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by cxr 1y ago
A cursory check reveals some answers: * the one you linked is a browser-based thin client; this one runs right on the user's machine * 100% less Docker and other devslop—drastically simpler deployment and development cycles
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There's a whole section on PhoneGap/Cordova, where, ignoring creation date, even most of the milestone years are outside the "the last decade" timeframe. It's a very strange decision, and leads to things like gjs o
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by cxr 1y ago
The post by Laurence Tratt, which this piece is a response to, argues for another approach and is mentioned in the first sentence.
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Again I gesture towards what we know as revealed preference. People like the idea of blogging. In practice, they don't like actually blogging. This is why we have: < https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19&#x
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Sometime after Minix 3 but before it had attained the critical mass for a self-sustaining community, compilation times went from 10 minutes on low-end hardware to ~3 hours, and the answer to the question "Why?" was "LLVM&#x2F
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by cxr 1y ago
Is there a good reason for one's Apple Notes to be turned into a "website"? (NB: there's something more meant here than notes-as-a-website, since that implies little more than than "your notes, but with URLs".
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I don't know why you're yes-anding the premise. For this sentence the authors of the study would have been rather more interested whether the subjects would look up the term "aits". Aside from that, there's actuall
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You're dug in, but none of this is what the linked paper is about (perversely). It's about students who are literally unable to parse sentence structure and grasp what's being described in a scene—ones who think that Michaelm
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The iTXt chunk can also be compressed < https://www.w3.org/TR/png/#10CompressionOtherUses >.
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Original discussion (794 comments) from 2021: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26827766 >
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> to me this feels like an alternative to the JavaScript industrial complex that ticks all the right boxes The goal is admirable, but the execution and implementation is, in a word, absurd. From the XMLUI website: > XMLUI provides th
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Try John Mark Ockerbloom's Online Books Page: < https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ > For the books that have been manually curated, multiple collections are indexed, including HathiTrust and the Internet Archiv
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What?
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> I've noticed that moving the goalposts is extremely prevalent on HN, which makes for pretty frustrating conversations (or just reading). And then sometimes it's a tag team[…] < https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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Firefox and Thunderbird provide a 20+ year old existence proof to the contrary.
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Ideas are worth communicating clearly. What does "DOM" mean here? You said XUL, but there was never XUL without the DOM.
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> this makes sense—technically both the offset of the Central Directory and the size of the Central Directory are redundant when you consider that the End of Central Directory Record should be, well, at the end of the Central Directory.
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It's true that the other comment is unrelated to the content of the article, but it's not true that the offset and size in the EOCD are redundant (for the reasons given in the earlier sibling comment).
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> technically there's no reason for the central directory to be right before the EOCD so seeking backwards from the EOCD by the size of CD is just incorrect Yes, and in fact APPNOTE.TXT expects implementations to deal with discontig
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Hidden interface controls that affect usability(interactions.acm.org)
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No.
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I refer you to the context of this discussion—how it is we got to be here: > How is one supposed to know this? Reading[…]?
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> I am an active speaker against people who hate reading the documentation. How is one supposed to know this?
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> Here's a dead simple question: Have you successfully used the app to do the thing that you're saying that it will do
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Look, there's no need to get upset. Take a breath. Calm down. > This is quite pertinent in this specific case, as well - you can ask the ML-counting thing to count the rectangles instead of the dots, and perhaps save yourself all
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> The post specifically says there's not a tool for counting red dots on an image Oh really? Is that what it says? Let's take a look: > All I wanted was a way to click on things in a photo and have the number go up. Thos
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You're moving the goalposts; the purpose would be reducing toil (and possibly other costs) for the people who are currently tasked with filling out these types of forms. There's nothing in the comment you're responding to tha
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This is yet another link to an app that doesn't do what the author of the post actually specified.
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Ignoring how Sun/Oracle's shenanigans with ZFS don't nearly account for "90% of their brand damage"... > simply updating CDDL to allow integrating ZFS with GPL That can't be done at this point. Owing to a d
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I don't know what function the word "still" is intended to perform in this sentence. I, too, copy and paste using the context menu—sometimes, i.e.: when it is most appropriate and/or convenient to do so. But the questio

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