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rieTohgh6··on Japan’s business owners can’t find successors – one man is giving his away
It is not the same scale but the same issue as in article happens here. There is huge meat-processing plant next town, build from nothing in those 30 years and owner had to sell it to some big corporation since his children didn't want to take over. And that is would be management job, not crazy overworking yourself for pennies, like those examples from japan.
rieTohgh6··on The IE 11 user-agent forced Mozilla to freeze part of its user-agent string
Last time I had resort to UA sniffing Firefox had issues with clikable horizontal/vertical lines on SVG. There was no version that supported it properly. So I should just display "Switch to Chrome" banner for Firefox users? Is it that simple?
rieTohgh6··on Why T-shaped people? (2018)
I expected this to be about 3D modeling and default pose.
rieTohgh6··on What free, ad-supported Uber rides might look like
YT now shows 6 ads, for 10 minutes video, they share 50:50 with creator, who gets about 10$(+/-100% depending on viewers demographic) for 1000 views - it is nowhere close to cover the cost of Uber drive.
rieTohgh6··on Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues
> use oauth with google or whatever and automatically get the name and birthdate from there

After recent story about github ban: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33917962 anything that asks for more that email is a instant 'close tab and never return' for me. And even before, there is no way I am allowing any site to access may date of birth (despite it being fake one anyway)

And going back to "autocomplete" - it looks that browsers "know better" than developers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12374442/chrome-ignores-...

rieTohgh6··on Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues
It is 2022: some JS frontend frameworks don't have `input` elements in DOM tree ( or at least it is nowhere near the place visible "inputs" are). I guess it is the result of standard elements not being customizable enough (and let's be real, there is never going be a point when available options are enough).
rieTohgh6··on Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues
Literally yesterday I encountered the date picker that didn't allow to manually change the value and didn't display whole calendar properly, with days in 5 and 6 row either invisible or not reacting to selection. And when it is obligatory event date field in insurance claim system, it is hard to apply Hanlon's razor.
rieTohgh6··on Searching a data breach with ElasticSearch
Almost all security issues with ES stem from their idea to keep authorization as separate, paid product (X-pack). On other other hand MongoDB had similar issues since they wanted to their product to be easy to setup and use, maybe for people scarred of pg_hba.conf.
rieTohgh6··on Ubuntu Snap update spoiled my World Cup Final
I wanted to check if it is due to stacking (security) patches instead of just extracting whole tarballs and the first result I got from Google was: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-updates-in-Linux-much-faster-t...

Quora always had reputation for being shit but I am impressed by how terrible that page is. I mean there are only two 2 types of answers there: "Window$ is BAD" and stuff that looks like generated by GPT-3( or straight up from those infamous "recipe sites" a.k.a. SEO farms).

rieTohgh6··on Browser extension that lets you follow accounts on foreign Mastodon instances
No, but it doesn't need one. Or looking at it in at other way - as long as it is better than Slashdot and Reddit people will keep coming anyway - and that bar is freaking low.
rieTohgh6··on Secret scanning is now available for free on public repositories
People keep adding whole tmp/ directories or output binaries to repositories, accidents like this stuff just happening. It is not a workflow, but for a scenario: people trying to run some test, on real service, to debug some weird issue, will temporary put credentials and forget to remove them before comiting the fix. Sure, someone probably will notice it in code review but it is too late if repo was public.
rieTohgh6··on ReVanced DMCA Takedown on GitHub
> nor are they derivative works

That isn't so obvious to me. For all intents and purposes this is no different from crack. I am not sure if DMCA is right tool but I totally understand why Microsoft wouldn't want to host it.

rieTohgh6··on Show HN: I recreated Coursera with 150 free YouTube tutorials
The part of Coursera I find valuable are tests/exams/assignments that verify what you have learnt or at least require some activity over passive watching of video.
rieTohgh6··on Erlang: ‘Let It Crash’ under attack
How exactly "Let it crash" solves whole class of bugs in code, that cause the application return wrong result but complete without any errors? That is the stuff I will be writing unit/integration tests, no matter the language/platform.
rieTohgh6··on Ask HN: Is Google becoming useless as a search engine, or is it just me?
For tech stuff there is customized google search with whitelist on https://notrashsearch.github.io/ .
rieTohgh6··on Ask HN: Which jobs will survive and which will disappear in 50 years?
Weapon smiths might be gone but weapons manufacturing is as big or even bigger than ever in history. So until humanity does a fundamental shift and stops all armed conflicts, it is as safe job as any.
rieTohgh6··on Ask HN: Which jobs will survive and which will disappear in 50 years?
Nowadays it looks like we are getting close to autonomous vehicles - but it was the same 20 years ago - I predicted then that drivers as a profession will disappear soon - and it still didn't happen.

Like many people have already noticed: we overestimate what can be accomplished in the short term and underestimate what can be accomplished in the long term.

rieTohgh6··on Can’t Hear What Actors Are Saying on TV? It’s Not You
If someone told me it was on purpose in this one just to be more confusing I would believe it.
rieTohgh6··on Volkswagen says all brands have halted paid activities on Twitter
90%+ of their revenue comes from ads, how could they not care about advertisers?
rieTohgh6··on Intel on Demand
Doesn't matter for b2b, company needs to stay complaint. Anyway experimented with similar unlockable CPUs in past, I wonder what the results where, since they are only now going back to the idea.
rieTohgh6··on Always use [closed, open) intervals
I am more surprised it is about numbers. I found it more important to take care when dealing with date ranges in databases. And SQL "BETWEEN" lures you into using [from, to], which is great way to shoot yourself in foot. So just my 2 cents:

- what are you going to do when you need to split [a,b] into multiple parts, for performance reasons? [a,c], (c,b] ? Can your codebase handle different interval types? Having [a,b) everywhere is simpler

- stuff like 23:59:59.999999999 is code smell, well until database rounds it up, to next day, then it turns into bug

rieTohgh6··on DVD sales surpass Blu-ray in 2021: Physical format market
I mostly didn't care about games on physical media but recently I saw "collector's editions" steelbooks that have plastic inserts for disk but contain only download code. I mean, it is probably a natural step after "golden disk" is literally unplayable and downloads 30GB patch on day of release.
rieTohgh6··on Ask HN: Why is it so hard to disrupt Ticketmaster?
Ticketmaster is nowhere close to Google's monopoly. If anybody want to buy a ticket, they will use whatever site sells them, users just don't care, they will follow any link from band's webpage. In case of search results you would have to fight to get and keep each user. I mean Google pays Firefox $400M a year, to be default search engine, despite its dwindling market share.
rieTohgh6··on Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RiAxvb_qI4 - this video about Bell's inequality finally makes sense. Somehow all other videos try to start with polarizing filters and claim they somehow require quantum effects to work or other distractions. This one goes straight to point - there are different expected outcomes depending on moment we "roll the dice"( on particle pair generation or on its detection), and experimental data fits only one without local hidden variable.
rieTohgh6··on Commission proposes to accelerate the rollout of instant payments in euro
Are you sure it should implemented immediately?

> with an obligation on providers to verify the match between the bank account number (IBAN) and the name of the beneficiary provided by the payer

This will break a lot of payment flows, currently that verification is rarely enforced. For example I have saved "power company" as receiver's name, the transfers still work since everything besides IBAN is ignored.

rieTohgh6··on Firefox private mode blocked by T-Mobile
I am guessing Local Storage or something like that. That mode just breaks bunch of APIs to work, it is not as simple as "just delete all cookies on start and after tab is closed"
rieTohgh6··on Bitcoin Is Digital Scarcity
In theory fees should rise whenever there is congestion but it also leads to people complaining about their low-fee transaction being stuck in limbo (mempool).

As long as there is free space in block it makes sense for miners to include any non-zero free transaction, so it is a race to bottom with only occasional surges, kinda like the ones that happen in Uber.

rieTohgh6··on Google is shutting down Stadia
It is both. I tried GeForce NOW and it required only about 60Mbps - it was just a fraction of Gbit connection. Still, I sometimes struggled to keep it at that minimum. Variable bandwidth doesn't matter for file downloads or video streaming(where there is few seconds of buffer) but it makes game streaming almost unplayable.
rieTohgh6··on Basic auth will be disabled from October 1st in Outlook 365
I was never able to make TB work with O365 SMTP server and OAuth. IMAP works fine. I wonder if it is TB fault or it is the Microsoft doing something non-standard. Overall the change makes sense, it is hard to have 2FA with basic auth.
rieTohgh6··on Sterling collapses as investors fly into dollars
Not really. It is energy crisis and countries that import fossil fuels are affected. I mean it might trigger the eurozone debt crisis but we are not seeing it yet.
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