Cyberdog

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by Cyberdog 5y ago
I don't come to HN for politics, so I'll try to say this as apolitically as possible: I'm reading in some places that after deciding to pull out, the United States decided to not fulfill promises to emigrate many Afghan civil
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
In my experience, it would be possible to use it as a document database, and I suppose it would be good in the interest of reducing duplication issues if you were initially storing the documents in a traditional DBMS or file system. However
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
How well do any of these alternatives work for doing an automatic "More like this" list? I implemented this in Elasticsearch for a client (although it's been so long that I don't recall the specifics of how it works) and
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> we would have pointed out the idiocy of anyone choosing to use a web browser released by Google. I still try to, but it’s a lost battle already. (Don’t use Chrome, BTW.)
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
I find this an odd comment. Is a 100% Rust browser something anyone is clamoring for? At any rate, if that really is your goal for some reason, rendering engine is going to be your first problem anyway. Then a JS runtime.
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
This is some pretty powerful stuff. Here's a more information-dense and up-to-date rundown of srcset and sizes: https://bitsofco.de/the-srcset-and-sizes-attributes/ Notably, it shows how it's possible to use
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
What's your profit model? How do you expect to make money with this product?
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
If that's not how they're supposed to look, then they're broken in Safari too, I guess.
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
Same here. I'm sad this is the first I've heard of it because it looks like a really cool and inspiring site. I don't have a product to share and discuss quite yet, but I'm hoping to by the end of the year.
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | Boise, ID, USA or remote Web developer with 14 years of professional experience (and a decade of hobbyist experience before that). Sorry, I don't know much about this week's trendy frameworks and languages, but I do
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> While the nerd in me wants to agree with you, aren't all of these just great examples of deeper vertical integration? Okay. And? You still need innovation to make something like the M1.
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> A smart watch and ever increasing apple taxes on the App Store. And incremental improvements to the iPhone. And Swift, and Apple Silicon, and FaceID, and HomePod (which hasn't been a massive success but is at least an attempt at s
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
That's optimistic. The people who would rely heavily on this sort of thing are going to be the worst at detecting what a "bad autocomplete result" would look like. But even if you are capable of judging that you've got a
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
Could someone spell out a use case for this? One that comes to mind would be validating that a mailing list doesn't have any outdated email addresses in it, but couldn't that be determined by just checking for a bounce when a mess
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | Boise, ID | Remote or Local Web developer with 14 years of professional experience (and a decade of hobbyist experience before that). Sorry, I don't know much about this week's trendy frameworks and languages, but I
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
I have found that "I'll never kill myself. There's always something to live for" is something that is very easy for people who are safe and happy to say, and I pray that these people will always be safe and comfortable e
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> Because things like that do happen in US courts [citation needed]
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> software-accelerated ray tracing Is this a particular term/concept, or do you just mean non-hardware-accelerated ray tracing? If the former, what does it mean for something to be "software-accelerated?" If the latter, I
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
"You know the secret? The difference between heaven and hell? It's, like, doing your work. You feel really shitty if you don't do your work. If you do your work, it's fucking awesome."
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
I don't understand this response, so let me rephrase my question. This page https://fig.io/docs/getting-started says that Node.js and NPM is required to use Fig. I presumed this meant that Fig was written in JavaS
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> I have a background in Swift development. Then why on earth did you go out of the way to implement this in JavaScript instead?
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> Honestly kind of a depressing thing to read on "Hacker News" Is it? For many of us, our computers are tools we use to get jobs done, so stability and predictability in function are far more valuable than something that looks
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> Despite the damage to the cars, that sounds more like a mental health problem than a crime problem. In the long term, I agree with you. In the short term, it would be nice if the people who we are forced to pay for the task of preventi
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
The same way that police ostensibly protect houses; by being there, patrolling randomly, keeping an eye out for things that don't look right.
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
Because they will be more directly accountable to their "clients," for one. I cannot fire a "real" cop whose behavior I do not approve of.
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
Private security forces are accountable to their customers before their shareholders. If I don't like how my private security company is behaving, I can cancel my contract and switch to another company. When enough contracts are cancel
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
I feel like your "How it Works" section is missing quite a bit. Is your implementation specific to certain programming languages or frameworks? How is the number of times the framework is used tracked, and what's stopping som
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
My first major Drupal project was for a local newspaper (now defunct… hopefully my site wasn't too big a factor in that) to which many writers were publishing articles, first to a "staging" site for sign-off to an editor, the
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
This looks cool. I currently have a nest of dotfiles I manage with Git, and since I try to use them across Ubuntu, OpenBSD and macOS, the platform-specific stuff seems useful. But is there a way to "promote" my existing Git repo t
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> How does this differ from trusting a compiler or interpreter? When was the last time you found a bug and it was the compiler or interpreter's fault? At any rate, the big difference is debugging, as I mentioned above. How fun is it

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