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YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it in c/[email protected]

[–] jw_ 6 points 1 year ago

How would the content creators get rewarded in that system? Some of the YouTube ad money goes to the channel the ad is shown on.

Titan sub: crew have died after catastrophic loss of pressure chamber, US Coast Guard confirms in c/[email protected]

In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? in c/[email protected]

[–] jw_ 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

None of your complaints are true if I understand you correctly. The Firefox and Chrome extensions for Bitwarden support auto-fill (on page load) and fill with hotkey Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + L. At least on Mac, unlocking using biometrics (fingerprint) also works, both in the browser extensions and in the native app. On Android, there's both auto-fill (and fill through suggestions at the top of the Android keyboard) and biometrics. There's also a Bitwarden app for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

What do people here like better: typed or untyped functional languages? in c/functional_programming

[–] jw_ 4 points 2 years ago

Exactly the same here. 10+ years ago, untyped languages felt so much more productive; they were a breath of fresh air compared to e.g. Java. But after discovering typed languages with type inferencing (Haskell) and nowadays gradually typed languages, I cannot work without types anymore. It feels icky to not have a compiler check types.