ChrisSD

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by ChrisSD 7y ago
IIRC, the main objection was that error handling was an all or nothing affair. Whereas most HTML on the web is (or was) broken to a greater or lesser degree. There was also the objection that stricter parsing made it harder for hobbyists. I
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I still maintain that the "living standard" is an oxymoron. It's a collaborative browser dev document. Don't get me wrong, that's great. However for everyone else an unversioned document, any part of which can chang
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
For most of the article the author seems to be discussing non-professional programmers rather than non-programmers. Or perhaps using the two interchangeably? There is certainly a need for non-professional programmers to be able to program (
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
The leak said they could help build infrastructure like antennas and base stations. That's far from being banned.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
The UK feel so strongly about Huawei that they're getting them to help expand their 5G network.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Indeed. Although technically it's UCS-2 as the low level stuff doesn't understand modern unicode; it just treats it all as a stream of wide chars. It's up to applications to interpret it. According to this[0] the path limit i
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
As I recall at least some parts of the WinAPI had trouble if you used long paths (via "\\?\") and forward slash. I don't know if that's still true.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Try it again with Powershell...
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
It should be noted that Windows can use either forward or backward slashes nowadays. In fact, even File Explorer allows you to use an unholy mix of the two.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I find the staging area useful. It especially helps when you only want to commit a change in part of a file or just generally reviewing a commit before it's a real commit. And also to double check I'm not going to be uploading any
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
It's a good example but the difference doesn't quite have to be as dramatic as the article makes out. Screenshot tools rarely produce optimised PNGs. A quick test of the image in the article shows that optipng (lossless) can bring
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Which is why I used short lines.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Use four spaces at the beginning of the line *
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Many "observers" claimed that fleeing to the UK was a nonsensical move if he feared the US. Sweden would have been much safer.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Yes, hence my first comment that this was surprising to me.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
That's been deprecated as well. The current docs say you should do this spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(module_name, file_path) module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec) spec.loader.exec_module(module)
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
The reason asbestos is banned is because it was used and did cause real harms (and even today it's still occasionally found in old buildings). Sure it didn't decimate the UK population but that's a very low bar to step over.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
And from the article it sounds like the US is reluctant to blacklist anything even when there are known harms. As someone from the UK, it surprised me to read that even asbestos is allowed.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
The "average joe" shouldn't be doing this.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
This is starting to sound a lot like the discussions around optimizing C compilers. Only in that case you can drop into assembly if necessary.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Isn't there some irony in fact that SQL was meant to abstract away the "how" of getting records? If you need to optimize through implementation specific quirks, then wouldn't a more direct api be preferable?
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
Microsoft hasn't owned anything Nokia since 2016. This is Nokia (the company), which licenses Nokia (the phone brand) to HMD global. They are two separate companies that happen to share a building. And some former employees from Nokia
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
While comparing the sizes of "hello world" programs is cute, how do real world small utilities compare?
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I've found that UPX triggers AntiVirus programs more often than uncompressed binaries on Windows.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
The Ars article has some more details: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/researchers-make-the... > Unfortunately, there's a big gap between what a DNA synthesis machine can output and the multi-
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
It's not Firefox doing it, it's Google. Its search results only serves AMP links to whitelisted user agents.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
My only concern is that Google is big enough to force through changes in the standards too. Chrome+Search is so dominant it's able to steamroll objections pretty effectively through sheer momentum.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
VScode and PyCharm recognise variables in f-strings correctly. I'm not sure how "%s" is more pure than "{name}". They are both variables, only in the case of "%s" you add a level of indirection.
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
I'm also using Firefox 66 and it works for me. Here's a live example: https://mdn.github.io/js-examples/modules/basic-modules/ Source code and other examples are at: https://github.com&#x
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by ChrisSD 7y ago
It does work in all modern browsers except Edge. Which I grant you might be a sticking point. However, Edge is moving to Chromium in the near future.

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