dirkt's comments

On: How WhatsApp for business changed the world

[dirkt]

But Facebook collects your interactions, adds them to your (shadow) profile, and sells this marketing data to advertisers.

On: Demystifying Git Submodules

[dirkt]

I have used them for OpenAPI specs shared between frontend and backend, and database schemas together with values for a test database in the pipeline.

Yes, you can also solve this with a monorepo...

[eru → dirkt]

You can use git subtree to convert between mono-repo and separate repos, without losing your history. You can even keep both styles up to date concurrently.

On: Ask HN: What are your most regretted tech purchase...

[dirkt]

I don't know where you live, but here you can get LEDs in all kinds of color temperatures and brightnesses.

On: The size of BYD's factory

[dirkt]

Though you can see the same alignment as the factory in town further to the west, with newer streets.

I guess it makes sense to align the factory to this grid, and not to the older grid that followed the fields.

On: Framework laptops get modular RISC-V main board

[dirkt]

Why not an ARM main board?

[lproven → dirkt]

Article author here.

Because nobody has stepped up to make it. This board is not a Framework product. It's the first 3rd party motherboard for Framework laptops.

On: Show HN: TypeSchema – A JSON specification to desc...

[dirkt]

I still have not found any way to use autogenerated code for Java/Spring that can handle updates to an external OpenAPI spec.

Any pointers?

(Serious question).

On: Lake Michigan Stonehenge – What have researchers l...

[dirkt]

Somehow reminds me of the face on mars...

On: Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apo...

[dirkt]

Define "proper usage". You can call it anything you want, but if you call it "Evas Blummenladen", people will wonder why you spelled "Blumen" wrong. Now sometimes people do that in names as a play on words etc., but here it just doesn't make sense.

In the same way, people will wonder why you spelled "Eva's" in "Eva's Blumenladen" wrong, if you spell it that way.

Yes, if enough people start doing a wrong thing, it'll eventually become "right", and I guess in 100 year's we can put apostrophy's where'ever we wa'nt, but currently it still looks odd, and like something that is foreign to German, and imported from English. Because unlike in English, in German this apostrophy doesn't stand for an omitted letter in the genitive singular ending.

On: The Origins of the Bloody Mary (2014)

[dirkt]

They give the address in the paragraph above: "5 Rue Danou", so yes, badly mangled phonetic French (first word is "cinq").

On: Bundeskartellamt imposes fine against Fritz brand ...

[dirkt]

I've been using Fritzboxes my entire life, I am on a Fritzbox right now, I never had frequent internet drops, with none of the Fritzboxes I had.