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by cxr 10mo ago
Dupe: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153479 >
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Changes to Via, the Hypothesis proxy server for annotation(web.hypothes.is)
1 points by cxr 10mo ago|0 comments
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by cxr 10mo ago
You're moving the goalposts.
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by cxr 11mo ago
At only ~12 hours of recording per device, this wouldn't replace other forms of notetaking where you can afford the necessary interaction cost (e.g. taking out your phone). It reduces the number of times that you're unable to tak
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by cxr 11mo ago
The remarks in this comment can only come from a gross misunderstanding of what many people mean when they talk about avoiding use of their phones around their kids. Almost every sentence reveals a very me-focused outlook. > It isn&#x27
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by cxr 11mo ago
Yet another retort addressed directly in the post: > Raw audio playback: Very helpful if STT doesn’t work perfectly due to wind or loud background noises
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by cxr 11mo ago
Different people have different lives. I myself can't imagine the type of life where at any given moment during the day I'm in a position to "immediately pull out my phone" when I want to create a record of something.
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by cxr 11mo ago
MathML isn't new. It predates Windows 98 and the birth of a substantial part of HN's userbase.
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by cxr 11mo ago
Here in the Muggle world, there's no material I know of that can be used to produce a type of paper that supports moving images.
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by cxr 11mo ago
Aside from sites that used non-standard stuff like ActiveX or Java applets, the general answer is "yes". And to respond to your implied criticism: the stability/reliability/fidelity of PDFs is a myth. It would be hard t
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by cxr 11mo ago
Previously: < https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-hi... > < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12814590 >
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by cxr 11mo ago
> It's not impossible in literate programming. There's nothing about LP that impedes this, I do it all the time. I have a quick obvious implementation (perhaps a naive recursive solution) and throw it in to get things working.
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ActivityPub Fuzzer: Improving Testing in the Fediverse(asml.cyber.harvard.edu)
12 points by cxr 11mo ago|4 comments
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by cxr 11mo ago
"Write code top-down"[1] is to literate programming what "concentrate on writing readable code" is to code comments. (Having said that, I firmly hold the opinion that we should all be writing READMEs in HTML[2][3] (inste
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by cxr 11mo ago
> let's zoom on this issue root cause . It is the classical developer intolerance for tool that are not "as they wish/think", which is very common among technical people, but is a POV, I mean this "tool oriented
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by cxr 11mo ago
The donor's corneas were used for grafts for three others. The article states: > The three patients’ grafts were removed, and one tested positive for rabies, the doctors said. None of the three patients had symptoms of rabies, but
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by cxr 11mo ago
It would be nice if the Google PM(s) and engineers attached to this project were well-versed enough in searching the Web to be able to turn up the definition for the word "wiki". Instead, because these fucking dipshits couldn&#x2
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by cxr 11mo ago
> Chrome borrowed their webdev tools from Webkit, who borrowed them from KHTML. Neither KDE nor OS X ever shipped their built-in Web Inspector prior to the appearance of Firebug in 2006, and by that point WebKit and Safari were already i
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by cxr 11mo ago
Thanks, that's helpful. (I mistook the compiler as being one that deals with JSC bytecode, either as input or output.)
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by cxr 11mo ago
> Ruby code I wrote 10ish years ago is still going strong, for example a whole compiler < https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/tree/main/Source/JavaScript... > Neat. How is offlineasm used? (Wi
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by cxr 11mo ago
Neither one of those comments should have received replies. Just flag and move on.
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by cxr 11mo ago
Reminder that POP and IMAP are protocols, and nothing stops a code forge—or any other website—from exposing the internal messaging/notification system to users as a service on the standard IMAP ports; no one is ever required to set up
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by cxr 11mo ago
Sounds like there's going to be someone around who's bound to be the source of deep personality conflicts all right.
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by cxr 11mo ago
> No one has made a case that "main" is a bad name. Because this isn't a real case […] they know it is a good change, and they actively seek to keep the world worse It's a bad name and a bad change. I won't be
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by cxr 11mo ago
I sincerely hope you consider choosing "magic".
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by cxr 11mo ago
You keep trying to turn the other person's question into a different one that they didn't ask. That's the only unkind thing happening here.
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by cxr 11mo ago
> I’m not sure what sort of Come to Jesus they had to realize their giant pile of sins needed some redemption but they’re trying. If they were trying, they'd stop doubling down on sunk costs and instead publicly concede that lock fi
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by cxr 11mo ago
The word is "deprecation", and your understanding of what it means isn't how it has tended to work at all. The Web is not the Tizen SDK. This is a significant change to how browser vendors treat Web standards.
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by cxr 11mo ago
It's not. It would be an insidious way to misrepresent the positions actually held by real people instead of caricatures.
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by cxr 11mo ago
Who said "need"? He said "I want". You're moving the goalposts.

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