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by akersten 6y ago
I think CSS is "difficult to understand" because most people who do front-end don't want to spend a day learning it. Ask some people who make the claim it's difficult: what is the box model, and what is selector specific
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by akersten 6y ago
Still not sure I get it. CSS makes it very easy to carve-out elements because of selector specificity. .content * { max-width: 65ch; margin: 0 auto; } .content img { max-width: 100%; width: 100%; } It's a neat demo of CSS
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by akersten 6y ago
Facebook should lose this one. Secret shopping isn't illegal, and using tools to secret shop isn't illegal either. Going after camera manufacturers because they are tools used to secret shop certainly isn't illegal, even if
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by akersten 6y ago
With the disclaimer that I might be getting old, and I have done absolutely no research on my own about this whole shadow DOM thing: why would you go through all this trouble to "[provide] a way to scope CSS styles to a specific DOM su
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by akersten 6y ago
> There are also a few warnings on the site that the hooks used by universal split screen will likely trip anticheat software. Yikes, they should make that warning more prominent. Like a big yellow banner across the top of the landing pa
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by akersten 6y ago
> I suspect naively it shouldn't be too hard to decode an existing recording of music into the notes played. What you expect not to be too hard to do, is actually the 'holy grail' of the field - Algorithmic Melody Transcri
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by akersten 6y ago
I wonder if the fix for this was just adding some more RegEx to the WAF and calling it patched. To me, it seems like it's not possible for a WAF to honestly promise "SQL Injection Prevention," because it's surely just st
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by akersten 6y ago
When will Apple and Google come out and say "no" to this? What is the legislative mechanism that gives the Dept of Commerce control over what code (speech) is transmitted on their app platform? Calling it a "transaction"
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by akersten 6y ago
> I'm surprised people are taking this ban at face value. Yeah, it's astounding how quickly these discussions focused in on "well, what are the pros and cons of banning an app? When is an app a national security issue? Wha
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by akersten 6y ago
Maybe not "spotted" an ad while browsing Facebook (since even with uBlock Origin, FB is ruthless at shoving Sponsored posts into the feed), but certainly clicking on an ad disqualifies one from being able to claim "I am cau
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by akersten 6y ago
Honestly, just throw everything in a venv and forget anything about needing to manage platform versions again. Unless, of course, virtualenv can't be installed on the host in the first place due to setuptools/pip issues :)
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by akersten 6y ago
It's the last sentence, which one could be excused for not enduring the rest of the article before reaching: > , a precise definition of ‘CSS X’ isn’t even needed. Every three years of so, some people should pick a couple of interes
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by akersten 6y ago
> another explanation, i.e. that one reason for the revocation is some mysterious 570 MB executable file, which had been signed with our certificate but looked like a file used by hackers. Woah, talk about burying the lede? This sentenc
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by akersten 6y ago
This article is a masterwork in expanding a single sentence ("CSS gets a new conceptual version every few big modules") into an absolute saga. As I was reading through I was worried I was about to read an article about how some bi
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by akersten 6y ago
Yep, I'd say Google's closer to doing the right thing here comparatively, having at least a non-terrible path to running unsigned APKs. I would put Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo in the same bucket of "makes hardware that c
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by akersten 6y ago
It's an unimportant distinction. It doesn't matter that you got your Microsoft-store approved copy of Gears of War from Gamestop instead of the Microsoft app store. MS still gets their cut, and that application still had to be app
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by akersten 6y ago
What is the difference between the capabilities of the console hardware and the phone hardware? The console hardware is actually more powerful. PS3's were used as general purpose computers until Sony removed OtherOS functionality. This
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by akersten 6y ago
It doesn't read that way to me, since it ends with "can't wait to buy shares" and is sandwiched between other examples of how Unity brings them joy - implying Unity is the platform on which all of these things will be bu
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by akersten 6y ago
> Any reasonably complex interface is essentially a game whether it's a music composition app, simulator, MMO or even a basic form. I've been out of the game development arena for a while, but I can't help but pause here.
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by akersten 6y ago
Short & sweet: Software is just lambda calculus, and the USPTO has already decided math cannot be patented. It is bizarre they would make such a gigantic oversight. Longer and more pedestrian: Computers are a sandbox that we've cre
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by akersten 6y ago
> Why does discord even let users access dev tools? This is trivially easy to disable in prod builds. Even if you disable the usual way to pop the dev tools open in desktop electron mode, this is a dangerous attitude. A malicious client
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by akersten 6y ago
Slight sidebar: it's so frustrating that Adobe made the new Lightroom some cloud based monstrosity. For photographers with serious workflows involving local disks, we're now relegated to "Lightroom Classic" which makes m
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by akersten 6y ago
Wouldn't I , as a user, have the same DMCA safe harbor as long as I stopped streaming the video if I were to receive one of those letters?
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by akersten 6y ago
So, are we losing the functionality to easily see what areas are parks (previously green) and what areas are not? Seems like a step back in usability.
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by akersten 6y ago
I use HashBackup[0] (I think the author is on HN) and it has a B2 option. It encrypts your data by default, and you can set up an intermediate backup (like an external HDD) to sit between your live system and B2 so you have multiple layers
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by akersten 6y ago
$500B is pretty nuts. Does anyone else here feel that this whole thing is nuts? Facebook's market cap is $700B. Making them pay $500B in damages would put them out of business. So, to be clear with what we're talking about here, w
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by akersten 6y ago
People are tripping over the reductive part of your post, but ignoring what is the strongest argument: > so any liability or violation of use of someone's likeness is on the person who gave you the data. That's what I feel too.
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by akersten 6y ago
That is just so bizarre to me too. That one would be able to copy the exact core of the idea, but write it in a different language, and suddenly it's not infringing, even though it causes the computer to do the same thing. How these pa
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by akersten 6y ago
This is very clever! Also, take a look at Claim 2 of this patent[1]. Do you think these are similar enough to constitute infringement? [1]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9881516B1/en (Software patents should
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by akersten 6y ago
Right. People are reading into this way too much, in reality it looks like pretty standard "don't use legalese when you're not a lawyer" type training that I've seen at every BigCo.

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