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windmark··on Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
Looks like they were notified of this miss

> please contact them at support@supercardsapp.com and they will respond in a reasonable time.

https://supercardsapp.com/privacy-policy/privacy

windmark··on Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam [video]
What was the original business model that Honey had? I only know of the current Honey approach, inserting themselves into the checkout page, did Honey work differently before? More like a coupon search engine? That’s the only way I can imagine “first click” makes sense.
windmark··on Full Introduction to Golang with Test-Driven Development
I totally agree! I really liked https://lets-go.alexedwards.net which walked you through creating a web api with a database. When I did it, I decided to use SQLite instead of what was in the course, which meant I could follow along but still had to understand and choose the right dependency etc myself.

(I’m not affiliated, just a happy customer)

windmark··on How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?
I wasn’t aware that WKWebView granted the app such power. Is there a way for me as a user to figure out if WKWebView or SFSafariViewController is being used if I have a web page open? Although I don’t use FB, I do use the web view of other apps and don’t want them to be able to do this either.
windmark··on Web browser as GUI, with your preferred language in the backend
Reading the “How Does it Work?” section of the readme, I interpret it as WebUI being a way of embedding a web view into your existing program, being a sort of proxy for the existing browser of the system.

https://github.com/webui-dev/webui#how-does-it-work

windmark··on Things we always remind ourselves while coding
We got your point the first time you posted this. You come across as someone who tries to keep the monopoly for themselves.
windmark··on It's OK if your code is just good enough
In addition to what the others have said, make sure you have a CI and don’t review the PR until that’s showing green. The CI should ideally include tests, linting according to a common code standard and other “grunt tasks” that are unnecessary in a PR review.
windmark··on Maersk to cut 10k jobs as shipping demand drops
Indeed similar to all Big Tech companies laying off the past year.
windmark··on Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system
I’m using QuickScan on iOS for this, which has customizable favorite export locations so that you with one press after a scan can upload to specific folders in google drive etc.
windmark··on I Will Never Use the Metric System [video]
Your examples with even numbers in feet and odd in meters tell me that is what you’re used to.

I can counter with that saying 180 cm is a lot easier than 5 feet 10.86 inches. No one says that, similar to that no one would say 17.78.

What’s convenient with metric is that there isn’t any difference between saying 180 or 179 cm. You just say, “one seventy nine”, not “one hundred and seventy nine”. Here I am showing what I am used to.

windmark··on 50+ SwiftUI Components that you can copy paste in your next iOS project
I don’t agree with that design decision. As a new user, you might come across this site and think it only contains the visual gifs (there are many such design sites without code). Since there’s no indication that the source code exists, I won’t have any idea that I should view it further on my computer.

I would propose to make the mobile the full experience, just making the copy code part less of a focus.

windmark··on 50+ SwiftUI Components that you can copy paste in your next iOS project
This website seems to have problem rendering in Safari on my iPhone 12 Pro. The header is cut off and the cards are overlaying each other. See here https://pasteboard.co/S8cpPCWQ5FLt.png
windmark··on Slack: A redesigned Slack, built for focus
I agree. I can manage my notifications across more channels a lot better in Slack than in MS Teams
windmark··on Canonical’s recruitment process is long and complex
Apart from it being over Zoom, the main differentiator is that only one party eats. That’s a clear show of power. What you are talking about is that that both meet over food, which is very different.
windmark··on Plane – Open-source Jira alternative
Because that’s that most people see Jira as. It’s easy to only use Jiras surface level features, like a Trello with a little more functionality, and not the more advanced ones.
windmark··on InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't notified before data deletion
In this case we’re talking minutes to destroy your reputation for all current and future customers. That must be considered worth it.
windmark··on Warming up your car before driving in cold weather can damage the engine (2016)
I can’t access the updated link and just get:

Access Denied

You don't have permission to access "http://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/weather-verify..." on this server. Reference #18.51d1202.1671993608.7d094d83

windmark··on Effectless but expensive. Or be careful with type hints in Python
Right, seems like the author is basing the article of a unit confusion of 3 orders of magnitude..
windmark··on Red Engine: modern scheduling framework for Python applications
I assume that “internal” means it’s just that and not accessible.
windmark··on Ask HN: How can we fix Wikipedia?
Can you elaborate with sources for someone who have only read the main stream media about this?
windmark··on Valve’s Steam Deck wows reviewers: ‘The most innovative gaming PC in 20 years’
> In a similar vein, I think it's cool to see Sony take a more repair friendly approach with the PS5. Taking the sides off for cleaning or replacement is super easy and as a bonus creates an extra revenue stream for new accessories.

Too bad Sony was so anti-competetive and sued Dbrand (and others?) for making custom side panels.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdqwz/custom-ps5-plate-comp...

windmark··on Emergent Behavior in Skyrim's Fox AI
And in even better format with a thread reader, https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1428008041887281157.html
windmark··on Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?
SwiftKey is for some reason significantly worse on ios than android. I still use it because it has far better correction than the builtin keyboard and I haven't found any other that supports multiple simultaneous languages on ios.
windmark··on Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
In my city we have this issue with the screens in the subway trains. There are two screens, * one always works and shows ads and selected news

* the second one is supposed to show the next stations and connections, except for when it doesn't and shows ads.. for many minutes at a time.

windmark··on Ask HN: LinkedIn suggesting I connect with my infertility doctor
Having the user enter their password for connecting to Gmail is very different to having the service try the passwords themselves. The service shouldn't even have the password in clear text to begin with.

Until OP provides proof I doubt this claim from such a big service like LinkedIn.

windmark··on Show HN: Hupreter – Create apps by describing them in English
Definitely. Understanding the problem space and formulating the requirements is often overlooked when people claim "AI will take over programming".

Although off the shelf products will be able to do more and more tasks, I believe the demand for complicated solutions constantly will stay ahead of these.

This is exactly what we're seeing with Automation threatening the easy jobs, but as a whole, more specialized people are needed for the cases when that isn't enough.

windmark··on Yank: Yank Terminal Output to Clipboard
I have the following alias which simply parses the branch name and passes with carts

  alias gpsu='git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD | xargs git push --set-upstream origin'