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by cxr 2y ago
Perversely, this submission is essentially blogspam. The article linked in the second paragraph, to which this "1 minute" read adds almost nothing of value, is the main story: < https://thelibre.news/foss-infras
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by cxr 2y ago
You're not really grokking either my comment or how the existing read-only mode actually works right now.
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by cxr 2y ago
Great work. Consider changing the behavior so that when the page is opened in the browser from the local disk, then it opens edit mode automatically, but when it's published to someone's website and accessed on the open web (check
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by cxr 2y ago
There's no such thing as a native language unless you're talking about machine code. It's kind of annoying how even someone like Hejlsberg is throwing around words like "native" in such an ambiguous, sloppy, and pro
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by cxr 2y ago
> "why aren't you using YOUR LANGUAGE, huh? What's the matter, you don't like YOUR LANGUAGE?" is pushy and weird It's also not what anyone said. > It's best not to use quotation marks to make it loo
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by cxr 2y ago
"Finish"?
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by cxr 2y ago
> It's not, though. The passkey itself is strictly a single factor. The passkey alone is not sufficient to log in. You must also provide a successful response to the WebAuthn challenge from an authenticator that has been registered
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by cxr 2y ago
> This is not a defensible statement based on my writing . The writing is all there is; the entire basis for the remarks is the obnoxiously cocky posts confidently published to the Coding Horror blog. (Or, I dunno, maybe things changed
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by cxr 2y ago
Do you have to read the entire restaurant menu before ordering?
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by cxr 2y ago
I'm genuinely baffled about how to even respond to this. That's your reply? That there's an even worse person who isn't in the slot?
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by cxr 2y ago
> ["2FA" stands for] Two factor authentication Great. Now go ahead and try to argue the indefensible position that relying on an authenticator to supply a passkey is somehow not a form of two-factor auth. > I'm not usi
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by cxr 2y ago
Those passkeys that you and GitHub are talking about require a separate authenticator to use. > no "forced 2FA workflow" What does "2FA" stand for? > it's easier than logging into HN You have your thumb on the
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by cxr 2y ago
Bad comparison. People who are critical of others' complaints about creating and/or logging in to a GitHub account like this aren't going through the trouble of creating a GitHub account in 2025 (as opposed to, say, 2015) an
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by cxr 2y ago
Is Jeff Atwood among the group of people who can speak with insight on how to "bridge our current divisiveness"? The whole reason he's a public figure is from his blog posts that include a bunch of deliberately placed attitu
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by cxr 2y ago
Canonical URL: < http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html >
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by cxr 2y ago
> An issue tracker, on the other hand, requires active engagement from the developer. Every issue, even low quality ones, require some form of processing Nope.
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by cxr 2y ago
At any given time when I'm at a restaurant or grocery store, there's more food around and on the menu than the threshold for how much food that I as a single person can eat.
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by cxr 2y ago
You're vastly overestimating how the norms of GitHub are able to account for how things have to be. Recognizing that GitHub's userbase has a certain type of problem is no different than realizing that HN, Reddit, Tumblr, etc. a
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by cxr 2y ago
> issues So GitHub created a mess, and the whole of open source is considered to be GitHub now. The solution is the same as being able to avoid tons of Windows-related headaches when you don't use Windows. Just don't use GitHu
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by cxr 2y ago
None of what you say here that is true moves the needle on what you say that isn't true. Programmers using underscore to denote identifiers for internal use was well -established and in use long before ActionScript even appeared. To
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by cxr 2y ago
Author is right in their dismissive attitude of Pyodide, but their WASM-ward gaze is probably misplaced, too. Once you're talking about acceptability in terms of being "Python-like enough", you should really be considering a
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by cxr 2y ago
Nobody gets "full access" to your "javascript object"—whatever that even means; pages from different origins will still run into exceptions when trying to diddle the opener. There is a small, well-known set of (safe) pr
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by cxr 2y ago
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/picture-in-pi... https://old.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/mr1k8m/just_discovere... https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by cxr 2y ago
> Where is the native HTML datagrid (that supports sorting, filtering, paging, downloading, row/column freezing, column resizing and re-ordering)? That's called <table>. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by cxr 2y ago
> he didn’t consider as the most important factor that the second time around he already knew how to do it How'd you get that idea? Being faster because of something you "already know how to do" is like half the point of
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by cxr 2y ago
More importantly, the link to the referenced article, properly marked up, since some quorum of nincompoops who hate the Web flagged the other comment destroying the link for any user/agent without showdead on (which will include every
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by cxr 2y ago
Ah, yeah, that's not uncommon. I was operating on an assumption, based on experience seeing language models make mistakes, that the two approaches would be within an acceptable range of each other for your texts, plus the idea that it
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by cxr 2y ago
> a 19th century book If you're dealing with public domain material, you can just upload to archive.org. They'll OCR the whole thing and make it available to you and everyone else. (If you got it from archive.org, check the
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by cxr 2y ago
Huh?
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by cxr 2y ago
> To really add longevity to software, I think it would be cool if it would also be possible to guarantee the _service_ part also remains available. In our set up we'll allow users to "eject" at any time by saving a .zip o

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