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   by arendtio 3y ago

   Sounds like you want more sources to prove that the author didn't make up that term ;-) Obligatory Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern A study about dark pattern usage from my bookmarks: ht
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   by arendtio 3y ago

   Sadly, it is not that simple. E.g. if your boss wants to see the numbers, and the dark pattern performs better. Just yesterday we discussed how the 'business' trumps the 'user': https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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   by arendtio 3y ago

   I think ugly is the wrong word. It looks old. 20 years ago many websites looked exactly like that. Hand-written (<!-- vim: set filetype=rst: -->) and just with basic CSS formatting.
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   by arendtio 3y ago

   How many protocols do you know that made that transition at all? I don't know many that even have that level of requirements (low latency, multi-device, low energy consumption, federation, scalability) in the first place, and even fewe
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   by arendtio 3y ago

   Well, it doesn't fill anything but was there before XYZ came. Matrix has mostly the same properties (open source, federated). Signal is not federated and WhatApps is neither federated nor open source (but has the most users). The thing
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   by arendtio 3y ago

   I think the headline is misleading in that regard. I think that having easy-to-run software is part of having a well-designed one. Just last week I heard about a software upgrade that would require a downtime of 5 days. The software has abo
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   by arendtio 3y ago

   A few weeks ago I found a StackExchange thread where someone had benchmarked the two approaches and found, that table tags were somehow optimized. However, this was tested with identical content and with a table for which every cell had to
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   by arendtio 3y ago

   To some degree you are right, but I think you forget, that the things they solved already (talking and reasoning about a world that was only presented in the form of abstractions (words)) were supposed to be harder than having a good unders
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   by arendtio 3y ago

   Actually, this is an important comment. Building a spreadsheet with web technology is not that difficult. However, building one with more than just the most basic features, which performs well, once the data grows, is a surprisingly hard ta
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    A few weeks ago I was looking for a spreadsheet component that could be used with Svelte. To my surprise, I found something quite complete: Github: https://github.com/ticruz38/svelte-sheets Demo: https://tic
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    Even though I find the step somewhat logical, it is unexpected as I dismissed it a few days ago. Logical, because as far as I understand the conflict @openai, it is/was about conquering the market with cool products vs. advancing resea
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    The name HawkEye reminds me somehow of the movie Eagle Eye from 2008 (which is also about tracking people).
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    I like and use Fira Code too and even though Berkley might be an alternative, the price is too high just to have an alternative to Fira Code (IMHO).
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    > 4) You will sometimes work with incompetent people So tell me, when are the times when I will work with competent people? SCNR
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    Sounds great, not just for paywalls, but for removing CORS as well: > Remove CORS headers from responses, assets, and images ...
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    I am surprised that the issues are so basic. When I heard, that Cities Skylines 2 had a bad performance I expected something like they were using the GPU for graphics as well as for the simulation, but didn't have a good scheduler or s
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    You might want to take a look at the current no. 2 of the HN best list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38101613
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    Sounds like you are the visitor my blog had?
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    If that is so, how was is possible to develop the dependency? By definition it was not available before, so it must be a new development. So by that reasoning it is impossible to ever see something new. Since you write "Most" ther
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    As far as I understand the issue, using normal ads (without personalization) would be an option too?
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    I use uBO for many years now and from time to time I wondered why YouTube worked so well even without the ads. Knowing how much effort is being put into this, explains a lot. I absolutely love this extension and every time I come across a b
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    So a few month ago this story (German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLtxqMqCOus And now they identified that the loss is actually about $200m?!? Sounds like they have a serious problem over there.
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    I don't think there is a maximum number of abstractions that is suitable. I think the value of an abstraction is defined by its quality. Having many abstractions on top of each other leading to inefficiencies is a problem, but that is
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    In my opinion, it is one of the biggest flaws in the shell language design, because it means, that a function can lead to different results independent of the arguments, but depending of the context from which you call it. And it even overr
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    Well, isn't it the sense of CRDTs that you don't see them? I mean, traditionally users are asked what the system should once it finds a lock, but with CRDTs they should never find a lock and therefore the user isn't bothered.
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    Are logged in to some google account?
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    Yes, you can find the documentation in other places and that is what I usually do, but it sucks because this is the official documentation of the programming language. Having those links to quickly take a look at the implementation is what
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    Well, yes I do use uBlock Origin as well as DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, but for that page I turned them off months ago. It still doesn't work :-/
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    What bothers me: Since a while the documentation links to cs.opensource.google with the typical google flavor. Some years ago, you could simply click on some function in the documentation and view the source code. When I do this now, I find
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    by arendtio 3y ago

    Too bad the Linux and the Mac pointer look so similar. But when you give them different background colors, it becomes more obvious which platform dominates, like: .pointer.l { background-color: green; }