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by abtinf 2y ago
I think both are atrocious features. It would be useful to know facts about a site or article: this is a new domain, this is a state-run outlet, etc. But other than that, how about I get to use my critical thinking to evaluate the content
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JS, as typically run in a browser, is both async and single-threaded.
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Starbucks also plays very loud, irritating music nonstop now.
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PDFs generally will look close enough to the original intent that they will almost always be usable, but will not always render the same. If nothing else, there are seemingly endless font issues.
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This looks like an attempt to turn Go into Java/C#. I certainly won’t allow this to be used by the engineering teams under me.
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> I built…over a winter break This site is extremely well done. You built it, and all of its content, in a couple weeks ? That’s amazing.
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Note that it is possible to embed temporal server into a program. I wrote a simple demo that embeds client/worker/server all into one Go app. It should be straightforward to modify this to support clustering. https://gi
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The worst part of Firefox is Mozilla.
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https://imgur.com/a/MddLF4p
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> [article with many words about why you should use firefox]. Tree Style Tabs. uBlock Origin. There, I rewrote it for you.
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by abtinf 2y ago
Gomponents is also a great way to deal with HTML in Go. While some (including me at first) might dislike that it encourages use of dot imports, Gomponents’ use of them has actually grown on me. The crucial practical issue is to restrict the
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by abtinf 2y ago
Just out of curiosity (I’m not familiar with the current state of android software support) does your phone still get security updates and, assuming it does, how much longer do you expect them to continue?
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> If an attacker is at the point where they can turn on your microphone, or video, it doesn't really matter anymore, it's been game over for a long time. This is obviously incorrect. There is lots of software that can get acces
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Very well put.
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Having programmed for over 30 years, including nearly a decade of C#, I would say exceptions are one of the worst ideas in all of programming. They are just horrific gotos that any library can invoke against your code. They are pretty much
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by abtinf 2y ago
> To clarify, this is specific to "alphabetic" writing, cuneiform/hieroglyphs are older. That’s literally in the title of both the post and the article. What are you “clarifying”?
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This seems like the kind of error an LLM would make. It is essentially impossible for a human to confuse error correction and “majority voting”/consensus.
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This is one of the least appreciated aspects of Go. Code I wrote 12 years ago still just works .
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Out of curiosity, can you identify any pro-Israel stories that have been unflagged in the past year?
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I agree with your desire for what HN should be, and disagree with your assessment that the top voted comment doesn’t support it. HN is the only forum I know of that has broadly grasped that most so-called “science” outside of the hard scien
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When do you consider the write/transaction to be completed? What do you do about out-of-sync read replicas? ACID gets real hard real fast when introducing replication.
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> we want to turn off the animation and move the focus to the first link in the menu instead of focussing on the menu's parent Why not just always turn off the animations? Why not just always move the focus to the link? What is the
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by abtinf 2y ago
Bethesda is the saddest example.
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Wtf, that post is from 2009 . 15 years on and this company is still playing the same game and the public is still being taken in by it?
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Licensure injects politics into the heart of engineering.
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> if this is supposed to be the future of work The day computing becomes subject to professional licensure is the day the field of computing will fall into hopeless stagnation, just like every other such field.
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A competing and altogether more entertaining and comprehensive body of knowledge: https://grugbrain.dev/
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300 pages* is perhaps not quite the length one would expect for Version 4.0 of such an ambitious undertaking. * Actual page count less front/back matter and a rough guess at pages of matrices and references.
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How does Fivetran use SQLMesh?
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> therecipe/qt is the most mature Qt binding for Go. It works by making IPC calls to a separate C++ binary downloaded at runtime from a site under the maintainer's control. WTF?

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