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by cxr 1y ago
How strange: - by one's own admission, doesn't know much about the matter (EDIT: correction, " didn’t know anything "), and yet - still feels confident enough to voice one's approval for a given information source p
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by cxr 1y ago
In contrast to Minix 3.0+, no version of QNX has ever been fully open. At its most permissive, it was made available (behind a form submission) under a look-but-don't-touch All Rights Reserved sourceware license.
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by cxr 1y ago
I don't know what "these aren't meant for direct user annotations in a general way" is supposed to mean. > [It] doesn't define any standardized mechanism for one user to add highlights and comments, and another
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by cxr 1y ago
What's an algorithm?
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by cxr 1y ago
< https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Reader%27s_Manifesto >
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by cxr 1y ago
> I'm first working on getting the basic groundwork out, like a pipeline that shows what you need to do to extract a scanned pdf in a quality that tesseract can actually get text out of. Sounds like TBL's contribution doesn&#x2
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by cxr 1y ago
> We need something better. I don't know what it would be. Choosing a long, very secure password for your account works really, really well. GitHub hates this, however, and nudges toward less secure practices that are more likely t
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by cxr 1y ago
So is there a need for it or isn't there? > That's different. Those are a data structure defining annotations that are meant to be stored externally. The protocol is a separate standard. The format is JSON-LD. Putting JSON-LD
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by cxr 1y ago
The W3C standardized HTML annotations years ago. There's a difference between a standard not existing versus people pretending it doesn't exist because it's not implemented by Chrome.
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by cxr 1y ago
> detect if the client is a browser User agents are like journalists: there's no such thing as pretending to be one. If someone writes their own client and says, "This is a browser", then it is one.
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by cxr 1y ago
What content has been invented?
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by cxr 1y ago
Whatever you're trying to say, you aren't.
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by cxr 1y ago
NPM does not require two-factor authentication. If two-factor authentication is enabled for your account and you wish to disable it, this explains how to do that if allowed by your organization: < https://docs.npmjs.com/c
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by cxr 1y ago
Wrong question; NPM isn't bedrock. The question to be answered if there is no difference is, "In that case, why bother with NPM?"
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by cxr 1y ago
If NPM really cared, they'd stop recommending people use their poorly designed version control system that relies on late-fetching third-party components required by the build step, and they'd advise people to pick a reliable and
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by cxr 1y ago
It's not possible for a language to have an insane dependency tree. That's an attribute of a codebase.
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by cxr 1y ago
How many books should a person read before being able to pick 15 to recommend, and how long do you think it should take to read them?
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by cxr 1y ago
I'm referring to the semicolon insertion described in the README as, "When a newline is seen after the following token kind, a semicolon is inserted". > Procedures don't even return things Oberon allows return values
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by cxr 1y ago
Trying to eliminate semicolons by doing JS-style ASI is gross and complicates things unnecessarily. You can trivially change the parser/grammar so that the semicolons in import, var, procedure, etc. declarations just aren't requi
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by cxr 1y ago
Oberon doesn't have string methods (and people who opt not to parenthesize for cases like that deserve the punishment).
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by cxr 1y ago
Yes. Questions like, "Should I work to 'do little things' intended to put a given coworker 'on an upward spiral'?" versus, "Should I insulate myself from or minimize blowback where any action is going to
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by cxr 1y ago
It's possible to make (via polyglot JS/HTML files[1]) apps that offer both a command-line interface that can be invoked with NodeJS (or other JS-ish runtime) or can be opened in the browser (via double-click, the browser's Fi
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by cxr 1y ago
> The more you do this for other people, the more they will be glad to see you. That's not a given. That's the rational response on their end, but not only is no one perfectly rational, but some people are very, very irrationa
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by cxr 1y ago
This attack was enabled by the normalization of orgs' aggressive 2FA postures.
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by cxr 1y ago
> The title is provocative and attention grabbing. -- It's completely fair game to react to the provocation rather than the substance No it isn't.
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by cxr 1y ago
> It’s saying that you can use Bear for your own blog Where does it say that?
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by cxr 1y ago
This is a confusing claim. Are you saying the chosen license (< https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/blob/998e87263248... >) makes the software free to use to offer (e.g. gratis) "hosted or
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by cxr 1y ago
To underscore the point here: the FSF 1) hasn't/doesn't publish a free software definition that describes copyleft as a precondition to free software 2) hasn't/doesn't claim in any of their non-normative commen
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by cxr 1y ago
> It feels mostly in the spirit of FOSS to me From the license at < https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/blob/998e87263248... >: " You may not provide the Software as a hosted or managed ser
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by cxr 1y ago
Remarkable sells hardware reading devices. Web browsers, just like offline PDF and EPUB viewers, are a form of reader software. There really isn't any mismatch here; why does it seem odd for someone to (want to) be able to address and

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