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1,172 karma · joined December 10, 2017

My name is Martijn Arts (martijnarts.com), but I also still go by Totem or TotempaaltJ in places where I haven't been able/bothered to update my username yet.

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martijnarts··on Customizable HTML Select
I'd love to read a "Falsehoods programmers believe about..." post about this!
martijnarts··on EU's AltStore Gets First Native iOS Pornography App
It's still being investigated by the EU.
martijnarts··on Tapestry by Iconfactory
> Would only be interesting with Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, etc. support.

Big statement, maybe for you but for plenty people it seems to be interesting enough without those.

martijnarts··on A WebAssembly compiler that fits in a tweet
> if you take the time to understand what this code does, you’ll learn a surprising amount about WebAssembly!

It's a shame the article mostly teaches about codegolf tricks, and the actual wasm info is left to a single commented code block.

Nonetheless an interesting article about JavaScript quirks though!

martijnarts··on Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours
The night trains are great. It's quite comfortable, you get there in the morning allowing for a full day (after dropping off your bags at the hotel) of work/tourism, and I especially hope Nightjet and other night train companies converts all of their trains to the modern mini cabins[0].

They're incredible.

[0]: https://www.seat61.com/trains-and-routes/nightjet-new-genera...

martijnarts··on German watchdog orders Sam Altman's biometric ID project World to delete data
You don't need to delete data instantly, you just need to do it within a reasonable timeframe. So batching data deletion requests and running a clear out once a week should be fine.

You may even be okay to just reply to the user that you've deleted all active copies of the data and it'll be fully gone when your backups expire in 30 days.

IANAL tho.

martijnarts··on Reflections on Palantir
Do you (or anyone) have suggestions on higher quality ethical discussions on this topic? I've found it hard to find these, but I love reading these perspectives and dissections.
martijnarts··on Who died and left the US $7B?
If you buy a famous painting as an investment, I'd assume you have enough money to cover the taxes without having to auction it.

Accurately valuing the painting every year is definitely very difficult.

The same argument doesn't necessarily go for a farmer's farmland. The zoning could of course be calculated into the land value. But I'm unsure if farming economics allow for paying the taxes on those unrealized gains

martijnarts··on Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval
For what it's worth, French is also controlled by speakers. The pompous authority is just lagging behind.
martijnarts··on Offline UX Patterns
It's a brand name, for everyone's context.
martijnarts··on NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective
"and with over four hundred comments" not quite! Currently 295 comments.
martijnarts··on Ask HN: How do you share and sync .env files and secrets with your team
I love that, that's much better! Thanks!
martijnarts··on Ask HN: How do you share and sync .env files and secrets with your team
I've mostly used the 1Password CLI. A simple `op inject .env.template > .env` (off the top of my head) and done!
martijnarts··on Nuclear reactors a mile underground promise safe, cheap power
The article mentions 76 cm width for the reactor they're designing, and oil wells can be up to a meter wide[0], so that price estimate would probably be similar then.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_well#Drilling

martijnarts··on Nuclear reactors a mile underground promise safe, cheap power
Somewhere up to $5 million, according to this r/AskEngineering thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/1dfzwxd/estim...
martijnarts··on Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes
Lots of nations require carrying some form of ID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_identity_card...

In the US, permanent residents are required to carry their green card at all times.

Here's a description of the law for the Netherlands, where I live: https://www.government.nl/topics/identification-documents/co...

martijnarts··on Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe
The fee is being investigated by the EU now, so they may not get away with it entirely.
martijnarts··on American Singapore(s): Competent city governance hiding in plain sight
You can donate to the US government: https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.h...
martijnarts··on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
Here's the actual EC press release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...

It's very readable!

martijnarts··on Show HN: File0 – An easier way to manage files in serverless apps
I'm sorry to be harsh, but this is not an alternative to the linked product at all. It's not available through an API, there's no Javascript SDK, there's no CDN configured, you still have to set up and manage an S3 bucket... It's not even in the same category, imo.
martijnarts··on The drinking fountain button
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has drinking fountains at most if not all toilets[0]. There's been a short period recently apparently where they were getting replaced and so were unavailable.

The city of Amsterdam has 500 fountains or bottle filling stations[1]. The rest of the country has at least 2400 more[2].

[0]: https://www.wateratairports.com/topic/schiphol-airport-ams/ [1]: https://www.waternet.nl/service-en-contact/drinkwater/gratis... [2]: https://drinkwaterkaart.nl/waar-kan-ik-gratis-water-tappen/

martijnarts··on Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces to counter Starlink
While I think that's at play, I also think it's entirely fair to hold those with more power to higher standards.
martijnarts··on Open Source Community Unites to Build EU CRA-Compliant Cybersecurity Processes
Here's[0] a breakdown from the foundation on that budget category. They also commit to breaking it down better in the future:

  Salaries, benefits, payroll taxes, payroll service provider fees: $1.17m  
  Travel, event sponsorship, & support: $192k  
  Legal and Professional Fees: $66k
  Fund transfer to the Grants Program from membership fees: $40k
  Fund transfer to the Specification work from membership fees: $20k
  Marketing: $36k
  General Admin: (software, bank fees, meeting rooms, etc.) $20k
It's mostly salaries. They employ four engineers (software, security, infrastructure) that work on Rust, who they pay "at or above the average in their local market."

[0]: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/335408-founda...

martijnarts··on Ask HN: Have you migrated to Proton mail/calendar/pass/etc.? How was it?
I used ProtonMail for a few years, but ended up switching to FastMail. Too much became too difficult due to the full E2EE, especially the calendar app was impossible to use together with other apps or even other people.

The email app was _fine_, but not great, and again E2EE was difficult to use with other apps. Especially on desktop I like using a dedicated app, and their bridge just never cut it for me in terms of stability.

The VPN worked well! I ended up switching to Mullvad, and have now moved to Mullvad-over-Tailscale, which works alright.

I never used their password manager (very happy 1Password user), their cloud storage (content with my Syncthing setup).

martijnarts··on Show HN: a Rust based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images
You could also probably detect the terminal you're in and use some of their advanced features, like the image protocol in iTerm2[0] or the terminal graphics protocol[1]. 1 also lists alternative programs that do this!

[0]: https://iterm2.com/documentation-images.html [1]: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/

martijnarts··on Mario meets Pareto
Excellent article! Super approachable and relatable, making it very good at explaining a useful model.

It immediately has me looking for other places to apply this. This'll be top of mind for a while!

martijnarts··on Google's Lars Bergstrom: Rust teams are twice as productive as teams using C++
They actually were given the same projects! It was anonymously self-reported.
martijnarts··on Google's Lars Bergstrom: Rust teams are twice as productive as teams using C++
Full quote: "Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++."

From his keynote presentation the RustNation UK conference.

martijnarts··on RustPython
I think it's really cool that Python has a healthy third-party interpreter community. PyPy, IronPython, Jython, and now RustPython expand Python's accessibility. It's very cool to see how many people are working on this, and I wonder what kind of problems with CPython this has exposed also.
martijnarts··on Power over fiber
Fwiw, Power over Ethernet or PoE has been a widely used IEEE standard since 2003. This is not specific to Cisco, or Meraki. It's common for VoIP phones, cameras, routers, intercoms, etc.
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