Nah, this does not work reliably. The weirdness I've found regarding autocomplete will fill a book.
I'd love to read a "Falsehoods programmers believe about..." post about this!
Readit Newsmartijnarts commented on Customizable HTML Select developer.chrome.com/blog... · Posted by u/dsego
martijnarts commented on EU's AltStore Gets First Native iOS Pornography App macrumors.com/2025/02/03/... · Posted by u/ilamont
> Alternative app marketplaces are required to pay a Core Technology Fee for each install
> Apple charges apps a Core Technology Fee (CTF) for each install after their first one million installs, but the fees don't kick in right away for small developers.
Still ridiculous apple got away with this one. The entire point is to free users and developers from Apple's tyranny.
It's still being investigated by the EU.
Would only be interesting with Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, etc. support. ToS prevent that, so no business would attempt that integration. However, that doesn't mean it can't be done. I look forward to (and might write my own) agent to "read" Twitter, Instagram, etc. and put them into a user friendly and ad-free format.
> Would only be interesting with Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, etc. support.
Big statement, maybe for you but for plenty people it seems to be interesting enough without those.
martijnarts commented on A WebAssembly compiler that fits in a tweet wasmgroundup.com/blog/was... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
> if you take the time to understand what this code does, you’ll learn a surprising amount about WebAssembly!
It's a shame the article mostly teaches about codegolf tricks, and the actual wasm info is left to a single commented code block.
Nonetheless an interesting article about JavaScript quirks though!
martijnarts commented on Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours theguardian.com/travel/20... · Posted by u/teleforce
There is also a night train, which I find even more convenient for long distances.
Sure it’s slower, but you’ll spend most of the time sleeping and it saves you one night at a hotel.
The night trains are great. It's quite comfortable, you get there in the morning allowing for a full day (after dropping off your bags at the hotel) of work/tourism, and I especially hope Nightjet and other night train companies converts all of their trains to the modern mini cabins[0].
They're incredible.
[0]: https://www.seat61.com/trains-and-routes/nightjet-new-genera...
How does one do this with a 20TB SQL database?
Our approach would be to add some filters into our 'restore' pipeline which drops the problematic data should we ever attempt a restore, but I don't think it's good enough, and we have to maintain a list of user id hashes or such to power the filters.
Edit: I mean, in a way that won't eat a lot of costs. I can imagine a malicious group opening and demanding deletions for 1000s of users which would mean a deletion job running on a large number of these 20TB backups, say 100 daily backups and for multiple users?
You don't need to delete data instantly, you just need to do it within a reasonable timeframe. So batching data deletion requests and running a clear out once a week should be fine.
You may even be okay to just reply to the user that you've deleted all active copies of the data and it'll be fully gone when your backups expire in 30 days.
IANAL tho.
martijnarts commented on Reflections on Palantir nabeelqu.substack.com/p/r... · Posted by u/freditup
he wanted, but he didn't - his first deployment was for airbus. then it follows a weak ethical discussion on why working for imperialist powers "is good, actually".
Do you (or anyone) have suggestions on higher quality ethical discussions on this topic? I've found it hard to find these, but I love reading these perspectives and dissections.
martijnarts commented on Who died and left the US $7B? sherwood.news/power/who-d... · Posted by u/jsnell
> All it means is that a percent of your investment becomes "realized" every year and you sell a portion of your investment to cover it.
Because there is a ton of investments that aren't liquid, aren't trivial to value on an ongoing basis, and aren't infinitely divisible.
Again, a farm is a perfect example. Land prices are going up. Your family farm was worth n million, and is now theoretically worth twice that. Do you sell a portion of it to developers to pay the tax on the unrealized gains? Oh by the way, the land is probably zoned agricultural, so you actually can't.
Or, you buy a famous painting as an investment. Do you cut off a piece each year and auction it off?
Yeah, it's relatively easy for stock market holdings. But if stocks get unfavorable tax treatment, all this will accomplish is moving money away from the stock market toward assets that get a better treatment... like investment real estate, with all the problems that entails.
If you buy a famous painting as an investment, I'd assume you have enough money to cover the taxes without having to auction it.
Accurately valuing the painting every year is definitely very difficult.
The same argument doesn't necessarily go for a farmer's farmland. The zoning could of course be calculated into the land value. But I'm unsure if farming economics allow for paying the taxes on those unrealized gains
The beauty of English is that it is controlled by the speakers and not by some pompous authority. It's even flexible enough to allow for regional differences, which allows my fellow Americans and I to spell words correctly like color and theater.
For what it's worth, French is also controlled by speakers. The pompous authority is just lagging behind.
This is my introduction to the word "Expensify". I assumed it meant something like "enshitify" eg: "enshitification".
It's an odd name. Nice of you to share on Github.
It's a brand name, for everyone's context.