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endless1234··on Notable items missing from English Wikipedia
> Wikipedia has a list. The list is out of date. I was adding to it to bring it up to date.

If your source for these updates was basically "I'm family, trust me bro", isn't this a case of WP's verifiability for once working well?

endless1234··on We lost 54k GitHub stars
This is exactly what you start doing on Github too, since many repo operations require you to do it. Seeing this warning modal where you have to copy-paste some string is what you expect when clicking delete/make private/make public. I don't know if it really helps.
endless1234··on Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown
What? More than two doses is extremely common for vaccines. See e.g. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...
endless1234··on Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms
Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

It was very ineffective.

Something similar but actually enforced (easier said than done) and utilized would be very nice indeed.

endless1234··on Please, delete all new places since the start of war 23th of February
It's the same in all countries with not-clear borders. Applies to eg Georgia, Serbia/Kosovo and India/Pakistan too.
endless1234··on Ask HN: How do you get work done while there is a war in Europe?
Is it somehow weird to be, as an European, more concerned by internationally escalating Russian invasion warfare in Europe than by civil war in Yemen? Of course war is shit always, but I don't see how "oh, there are other bad things also" is a helpful analysis of the situation.
endless1234··on Airbnb wants to GPS track you also when not using the app
GP's talking about Apple making PWAs unviable on iOS.
endless1234··on Running IntelliJ Idea with JDK 17 for Better Render Performance with Metal
Writing code and what comes with it is the one potentially resource intensive thing I do at work. It's not like I'd be gaming at the same time. I don't really care if my programming environment takes up a few gigabytes of my 16 or 32 gigs of available memory. That's why I have it, no? Perhaps that "1%" difference is something that makes my daily work a lot nicer?
endless1234··on Piracy release group EVO ‘blames’ movie industry for its popularity
Safari is up to 4k on macOS 11+, as per https://help.netflix.com/en/node/55764
endless1234··on GetElementById vs. QuerySelector
> No code I've ever written looks up so many elements in a single interaction that this micro optimization would ever matter to me.

Exactly. This is the type of nano-optimization that is pretty common to see in e.g. SO answers. Sure, selecting _a hundred thousand_ items in a loop might be some milliseconds faster, but so what? How often are you selecting more than a few at most?

endless1234··on Google Play permitting alternative billing systems for users in South Korea
> Back in the day, applications on Symbian devices could run in background without any indication.

This was absolutely terrible for battery life, though. Accidentally leave the IRC client open in the background? There goes your battery. There are non-nefarious reasons why smartphones work they way they do nowadays.

endless1234··on Security issue related to the NPM registry
My experience working on tens of front end projects is the complete opposite. Nobody is adding dependencies just for the fun of it, or because you might need it in a year. You add a dependency because you need some functionality and there is no time/budget to re-do it in house - not to mention that if it's a well-supported library with, for example, hundreds of thousands of users, it's unlikely you could even make it better.
endless1234··on Hackerrank DMCA Notice
How is it terrifying? It's pretty nice to be able to share your screen in an online meeting. It has the same kind of permission prompt, of course.
endless1234··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
If using the laptop mostly in a stationary place, but occasionally taking it to meetings (or just around the house), the dongle life is okay - means just one cable to plug in when I come back. Of course it would still be better to have a few extra ports on the device itself, there's no getting around that.
endless1234··on New USB-C logos make picking USB cables, chargers less confusing
I don't think 18 watts is enough to do everything.
endless1234··on EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones
6 billion smartphone subscriptions worldwide (according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/330695/number-of-smartph...), Android is about 70% (https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide), and has been predominantly USB C for the past 5 years or so (eg Samsung S7, released in 2016, was their first phone with USB-C afaics). I don't think it's that far fetched.
endless1234··on EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones
It can be argued that lightning is slightly better, sure. But billions of people use USB-C daily, and even half of Apples product line only has them instead of lightning, so not sure if the difference is that meaningful.
endless1234··on The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history
If so, why believe "don't save location history" would mean anything either?
endless1234··on Why that Thunderbolt add-in card doesn't work properly in your unsupported PC
Might be partly due to plugging into different ports as somebody mentioned, but it does seem to happen randomly for me too. But I found this tool yesterday that makes it a lot simpler to solve https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer - annoying that it doesn't work properly out of the box, of course
endless1234··on OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce
Why ignore the GPs argument? Israel has vaccinated 61% of their population. Of course the 39% who aren't vaccinated will continue to spread it like before, even more so if restrictions are lifted.
endless1234··on Deploy a website on imgur.com
It's a fun project decoding a png image clientside. How do you propose it should be done without javascript? How does SEO make any difference - it's clearly a toy project, proof of concept, not meant for real world use.
endless1234··on Senators move to exempt Bitcoin, crypto miners from proposed U.S. tax rules
>At current levels, bitcoin uses very roughly 0.1% of global electricity but electricity only represents 25% of fossil fuels emissions so current PoW contribution to global emissions = 0.025%, ie a rounding error.

How does this argument make sense? Let's split up the world's energy consumption into 0.025% emission sized chunks in some arbitrary way we choose. Does nothing then make any difference, since everything is just a rounding error? The question is, does bitcoin provide value for the emissions it generates? For what it's worth, estimates seem to put the current usage at around 0.6% of total worldwide energy consumption.

endless1234··on Tips for Better Signup / Login UX
So they can show a sign up form in case there is no account for the given email
endless1234··on Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower
You do it with flats too. Clipped in feet just makes it so you don't need to worry about where the foot ends up after that. But it's not a huge difference.
endless1234··on YouTube is now building its own video-transcoding chips
What is floatplane, never heard of it? Seemingly an yt competitor by a somewhat popular youtuber. App on Android has "10k+" installs. Isn't it _way_ too early to say it wouldn't be a money losing business?
endless1234··on Wkhtmltopdf: Command line tools to render HTML into PDF
> In the meantime Chrome added headless support and with command line or puppeteer you can do the same thing with a much newer and more secure engine.

Yep, this is the way to go now. Very simple API with puppeteer and everything looks the same as when viewing the page in a browser (save any @media print css).

endless1234··on Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser for user privacy
What a weird argument. We're not talking about suspicious blogospam sites asking for notification access here. By the same token, most email sent is spam. Should we stop using email?

Spammy notification requests should be mitigated with better browser guards for requesting them. The fact that there is spam does not somehow invalidate that there are legitimate use cases people want them for.

endless1234··on Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser for user privacy
>Why should a web browser be able to send notifications?

Why not? Web browsers are not just for reading text based articles. Most use a calendar, email, perhaps some kind of chat app through their browser. Aren't these and other similar use cases good reasons for notifications to exist?

endless1234··on Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser for user privacy
>Have those users download some simple app

The whole discussion is about it being unnecessary resource use to develop said "simple app" due to Apple's restrictions on mobile Safari..

endless1234··on Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way
In which reality do you need to monkey patch CSS color values on a terminal directly to production? With no possibility of running a IDE?
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