Hacker News: baisq

New comment by baisq in "My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement"

baisq — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 10:57:26 +0000

I was happy that they removed 3D Touch because some stuff was simply inaccessible to iPhone SE users.

New comment by baisq in "Botspam apocalypse"

baisq — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 09:53:27 +0000

People here like to say that BigCo has ruined the independent web and that everything is now siloed and blablabla but the truth is that running an independent website fucking sucks in many regards

New comment by baisq in "Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new car prices"

baisq — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 08:50:46 +0000

Someone should go to the EU parliament and tell those busybodies that.

New comment by baisq in "Simplicity of IRC"

baisq — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 23:38:13 +0000

I have also enjoyed and developed for irc a lot, but it's time to move on.

New comment by baisq in "Does my data fit in RAM?"

baisq — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 20:14:58 +0000

How much does that cost?

New comment by baisq in "Does my data fit in RAM?"

baisq — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 20:04:59 +0000

Why is table.html loaded as an external resource instead of being in index.html proper?

New comment by baisq in "A Love Letter to Geocities Sites"

baisq — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 11:59:12 +0000

This comment needs to be accompanied by a soyjak.

New comment by baisq in "I have 218 browser tabs open"

baisq — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 22:11:26 +0000

Safari has a very low limit of tabs open. I don't manage the tabs of my phone at all, I just let them pile up, and eventually I always hit the limit. Thankfully there's an option that automatically deletes all tabs that you haven't opened in a month.

New comment by baisq in "Discord Switching to React Native for Android App"

baisq — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 22:09:52 +0000

Your iphone 6s is probably faster than the average android phone sold today.

New comment by baisq in "Discord Switching to React Native for Android App"

baisq — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 22:07:13 +0000

The desktop client is, to me, not as performant as it should be. Many actions take several hundred milliseconds when it's obvious that they could be much faster.

New comment by baisq in "TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)"

baisq — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 16:40:32 +0000

New paper ignites storm over whether teens experience ‘rapid onset' of transgender identity

https://www.science.org/content/article/new-paper-ignites-st...

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

New comment by baisq in "Librarian's Letter to Google Security"

baisq — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 12:38:50 +0000

I hate, hate, hate how so many web services have started to force 2fa on us. I have many accounts that I don't care that much about and I use bitwarden so it is extremely unlikely that I will get hacked and if I do I don't really care. Still, they force me to open my email account every time I log in because my cookies or ip address do not match my last login so I can input a stupid code. Big offenders in this regard are google, amazon, twitch, outlook, twitter (rarely). I know 2fa exists. If I don't enable it it is because I don't want to.

New comment by baisq in "Million: less than 1kb virtual DOM that is fast"

baisq — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 12:55:27 +0000

You are saying that web apps are slow because of the server, when we all have seen web apps that are laggy even when showing animations when you hover over elements. Users with slow CPUs exist!

New comment by baisq in "Famous HNers and their sites"

baisq — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 10:22:20 +0000

That is a distortion of my entire comment.

There are sites where the user split per sex is around 2:1. The female-dominated ones are generally more vapid than the male-dominated ones. You can check yourself. That is not to say that male-dominated ones are never vapid. To put it in other words, I would say that almost all female-dominated ones are vapid, while "only" the majority of the male-dominated ones are vapid.

New comment by baisq in "Famous HNers and their sites"

baisq — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 08:21:27 +0000

Depends on the corners of the internet that you visit. Tiktok, Instagram, and all vapid places like that have many more females than males.

New comment by baisq in "Famous HNers and their sites"

baisq — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 08:19:31 +0000

If this was a problem, the solution would be to allow avatars, and give a unique one (like gravatar) to users who don't set an avatar themselves.

New comment by baisq in "Samsung’s “repair mode” lets technicians look at your phone, not your data"

baisq — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 21:45:47 +0000

That's okay, but I would never send my phone in for repair without wiping it first no matter what. Surely I'm not alone :-)

New comment by baisq in "Wikipedia is currently in an edit war over the definition of recession"

baisq — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:07:39 +0000

Woman: a pretty big one!

New comment by baisq in "Black MIDI"

baisq — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:04:06 +0000

It doesn't seem ungoogleable to me: if you google "black midi" all you find is that band.

New comment by baisq in "The Best iPhone"

baisq — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:01:16 +0000

Masks have gone away already. It's time to move on. Monkeypox requires you to wear a mask on your ass, so that won't interfere with FaceID operation.