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by csande17 6y ago
> BC solves a problem there because operating a database for that scale would be very complicated. Would it, though? Google tells me that India has a population of around 1.4 billion people. Let's assume each person has one phone nu
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by csande17 6y ago
At least in my case, it's not that I'm constantly clicking on things that it turns out I dislike. Rather, it's that the few times I have clicked on a recommendation (because hey, maybe they know something I don't, mayb
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by csande17 6y ago
This is maybe a tangent, but do these ML-powered recommendation algorithms actually, like, work well for people? I use both YouTube and Netflix pretty extensively. These companies are both held up as ML success stories. But, at least in my
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by csande17 6y ago
I've seen a couple projects do this by publishing a Mac App Store version. Completely identical to the open source release, but it pays the Apple tax to run without warnings, and it gets App Store-powered auto updates.
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by csande17 6y ago
It's easier to understand this if you know that the `php` binary bring invoked is the one shipped with the operating system . They've introduced similar messages for other interpreter binaries. I think the intent here is to say &
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by csande17 6y ago
You may be interested in a project that's doing almost exactly that: a new content type that sits alongside the "classic" web, with a heavy focus on performance and only JavaScript from a vetted repository allowed. https:&#x
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by csande17 6y ago
It would be like saying that, if voting involved putting a machine in my house to report information about my daily activities to the government, and they used that data to attempt to determine which candidates and policies I would prefer
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by csande17 6y ago
I'm a developer, and I disable telemetry whenever possible, including in Firefox. I do this because I value my privacy (the same reason I use Firefox), and I don't want my system to make network requests unnecessarily. The way I s
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by csande17 6y ago
Fingerprinting scripts often use the Web Audio API (see https://audiofingerprint.openwpm.com/ ). Sometimes, they use enough of the Web Audio API that the OS thinks they're trying to play audio, and it temporarily reduce
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by csande17 6y ago
Unicode includes a lot of features that aren't universally desirable in applications that handle text. "Zalgo" text (many stacked combining subscript and superscript characters) can break out of the box it's contained in
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by csande17 6y ago
I'm not saying that newer versions of Windows than Vista don't include additional features. Off the top of my head, Windows 10 includes Cortana and Paint 3D. I just don't ever use or care about them, just like how I've n
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by csande17 6y ago
> Computers and the software they run today enables us to do far more than we used to. This is true in the broadest sense -- certainly calc.exe is better than an abacus! -- but I'm not sure it's true on the 10-to-20-year timesc
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by csande17 6y ago
And while we're making pie-in-the-sky long-term plans, the amount of RAM you can shove into a single server chassis is growing faster than the world population. So you might as well use joins -- the people maintaining your code in the
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by csande17 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the ID that Discord and Blizzard use as the "true" source of identity (as in, the key they store in the database to keep track of who's on your buddy list) is different from the "#1234" number u
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by csande17 6y ago
> How is a network protocol proof against being used to transport CSS files? Does the network stack inspect what you're shipping and ensure you're only sending 100% Pure Plain Text? The Gemini specification includes its own for
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by csande17 6y ago
A Wikipedia Signpost article[1] gives a more detailed overview of the goals of the project, but it also made me think of an interesting failure case. From the article: > Instead of saying "in order to deny her the advantage of the i
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by csande17 6y ago
If you want to get a job as a frontend engineer, you should learn React because it's a tick-box on a lot of job postings these days. If you just want to make personal projects, it depends a lot on what kinds of projects you want to mak
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by csande17 6y ago
One how'd-they-ship-this regression is the weird double focus ring that appears when you click the search bar on https://gist.github.com/discover .
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by csande17 6y ago
At least on my phone, the "Install unknown apps" permission is per-source. So the F-Droid app is allowed to install software, but my web browser isn't. There still isn't a bulletproof way to download a new store in the f
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by csande17 6y ago
My guess is that they are (or will be) used in Pages/Keynote templates .
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by csande17 6y ago
I think you and the parent are working under different definitions of "script". Deno allows you to grant permissions per top-level invocation. So if you have one program that you run by typing `deno run passwordmanager.js` at the
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by csande17 6y ago
One reason might be accessibility: for some people, it's a lot easier to hit a hardware button than a tap-target on a touch screen. You can feel around for the edges of the button, you get clear force-feedback when it's pressed, a
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by csande17 6y ago
> I'm not aware of any other platform where you're expected to write the logic for your initial render using a different set of technologies than the logic for subsequent interactions. The very idea sounds daft. It's not a
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by csande17 7y ago
If you're interested in what actually changed in this update, the release notes are here: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/2.7/Misc/NEWS.d/2.7.1...
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by csande17 7y ago
Summary: they moved 47,990 lines into separate NPM packages.
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by csande17 7y ago
If people in those places have Visa/Mastercard credit cards, I'd expect to be able to charge them in Stripe just like any other card. Sure, https://stripe.com/global doesn't list Pakistan, but that's the
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by csande17 7y ago
I think so! They have a repo called "ASP.NET Core" on GitHub with an Apache license: https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore . ("Core" here means that it's the version of .NET that can run on Linu
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by csande17 7y ago
The post is likely V8-centric because it's discussing server-side JavaScript. As far as I know, pretty much everyone uses V8 for server-side JS because that's what Node is based on. And compatibility seems to be much less of an is
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by csande17 7y ago
Part of me wonders if ASP.NET will make a comeback. A lot of the historical reasons not to use it don't exist anymore (there's an officially-supported Linux port, for example), and a lot of the cool new JavaScript language feature
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by csande17 7y ago
If JavaScript is disabled in your browser and you visit mobile.twitter.com, you get a link to proceed to "legacy Twitter", which is their pre-React mobile site.

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