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New comment by throwAGIway in "Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe"

throwAGIway — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 20:13:45 +0000

Try it without having Google services on that phone. Most apps and especially the essential ones are dependent on unmodified phones with Google services.

New comment by throwAGIway in "Positive schizotypy may be associated with Sharing false political information"

throwAGIway — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 18:15:23 +0000

You act like the explanation improved it in any way, but that just made it 10x worse. Tax homemade cakes sold on the open market, leave school cake fairs be and definitely don't open them to commercial entities. You say this doesn't affect individuals - my children competing with some business at their school cake fair and having to fill taxes after it definitely affects me and them.

New comment by throwAGIway in "Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe"

throwAGIway — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 17:19:52 +0000

Show me one example?

New comment by throwAGIway in "Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe"

throwAGIway — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 14:06:44 +0000

Indeed, and they saw that software of sufficient quality can't be funded merely by sales of these devices, and decided to create a platform where the software publishers share the cost with the end users.

I yearn for Windows Mobile but it has suffered from this problem greatly. Same with early Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones with smarter features like J2ME.

New comment by throwAGIway in "The French republic is under threat. We 1k historians cannot remain silent"

throwAGIway — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 14:02:44 +0000

It shouldn't be tried by a country, it should be tried by people.

Why would you decide who can vote? Municipal voting right is by residency, no change in that. Everybody votes on the issues that concern all.

New comment by throwAGIway in "Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe"

throwAGIway — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 11:50:07 +0000

That still doesn't give you any right to just take what Apple built for free. Maybe there's no right option for you - I know there isn't for me, I'd prefer to have Windows Mobile (not Phone) again.

New comment by throwAGIway in "The French republic is under threat. We 1k historians cannot remain silent"

throwAGIway — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 10:53:17 +0000

Nationality and citizenship are obsolete concepts and should be abolished ASAP.

Two (or more) tier society is a disgrace to humanity.

New comment by throwAGIway in "Apple okays Epic Games marketplace app in Europe"

throwAGIway — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 10:46:11 +0000

Apple built the city and you're free to go anywhere else.

New comment by throwAGIway in "Mechanical computer relies on kirigami cubes, not electronics"

throwAGIway — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 18:56:08 +0000

You can't get biological computers without having very high speed computers though. This field of biology is very reliant on computer analysis.

New comment by throwAGIway in "Region-specific Machines pricing"

throwAGIway — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:32:07 +0000

I disagree, the support is very responsive. Try to let them know in advance about your plans and you will be fine.

New comment by throwAGIway in "Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust"

throwAGIway — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 11:13:07 +0000

It's an issue because CommonJS allows stuff that's forbidden in static ESM imports/exports, and it was normal to use. Newer code is usually fine, but there are many older backend libraries that can cause issues with Esbuild. Webpack had to learn how to deal with it because it existed at the time CommonJS was most popular, Esbuild didn't.

New comment by throwAGIway in "Ask HN: List of people who successfully built for profit programming languages?"

throwAGIway — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 02:29:47 +0000

Turbo Pascal

Delphi

New comment by throwAGIway in "Ask HN: I was quoted €6K for CE certification"

throwAGIway — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 20:16:08 +0000

There's not much more to it yet, it's a large project and my first time trying something like this. I have selected few candidates and so far the cooperation with each of them was excellent, they are very skilled, proactive and keen businesspeople with good products for reasonable prices. I really wish the market here in EU was like that.

New comment by throwAGIway in "Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust"

throwAGIway — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:27:56 +0000

Basically the only forbidden thing is dynamically calculating import paths, or dynamically generating the module.exports object.

New comment by throwAGIway in "Ask HN: I was quoted €6K for CE certification"

throwAGIway — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:14:53 +0000

At least they replied, lol. I still have dozens of Chinese saleswomen wishing me good morning on WhatsApp more than two months after I sent my RFQ, the EU companies didn't even reply.

New comment by throwAGIway in "Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust"

throwAGIway — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:05:26 +0000

Yes, exactly. Pulling a huge npm dependency is usually not a problem if they didn't go out of their way to make it super hard to analyze at build time.

This is tree shaking though, dead code elimination means it will find code that isn't used at all and remove it - for example you might have if (DEV) {...}, and DEV is static false at build time, the whole if is removed.

So first it performs dead code elimination, then it removes unused imports, and then it calculates what is actually needed for your imports and removes everything else.

New comment by throwAGIway in "Ask HN: List of people who successfully built for profit programming languages?"

throwAGIway — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 12:50:18 +0000

Sicstus Prolog

New comment by throwAGIway in "Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust"

throwAGIway — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 12:49:15 +0000

Yep, that's how it works - you first perform dead code elimination and then tree shaking exactly because it wouldn't remove everything otherwise. Agreed that you need both done one after another in most cases; however you can usually disable either one in bundler configuration and it's a separate step.

New comment by throwAGIway in "Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust"

throwAGIway — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:10:46 +0000

Dead code elimination is related to but distinct from tree shaking - it also means that unused code branches get removed, for example constants like NODE_ENV get replaced with a static value, and if you have a static condition that always results to true, the else branch is removed.

New comment by throwAGIway in "Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust"

throwAGIway — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 09:41:05 +0000

SWC doesn't bundle at all. Esbuild is a pretty good bundler but works well only if your code and dependencies use ESM, it's not as good as other options with CommonJS.