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New comment by bakje in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

bakje — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:22:39 +0000

This seems like an AI chatbot would work just as well for you then, since it achieves the same end goal of not having to personally wade through FAQs and such.

I find LLMs are excellent at finding relevant documentation and giving advice, as long as the issue isn’t overly niche, but humans tend to fail there as well.

New comment by bakje in "GitHub Incident"

bakje — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:44:07 +0000

Perhaps the gemini-cli bot arguing with itself is taking its toll

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16750

New comment by bakje in "I Am Mark Zuckerberg"

bakje — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 12:29:24 +0000

Couldn't you reset the password since you have access to the email address?

New comment by bakje in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"

bakje — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:38:19 +0000

Haha I have to admit I didn’t watch the whole video.

In which case my comment still stands for those who also haven’t watched the whole video, which is probably a fair amount of people

New comment by bakje in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"

bakje — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:07:54 +0000

Running the hot water tap beforehand assumes that the dishwasher is hooked up to the hot water in the first place, which isn’t common everywhere.

Where I live this feature is called hot fill, I believe, and a lot of dishwashers don’t even support it. For those that do support its still generally not recommended to use it since the dishwasher now can’t do any rinsing with cold water, which is not only wasteful but I’ve heard the hot water can damage the water softener in your dishwasher.

But if you do hook it up to hot water (which is a lot more common in the US, I think) this makes a lot of sense.

New comment by bakje in "The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge"

bakje — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:11:57 +0000

To be fair, I’ve had this issue with MacBooks as well in the past, although not yet with my M3 pro

New comment by bakje in "RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601"

bakje — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 08:01:11 +0000

This is true when using a UTC offset as it has any potential DST already applied, so it can’t adapt to changes like that.

But if you say I have an appointment at 2026-09-07 15:00:00 in the timezone America/New_York I think that also accounts for future rule changes of that timezone.

I’m no expert on this matter but I believe that’s similar to how the new JS temporal API handles such things

New comment by bakje in "How to Give a Good Talk"

bakje — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:12:48 +0000

If English isn’t your first language it can be very hard to understand someone if they have an accent you’re not used to.

New comment by bakje in "PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?"

bakje — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:26:30 +0000

Oh absolutely, but simply for typed arrays it should suffice

New comment by bakje in "PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?"

bakje — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:12:54 +0000

We used to have a lot of classes like that, but for us PHPStan is sufficient and we effectively have generics now through static analysis warning us of improper usage of types in our CI and IDEs.

Is this not suitable for you?

New comment by bakje in "Fastest and Minimalist Note Taking App"

bakje — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:40:04 +0000

Love the simplicity of this

New comment by bakje in "X's Moonshot for Circularity"

bakje — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:34:10 +0000

And to be clear, by bluesky R&D you’re not referring to Bluesky, the Twitter/X alternative, are you?

New comment by bakje in "The HTTP Query Method"

bakje — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:29:20 +0000

Use cases like reverse image search come to mind

New comment by bakje in "Hacking the largest airline and hotel rewards platform (2023)"

bakje — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:28:34 +0000

The article mentions a security.txt[1] which doesn't seem to contain an email address but it does contain a link[2] to a disclosure program, I'm guessing that's how they submitted all their findings?

[1] https://www.points.com/.well-known/security.txt

[2] https://bugcrowd.com/plusgrade-vdp-pro

New comment by bakje in "SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos"

bakje — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 11:43:17 +0000

Not saying you're wrong, but in this instance it might be a regulation specific to Germany since the site works just fine from the Netherlands.

New comment by bakje in "Code reviews do find bugs"

bakje — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 06:14:28 +0000

I’ve spoken with a CTO who was against them because they add too much overhead, partly because they’re too late in the process.

He encouraged his team to discuss an approach beforehand or to work on something together.

Other than that they had a lot of tests and a very structured codebase, I guess it worked for them.

New comment by bakje in "WebKit fix: Quirk news.ycombinator to skip TextAutoSizing"

bakje — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:53:07 +0000

Why are apps that require accounts against the guidelines? Don't lots of apps require accounts such as Google Calendar or 1Password?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean, I'm genuinely interested.

New comment by bakje in "Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not"

bakje — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:29:58 +0000

Actually, I find airpods to be very usable as bluetooth earbuds for all kinds of devices, these days I mostly use them behind my desktop PC when playing games and they work just fine. When I pop them out of the case they automatically connect to my PC just like they would an iPhone or other apple device. They won't automatically switch to the PC like they would for apple devices but they also won't just switch from the PC so I don't mind. Taking them out doesn't pause media but the play/pause controls do work.

I do think that most people without an iPhone won't buy them so they're essentially still bought as iPhone accessories, but they don't have to be!

I agree about the watch though, that's definitely an iPhone accessory.

New comment by bakje in "DevDocs"

bakje — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:38:17 +0000

> I don't know what the PHP docs now look like off-hand as I write this

The styling and layout changed somewhat, but the content is pretty much the same, comments and all.

Today: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php

15 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20081218125142/https://www.php.n...

New comment by bakje in "To make dishwashers great again? (2020)"

bakje — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 10:55:10 +0000

> Your dishwasher, wherever in the world you may be, will start up by using whatever water it can get for an initial rinse of the dishes, and it will measure how dirty the water is after this initial rinse.

> Normally this water will be tepid. But if you make it hot by running your hot tap first, the hot water will rinse more dirt off the dishes than tepid water ...

I might be misunderstanding you, but this definitely doesn't apply everywhere.

I don't know how this works in the rest of the world, but in the Netherlands at least my dishwasher is only hooked up to the cold water, running my tap will have no effect on the temperature of the water my dishwasher receives.