the same thing about their kids (anecdotal of course). We don't know why they're so different from us when we don't hide our poor habits from them.

As the article says, most kids aren't drinking or doing drugs these days. When I talk to my friends, that's true for their kids too. They're very different from how their parents were and still are to some degree. I don't know why my bad habits didn't rub off on them, and like I said, they criticize me for my bad habits, so I can assure you that if someone brainwashed them, it wasn't me.

The other thing I haven't seen in this thread yet is that kids today are really focused on is: lifestyle -- they want to work hard at school so they can get great jobs to make a lot of money so they can afford to own a home and live healthy lives. With the cost of living, and everything else, they're going to have to make a lot of money to life the kind of life that they're used to as kids.

My kids are not on social media. They eat like pro athletes. They ask me why I'm eating things with higher amounts of sugar or ultra-processed foods. They do an hour of gym class at school every weekday and then they want to do sports every night of the week and on the weekend. They do their homework and get straight As. They are concerned about bullying and suicide -- they talk to each other, even siblings, in a healthy and caring way.

My oldest couldn't understand why people drink alcohol if it's bad for you. I explained that some people like the way it makes them feel, "So what? It's bad for you. Why would anyone do that to their body?" They couldn't understand why I bought a gas guzzling luxury sports car instead of an electric car given the state of the environment (I've wanted one my whole life and I could finally afford one, yes it's selfish and they are more ethical than I am).

There are definitely a bunch of things going on with Gen Z and Alpha that have made (some of) them this way. But one of the results is that they're not interested in a lot of unhealthy things simply because they know they're unhealthy. They can't understand why we do things that we know are bad for us, the environment, etc. and they're probably right.

They're not perfect, but I do have faith in the next generation and we're going to see some amazing leaders come out of this group.

... and if everyone is always on screens it's hard to avoid the dating apps where they're not getting matches.

My mistake, I didn't understand that "deactivate your eSIM or cancel your service" was akin to the phone rebooting.

Yes everybody following UAPs knows about them, but I would imagine a lot of people reading this thread are not aware of them.

I like all of these considerations, although I also imagine for every context there is some frequency at which it is worthwhile to invalidate the caches to ensure that all parts of the system are still functioning as expected (including the rebuilding of the caches).