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by notriddle 4y ago
Horses are much more expensive to own than cars. You can't just leave them sitting in a lot for 20 out of 24 hours a day, they only feed themselves if you're living out in the middle of the prairie, and you can't just replace
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by notriddle 4y ago
More importantly, email has become extremely consolidated. It has most of the disadvantages of being federated, and not very many of the advantages (Google sees most of the emails I send and receive even though I don't use them).
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by notriddle 4y ago
Of course it's related to the format. Many formats, like PNG and Gemtext, are inherently self-contained, while other formats, like HTML and SVG, are not. Annoyingly, EPUB isn't inherently self-contained [1], but external access is
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by notriddle 4y ago
I've seen a few people on here recommending everything from "just use HTML" (which misses the point) to "just use Gemini" (which misses the point even more). Why not HTML? Why not Markdown? They aren't self-con
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by notriddle 4y ago
https://tomaszs2.medium.com/how-rust-1-64-became-10-20-faste... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33306945
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by notriddle 4y ago
The article is about Ada SPARK, and nVidia using it to develop their firmware today .
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by notriddle 4y ago
The ballot I filled out a few weeks ago had several such things on it. They are called "ballot measures," or "referenda," and the overall ideology for them is called "Direct Democracy." Obviously, they are subj
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by notriddle 4y ago
I think you might have a point, but it's not applicable to this situation. Software architecture isn't like architecture. It's more like mathematics, or maybe poetry. There's a language to it, and if you don't speak
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by notriddle 4y ago
Bringing back XUL extensions won't rescue Firefox, because removing XUL extensions is not what caused Firefox to lose marketshare in the first place. https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/108/
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by notriddle 4y ago
That seems like an impossible standard. What happens if the criminal took a job that payed less because of their criminal activity, put the legal paychecks into house payments, and the illegal money into food and other consumables?
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by notriddle 4y ago
Yes, you technically can write high-perf JavaScript code... https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase/blob/153fa5bf7603b9a5... But freaking SIGH I don't want to. I prefer coding in environments that don&#
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by notriddle 4y ago
If you just want to have your language throw up an error whenever it sees an unrecognized element, then you’ll probably be able to simplify it a lot. It’s probably fine, since * as long as you use a build tool the errors will be seen by the
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by notriddle 4y ago
> If `class` was instead a kind of child, initially limited to a single instance per element, extending to multiple instances in a backward-compatible manner would not require introducing the DSL. It would be natural. Just allow many `cl
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by notriddle 4y ago
No, you're thinking of clickjacking. The "attack" I'm thinking of is hijacking the back button, but done using iframes instead of history.pushState. It doesn't involve any third-party origins, so x-frame-options doe
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by notriddle 4y ago
As much fun as it is seeing everybody reiterate the "SPAs are stupid and we should all go back to native apps" argument for the thousandth time with exactly the same arguments again... It's all a moot point, because you can r
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by notriddle 4y ago
If course LLVM is Free Software. It’s available in the mainline Guix and Debian repositories, and its Apache license is recognized as Free by the FSF.
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by notriddle 4y ago
The article literally says it's probably not going to happen. > He said that it was unlikely that Covid-19 outbreak would shape our immune system in a similar way — largely because the disease predominantly kills people after their
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by notriddle 4y ago
FOSS is useful, and may be a part of the solution, but it is not the solution in and of itself the way Free Software advocates portray it as. Most people aren't programmers, people who are programmers don't read the source code of
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by notriddle 4y ago
> That kinda feels like saying Linux is too crazy because new apps get made for Linux frequently. Apps are okay, but other parts of userland that roll out breaking changes on a regular basis are definitely a problem [1] [2] [3]. Even if
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by notriddle 4y ago
Rust is not boring technology. There's too much ecosystem churn, and new language features are deployed too often. C++ isn't boring technology, either. If you just want to deliver value, I'd recommend Java.
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by notriddle 4y ago
I doubt it, and also hope not. The Republican party has reinvented itself before, and the internal Democratic Party governance structure would probably not do a very good job of reflecting the will of the people without the outside forcing
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by notriddle 4y ago
It mostly only solves problems on the consumer side. Only one of these downsides directly affects publishers. * If you don't want JS, don't use it. * If you don't want trackers or ads, don't put them in. * This is the on
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by notriddle 4y ago
> Ranked voting isn't vulnerable to bullet voting. "Vulnerable to bullet voting" is the same thing as "violating the later-no-harm principle," which means that some forms of ranked voting are vulnerable, while ot
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Show HN: Score.vote – Create your own simple online polls(score.vote)
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by notriddle 4y ago
The only voting system that isn't "vulnerable" to bullet voting is FPTP, since it obligates you to bullet vote.
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by notriddle 4y ago
> even with sorting it is possible to be censorship free. You just need to include every matching result eventually Do you honestly think that the people who complain about their favorite website being censored by Google would be satisfi
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by notriddle 4y ago
This isn't the revelation you act like it is. Because of course Google hides results. They don't pretend not to, and they even inform webmasters when it happens. The Search Console calls it a "Manual action" when they do
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by notriddle 4y ago
The whole premise of the discussion is that uBlock Origin is going away, and uBO Lite is a mediocre replacement.
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by notriddle 4y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2019/03/19/47-percent-o...
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by notriddle 4y ago
> You’ll never solve climate change by asking people to consume less The headline says 'no.'

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