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Under "Why TypeScript won", the article says:

> It's self-hosted (tsc is written in TypeScript)

Why would that matter? What if TypeScript was written in Rust? I would assume the better performance would have increased its adoption even more.

Both JSON5 and JSONC have those features. There is a discussion[0] on the VS Code repo to use JSON5 format instead of JSONC for the settings file.

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100688

I searched my monorepo and could find only two lodash functions installed: lodash.startcase and lodash.unescape.

It's nice to be able to install individual functions like these, which I don't prefer to write myself.

What's wrong with yarn 2+ (berry)?

With formatjs [0], you don't have to split the sentence for interpolation. The same example as in the article can be implemented as:

    const message = defineMessage({
      defaultMessage: 'Learn more about <a>supported images</a>.',
      description: 'Footer text containing a hyperlink',
    })

and the anchor element can be interpolated as:

    formatMessage(message, {
      a: (chunks: ReactNode) => <a href="#link">{chunks}</a>,
    })

[0]: https://formatjs.io

> I had to tell Windows that my internet connection was metered in order to get them to stop with the updates.

Nice tip. Any downsides to this?

Bluetooth for file transfer in 2023?

You can setup a local web server and access all files using a Web browser from any device on the network. I have been using Trebleshot[0] on Android for this. Sadly the source code is archived now.

[0]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.genonbeta.TrebleShot/

> Some things are a bit Boolean, as Whittaker states above, but some things are simply binary.

Eh, what's the difference?

It's better to read the original article: https://www.theverge.com/23409716/signal-encryption-messagin...

> I was being taught a way to understand the physics, which is fine, but not how the ideas came to life.

I've always felt that science should be taught in schools by a process of discovery or historical discoveries.

Lol, don't give them ideas.

My lenses have oleophobic coating. I find breathing on them and rubbing with microfiber cloth to be quite effective even when they are coated with grease.

> if you don't the trolley and it's passengers will go in circles for eternity

I interpret that as the passengers would live their natural life-span and then their rotting bodies would go in circles for eternity.

Replace the trolley with planet Earth and it's no different from regular life. (approximating eternity with life of the Sun).

> You should organize each day as if it were your last

We all do. Even if we choose to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.

I won't be able to celebrate for a long time to come. I have to support running an Outlook add-in in Outlook 2016 on Windows, which uses the IE11 rendering engine.

> it ships only the JS for select components

So, even if the page has a single React component, does it ship the entire react + react-dom bundle?

Don't robot vacuums these days come with an app where you can specify no-go areas?

Another example of auto-generated video is perhaps this channel[0] that has videos of only "Happy Birthday" songs with names. I visit it once a year :-)

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/c/HappyBirthdaySongwithNames/videos

Climate change has a definite impact on crop yield. The recent impact on wheat crop in India is a case in point:

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-india-wheat-crop-snags-export....

> An unusually early, record-shattering heat wave in India has reduced wheat yields [...] Climate change has made India's heat wave hotter, said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at the Imperial College of London [...] "But now it is a much more common event—we can expect such high temperatures about once in every four years," she said.

> India's vulnerability to extreme heat increased 15% from 1990 to 2019, according to a 2021 report by the medical journal The Lancet.

Do these custom OSes preserve the native capabilities of the multiple cameras on the device? Can someone chime in with their experience?

Defense in depth.

On my Android I have Netguard[0] configured with a hosts file, Firefox with uBlock Origin and NextDNS with comprehensive blocklists.

uBlock Origin protects only one app — the browser.

[0]: https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/releases/

The very popular Chinese state-owned Hikvision cameras are known to have backdoors:

https://ipvm.com/reports/hik-backdoor

It's puzzling why they are not yet banned in my country.

That's what warrant canaries[0] are for.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

Huh? There's no such law. I have turned off the shutter sound option in every single phone I've purchased here in India so far.

> 108MP sensors becoming increasingly common

Do millions of tiny binned pixels provide better image quality compared to much larger pixels with the same sensor area? How do they compare in low light?

I had to reset it to False due to one annoying consequence: Since the time zone is set to UTC, all my workmates on Slack assumed I'm working from another country. And I had to mentally calculate time differences. It was the only major issue but was too much of a hassle.

Not me. I've NEVER installed any app owned by Facebook including WhatsApp. Never missed it, but then I'm not a social person. My stubbornness forced a few acquaintances to install Signal.

> I’m still looking for a bio-degradable solution to store wet-garbage for at-least 24-hours.

I'm using Shalimar compostable garbage bags available on Amazon.in. They claim to be CPCB Certified as per IS/ISO 17088:2008 [1].

[1]: https://cpcb.nic.in/openpdffile.php?id=UmVwb3J0RmlsZXMvTmV3S...

Another pet peeve of mine is variable names suffixed with "Data" and "Info".

> I think privacy should be on a different layer.

Can you elaborate which layer?

I find it curious that breathing is one activity that can be both voluntary and autonomous. Are there any other activities that are so?