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Comment · 6 years ago
> Performance is not a factor in this.

What a completely ridiculous statement. Why else would anyone choose BGP if not for performance (i.e. download speed)? The choice to use BGP over a plain old JPG would be made specifically by people who do care.

Comment · 6 years ago
There’s a pretty good reason, actually, and it’s exactly npm.

Because dependencies are managed so easily in Node, it makes no sense for Node core developers to implement more and more of the ever-expanding APIs offered by the browser. They’re better off spending that time tightening the system and perhaps offering low-level interfaces.

Comment · 6 years ago
How convenient that this repo was published just a day too late. Now it’s just advertising something that it doesn’t do, either because it never did or because Google fixed it. I think it’s the former.
Comment · 6 years ago
The rendering engine of a webview is irrelevant to the end user, Edge is just as capable.

What I hate is that all of these apps unnecessarily wrap a web view at all.

I’m surprised that Apple allows Google and Facebook to break the native browser experience for no good reason. I hope Apple starts blocking this and Android follows suit.

Comment · 6 years ago
Unless something changed lately, this is a little deceiving.

If you check your own account, it finds albums and can even download some shared photos.

If you check the same account but using another account's cookies… surprise surprise, "No album" appears.

# Own account

    Name: ---public name----

    Last profile edit : 2019/12/01

    Email : [email protected]
     Google ID : ------id------

    Hangouts Bot : No

    Activated Google services :
     - Photos
     - Maps

    Google Photos : https://get.google.com/albumarchive/------id------
     => 4 albums, 50 photos

    Searching metadata...
     [+] 1 device found !

    - Apple iPhone 7 (40 pics) [2017/01/1]
     -> 1 Firmware found !
     --> 10.3.0 [2017/01/1]

    Google Maps : https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/------id------/reviews
     => 167 reviews found !

    Probable location (confidence => Okay) :
     - --------, ----------

# Other account

    Name: ---public name----

    Last profile edit : 2019/12/01

    Email : [email protected]
     Google ID : ------id------

    Hangouts Bot : No

    Activated Google services :
     - Photos
     - Maps

    Google Photos : https://get.google.com/albumarchive/------id------
     => No album

    Google Maps : https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/------id------/reviews
     => No reviews
Comment · 6 years ago
The point of using a format over another, given the availability, is to gain performance.

You're suggesting to load a whole new parser, parse images at a higher level than browsers can (i.e. slower and with less concurrency), and make `<img>` a whole lot harder to manage.

That's not worth it at all unless the savings are substantial (say BMP vs JPEG)

Comment · 6 years ago
By default, “npm install” also has the ability to run code after the installation, so npx is not any less safe.
Comment · 6 years ago
I really hope this makes the news internationally because it’s shameful on Apple’s part. The best way to recycle is to reuse.
Comment · 6 years ago
I’m in the immersion camp, but give me a table of Spanish conjugations and it’s a million times better than having to figure it out one word at a time.

Additionally, for really foreign languages (e.g. English vs Chinese) knowing in what order to place words and whether words are needed at all is of great help.

Both parts are needed.

Comment · 6 years ago
That’s not a fair comparison, at least on Android where you do have a choice to just google apps and install them from the open web.

App stores are more like Zapier, where your customers can find you, but you have to follow Zapier’s rules because you’re using Zapier’s platform.

Comment · 6 years ago
To do that, they'd have to lower those prices. They have been the same since 2017
Comment · 6 years ago
They took him 250km away to where the hotel is and imprisoned him there. Does that sound like he was arrested for immigration troubles or this specific defamation suit?

Thai police can't speak English, so it wouldn't be out of the ordinary to ask the immigration police (which, by definition, deals with foreigners) to do it.

Comment · 6 years ago
Again here you're just venting about "those guys." Some laws are "the law" in Nazi Germany too (not to cite more modern examples), so it's perfectly fine to call them out.
Comment · 6 years ago
I don’t know why this comment was downvoted. It makes sense and is right.
Comment · 6 years ago
The difference is obviously the millions of baht flowing.

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