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Tokumei-no-hito commented on Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool   spectrum.ieee.org/iphone-... · Posted by u/rbanffy
lejohnq · 6 months ago
I’ve been caseless for a while and have had a couple of drops and the phone has been fine. When I eventually upgrade my phone, I’ll probably stay caseless, or add minimal protection. Mainly cause if the increasingly rare catastrophic drop happens, it’d be unpleasant to deal with.

I do like some cases for their design elements, I might use one to just further personalize my phone.

Tokumei-no-hito · 6 months ago
i was for a while too. but the shift back to aluminum does not bode well for caseless.

deep scratches are trivial and drops will immediately lead to heavy dents. that being said the screen itself is incredibly tough so it will be usable.

before (stainless / titanium) you could go caseless without concern. the most i ever had happen was a little crack on the back

Tokumei-no-hito commented on Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C   github.com/Beariish/bolt... · Posted by u/beariish
perlgeek · 7 months ago
I like 99% of this, and the thing I don't like is in the very first line of the example:

> import abs, epsilon from math

IMHO it's wrong to put the imported symbols first, because the same symbol could come from two different libraries and mean different things. So the library name is pretty important, and putting it last (and burying it after a potentially long list of imported symbols) just feels wrong.

I get that it has a more natural-language vibe this way, but put there's a really good reason that most of the languages I know that put the package/module name first:

    import packageName.member; // java
    from package import symbol; # python
    use Module 'symbol'; # perl
    
With Typescript being the notable exception:

    import { pi as π } from "./maths.js";t

Tokumei-no-hito · 7 months ago
can't the compiler process it in reverse?
Tokumei-no-hito commented on Perplexity Response to Cloudflare   twitter.com/perplexity_ai... · Posted by u/Tokumei-no-hito
skybrian · 7 months ago
As far as I know Google's bot respects robots.txt and doesn't try to evade detection?
Tokumei-no-hito · 7 months ago
maybe. the allegations against perplexity are being challenged and i haven't seen any research on google agent. CF can demonstrate nonpartisanship, and gain credence for their claims against perplexity, by being transparent about other players in the space.

(as an aside, not to shift the goalpost to the elephant in the room, but i didn't see any blog posts on the shameless consumption of every single thing on the internet by OAI, google and anthropic. talk about misuse..)

Tokumei-no-hito commented on Perplexity Response to Cloudflare   twitter.com/perplexity_ai... · Posted by u/Tokumei-no-hito
just-tom · 7 months ago
While agents act on behalf of the user, they won't see nor click any ads; they won't sign-up to any newsletter; they won't buy the website owner a coffee. They don't act as humans just because humans triggered them. They simply take what they need and walk away.
Tokumei-no-hito · 7 months ago
fair point.

where's the front page CF callout for google search agent? they wouldn't dare. i don't remember the shaming for ad and newsletter pop up blockers.

that being said, agree with you that sites are not being used the way they were intended. i think this is part of the evolution of the web. it all began with no monetization, then swung far too much into it to the point of abuse. and now legitimate content creators are stuck in the middle.

what i disagree on is that CF has the right to, again allegedly, shame perplexity on false information. especially when OAI is solving captchas and google is also "misusing" websites.

i wish i had an answer to how we can evolve the web sustainably. my main gripe is the shaming and virtue signaling.

Tokumei-no-hito commented on Perplexity Response to Cloudflare   twitter.com/perplexity_ai... · Posted by u/Tokumei-no-hito
anon7000 · 7 months ago
Hm, it’s still a tricky question. Do web admins have a right to block agentic AI? Of course they do. They have a right to block whoever they want. Distinguishing between scraper and agent is important, yes, but agents can still produce a lot more traffic than the average human, and it’s not like the agents are optimizing their access patterns.
Tokumei-no-hito · 7 months ago
i agree. i think the point i agree with perplexity on is that CF is a central authority that is claiming to be the gatekeeper while (allegedly) being disingenuous and incapable.

i also tend to agree with the concept that scraping != consuming on behalf of a user. they explicitly point out that they do not store the data for training, which would fall under scraping by proxy.

Tokumei-no-hito commented on Perplexity Response to Cloudflare   twitter.com/perplexity_ai... · Posted by u/Tokumei-no-hito
minimaxir · 7 months ago
Official post on their company blog (no idea why they reposted it on Twitter verbatim, that's bad SEO, ironically): https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/agents-or-bots-making-sen...
Tokumei-no-hito · 7 months ago
if what they're saying is true then this was a huge fuckup on CFs part. i was already a bit suspicious when they started gloating about OAI agent since it's been shown to literally state that it's solving a captcha to complete the task.

i guess it will come down to browserbase corroborating the claims.

Tokumei-no-hito commented on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives   blog.cloudflare.com/perpl... · Posted by u/rrampage
muyuu · 7 months ago
yea but those are not open sites, try imposing that on an open site you'd want to actually attract human traffic to
Tokumei-no-hito · 7 months ago
see, literally, reddit requiring teenagers to open their mouth and roll their heads around to enter.
Tokumei-no-hito commented on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives   blog.cloudflare.com/perpl... · Posted by u/rrampage
alexey-salmin · 7 months ago
Over time it degraded into declaring compatibility with a bunch of different browser engines and doesn't reflect the actual agent anymore.

And very likely Perplexity is in fact using a Chrome-compatible engine to render the page.

Tokumei-no-hito · 7 months ago
user agent = which bullshit css hacks and js polyfills will be needed
Tokumei-no-hito commented on Modern Node.js Patterns   kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2... · Posted by u/eustoria
farkin88 · 7 months ago
Yeah, that's the classic bundle size vs DX trade-off. Fetch definitely requires more boilerplate. The manual response.ok check and double await is annoying. For Lambda where I'm optimizing for cold starts, I'll deal with it, but for regular app dev where bundle size matters less, axios's cleaner API probably wins for me.
Tokumei-no-hito · 7 months ago
why don't they just set those as options

{ throwNotOk, parseJson }

they know that's 99% of fetch calls, i do t see why it can't be baked in.

u/Tokumei-no-hito

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