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New comment by matmo in "Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D"

matmo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:43:18 +0000

Would be nice to pair this with something like FlightRadar where you can see relevant flights in proximity to you and select them.

New comment by matmo in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"

matmo — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:52:59 +0000

I don't think the critique is that "welfare is objectively preferable" to a high paying career, but rather that the effort:reward ratio isn't scalable to society at large (without some level of social cohesion, I guess).

New comment by matmo in "Ground stop at JFK due to staffing"

matmo — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 02:37:29 +0000

What does this actually mean? All flights around JFK are cancelled until further notice? Can someone translate? Does this affect EWR and LGA?

New comment by matmo in "Element: setHTML() method"

matmo — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:01:31 +0000

Isn't this kinda like asking "why does my gun need a safety if I'm the only one consciously pulling the trigger"?

New comment by matmo in "Vitamin D supplementation associated with a reduced risk of suicide in veterans"

matmo — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 22:19:53 +0000

Glad to see at least a few mentions of K2 here. IIUC, excess Vitamin D can increase calcification in arteries or something like that, and K2 helps avoid that. But I've also seen mentions of people needing to be wary of K2 if they have heart issues or take blood thinners. It's an exhausting cycle of wondering whether you're truly helping or harming yourself unless you really become an expert in all these subtle things. I stopped taking the Zinc/Magnesium/Vitamin D combo from Costco as a result since it has no K2. Curious if anyone has any safe/vetted Magnesium, Vitamin D, and K2 combo recommendations.

New comment by matmo in "Google Maps Hacks"

matmo — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 17:42:53 +0000

I don't know what the tipping point is, but it'd probably take more than one. I've commuted through backed up/stopped/solid red sections on a motorcycle where I just get to lane-split and cruise through, and it'd still stay red.

New comment by matmo in "Bill to crack down on robocalls passes Senate"

matmo — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 20:56:32 +0000

Most of the spam calls I get these days are just silence. I'll answer them occasionally and just listen, but even after 5-10 seconds no one says anything. Who benefits from that? I really don't get it.

New comment by matmo in "Web Development Simplified with Svelte"

matmo — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 18:31:44 +0000

So for small apps, the final bundle size is significantly smaller since there's no framework "runtime" code included. What about large apps though?

New comment by matmo in "Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M"

matmo — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 21:06:20 +0000

Is anyone satisfied with their Fossil watch? I have a Fossil Q Explorist and it's so slow and laggy that I almost wonder if I got a lemon. It takes like 3 taps to click or swipe before anything registers. I'm pretty sure my original Moto 360 is faster. I only wear it because it looks decent and occasionally works. I really wanted to like it, but my experience has just been ... bad.

New comment by matmo in "Show HN: A JavaScript Handbook"

matmo — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 20:48:51 +0000

Nice, this was a good refresher on some of the lesser known parts of the newer specs.

+1 for explaining the event loop and job queues

-1 for no semi-colons though (kidding ;))

New comment by matmo in "Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub"

matmo — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 19:24:17 +0000

Agreed. It'd also be nice to see a list of issues you're subscribed to. Here's a fun issue to follow for that - https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/283

New comment by matmo in "How America lost its love for the stick shift"

matmo — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 22:35:29 +0000

Manuals just make driving fun IMO. I've been trying to find a manual 2013 to 2016 Audi A4 for weeks/months now, and its dishearteningly difficult to find any without expanding my search to be nationwide.

New comment by matmo in "The Document Base URL Element"

matmo — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 23:04:23 +0000

If you use a CI system that deploys each build of your webapp, where it might be deployed at a random url (/build1/index.html vs. /build2/index.html), then you would make all the url's in your app relative urls, which are then basically prefixed by the base url specified in the document head once the actual requests get sent. You can then write a different base href onto the document for each build, and everything will magically work.

Also, if ever use relative urls for assets or requests, and you deploy to different URL's (or your deployed URL path's don't map 1:1 to your filesystem paths), it can come in handy.

Angular also uses this to determine where the client side routing begins - https://angular.io/guide/deployment#base-tag .

New comment by matmo in "[dead]"

matmo — Tue, 08 May 2018 20:05:06 +0000

Are you trying to incite the mob with this post? If you read the latest comments by the Webpack team, it seems pretty clear that "Webpack" is not squatting on parcel scopes on npm.

New comment by matmo in "California’s quality of life is the worst in the country?"

matmo — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 02:58:47 +0000

As much as I'd like to buy a house outside of California, I can't imagine living in cold weather constantly. I really need sunlight/warmth, and I can't help but feel like I would miss California's weather.

New comment by matmo in "JavaScript Zero: real JavaScript, and zero side-channel attacks"

matmo — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:59:11 +0000

What's the use case for this? Is this for crypto sensitive code or password matching that is vulnerable to timing attacks and such? Or is this for avoiding things like Spectre in a more general sense?

New comment by matmo in "Ticks may be the next global health threat"

matmo — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:46:16 +0000

For the uninformed, what's the proper way to remove a tick these days? When I was younger I heard advice to put a flame or extinguished match near the tick until it unlatches, but I've also heard that that's a bad idea because it causes them to emit some irritant into your body or something to that effect. What's the correct way?

New comment by matmo in "CSS Paint API: New possibilities in Chrome 65"

matmo — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:26:22 +0000

Thanks for the info. Love your youtube videos by the way :)

New comment by matmo in "CSS Paint API: New possibilities in Chrome 65"

matmo — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:05:02 +0000

I always find it interesting that Chrome is charging ahead full steam on experimental API's like this while most other browsers have given no intent to implement them yet.

Did Chrome come up with Houdini? Are they being brave or pushy here?

New comment by matmo in "Crash JavaScript and more"

matmo — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 22:07:54 +0000

The code in question (had to wget from the github referenced below - I'd rather not visit the domain OP posted at work):