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oneeyedpigeon commented on The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know deanebarker.net/tech/blog... · Posted by u/deanebarker

themafia · 12 days ago

What if you want to change the URL between the time you choose the name and the time you decide to actually publish it? How do you resynchronize those clients? Or are you forced to now serve a redirect as well?

oneeyedpigeon · 12 days ago

If you must change the URL then, sure, serve a redirect. This is exactly the same as all your existing URLs, so I don't see what the problem could be.

oneeyedpigeon commented on The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know deanebarker.net/tech/blog... · Posted by u/deanebarker

kmoser · 12 days ago

This could be even easier to implement than the author suggests, at least for the cited use case of when a new web page is published (e.g. Part 2 of an article). The simplest solution--assuming you know what the URL will be--is to have your agent of choice periodically check whether that URL returns 200. That greatly simplifies the protocol since it piggy-backs off the existing HTTP protocol, and makes it easy to write your agent (or use an existing one). All that's left would be for authors to publish what the next URL will be; nothing else on the back end is needed.

oneeyedpigeon · 12 days ago

Exactly—you could also have a <link rel=next in the part 2 document with that URL.

oneeyedpigeon commented on We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem denodell.com/blog/we-keep... · Posted by u/speckx

donatj · 12 days ago

> Fast-forward a couple of decades and we’re building highly interactive, component-based, state-driven, design-system-heavy applications

Are we actually, in fact, if we're being honest?

I haven't seen anything like that. 99.9% of applications I interact with are just a series of simple CRUD operations. Sometimes they add unnecessary complexity and flashiness and of course there are some games and such, but when it comes to actual business apps they all just boil down to updating text records in a database at a human pace.

I am genuinely interested to hear examples of these "highly interactive" web apps others are building I keep hearing about but never seeing.

oneeyedpigeon · 12 days ago

I feel exactly the same way as you, and I get flashbacks to every time someone talks about the new framework on the block that serves to fix a problem that 0.1% have, while making things worse for the other 99.9%.

oneeyedpigeon commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10

Uehreka · 22 days ago

> Most people can afford grabbing a beer in a supermarket and going to the park.

This is illegal in almost all of the USA. Sometimes you can get away with it, but if the cops decide to enforce the law on a particular day you’ll get a ticket.

oneeyedpigeon · 22 days ago

For the land of the free, America sure does have some weirdly authoritarian laws, many of them relating to alcohol!

oneeyedpigeon commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10

mgraczyk · 22 days ago

This isn't true in the US.

Young people in US consume much more of those things you listed than people over 40 did at the same age. Young people have more purchasing power than previous generations.

EDIT: Data from the fed and payroll providers show this overwhelmingly to be the case, but just to add some color/anecdote.

I found all of the first jobs I had in highschool and just after. 3/3 of my first roles now advertise a minimum salary over twice what I was paid 14-18 years ago. Prices have gone up around 20-30% since then overall so I would have had 40% more purchasing power today with the same jobs.

oneeyedpigeon · 22 days ago

Are you taking into account the biggest drain on young people's finances, accommodation? I would be amazed if young people today had as much disposable income as they did 20 or 30 years ago.

oneeyedpigeon commented on Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry cryonceaweek.com... · Posted by u/johnnymaroney

oneeyedpigeon · 24 days ago

I haven't investigated the site because I don't want to cry right now, but I think it's a great idea! A good cry can be cathartic, and once a week sounds about perfect. I have a 'songs to cry to' Spotify playlist for precisely this reason.

oneeyedpigeon commented on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

jedimastert · 25 days ago

> Its a little bit of a stretch to call YouTube social media.

Is it? As far as I can tell, the definition of social media is a platform where it is trivial to publish to it. That definitely fits YouTube.

The fact that there is great educational content on it (and I 100% agree that there is great educational content) I pretty much solely due to a passionate community, not really anything YouTube itself does to prioritize that kind of content. In fact, as far as I can tell it's harder

oneeyedpigeon · 25 days ago

Even a very 'light' definition would catch YouTube, I'm convinced of this. The UK's definition is—broadly—any site that a user can take an action on that would affect other users. This would definitely catch a forum like HN, any site with comments, etc. Personally, I feel that, combined with draconian identity requirements, that goes way too far, but I think I'd struggle to draw a line that better fits the alleged intent of these political moves.

oneeyedpigeon commented on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

ACow_Adonis · 25 days ago

Presumably for the same reason Google doesn't let you block or filter shit sites.

If you genuinely let user's preferences be taken into account, it's incredibly hard to make money from ads if the user's true preferences are not to be shown them.

The entire point of ads is to manipulate and change user preferences and behaviours.

So any preferences or customisation has to be minimal enough that their use can only partially implement user preferences. White listing is a step too far against the purpose of YouTube.

Thus Google will always be biased to not letting you implement full customisability and user control.

oneeyedpigeon · 25 days ago

Whitelisting—and more user control in general—seems like such a valuable feature, that they could probably charge for it. Heck, I'd pay $10 a year if I could just customise certain aspects of YouTube and remove all the ads and suggested content.

Whether this is viable or not, I don't know. I'm not sure what the average take per person is from the current model.

oneeyedpigeon commented on The Online Safety Act for forum and blog owners successfulsoftware.net/20... · Posted by u/hermitcrab

hermitcrab · a month ago

That is a decision each company has to make. Realistically, if you are small company, with no employees in the UK, then it is unlikely to be enforceable against you.

oneeyedpigeon · a month ago

I would want an assurance that I won't be fined £18m that's slightly stronger than "it's unlikely".