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by afiori 1y ago
In this spirit excel would be way easier to debug if you could easily show the value of subexpressions in complex formulas
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by afiori 1y ago
Famously Jane's Street started by using excel automation for its core trading business. I do not particularly like excel, I find it interesting but often obtuse and limited in annoying ways and I agree that for an established workflow
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by afiori 1y ago
It is often said that xlsx and docx files are basically zipped folders of XML files and assets, I wonder how effective it would be to add the decompressed forms to git to see and track changes (or similarly for git to show diffs for the fil
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by afiori 1y ago
The pragmatic reason is that the runtime should have more permissions than the code, eg in node require('fs') likely read files in system folders
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by afiori 1y ago
or Linux and Macs users talking about Windows, or Macs and Windows users talking about Linux
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by afiori 1y ago
There is no limit that avoid both false nevative and false postives
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by afiori 1y ago
That is how I like to think about human lives, as a cost, to be minimized.
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by afiori 1y ago
The issue here is that timezone are often handled like an environment setting instead of as an element of the day-time-timezone tuple
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by afiori 1y ago
This is like the statistics that cows kill more people than sharks, if it was common to keep bears as pets they would kill way more people than dogs
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by afiori 1y ago
This falls into the same problem as the DNT header, while being a good technology it will be used by so few people that is might very well increase fingerprinting capabilities in some ways.
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by afiori 1y ago
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by afiori 1y ago
According to a benchmark from 2018 it might not be expensive to go between js and wasm https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/calls-between-javascript-a... It is still the same jit calling itself, there is no reason it
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by afiori 1y ago
Anyway actually my biggest gripe with python is that i find the module/impor/export system counterintuitive
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by afiori 1y ago
> methods are just attributes that are looked up at runtime At runtime when evaluating a + b no dunder method is looked up and there is no guarantee that a + b === a.__anydunder__(b) https://youtu.be/qCGofLIzX6g What i m
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by afiori 1y ago
The commenter was not saying that women do not face discrimination, they were saying that salary (as in hourly cash for a given job) was not one place with sizable discrimination. To be clear if women faced strong discrimination against bei
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by afiori 1y ago
Many companies are not publicly traded and have a single owner that is interested in the success of the company over the span of decades
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by afiori 1y ago
This is the type of things that make me roll my eyes at all the wtf JavaScript posts[0], yes there are a lot of random things that happen with type conversions and quite a few idiosyncrasies (my favourite is that document.all is a non empty
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by afiori 1y ago
I read it as someone keeps track of it for public safety
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by afiori 1y ago
IIUC the infamous cookie banner law only to inform the user of cookies/client tracking, it did not require to ask for consent. that came with GDPR and other privacy laws
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by afiori 1y ago
The requirement for a truth value is just from how math/logic uses the term.
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by afiori 1y ago
Rest is a structured description of how html/http/web work sorta. An example of a non rest aspect of how a webpage works is how the favicon is by default fetched by a well known url, or how cookies use a magic list of domains to d
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by afiori 1y ago
I suspect but am not sure that PEGs cannot do negative nor positive lookbehind, but it is not a very used feature.
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by afiori 1y ago
Grain in movies has a similar role to grain in leather products, it is an indicator of authenticity
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The cost of not having direct dom access is that of a minimal js wrapper glue which is negligible,
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That is why international treaties come with implicit or explicit enforcement options
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by afiori 1y ago
The way in which they are worse is that IP addresses are often unstable and shuffled around since generally the end user of the address is not its owner. It would be similar to getting a cert for myapp.github.io, technically perfectly valid
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by afiori 1y ago
> specific problem classes (those with α ≤ 1), For the layman, what does α mean here?
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by afiori 1y ago
I think I agree, low quality JPEGs give the idea of looking through slightly imperfect glass, WEBP and AV1 look a bit more like bad AI
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by afiori 1y ago
I know exactly 3 people that use emails for personal human to human comunications. I am sure that it is more common in other slices of the world.
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by afiori 1y ago
the people that use "I cant believe it is not a crime!" strategies are often not "most people"

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