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New comment by Qwertie in "Why I never finish my Haskell programs"

Qwertie — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 02:26:26 +0000

Part of the reason I stopped using haskell is because of how generalized everything is. I want to get something basic done and you are expected to read a whole book some maths topic to understand how do something basic. Another language would have an example on how to do that thing 99% of users are trying to do but in haskell land they want you to understand the 1000 different ways the library can be used and piece that together to work out what you want.

New comment by Qwertie in "Lego Wants to Remake Its Toy Bricks without Anyone Noticing"

Qwertie — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 02:34:24 +0000

Thats the case for apple chargers. I have seen that macbook chargers fail after about 6 months use because they switched to a plastic that was less toxic. Conveniently the side of the cable that always fails is the one you can't remove from the brick so you have to buy a new $100 charger at least once a year.

New comment by Qwertie in "Bye bye BetterSlack"

Qwertie — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 04:20:01 +0000

If I make a browser extension that grabs your auth token and all of your messages and sends it to my server. How is slack meant to fix that?

New comment by Qwertie in "Bye bye BetterSlack"

Qwertie — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 04:14:46 +0000

If this threat is legally valid, doesn't that mean all adblockers/tracker blockers could be made illegal?

New comment by Qwertie in "Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node"

Qwertie — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 04:11:07 +0000

Ah yes, you are right. Got those mixed up.

New comment by Qwertie in "Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node"

Qwertie — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:52:46 +0000

Nice work. I'm not a JS expert but I think I saw a bug.

Inside of animate() you are calling setTimeout() to automatically call animate repeatedly but this is also calling setTimeout() every time animate runs but setTimeout() should only be run once.

You should be able to take

  setTimeout(() => {
    animate();
  }, 100);

and paste it over animate() on the last line

New comment by Qwertie in "IRC turns thirty"

Qwertie — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 08:12:11 +0000

I tried that once. Main issue is you have to reply to the pings or you get kicked.

I have found Matrix to be easier to interact with. You need a HTTP client instead of netcat but it's super simple to send JSON from a program or terminal.

New comment by Qwertie in "IRC turns thirty"

Qwertie — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 08:10:06 +0000

I only started using irc about 5 years ago but I have been using it daily since then and yeah the people on it aren't too bad. I have only really seen tech stuff on it recently, all the non tech irc channels I was in moved to discord :L

New comment by Qwertie in "IRC turns thirty"

Qwertie — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 07:59:46 +0000

The speed has gotten better recently. It usually sends messages in under 1 second. The UI is still a little laggy when switching tabs but everything is slowly getting more polished and faster.

New comment by Qwertie in "Electric Scooters in New York City? They Just Might Work"

Qwertie — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 07:15:42 +0000

My fitness has improved so much since owning an ebike. Yeah it's not nearly as much work as using a regular bike but unless you are using a bike all the time you are going to see a massive improvement from switching from a car to an ebike.

New comment by Qwertie in "[dead]"

Qwertie — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 07:08:41 +0000

They have some decent videos. The one about the history of neon lights in hong kong was good.

New comment by Qwertie in "Who Left Open The Cookie Jar?"

Qwertie — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 03:37:56 +0000

Potentially. Although in my experience safari works 99% the same as chrome so I'd bet a bunch of devs just assume if it works on chrome it will work on safari.

New comment by Qwertie in "Deleting Facebook"

Qwertie — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 03:35:31 +0000

Will you ever actually talk to these people? I have lots of these people in my contacts list who I once knew but haven't spoken to in ages. I have never once randomly messaged one of them.

New comment by Qwertie in "Deleting Facebook"

Qwertie — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 03:33:15 +0000

Thats illegal since the GDPR.

New comment by Qwertie in "Who Left Open The Cookie Jar?"

Qwertie — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 01:13:12 +0000

I'd say the majority of websites were never tested on safari because most small dev places can't afford to buy macbooks just to test one browser.

New comment by Qwertie in "Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous"

Qwertie — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 01:16:05 +0000

The market can only sort it out if the lifespan of the product is made clear. If I buy a fridge today, I have no idea how long it will last. I can't see what standards the fridge was engineered to or what shortcuts they took and by the time it's known how long that model lasts it's already off the market and replaced with a new one.

New comment by Qwertie in "Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous"

Qwertie — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 01:13:58 +0000

By recycling they likely mean burning the phone and getting about 10% of the valuable material back out of it.

New comment by Qwertie in "Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous"

Qwertie — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 01:12:02 +0000

Thats kind of how warranty works only that usually the product lasts much longer than the warranty.

New comment by Qwertie in "Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous"

Qwertie — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 01:10:38 +0000

They could be much cheaper to repair if they used standard parts so repair places didn't have to order in custom pieces that they only use about 1 per year because every fridge has it's own version.

New comment by Qwertie in "Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous"

Qwertie — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 01:09:10 +0000

Most people don't live particularly close to one.