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qw commented on Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance github.com/Snapchat/Valdi... · Posted by u/yehiaabdelm

scosman · a month ago

I try this every decade. Love the first few months for speed. Then I end up paying the price later when I want to integrate "new OS feature X" or make a system gesture/style/animation feel native.

Lack of swipe for back on iOS is usually the easiest way to tell I'm looking at a web view.

But it's been about a decade so I'm due...

qw · a month ago

Swipe to go back can be implemented in frontend.

It's been a couple of years since I used it, but I think the Ionic framework has this feature.

https://ionicframework.com/

qw commented on The macOS LC_COLLATE hunt: Or why does sort order differently on macOS and Linux (2020) blog.zhimingwang.org/maco... · Posted by u/g0xA52A2A

encom · 2 months ago

Before the Danish language adopted the letter "å" (in 1948), the vowel was written as "aa". In the Danish alphabet, "å" is the last letter. Therefore a list of three Danish city names would be correctly sorted as:

  * Albertslund
  * Odense
  * Aarhus

This feels like material for another Tom Scott video.

qw · 2 months ago

And to make it more interesting, Sweden also has the letter "å", but it's in the 27th place in the alphabet (followed by "ä" and "ö"). In the Danish/Norwegian alphabet, the letter "å" is the last letter of the alphabet.

qw commented on How RSS beat Microsoft buttondown.com/blog/rss-v... · Posted by u/vidyesh

tonkinai · 3 months ago

Man, RSS still brings me so much nostalgia. Anyone still feel the pain when Google discontinued its RSS reader?

qw · 3 months ago

> Anyone still feel the pain when Google discontinued its RSS reader?

Yes, but mostly because of a lost opportunity.

I was working on my own web based reader when Google made a significant upgrade to their reader. It was similar to what I had made, so I thought it would be foolish to compete with Google and stopped working on it.

I wonder where RSS would be now if Google had not discouraged potential competitors.

qw commented on How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast v8.dev/blog/json-stringif... · Posted by u/emschwartz

bgdkbtv · 4 months ago

Unrelated, but v8.dev website is incredibly fast! Thought it would be content preloading with link hovering but no. Refreshing

qw · 4 months ago

Looking at the site it seems to be a (static?) HTML and shared "main.css" and "main.js" files. Both files can be cached by the browser, so it only needs to download a few KB of compressed HTML for each page. I don't think we would notice much of a difference in the navigation from one page to another if they used content preloading

It's how we used to make websites before SPA, and it's refreshing to see that it still makes a noticeable difference even on today's powerful CPUs and high speed networks.

qw commented on JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/divbzero

deadbabe · 6 months ago

And imagine that the only reason, the ONLY reason, they haven’t completely blown us away, is because our planet happens to be one of the very rare planets where the ratio of the size of our moon and earth is in such a way that you can witness a total solar eclipse as a black hole in the sky once a year, and they would like to witness this event someday.

qw · 6 months ago

What if FTL is not possible? In that case the attack will take a long time to reach us, and in the meantime we will be much more advanced technologically and could potentially defend ourselves.

In sci-fi we see warp drives, worm hole travel, phasers, photon torpedos and energy shields around ships. But what if none of that is possible? In that case, we might even have the technology to defend ourselves today if we manage to detect the attack in time.

It's a huge risk for a civilization to attack us. Even if they have capabilities that are beyond our technology, there might still be limitations based on the laws of physics. And if they attack us, they risk a response.

qw commented on Visual History of the Latin Alphabet uclab.fh-potsdam.de/arete... · Posted by u/speckx

behnamoh · 6 months ago

But visually it's still an "A" with a "°" on top. Why not create an entirely new letter?

qw · 6 months ago

Originally, the "o" on top of the letter "Å" was a lower case "a", because the sound could be written as "AA". Over time it transformed into a circle.

Some names today still use the double a, like the Norwegian football player Martin Ødegaard. In that case it is pronounced the same as the "å" sound. (not too far from how an American might pronounce the "o" sound in "for")

qw commented on Oxfordshire clock still keeping village on time after 500 years bbc.com/news/articles/cz7... · Posted by u/1659447091

jaccola · 6 months ago

What is the Ship of Theseus?!

Your argument on parts being replaced is interesting though... Reminds me of Triggers broom.

qw · 6 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

> The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having all of its original components replaced over time, typically one after the other.

qw commented on A man who visited every country in the world without boarding a plane (2023) theguardian.com/travel/20... · Posted by u/thunderbong

userbinator · 7 months ago

Presumably including North Korea? (Due to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033310 currently on the front page.)

qw · 7 months ago

Yes, it's #176 on his list of countries:

https://www.onceuponasaga.dk/journey

qw commented on Hyperscaling Have I Been Pwned with Cloudflare Workers and Caching troyhunt.com/closer-to-th... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

Thorrez · 8 months ago

There are tons of emails that share the same prefix. When you lookup a prefix, you can't simply get a boolean response. You have to get a list of emails as the response. The client then searches through the list to see if the desired email is in the list or not. Returning a list of emails instead of a single bit significantly increases the data size.

Additionally, people don't just want a boolean answer of "was my email breached somewhere". They want a list of all the breaches that breached the email. So the returned data actually needs to be a list of emails and the list of breaches that each email was breached in.

>Via the public API. This endpoint also takes an email address as input and then returns all breaches it appears in.

qw · 8 months ago

> The client then searches through the list to see if the desired email is in the list or not.

The initial prefix check would probably reduce the amount of lookups necessary, as it would only be necessary to do a deeper search if the prefix matches.

qw commented on SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces serenityos.org/... · Posted by u/doener

mikepurvis · 8 months ago

Are you thinking here of pre-multitasking desktop usage, stuff like DeluxePaint, Scream Tracker, that kind of thing?

Certainly the late 90s was the heyday of desktop consistency on Windows, in the 95/98/ME era, I think driven largely by the conventions Microsoft established in Office. And I believe Mac OS gave pretty good platform-level guidance then too, so things were generally okay with a few exceptions— stuff like media players that have always been more on the fanciful side.

qw · 8 months ago

It is my recollection as well. Most applications used VB, Delphi, MFC etc. that all had the "native" OS look and feel. There were some exceptions like WinAmp and others, but from what I can remember most applications were more consistent than today.