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by Zarel 8y ago
The big problem is the incentive structure. TC39 can't introduce breaking changes because browsers won't implement breaking changes. Browsers won't implement breaking changes because users would switch to other browsers which
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by Zarel 8y ago
> Waymo and GM/Cruise are far ahead with their FSD capabilities than Tesla(again, widely accepted) As far as I can tell, I can't buy a car from Waymo or GM/Cruise. I don't mean this as a rebuttal/challenge, but I
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by Zarel 8y ago
That tweet links to this article: https://electrek.co/2018/03/16/tesla-autopilot-update-first-... Which contains the line: > In general, most drivers now seem to agree that Tesla’s Autopilot 2.0 has surpas
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by Zarel 8y ago
Yeah, which is mildly frustrating, but it doesn't ruin my mood the way a human getting mad at me would. I just call them back once I get everything I need, and feel no rush.
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by Zarel 8y ago
"None of us" is a strong word. I actually prefer scripts to humans. Scripts don't get mad at me if I take a long time to make a decision. Scripts also don't speak in heavy accents I can't understand, or get frustrat
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by Zarel 8y ago
Swift doesn't have flow typing, unfortunately. It has a few constructs, like `guard let` and `if let`, which let you unwrap optionals in a somewhat nicer way than other languages and are sort of similar to one aspect of flow typing.
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by Zarel 8y ago
There's one difference between nullable/non-nullable types and Optional type, which is nesting, right? I'd assume that while Kotlin's String? is equivalent to Optional<String>, Kotlin has no equivalent to Optional&
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by Zarel 8y ago
If you turn on the gesture mode, it's still largely the same UI, it's just that the "App switcher" button is gone. The Back button is still there, in the same place as before (although it does disappear on the Home scree
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by Zarel 8y ago
I installed the beta the moment I heard the keynote say I could immediately. The new swipe-up-from-Home UI is off by default. I had to turn it on in Gestures. By default, it's the old three-button UI: Back, Home, App switcher.
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by Zarel 8y ago
From the linked post: "I tried telling him that the people who use adblockers are likely to share more content, which brings in non-adblock users. However, that is also falling apart as adblock users are bringing other adblock users.&q
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by Zarel 9y ago
The confusion comes up when you do a _shallow_ copy: Some modifications will modify the original variable, and other modifications won't. Pass-reference-by-value is just a special case of a shallow copy. let a = [1, 2, 3]; le
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by Zarel 9y ago
Yes, which is way higher than I'd expect, given SF's general opposition to high-rises. According to Google, the actual limit is 40 feet. Example article I found: https://recklesslyoptimistic.com/san-franciscos-heig
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by Zarel 9y ago
Heh, I just read an explanation of this the other day: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/equals-as-assignment/ The summary is that C used it because assignment was a lot more common than equality checking, and back
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by Zarel 9y ago
So then would it be impossible for me to write down your phone number in my phone, without my phone's contact list app asking you for permission first? That seems kind of excessive.
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by Zarel 9y ago
But what's the real answer? Imagine my friend writes down my phone number in his iPhone's contacts list, and then installs an app – let's say some random game. The game asks for permission to access contact info, which my fri
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by Zarel 9y ago
Modern versions of Minesweeper actually makes it so nothing _around_ your first click is a mine, so you always reveal more than one square. https://guangcongluo.com/dminer/ is a version I wrote while trying to teach my
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by Zarel 9y ago
Google Contributor as described in that article no longer exists. It now only works on "participating sites", rather than all sites using AdSense. I'd guess it has something to do with website operators putting more ads on th
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by Zarel 9y ago
Yes, U+265F is currently a normal character. http://graphemica.com/%E2%99%9F That codepoint is slated to also have an emoji representation in Unicode 11. As far as I can tell, it will default to the normal character.
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by Zarel 9y ago
> Or ship the device with the signed cert. Certs expire sometimes. And the device doesn't necessarily have an internet connection. What then?
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by Zarel 9y ago
How do you communicate "log in with an email address" to a user if you can't display a web page?
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by Zarel 9y ago
Hosting ads on your site isn't actually enough. uBlock Origin can and does block by CSS selector (and that's the default behavior if you use right-click -> Block Element). It _does_ get pretty hard to block if your ads are besp
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by Zarel 9y ago
Personally, I right-click and use "Open in Incognito Window" in these sorts of situations. I assume Firefox has an analogous feature.
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by Zarel 9y ago
Opening a new window in the already-running app is also slow; they cover a strategy for increasing that performance in the linked blog post.
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by Zarel 9y ago
I never said it was all it does. It's the reason AMP exists, and the reason certain users like it. The "hijacks content" part is by itself unobjectionable, especially with this latest update we're discussing which fixes
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by Zarel 9y ago
> who actually wants AMP and why is it even a thing? AMP is a standard that restricts webpages to a subset known to load very quickly, which is especially useful if you have a mobile device, or are in a country with poor internet such as
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by Zarel 9y ago
I've called a taxi three times in my life. The first time was in 2012 because Microsoft was paying for it. It was from downtown Bellevue (so not an obscure place). I called them, they estimated 15 minutes, and it took them 40 minutes t
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by Zarel 9y ago
As I understand it, even electricity generated from coal is significantly cleaner than the equivalent in gasoline.
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by Zarel 9y ago
The articles on this whole controversy describe it as an ARG - an Alternate Reality Game. I don't know exactly how this ARG works, but ARGs in general are like scavenger hunts - players investigate what's causing the changes, whic
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by Zarel 9y ago
Well, yes, but you generally have to have a plan for how your innovation happens, rather than "my version won't have any of the problems the existing versions have" without having an explanation for how you achieve this.
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by Zarel 9y ago
This is a response to an earlier article by Scott Alexander, and he's already written a response to this one, too: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/21/contra-robinson-on-publ... The general idea is &quo

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