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by ChrisSD 7y ago
The more interesting thing is github integration. Will this provide a more pleasant way to browse repositories online without having to clone locally?
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Sure there were still some data structures that were limited by being designed in the old 16bit era. Fun fact: even today kernel "Unicode strings" are limited to a length that can be held in a signed 16bit value. Fortunately 32,76
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I agree with most of what you said except for the statement that "there was a 32-bit kernel running on top of this 16-bit foundation". The 32-bit kernel didn't run on top of 16-bit anything. If anything it ran on top of the 3
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Hm, if you were using 32bit applications and 32bit drivers then you wouldn't touch 16bit code (unless of course you did so explicitly). However there were commonly used built-in dos utilities that were 16bit so if you called out to any
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I'm curious why you think Win95 wasn't a 32bit OS?
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised by these. A lot of these "information is beautiful" things used to put the emphasis more on beauty, even at the expense of not being informative. These seem to be a good balance of both
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Even with tracking you merely need a privacy policy in a place users can find. It's considered implied consent to continue using a site if the site makes a reasonable effort to make you aware that such a policy exists. However, what co
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Oh undoubtedly it's interesting. But interesting things often go by with few votes. Often there's some reason it quickly gains the upvotes needed to appear of the front page. For example, if the topic is mentioned in another threa
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
If you click the DOI link at the bottom of the article it'll take you to a page where you can download the PDF.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
When stackexchange or wikipedia articles appear on HN I always wonder what the context is. Presumably something triggered interest in this topic recently? In this case image frequency can be useful in many things from image/video compr
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Desktop Bridge applications aren't sandboxed.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
The title is pure click bait.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
There's a sync_all method that will make sure all data and metadata is written or else return an error. This may be used at any time, not just when closing the file, and it is expensive so it does make sense to have a separate method f
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
It's interesting to take note of the actual Rust `File` object: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fs/struct.File.html `open` is a static function on the `File` object and an instance of `File` does not have a `cl
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Also by the author (under a pseudonym), Worse is Better is Worse: http://dreamsongs.com/Files/worse-is-worse.pdf > I’ve always told him that his penchant for trying to argue any side of a point would get him in trou
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Yes. Simplicity of implementation is given priority over all other factors. This does not, to my mind, mean "rock solid" software (even if care is taken for "observable aspects" of correctness) unless we have very differ
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
> C is therefore a language for which it is easy to write a decent compiler, and it requires the programmer to write text that is easy for the compiler to interpret. Ironically this is no longer true. Not so much because C has changed bu
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Hm... when I think "worse is better" I'm not thinking of software that is "rock solid, fast, and small". Have I been misunderstanding the essay? I thought most of these applications start out small but they're
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
No I meant those two pages are each a single, individual, isolated page. A website is a collection of web pages, usually structured (even if loosely).
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Sure but they are web pages, not websites. The distinction matters and does undermine the satire somewhat.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
TOML is simply the old INI format except with a single concrete specification instead of many adhoc ones. YAML is the "kitchen sink included" of serialization formats, so much so that most only use a small subset of its features.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Side note: You've overdone the character entities a bit more than necessary.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
To be clear, you only need some random bytes to seed your cryptographic PRNG. This should of course be gathered from the OS but after that you only need to reseed once in a blue moon. Of course you shouldn't write and maintain a CPRNG
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I'm not sure where your information comes from because it sounds very suspect to me. Sure XHTML was a thing in nerdy circles, I know because I was one of them, but we were hardly the majority. The vast majority of sites were "HTML
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
That was my point. The "days of XHTML" barely existed outside the minds of a relatively small number of developers.
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> As a web user, I don’t miss the days of XHTML sites randomly completely breaking because some tag wasn’t closed. Ironically that was a very rare event in practice. For it to even possibly happen, three things had to come together which
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
That's a lot of code just to set the height of an iframe.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
HTML was "based on" SGML only in the sense that it borrowed a lot from SGML. However in practice it was never an application of SGML. HTML4 tried its best to move developers to SGML based HTML but devs ignored it. HTML5 recognises
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I prefer something like notepad++ for config and notes. Syntax highlighting is useful for config files (especially larger ones). The auto storing of unsaved files is great for notes. Many of my notes are temporary but I still want them to s
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Fun fact: Nowadays Windows reinstalls itself for every major feature update. But settings are copied over so you don't have to reinstall all your applications.

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