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by Gaelan 6y ago
Servo uses Firefox's SpiderMonkey, which is written in C++, as its JavaScript implementation.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
> Apple would be on to a sure-winner by re-launching Aperture In my limited experience, products whose main differentiating factor is being "not the other guy" usually generate a ton of hype, but end up flopping.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
I haven't used Nuxt, but I've used both Next and Gatsby a bit. The biggest difference is that Gatsby is exclusively static, whereas Next can do static pages, server-rendered pages, or a hybrid of the two approaches. Gatsby has a G
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by Gaelan 6y ago
> which basically uses the post office Pretty sure this isn't quite true—UPS ships it all the way to your local post office, and the post office does the last mile.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
…what? The repository [0] shows up as "unavailable due to DMCA takedown," and links to a notice [1] that explicitly references the DMCA. [0]: https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop [1]: https:&#
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by Gaelan 6y ago
> I feel that the fact that the Touch Bar has not made its way into any other keyboard (desktop keyboards or even iPad keyboards), is somewhat of an admission that it's not that crucial It's worth noting that the Touch Bar is d
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Wait, isn’t this a soundness issue? Couldn’t you, say, replace malloc with a safe function that always returned 0x4 [0], causing segfaults with no unsafe? [0]: chosen by fair dice roll EDIT: yep, https://github.com/rust-lang
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by Gaelan 6y ago
> including any personally identifiable information you include in your submission Wording here is a little ambiguous. As a techie, it's pretty easy to make an argument that the IP address is something I "included" in the
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Generally speaking, in game, but with mods (such as WorldEdit[0]) that provide tools for copy/paste, quickly filling large areas, etc. [0]: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/worldedit
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Sorry, no—just my vague recollection. Looks like someone else found one, though.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
IIRC, before Juul teenage smoking was trending down. Now it's going up.
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Note the example above: (select a from nums) order by b; a --- 3 0 1 2 (4 rows) If things worked as you described, that would also fail. So Postgres is, in some cases, cheating with the "new se
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by Gaelan 7y ago
The idea is that they'd form an endowment. So they put your $10 in some sort of relatively safe investment, and every year it grows by, say, 1%. So then they have 10¢/year/GB to spend on storage costs.
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by Gaelan 7y ago
@mods can we change the title to "Why I should have" instead of "why should I have"? The current title reads like a question with the question mark omitted ("Why should I have used C, not C++?") which, at least
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by Gaelan 7y ago
> There is the widely reported disengagement per mile, but most robotics people know it is just smoke and mirrors meant to make the regulators go away Are you saying that the numbers are inaccurately reported, or accurately reported but
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by Gaelan 7y ago
If you install Windows on two separate drives, each copy of Windows has its own kernel drivers, so the Valorant installer would only install the driver onto the drive you were currently using. As far as I know, you can't install multip
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by Gaelan 7y ago
The latter, I believe: > Finally, the court declined to address whether occupational discrimination is covered by the Unruh Act or if White was an adequate representative to support the class action Emphasis mine.
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by Gaelan 7y ago
> Ruby uses it in iterators (I think) and if I'm not mistaken Rust uses it with closures. Ruby and Rust both use them for closures (I assume Rust took them from Ruby). Nearly all of Ruby's iteration constructs are based on clos
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by Gaelan 7y ago
About three miles from the bridge here, never heard anything other than “narrows bridge” (or just “the bridge”) either. Crazy seeing something so close to home on HN!
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This is all that PDF has to say about WebRTC: > WebRTC for videoconferencing is not supported for third-party browsers because Safari displays a prominent UI to make sure the user knows when a website is recording using the camera and mi
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by Gaelan 7y ago
btw, huge props for not mentioning teleport in that blog post. So many companies have blog posts that masquerade as tutorials for "how to do X" but then change halfway through to "OOOORRRR you can not do all that complicated
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by Gaelan 7y ago
I mean, SGX is strictly an improvement over the same protocol without SGX.
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FaceTime is E2E, fwiw, although it might not comply with other requirements.
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I mean, it's not really a security bug. Installer.app displays a dialog box that says "Hey, this package wants to run arbitrary code to check if it's compatible with your system. Is that OK?" The user is explicitly optin
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by Gaelan 7y ago
If you're writing new C, why wouldn't you write C++ or Rust? I think part of why Rust's borrow checker works so well is because its support for higher-level abstraction is so good; my impression is that manual iteration and g
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by Gaelan 7y ago
For "regular websites" (visited through Safari) it's 7 days where you use Safari, but don't visit the site. So if you go on vacation for a month and don't touch your computer, or if you switch completely to using Fi
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by Gaelan 7y ago
Interesting. I can tell Safari to not autoplay videos on YouTube in its preferences, but that doesn't seem to do anything. Seems more like a bug on Safari's part and/or workaround on Google's part than anything deliberat
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by Gaelan 7y ago
IIRC my school district (in WA state) pinned Chrome OS versions for a long time because the state standardized testing software required a specific Chrome version. Not sure off hand if that's still a problem.
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Snap was originally a scratch fork back when both of them were written in smalltalk, but they’ve both since gone through independent rewrites.
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All of them. Linux has one: C. For clarity, this is talking mostly about what languages they will use when writing the OS itself (that’s what “approved” means in the article). They do also touch on what languages are supported (I.e. they’re

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