merlish

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by merlish 3y ago
For a user to correctly answer a permissions dialog, they need to learn programming and read all the source code of the application. To say nothing of the negative effects of permission dialog fatigue. In practice, no-one who answers a web
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by merlish 8y ago
You'd be better off believing neither, but taking the participants' stories as what they believe happened. Then drawing your own conclusions. (Sorry, not picking on you in particular; I'm just quite annoyed to see this thread
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by merlish 8y ago
Sure, and these are good points, but they solve a problem far less interesting than the real problem. Of the (let's guess) 60 people telling Wil to go do one, up to about half[1] might be the shitposting crew taking advantage to troll
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by merlish 8y ago
Ah, never mind! It's a simple 56-step opt out process: https://www.voxmedia.com/pages/cookie-policy#your-cookie-cho...
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by merlish 8y ago
Yes - but never mind the requests, what's up with that "GDPR bar"? Where's the 'No, I do not want you to do this' button?
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by merlish 8y ago
How do you implement co-operative multitasking in WebAssembly? Do you have to analyze the source program & know where every possible call to a yield is, and store all resulting suffixes of a function as new functions?
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by merlish 8y ago
I managed to log in, but the system is pretty barebones. Trying to change or apply for a new banking product just takes you to a help page saying the ability to do this is 'Coming soon'. (Some other features are scheduled to be av
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by merlish 8y ago
They're planning both. Reference counting/bump pointer allocation in-frame for temp stuff & no GC & manual memory management for the upcoming high-performance restricted C# subset data-oriented jobs code, and for full-fat
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by merlish 8y ago
The gist contains a 2018 update section at the bottom...
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by merlish 8y ago
The article has additions up to 2018 as additional sections.
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by merlish 9y ago
To add (baseless) speculation to the mix, I think it's more NIH than GPLv3 concerns...
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by merlish 9y ago
There should be a link on the page. I started binding it to C# over Christmas out of frustration of one not existing, and someone else quickly picked it up and made a cleaner binding that I recommend more. Google NuklearDotNet for the latte
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by merlish 9y ago
That would be a bit inaccurate though - the core library doesn't have a backend. The example you found e.g. implements an OpenGL backend. It doesn't reference any external libraries (maybe C runtime). IIRC it does not assume you h
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by merlish 9y ago
The point of single-file header libraries is that generally they are relatively small, and do not rely on linking with other libraries (outside the C runtime).
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by merlish 9y ago
I guess you could have just read a lot of books. I don't know if libraries are being closed down in the US, but that's happening a lot now in the UK for cost saving reasons/due to lack of demand. With a computer & interne
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by merlish 9y ago
And so, XUL is returned to the TLA pool. Anyone got any claims for what XUL should mean now?
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by merlish 9y ago
I think the expectation the Go lot have been working towards is the expectation that individual pauses are very short. Contrast to a Java server GC, aiming towards overall efficiency. (Tell me if I'm wrong, I'm no expert.)
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by merlish 9y ago
Interesting! IMO it showed that garbage collection isn't some silver bullet (of course), but that with a kick to a quite coarse control it's possible to achieve very good performance indeed. I am surprised that the difference is s
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by merlish 9y ago
It sucks that it's gone - it took me months to retrain my muscle memory to stop using backspace - but I've definitely accidentally navigated back from a form before. I've adjusted. It's a hard decision but imo the right
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by merlish 9y ago
Wow! I honestly thought they were references to the Church of SubGenius and Discordianism respectively. Odd how the names still make sense when viewed with the hacker sense of humour as if they were references...
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by merlish 9y ago
I actually really want to know how Discord does it. Do they actually use the DOM, or just draw everything themselves? Honestly, anyone who hasn't used Discord, I'd recommend installing it just to try it, especially if you're
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by merlish 9y ago
Re. a single editor: The constant, never-ending search for The Perfect Editor :)
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by merlish 9y ago
This sounds like amazing news. LuaJIT being given a future direction by people who know what they're doing & have additional bright ideas to add, funded by Cloudflare. I mean... wow. Sure, we'll see how things go, but as a use
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by merlish 9y ago
For ShutUp10 at least (and probably the others): Yes. Microsoft resets settings when updates happen. The application explicitly warns you about this. And indeed, I ran the application before and after receiving the 'Creators Update&#x2
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by merlish 10y ago
That's very good to know! My current project is pretty insensitive to performance, but that's definitely useful info for the future.
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by merlish 10y ago
To add some anecdotes to the above (plural of anecdote is of course data): - fengari: Dunno, nice logo & name though :) Not done yet? - lua.vm.js: Pretty good, but as you say in your README: "Next step is to iterate on the Lua &lt
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by merlish 10y ago
> I dare say that a Infocom's Zork is a better game than many of today's triple-A FPS shooters or whatnot! Graphics aren't everything; Interesting point of view, certainly. But the majority of game purchasers do care about
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by merlish 10y ago
I actually wrote an extremely shonky/basic file upload thing and contributed it to the weird 'illacceptanything' repository, while that was a thing, about a year and a half ago. Maybe you'll find it helpful, maybe not. I
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by merlish 10y ago
I managed to give up my one true soda love, Dr Pepper, over the last few months. I discovered that a strong tea gave me a stronger caffeine hit, which was one of the core components I was truly craving. I bought a cheap teapot and I keep it
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by merlish 10y ago
I guess the author must not agree, but I honestly consider video games more as interactive art than software. There are several great open source games. And older games that went open source after the fact (id engine et al). Spurning the in

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