Hacker News: lakpan

New comment by lakpan in "You won't find a technical co-founder"

lakpan — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:44:15 +0000

> they're becoming a joke again

Are they? I don’t see it. They’re more profitable than ever and are still extremely competitive in multiple markets.

The arguments against this have been the same for decades: Apple is overpriced, Apple’s product are inferior to competition, and yet here we are with large chunks of the market share and larger chunks of market gains.

Some products are stupid, but it’s not like Steve hasn’t pushed dead products out before.

New comment by lakpan in "Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content"

lakpan — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:50:09 +0000

Warning is not possible, have you seen the amount of spam the web has?

What’s possible though is a better handling of these scenarios. Don’t lock me out of my entire account, but stop the specific service/action breaking the ToS.

New comment by lakpan in "How do MRI Headphones work? (2022)"

lakpan — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 04:12:07 +0000

Hire a non-metal band to play for you in the room.

New comment by lakpan in "I will NEVER add such a privacy breaking a**hole feature"

lakpan — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 17:25:51 +0000

The most interesting part of this tool is that it has enterprise features and it’s still free. I mean why. You’re producing a product to handle large amounts of money and you don’t want a cut?

New comment by lakpan in "-2000 Lines of Code (2007)"

lakpan — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 08:28:20 +0000

Sorry but your argument makes no sense. The 10LOC/day guy is not to be singled out from the 1000LOC/day people because 1000 LOC could be just as trivial; 1LOC could have taken hours to discover.

New comment by lakpan in "Intro to Hyperscript: Rethinking JavaScript"

lakpan — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 05:10:24 +0000

So, AppleScript for the web?

New comment by lakpan in "Stashpad launches Google Docs alternative you can use without any login"

lakpan — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 00:07:30 +0000

Not really. Regular users send links to themselves all the time as a way to bookmark things.

New comment by lakpan in "Stashpad launches Google Docs alternative you can use without any login"

lakpan — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 00:04:11 +0000

And then something happens and you lose it.

A million editors and you pick the least capable. My go-to is a sublime text window, even if ST is not my code editor.

New comment by lakpan in ""Using .net Cost Me My Job" (2020)"

lakpan — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:41:58 +0000

Why does this feel so relatable?

New comment by lakpan in "Rolldown: Rollup compatible bundler written in Rust"

lakpan — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 14:51:37 +0000

It’s not generated JS, it’s concatenated JS (plus some glue). Rollup make this clear.

In web extensions you can’t quite use sourcemaps unless you include the sourcemap in the .js file or upload it to your own server

New comment by lakpan in "Rolldown: Rollup compatible bundler written in Rust"

lakpan — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 13:58:56 +0000

The question is: is the output as good as Rollup? I haven’t seen a bundler that outputs code that isn’t junk that must be minified to be any good.

With rollup, I can just ship it as a web extension and it’s still 100% readable.

New comment by lakpan in ""AI, no ads please": 4 words to wipe out $1T"

lakpan — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:12:18 +0000

It’s called reader view and it’s great. I’ve been wishing additional support for things like comments etc, but yeah I really hope that we’ll soon have an “AI browser” that just extracts what we want from the pages we open.

I’m confident that someone already wrote an extension that does this automatically for every page, and that someone else is writing a Chromium wrapper.

The only thing holding us back at the moment is cost/computing.

New comment by lakpan in "I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train"

lakpan — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:04:12 +0000

I’m in my 30s and resident at my parents house, on a continent I spend 30 days/year on average. My company is registered there even. Most people have a “home” (or mailing address) even if they don’t live there.

New comment by lakpan in "Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotify case"

lakpan — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 16:23:03 +0000

> web standards are really a thing now.

Chrome starts a proposal, implements it and “intends to ship” it before anyone really has time to discuss it. Recently (2 months ago?) they introduced a new WebExtension API that nobody cared about nor really understood the need for, but it’s still there, making it look like it’s a “standard”

New comment by lakpan in "JSR: The JavaScript Registry"

lakpan — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 12:41:58 +0000

See, you don’t know how npm works. Npm does not care about the lockfile of dependencies. “Someone checking out my project” always gets the latest version of each dependency within the semver range, until their lockfile locks a version into place.

New comment by lakpan in "JSR: The JavaScript Registry"

lakpan — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 02:34:28 +0000

Yeah but that's rarely the case, you can't offer that as a generic "solution" to the problem at hand. It's just Mithril's choice to both publish to npm and to officially link to unpkg. Packages can make different choices, like publishing to GitHub releases or just to include the file in the GitHub repo.

The reality is that only frameworks and very popular browser-specific packages do that.

New comment by lakpan in "Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative"

lakpan — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 13:04:51 +0000

> when compared to Google Photos

You’re comparing apples to oranges. Google Photos is not E2E. Explain how you can do ML without having the key. Either you hand them the key or you don’t.

Of course they mention it as an alternative to Google and Apple Photos, but that doesn’t imply that they have 100% of the feature set of each.

New comment by lakpan in "Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative"

lakpan — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 12:03:02 +0000

You plug your phone in at night, so it probably has 7 hours a day to do that work.

iOS does the same. They cannot do it on the server because they don’t have access to them.

New comment by lakpan in "Oregon is recriminalizing drugs, dealing setback to reform movement"

lakpan — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 11:56:36 +0000

When I was young, kids in middle school would pick up smoking. Just because it didn’t happen to you it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

I’m against the general “what about the kids” rhetoric, but in this case it’s both important and easy to implement, because sellers already card you for the aforementioned purchases.

New comment by lakpan in "Oregon is recriminalizing drugs, dealing setback to reform movement"

lakpan — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 07:40:11 +0000

What kind of question is this? If drugs are sold without limits, then children will also be affected.

The right answer is that they would still need to be controlled just like cigarettes and alcohol.