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by cxr 1y ago
> Alright, you're extremely rude In contrast to poisoning the discussion with subtle conversational antimatter while wearing a veneer of amiability. My comments in this thread are not insidiously off-topic non-replies presented as
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by cxr 1y ago
That's a bingo.
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by cxr 1y ago
We do not appear to have a shared understanding of the problem to be solved. This is because you have redefined the problem—partly as a way of allowing you to avoid addressing it, and partly to allow you to speak of lockfiles as a solution
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by cxr 1y ago
I'm not altogether surprised at the negative reaction to this comment, but I am at a loss to really get into the head of the reader who is so unhappy with it. Let's give it another shot: You wrote—alluding to, but without actuall
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by cxr 1y ago
> especially since I didn't even ask a question Oh, that's the operative part? Accept my apologies. What I meant to say is, "I can see that you're deeply, deeply concerned about being able to continue beating your w
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by cxr 1y ago
Point to the part of your comment that has any-fucking-thing to do with the topic at hand (i.e. engages with the actual substance of the comment that it's posted as a reply to). Your comment starts with "Yes but", as if it t
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by cxr 1y ago
Do you still beat your wife? < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_you_still_beat_your_wife? >
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by cxr 1y ago
> As with most things on the web, the answer is "They will if it breaks a website that a critical mass of users care about." This is a (poor) attempt at gaslighting/retconning. The phrase "Don't break the Web&quo
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by cxr 1y ago
Your response is like seeing the cops going to the wrong house to kick in your neighbors door, breaking their ornaments in their entry way, and then saying to yourself, "Good. I hate yellow, and would never have any of that tacky shit
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by cxr 1y ago
Where's the best collection or entry point to what you've written about Chrome's use of Gnome's XML libraries, the maintenance burden, and the dearth of offers by browser makers foot the bill?
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by cxr 1y ago
> When that solution isn't wanted, the polyfill offers another path. A solution is only a solution if it solves the problem. This sort of thing, basically a "reverse X/Y problem", is an intellectually dishonest maneuv
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> They all agreed to remove it. All those people suck, too. Were you counting on a different response? > XSLT is extremely unpopular and worse than JS in every way This isn't a quorum of folks torpedoing a proposed standard. Thi
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by cxr 1y ago
I'm not involved in any capacity with the development or use of Jupyter—I think ipynb is fundamentally flawed at a deep level, starting with its (I)Python roots—but this company's framing of their product as "the successor to
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by cxr 1y ago
I was going to bring up the same claim—of it being a "Letter, from Robert Hooke to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz". It's clearly not written with that intent. While reading, I first took it to be a journal entry. The penmanship
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by cxr 1y ago
Do you understand the reasons, and are you able to clearly articulate them? Are you able to describe the tangible benefits in the form of a set of falsifiable claims—without resorting to hand-waving or appeals to the perceived status quo o
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by cxr 1y ago
28, not 20.
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by cxr 1y ago
Oh, okay.
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by cxr 1y ago
What is "this"?
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by cxr 1y ago
No. I am literally describing bog standard use of an ordinary VCS/SCM where the code for e.g. Skia, sqlite, libpng, etc. is placed in a "third-party/" subdirectory. Except I'm deliberately using the words "ad
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by cxr 1y ago
Imagine if we had a system where you could just deposit the source code for a program you work on into a "depository". You could set it up so your team could "admit" the changes that have your approval, but it doesn&#x2
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by cxr 1y ago
This post contains some interesting ideas and poses (or at least suggestively alludes to) a few thought-provoking questions but is weakened by spending too much of its word (and the author's thinking) budget on tangents about LLMs. Sid
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by cxr 1y ago
outerHTML is an attribute of Element and DocumentFragment is not an Element. Where do the standards say it ought to work?
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by cxr 1y ago
There is a better option, but generally the answer is "no"; the best solution would be for WHATWG to define document.compatMode to be writable property instead of readonly. The better option is to create and hold a reference to th
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by cxr 1y ago
Huh? Hal and Dave work together. Hal is going home at 6:00 PM, but before it's time to leave, Dave tells Hal to go ahead and start working on some new feature. At 5:50 PM, Hal hits Cmd+Q, saving whatever unfinished work there is and
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by cxr 1y ago
What you're describing isn't any different from a branch of commits between two people practicing a form of continuous integration where they commit whatever they have (whether it breaks the build or not, or is buggy, etc.), cappe
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by cxr 1y ago
> I think you are missing the point of legal vs societal obligations and your analogy is equally bad There are a lot of paragraphs in this thread laying the groundwork for this subtle strawman, but neither you nor DannyBee are addressing
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by cxr 1y ago
You are not representing the facts of the Diebold case accurately or the court's findings. None of the defenses you're citing here would hold water in court. (We're not in court here, and there's nothing more to say, so
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by cxr 1y ago
In the US, the fact that a given copy is/was available at no-charge is not concomitant with the right to produce and distribute unlimited copies on one's own. Those remain the exclusive rights of the copyright holder.
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by cxr 1y ago
> It's well known that javascript is at least an order of magnitude slower than C If your base is base-2, yes. (It is well-understood that when you don't have your thumb on the scale—e.g. selecting, whether deliberately or car
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by cxr 1y ago
A couple things: 1. I watched the video prior to posting. 2. Did you verify them?

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