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by cxr 2y ago
> Websites[...] can sneakily copy the files you are working with You have made one of the most baffling logical errors that commonly crop up when people criticize browser-based apps. Browser-based apps execute in a sandbox. They are mo
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by cxr 2y ago
Grit only gets you so far, and higher-than-normal levels of grit can be a real problem. Grit will counteract squeakiness (as in "the squeaky wheel gets the grease"), which is not what you want when the sources of most of the prob
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by cxr 2y ago
> What good is a $2/mo cloud instance if it's down multiple times a month? The perverse irony is that the most common reason cited by cloud providers for not letting people set a hard cap on charges is an insistence that surely
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by cxr 2y ago
Bugzilla is the software the powers bugzilla.mozilla.org.
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by cxr 2y ago
> Alexa, Siri, Ok Google Complex digital assistants aiming to be do-everything secretaries are not what I had in mind when I said "simple algorithmic approaches". That aside, which of those were attempts to improve input to a c
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by cxr 2y ago
> see if there's an existing bugzilla for it Bugzilla is a bug-tracking platform.
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by cxr 2y ago
It's funny that we're getting so much attention funneled towards the thought-to-machine I/O problem now that LLMs are on the scene. If the improvements are beneficial now, then surely they were beneficial before. Prior to LLM
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by cxr 2y ago
> inconsistent enforcement of its policies (which can be pretty blatant around WP:CIVIL One of the most interesting phenomena I've come across is the way that the Assume Good Faith guideline is abused. In all the instances where I&
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by cxr 2y ago
What can it do? The only thing that prevents that is the programmer knowing what kinds of inputs they're dealing with and making sure unsafe input is properly escaped into safe input when the context calls for escaped input. There&#x
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by cxr 2y ago
The post is a lot more about Java-the-language and has very little to do with the JVM.
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by cxr 2y ago
The author of the piece here has something to say about that, too: write code top-down. > There are two ways to architect a program and write code: top-down and bottom-up. ¶ […] The correct way to architect and write a program is top-d
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by cxr 2y ago
You're talking about what's wrong with the NPM ecosystem, not JS. Previously: You wouldn't conflate Windows development with "C" (and completely discount UNIX along the way) just because of Win32. < https:&#x2F
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by cxr 2y ago
> it's nearly impossible to run/update an outdated JS project You corrected yourself, but it's worth emphasizing here: a _NodeJS_ project, you mean. Unless you're using non-standard APIs, stuff written to run in the b
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by cxr 2y ago
Or, instead of responding to sunk costs by getting sunk deeper into the muck, just cut your losses, ditch Node and its proprietary/non-standard APIs and unstable featureset, and use a standard runtime. The author of the blog post is tr
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by cxr 2y ago
What do you expect to see getting worked on? Has something been added to the way HTML5 is supposed to be parsed in the last 7 months that this project doesn't handle but should be able to? Do you have a test case?
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by cxr 2y ago
Really weird closing remarks at the end. The bigness of VSCode is because of the HTML- and CSS-related stuff, not the JS part, which relatively speaking can be tiny (especially if you're willing to stick with ES6 or thereabouts). C
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by cxr 2y ago
You're not sorry. You're just insincere. This isn't Harry Potter. Text doesn't change. New revisions are issued, but the text changes no more in those instance than it does when a publisher releases an update to a print
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by cxr 2y ago
That doesn't change anything wrt what the parent commenter said. Imagine— Officer: The reason why I pulled you over is that you were doing 45, but this is a 25 mph school zone right now, and even aside from that the posted speed when t
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by cxr 2y ago
Thanks, that's a much better article (and published on a site that, while slightly annoying on its own, is infested with fewer rudely intrusive and resource-consuming ads). Reading both, it's clear that (a) you are correct, and (b
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by cxr 2y ago
> Changing taxes (in either direction) really wouldn't move the needle at all. Mmm... if you introduced higher taxes for anyone who owns multiple houses and has rental income for one or more of those homes and you eliminated from th
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by cxr 2y ago
The general purpose solution is for the browsers themselves to implement the equivalent of virtualization and table sorting features and for authors and publishers to stay out of it and stick to sending the right bytes, making sure everythi
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by cxr 2y ago
> Unfortunately 4.3.6 does not have MUST/MAY wording so we don't really know if this reading was intended by the authors It's not explicit from the APPNOTE, but that's not the same as saying "we don't really
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by cxr 2y ago
The article says that WinRAR "displays both ZIP structures", so, no, it doesn't do it right. Of the three, only Windows Explorer is close to the correct behavior (showing the contents of the ZIP that was appended closest to
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by cxr 2y ago
> Why are you comparing renaming a file inside a directory picked or created by the user to robbers picking a pocket? I didn't. Bye.
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by cxr 2y ago
Nothing I just said is limited to the narrow use case of dealing with single files. If you want improvements for multiple files, then congratulations, you can have that, too! > I want permission to [...] move/rename files [...] Any
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by cxr 2y ago
Geez, you fucking people... An API is not by definition fine-grained control over UI/UX. Browser makers can implement the new file system API with better UX than what they have now. They can also do that with the existing file APIs;
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by cxr 2y ago
Browsers have existing file APIs that programmers could use but don't. To reiterate a comment from the last time this came up: > You could literally run the Golang compiler in your browser if you wanted to[...] A lot of the stuff
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Typesetting and printing a family memoir (2017)(teamten.com)
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by cxr 2y ago
> i dont perceive it as efficient to force codebase contributors to relearn their ingrained language syntax That's why it's important that the transformation be reversible and what the gofmt-like code formatters are for.
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by cxr 2y ago
Someone really ought to do an alternative "skin" for Objective-C. That is, define some reversible transformation that can be applied to any Objective-C program that only changes the surface-level details but otherwise results in

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