Cyberdog

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by Cyberdog 2y ago
I looked at the code to see why it would be doing that. It seems to handle the font customization stuff by basically downloading all of the variants and then combining them into a zip file in client-side code - even when you do no customiza
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
I won't disagree with you about some people liking to keep secrets just as much as others like to spill them, but could you give an example of how trauma would cause someone to want to do the former?
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
The capacity to keep secrets, even at the state level, takes a level of mental maturity that few are capable of. So many are thrilled by the idea of knowing something few other people know to a degree that they paradoxically want to make it
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
That you think full-stack developers such as myself are routinely earning "just under $200k" (but please feel free to reach out to me if you need an experienced dev and think that's a fair price to pay) yet "cost money a
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
As a web developer, specifically one who started my professional career when Internet Explorer 6 had something like 85% marketshare, I'm horrified at the idea of a single browser engine dominating the space again. It will lead to stagn
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
I looked up an article to elaborate on the "threw a fit" part. It appears that Apple believes it would have to compromise security aspects of iPhone Mirroring in order to do it in a way that complies with EU law, so it's choo
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
Thankfully it's been a couple years since I had to touch a WordPress code base, but I remember being confused because I needed to define a route and couldn't figure out how to do so either in the code base or in documentation scat
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
What is the computer meaning of "empty?" I'll answer - there really isn't one. You could say "undefined" but we already have another word for that ("undefined") - an "empty" construct doesn&
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
How can WordPress be so prominent and have so much money behind it and still have such garbage code? Are there giant companies still running PHP 4 server farms that need it to continue to be coded to 2003 standards? Is it some government op
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
In PHP, as in other languages, numeric types that aren't ints should be avoided as much as possible. If you don't know why, smarter people can explain it, but the basics are that the binary nature of computers (every value is 0, 1
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
What value would an empty int have, then?
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
Note this article is from 2021 (it goes hard on COVID dooming near the end). Good explanation on what an OS is and how is useful to programmers, though.
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
Leave that page open in a tab without moving your mouse over the window for a couple minutes for a cute little treat.
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
Don't forget the Yellow Paint Epidemic. Some game devs don't even want to risk the chance that players might have to stop and explore a little bit before they find the right path to continue the game.
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
I've been using the annoyingly-named superagent for a while for the same task, but it often seems to fail to detect some of these annoying boxes. I'll definitely give this alternative a try and see if it works any better. Thank yo
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
Yes, but if the web site supports both of them, then it will pick whichever one is first in the header. For example, "en;q=1.0,de;q=1.0" technically states you want equal weight to be put on English and German, but the site has to
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
The Accept-Language header, when used properly, provide exactly the semantics you ask for.
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
> I might prefer some sites in Danish, but others I'd like to have en English. Unless browsers allow you to set language on a per site basis, we still aren't really capturing the nuances of language preference. This problem is
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
But then where's the flag for Liberia and Belize and Singapore? What if I'm in Indonesia and you don't offer an Indonesian option but I know enough English to get by - what country's flag should I click? Just don't
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
> Not that hard to implement, except perhaps parsing the Accept-Language preferences with their quality value can be cumbersome. Many web frameworks provide a tool for parsing these for you. If yours doesn't (or you're not usin
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
That's what I was thinking too. It looks like someone just reinvented tar, and given how it's a JavaScript thing I'm wondering if it's a zoomer who didn't know tar existed and the HN crowd would set them straight. B
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
> your remote GitHub repo can be located on any machine with an ssh connection Technically true, but GitHub provides so many more tools that it's almost silly to do so. Aside from the "hub" in GitHub such that it is often
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
For most professional software, I agree. For hobby projects like this, I can certainly understand the appeal of asking users to compile it themselves rather than trying to provide binaries for all of the possible OS and hardware combination
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
Did TOML take off? As much as I love it, it seems really rare to see in the wild. I still see YAML everywhere and despair.
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
While that's true, the way text editors handle these characters is not standardized, and many may not let you input them. One of the important features of CSV/TSV is that they're relatively easy to edit by hand, and for that
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
It just validates what these groups say about such people. "If these degenerates can act with such brazen illegality against our computer systems, just imagine what they're doing with your children!" But on the other hand I d
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
Are you counting "real-world usage" as a measure? I can go to Costco or Best Buy right now and come home with a system with an ARM or x86-64 chip. I'd have to go out of my way to find a system with RISC-V at its core. Even if
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
I don't know. It feels to me at this point like the RISC-V revolution and the year of Linux on the desktop will happen at around the same time.
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
AFAIK, files uploaded to Usenet still need to be ASCII encoded using something like uuencode or base64, which increases file sizes to something like a third larger than their original sizes. So you can decrease the amount of data you need t
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by Cyberdog 2y ago
Everyone always forgets about Acorn. :( https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/

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