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I would never use a bank that is app only. Sounds like a horrible experience.

Honesty? Sounds like investor hype to me.

Yeah. Try comparing texts written in Old English and Old Norse. It's basically the same language. (I'm not surprised at all that Beowulf takes place in Scandinavia.)

But I think they would both be easier to decipher for someone speaking Swedish than English.

There are strong indications that Half Life 3 (or at least a Half Life game) is coming soon. Of course, Valve might decide to pan the project, but I wouldn't be surprised seeing an announcement for 2026.

I have good news for you: if you prefer running a PWA in your browser of choice, you can. Nothing forces you to install the PWA.

How? Do I need to configure something in uBlock Origin? If I go to, e.g., Reddit I still see the annoying "Open app" button.

I am very much interested in local-first/only (backend-less) PWAs, and have built a couple of them myself.

Unfortunately, I don't think I have any use for a time-boxing app. Nice work though.

Is there a reason you went with localStorage rather than indexedDB?

One useful thing is supporting 3rd party sync services. One of the apps I built allowed syncing data across devices via Dropbox. I never got Google Drive working, though, their API was horrible to work with in comparison. Is sync support something you've considered?

Nifty.

I've long wanted a scrollable/zoomable desktop, with a minimap that shows the overall layout. Think the UI of an RTS game, where instead of units you move around and resize windows. This seems like something in that direction, at least.

How does Karousel work with full screen applications, e.g., games?

No, I think you misunderstand how it works. The problem is that task 4, as you call it, runs after the navigation triggered by the redirect value.

The the author expects the side-effect -- navigation to a new page -- of the window.location.href setter to abort the code running below it. This obviously won't happen because there is no return in the first if-statement.

> Russia has attacked Ukraine. Not Europe.

Ukraine is most definitely a part of Europe.

> the politicians do a 180 once they get voted to power or forget about them because political promises are worthless and non-binding, meaning they lied themselves into power.

Why is this allowed? Why aren't there laws in place to hold politicians accountable for the promises they make to get elected?

How is red meat connected to it?

Agreed.

After starting my new job and coming back to Python after many years I was happy to see that they had added `match` to the language. Then I was immediately disappointed as soon as I started using it as I ran into its weird limitations and quirks.

Why did they design it so poorly? The language would be better off without it in its current hamstrung form, as it only adds to the already complex syntax of the language.

> PEP: In most other languages pattern matching is represented by an expression, not statement. But making it an expression would be inconsistent with other syntactic choices in Python. All decision making logic is expressed almost exclusively in statements, so we decided to not deviate from this.

> We've had conditional expressions for a long time.

Also, maybe most other languages represent it as an expression because it's the sane thing to do? Python doing its own thing here isn't the win they think it is.

If a child is, e.g., two standard deviations below the norm, it is cruel to expect it to keep up with the pace of other students.

Education can be better adapted to the child's needs.

> I'm fine with data collection as long as it doesn't land in the hands of bad people or special interests.

The only way to guarantee this is to ensure that nobody can collect your data in the first place.

While the government of today might be benevolent, the government of tomorrow might not be.