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bakje commented on I Am Mark Zuckerberg   iammarkzuckerberg.com/... · Posted by u/jb1991
mcv · a month ago
There are several people with my name at the company I work for. I frequently get email meant for someone else.

Worst was at another company where a person with the same name has just left, so they gave me that email address. Turned out he was subscribed to several Confluence pages for which I now received updates. But I didn't get his Confluence account, so I couldn't unsubscribe from those updates.

bakje · a month ago
Couldn't you reset the password since you have access to the email address?
bakje commented on I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_... · Posted by u/hnaccount_rng
mitthrowaway2 · a month ago
And lo, there is verily even more information presented in the video than this thread has yet revealed. For what Alec says in the video is that this purge-the-cold-water advice is specific to North America, and he even explains the reasons why!
bakje · a month ago
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

bakje commented on I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_... · Posted by u/hnaccount_rng
mitthrowaway2 · a month ago
There's more to the video than just that. For example: you should run your hot water tap before turning on your dishwasher, and you should experiment with the dishwasher settings, because they can make a big difference.
bakje · a month ago
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.

bakje commented on The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge   twitter.com/samhenrigold/... · Posted by u/leephillips
Analemma_ · 3 months ago
With both Windows and Linux, it's always a luck-of-the-draw thing. Sometimes closing the lid works perfectly, sometimes you get a doofus manufacturer with lousy drivers, so 1 in 20 times you pull your laptop out of your bag and it's red hot with a drained battery.

It's maddening that only Apple gets this right 100% of the time, and it's among the things keeping me on Apple's platform for the moment. I can't fathom why this isn't a bigger priority for everyone else: much like "trackpads that don't suck", it's a huge quality-of-life thing which keeps tons of people on Macs because they want it to Just Work without ever thinking about it.

bakje · 3 months ago
To be fair, I’ve had this issue with MacBooks as well in the past, although not yet with my M3 pro
bakje commented on RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601   ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-... · Posted by u/gregsadetsky
fauigerzigerk · 3 months ago
No, I think it's very important to understand that local times in the future do not identify a point in time and that local times are not necessarily tied to any particular location.

If I set my alarm clock to 7am, I want it to always wake me at 7am local time regardless of where I happen to be on that day.

If I make an appointment for 7 Sep 2026 at 3pm I'm going to turn up at whatever time counts as 3pm on that date. The government might scrap DST, so the exact point in time is currently unknown.

Many uses of local time cannot be expressed correctly if you are forced to specify a timezone.

bakje · 3 months ago
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

bakje commented on How to Give a Good Talk   blog.sigplan.org/2025/03/... · Posted by u/pykello
triceratops · 3 months ago
Sounds fine to me. Not even in the top 10 heaviest accents I've heard in my career.
bakje · 3 months ago
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.
bakje commented on PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?   thephp.foundation/blog/20... · Posted by u/moebrowne
makeitdouble · 4 months ago
Use cases might be different than parent, but PHPStan while being the best tool available is far from perfect, there's still a lo of logic it can't follow. First class citizen array type support baked into the language would hopefully behave better.
bakje · 4 months ago
Oh absolutely, but simply for typed arrays it should suffice
bakje commented on PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?   thephp.foundation/blog/20... · Posted by u/moebrowne
calvinmorrison · 4 months ago
write PHP a lot. every day.

I wish we had typed arrays. Totally not gonna happen, theres been RFCs but I have enough boilerplate classes that are like

Class Option Class Options implements Iterator, countable, etc.

Options[0], Options[1], Options[2]

or Options->getOption('some.option.something');

A lot of wrapper stuff like that is semi tedious, the implementation can vary wildly.

Also because a lot of times in php you start with a generic array and decide you need structure around it so you implement a class, then you need an array of class,

Not to mention a bunch of WSDLs that autogenerate ArrayOfString classes...

bakje · 4 months ago
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?

bakje commented on Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app   noteux.com/... · Posted by u/ifrosted
kevindamm · 9 months ago
I use a variation of this as a bookmarklet, perhaps you'll find it useful:

data:text/html,<html contenteditable>

You could probably set that as the URL of your home page to get the behavior you described.

I add a style="height:100%" in the HTML tag so that clicking anywhere puts focus on it for editing. You could add other styling and initial content as desired.

bakje · 9 months ago
Love the simplicity of this
bakje commented on X's Moonshot for Circularity   x.company/blog/posts/moon... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
ameliaquining · a year ago
Note for anyone who was initially confused, as I was: This is the Alphabet subsidiary that does blue-sky R&D, not the company formerly known as Twitter.
bakje · a year ago
And to be clear, by bluesky R&D you’re not referring to Bluesky, the Twitter/X alternative, are you?

u/bakje

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