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by akersten 6y ago
I would posit that if rendering differences in font display are affecting A/B testing a workflow, the A/B testing apparatus has failed to control for confounding factors and was probably invalid anyway. If OSX is known to render d
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by akersten 6y ago
Absolutely agreed. The article laments things like "I have no good way of knowing how big my text is going to be when I say 16pt," and my response is "why would you ever need to know that? Do your containing elements not reas
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by akersten 6y ago
> . Other scripts are simply out of scope. Luckily, the font engine developers for popular operating systems did not scope those issues out just because they were inconvenient for designers who falsely assume that "16" should m
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by akersten 6y ago
So this awful response was part of the official script? That's even worse.
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by akersten 6y ago
Another happy Audacity user here, great to hear it's going to get a refresh. My only request is that performance is kept top-of-mind - using Audacity is snappy and responsive even on ancient hardware, which makes it just a pleasure to
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by akersten 6y ago
If malicious code is running outside of your browser, that is well beyond the scope of anything the web development guidance here will prevent.
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by akersten 6y ago
> This is... annoying. This sounds like Chromium team throwing up their hands, "We can't keep attackers out, so don't be giving out any data attackers can use." It's actually the correct approach to realize that
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by akersten 6y ago
Case-senitivity is not a "nasty holdover", it is a good design decision that continues to be proven correct (case in point, this bugfix for case-insensitive filesystems). Why would you introduce complexity into the filesystem to t
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by akersten 6y ago
> I don't think that's abusing their monopoly, it's acknowledging that they are a monopoly and so they should be held accountable as a wholistic entity. The reason it would be abusing their monopoly is that Firefox and Edg
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by akersten 6y ago
> I think it's not an unreasonable take that if a user has let Google know it doesn't want to be tracked, that Google shouldn't track them with any of the technology they have. So the same people saying Google is a monopol
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by akersten 6y ago
I've always wanted to ask an audiologist whether "active noise cancelling" type technologies actually pose an auditory risk. They kind of have to emit the same amplitude-at-the-ear of audio of what they're cancelling out
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by akersten 6y ago
To touch on the Map example, I do think Map<K,V> is just as clear and saves keystrokes, so that's how I'd write it. The "meaning" of K,V doesn't come from their names, it comes from Map . I suppose clearer is
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by akersten 6y ago
I would contend that single letter names for generics are the ideal state. They're intentionally not given a meaningful name, because if you can give them a meaningful name, you've modelled the data wrong. IMO, if you're gi
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by akersten 6y ago
So, I'll admit to being a Luddite on the whole HDR thing, but I suppose it's worth figuring out in the case it becomes commonplace and not another fad like 3D TV. How does HDR affect colors in software? For example, on a 10-bit di
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by akersten 6y ago
Thanks, yeah I missed that on account of misunderstanding the nature of the access (bug vs token shenanigans)
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by akersten 6y ago
Interesting that most of the mitigations are "move resource behind firewall." Kind of an indictment of the whole BeyondCorp idea - unless we really trust our 2FA to never have any access bypass issues like the initial access to th
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by akersten 6y ago
> (given the mandatory arbitration clause in the TOS somewhere). This was the most surprising angle to me - that the case didn't fail prima facie on this clause alone. I guess at least it serves to really emphasize how bad of a ca
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by akersten 6y ago
I kind of wish the author touched more on the one-frame-at-a-time aspect. Why aren't they copying more data into the device decoder? It seems somewhat silly on a non-realtime OS to grab one frame, request a 15ms wait, and then grab a
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by akersten 6y ago
As a user I hate it even more when my browser pops in an unwanted auto-complete dropdown obscuring a contextually-better and integrated auto-complete provided by the website, where it's obvious the website tried to suppress the native
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by akersten 6y ago
If that could be implemented fairly (scaling costs based on total revenue so small-time businesses aren't locked out of the system, without giving non-producers/patent trolls a free $0 patent) then that seems like a good compromis
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by akersten 6y ago
That would be (wonderful!) news to me. Not in the US, as far as I know, they're alive and well.
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by akersten 6y ago
Of course it's the Eastern District of Texas. The intention of the patent system was to promote the useful proliferation of the sciences and arts. Billion-dollar verdicts to companies that do not even produce a marketable product are t
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by akersten 6y ago
Was form 13H... submitted via Flash Player? And they're just now getting around to saying "oh, yeah, some people are having a technical problem caused by the end of life of Adobe Flash," as if this were some kind of unexpecte
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by akersten 6y ago
Tell HN: Keep flagging. It's critically important for us to be able to collectively remove low quality discourse, submissions that violate the HN community guidelines, and outright spam. If you notice that your submissions in particula
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by akersten 6y ago
What kind of legal notices are you routinely dealing with? That's a frightening aspect of maintaining an open source side project I hadn't really considered.
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by akersten 6y ago
I mention it because this post is appealing to HN as if we have some kind of government power to influence whether cloudflare chooses to commerce with those customers. Clearly we do not. That power is exclusive to the government, and "
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by akersten 6y ago
Yes, yes, and UPS continues to deliver their banners and flags too. Look, I'm all for businesses making the decision to cut them off. That means I'm also all for businesses making the decision to keep them on too. That's the
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by akersten 6y ago
Yeah.. The piece you quoted is underselling it too. It's not "they will change their algorithms to block anything remotely problematic," it's more like "they will literally cease to exist because they'll be stu
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by akersten 6y ago
I won't click the Parler link to try to decipher what "AWS Given {name of law} Notice" means, but I presume someone is suggesting that Amazon be charged with disorderly conduct for terminating their business relationship with
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by akersten 6y ago
How many half-baked takes on "revoke S230" can there possibly be. This must be the hundredth one this week. It's not new, interesting, or even a useful proposition. Seriously, if at this point you are proposing removing the

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