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by cwyers 6y ago
What are the other options?
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by cwyers 6y ago
I don't see why. Electron apps, for all their faults, use the OS to render text, so they respect things like system-wide settings on scale, you can use your installed fonts, you can use screenreaders and other accessibility technologie
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by cwyers 6y ago
I mean, yes, Javascript isn't x86 assembly code, but neither is Lua. Sure, Javascript was designed to be embedded within other applications, but so was Lua. And neither _has_ to be. People seem to be using "native" to mean &q
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by cwyers 6y ago
It's written in Lua and doesn't use the OS GUI APIs and widgets anywhere. I'm not sure I understand what makes this more "native" than Javascript.
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by cwyers 6y ago
A lot of the places I order from that have a website and do delivery end up using a third-party (mostly Doordash) to do their deliveries anyway.
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by cwyers 6y ago
There's a real Dunning-Kruger problem with "power users," where some people know just enough to get themselves into trouble. And I think these D-K power users outnumber the "real" ones.
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by cwyers 7y ago
It's sort of two-sided, I think. It can be fun to figure out _meaningful_ patterns in data. I don't really find it fun to figure out that "so and so didn't use software that understood NA values back in nineteen tickety
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by cwyers 7y ago
Sure, but they can say, this is the shop we will pay ourselves, or you can go somewhere else and we'll cut you a check. If you need the repairs done faster than they cut checks and don't have cash on hand, it's a strong incen
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by cwyers 7y ago
Where did I say anything about working overtime? Here's the key quote from the post I was replying to: "Just show up, do the bare minimum to meet expectations , finish your 8 hour shift and go home and enjoy quality time with you
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by cwyers 7y ago
That's true if you don't need recommendations from the people you're working with to get your next job, if you don't want to get promotions (which help you get better jobs down the road!), and if you are content to spend
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by cwyers 7y ago
This is looking ahead to next quarter. Optimistic estimates of when things will open back up are looking like "May or June," so I don't think it's plausible to believe in a total recovery by the end of Q2. Well, a totall
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by cwyers 7y ago
Why do you want this, though? File syncing is a largely solved problem, and the difference between a "laptop-shaped thing that you can dock your phone with" and "a fully functional laptop" is like $20-$40, at least to be
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by cwyers 7y ago
And then you can have something that syncs that local cache between computers, and you have a complete solution.
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by cwyers 7y ago
I think what parent means is that Intel can do it to AMD over x86 chips and nVidia can do it over GPUs, where they have a lead in several market segments.
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by cwyers 7y ago
How else was it supposed to work in this case? The whole point of the story is that Clearview was bypassing Apple's review process by using a signing key meant for distributing an app _internally_ to distribute the app to third parties
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by cwyers 7y ago
Decent policies that apply in all situations and are robust against being exploited by bad actors are very, very hard to come by sometimes.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Exactly this. tptacek's article talks about issues like someone replying (with the messages quoted) in cleartext by mistake, or leaking their keys. In a messenger like Signal, there's no easy way to accidentally reply in cleartext
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by cwyers 7y ago
Your messages are only as secure as the least careful person you correspond with.
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by cwyers 7y ago
> 5. The abstract reports the study found significant associations between language scores and the ScreenQ, giving the impression that these are robust, whereas the main text notes that these associations are no longer significant when h
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by cwyers 7y ago
I don't really like the premise of the article. It seems to revolve around "how Wikipedia remains so information-rich and useful when the rest of the internet (in his view) is filled with divisive, corrosive misinformation."
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by cwyers 7y ago
I don't think he's saying that the industry should stagnate. He's saying it might be dangerous, you go first. Let someone who had more of a margin of error figure it out first.
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by cwyers 7y ago
...but he can function without it. He built a replacement.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Because these systems often end up as a single point of failure -- whoever is the custodian of them is the gatekeeper to the information, and when they leave, you can be boned.
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by cwyers 7y ago
The distributor charged very little because they were film reels that were returned to the distributor after the film's opening few weekends, as movies left theaters to make room for new movies. So all the money made on those reels was
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by cwyers 7y ago
I believe that R was originally an implementation of S in Scheme, because of the restrictive commercial licensing of S and the desire to have a free-as-in-beer alternative that was S-compatible. This comes through in things like R's me
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by cwyers 7y ago
Yes, some things succeed. Most things don't succeed. If you bet on failure 100% of the time, you'll have your misses, but you'll hit more than you miss.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Because OpenBSD has decided they won't accept it. At this point, OpenBSD has decided that two very popular open source licenses (GPLv3 and Apache 2) are unacceptable to them. That has walled them off from a lot of open source software.
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by cwyers 7y ago
BigCorp vs startup leaves out a whole lot of mature small- and midsize-businesses. People working for SMBs have a lot of reasons for doing so. Some people want to find 9 to 5 jobs where, when they're done for the day, they can shut off
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by cwyers 7y ago
Not everyone finds BigCorp problems to be the interesting problems. Not everyone wants to live in the Bay Area. There's a lot of jobs in the world that aren't at FAANG, and it's okay if the right job for someone is at a place
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by cwyers 7y ago
That is not how colonies work, no. The American colonies had to fight a war to be independent. Colonies are subservient jurisdictions.

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