zingplex

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by zingplex 5y ago
They're still a user-hostile company as well
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by zingplex 5y ago
You're right, ignition does generate bytecode from the AST; it also interprets it. > With Ignition, V8 compiles JavaScript functions to a concise bytecode, which is between 50% to 25% the size of the equivalent baseline machine code
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by zingplex 5y ago
V8 does actually include a bytecode interpreter called Ignition to reduce memory usage on stuff that doesn't really need to be heavily optimized.
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by zingplex 5y ago
For a Linux user, you can replicate Dropbox trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-
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by zingplex 5y ago
I don't think Android uses a JVM. Android apps are AOT compiled from DEX bytecode.
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by zingplex 5y ago
Perhaps customers would be able to sponsor the review of specific packages.
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by zingplex 5y ago
Perhaps, but I think in this case what killed Persona was lack of adoption and interest from the public, nothing inherent to the actual technology
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by zingplex 5y ago
I have a hunch that many services they will probably want to collect the emails anyway. It provides websites a convenient excuse to ask people to join their marketing spam list. In most cases privacy isn't a profitable business proposi
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by zingplex 5y ago
Because they started their own streaming service, NBC Peacock.
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by zingplex 5y ago
Isn't Meta still trading under FB, leaving you with FAANG?
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by zingplex 5y ago
If you're changing a letter in the acronym from F (Facebook) to M (Meta), it is inconsistent to not change G (Google) to A (Alphabet).
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by zingplex 5y ago
Perl or Raku?
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by zingplex 5y ago
https://lobste.rs is the only one I think that would really compare
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by zingplex 5y ago
For people who don't know, this tool was created by the CTO of Figma and the creator of ESBuild
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by zingplex 5y ago
Isn't IPFS pretty closely tied with FileCoin?
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by zingplex 5y ago
I'm not entirely sure, but perhaps there's an argument to be made that since it's pretty much the only way to get DRM free copies of certain materials piracy at times is justified.
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by zingplex 5y ago
I assume most people who go out of their way to route their lives around Facebook are also the type of people to have an ad blocker installed.
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by zingplex 5y ago
I think that's what OP means by “easier to alias”
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by zingplex 5y ago
Does anyone know if they're displaying similar popups on the Firefox download page?
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by zingplex 5y ago
Source repo https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet
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by zingplex 5y ago
While I don't disagree that IMF recommendations should be taken with a grain of salt, they're hardly the only people speaking out to say this is a bad idea. There has been mass protest against the adoption of Bitcoin across the co
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by zingplex 5y ago
In the case of cURL, there's a much greater amount of network exposure. It would be extremely irresponsible for Apple to simply ship an older version missing security patches.
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by zingplex 5y ago
> The police will not help you much when your capital (i.e. private property) Most people don't hold much private property apart from maybe their house. Pretty much everything else from vehicles to toothbrushes fall under the catego
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by zingplex 5y ago
The Taliban offered to turn over Bin Laden for trial in any country other than the US weeks after the attacks [1][2]. If there reason to invade Afghanistan was solely to kill Bin Laden surely they'd just take the Taliban up on their of
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by zingplex 5y ago
Here you go https://peripherii.com/
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by zingplex 5y ago
If it's just for tracking, why not ship a JS runtime and run the tracking in a separate thread. No electron needed.
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by zingplex 5y ago
Does Android even have a full disk encryption option anymore? Last I heard they moved to file based encryption. I don't know enough to knowledgeably discuss the tradeoffs though.
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by zingplex 5y ago
> I should also say that nuclear weapons in dictatorships (more so than oligarchies like Soviet Union) is dangerous. I'd argue that nuclear weapons are no less safe in representative democracies. The only country to use nuclear weap
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by zingplex 5y ago
I think something by Kafka would be far more apt. It seems that 1984 has become a shorthand for anything vaguely dystopian.
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by zingplex 5y ago
Easy, just use the inscrutable internal name for the application "how do I do X with Nautilus/Epiphany/Totem"

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