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by cxr 2y ago
I highly recommend the Steve Naroff interview. It's 6 hours in two parts, but it's worth the investment. Not listed here, but also available, is the oral history of Brad Cox and the later Objective-C paper authored by Naroff, Cox
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by cxr 2y ago
Let's go back to the word "algorithm" being used for what it actually means, instead of the opposite—like the way it's used here and in every article about social media written in the last 7 years.
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by cxr 2y ago
The DOI equivalent for audio and video is also DOI. Good luck getting the industry to use them.
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by cxr 2y ago
Traditionally, the answer would be "Use PURLs". The Internet Archive happens to operate the purl.org resolver. Unfortunately, with the recent attack, the purl.org resolver went offline and remains so. All the purl data is stil
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by cxr 2y ago
> You mean all the other OS's reverse engineering Cocoa? I mean the mainstream toolkits and their vendors all providing a Cocoa-shaped API that solves the problem described in the article and solved in a way that is relevant to the
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by cxr 2y ago
The author complains about Electron, but even setting aside programmers who choose it only because NPM is all they know, there are legitimate grievances to be had about desktop vendors' lack of coalescing around a common set of APIs. A
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by cxr 2y ago
> I think Biden's decision to run for a second term was what sunk them You think ? > Democrats had to Oh? Oh— They had to. > the only viable alternative K.
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by cxr 2y ago
Here's one: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31065392 >
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by cxr 2y ago
Your diagnosis is off. So many of the good workers got poached by Facebook and all the other companies that HNers dream of working for. Not all of them ever even worked for Mozilla Foundation or its subsidiaries—some simply got reassigned
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by cxr 2y ago
This presupposes that decisions made by the collective would be better than the direction the execs have given. They won't. It will be just as ineffectual as the Mozilla we've known for the last 10 years.
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by cxr 2y ago
> Finding viable "hyperparameters" for a photo tool makes training an LLM look like a tutorial. There's generally an unstated (and occasionally explicit, as in this case) reverence from software people for the kind of myth
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by cxr 2y ago
Aslan is such a dishonest broker that it would be difficult to take a recommendation seriously even if without so many anti-endorsements from historians: > "Aslan's grandiose claims and his limited credentials in history is gla
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by cxr 2y ago
I've noticed this happens a lot in this field. If you read Bart Ehrman's books, you'll get the same sense of repetitiveness, and then if you you read the blogs from folks who are from the same sphere, the effect is bad there
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by cxr 2y ago
They aren't assuming that, and it's weird that you would claim they are. Where do you get this? Those in the field of textual criticism are well aware of the existence of "variant texts"—those "textual witnesses&q
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by cxr 2y ago
> The CLA doesn’t protect against it either, but apparently some companies think it is at least a useful additional legal barrier. IANAL and so not qualified to comment on whether such CLA is actually useful I'm not a lawyer, either
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by cxr 2y ago
You're talking about browser-based Web apps. I'm talking about Electron desktop apps and NPM-based programs. And I'm not calling out "bundlers". You said that. I mentioned Babel and Webpack in the context of soft
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by cxr 2y ago
It's a stupid synthesis, though, just like the one from the article: > The repository is MIT-licensed, and clearly advertised as such, so it’s reasonable to expect all contributions are made under that license You don't have to
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by cxr 2y ago
> if most devs (especially web devs and/or javascript people) knew about Gnome's excellent javascript support [...] Blame the Gnome community. They revolted when key players announced a strategy/campaign to put resources
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Notes for an annotation SDK (2021)(blog.jonudell.net)
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by cxr 2y ago
> Kids entire social lives run on their phones. So on the matter of re-opening schools, there was no need for it that was related to their social well-being?
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by cxr 2y ago
The January 1977 issue: < https://www.digibarn.com/collections/mags/byte-covers/BYTE-1... >
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by cxr 2y ago
Most people aren't (or at least feel they aren't) able to take a hardline stance about only using free software, but if there's one area of your digital life you should be able to apply it to, it's browser extensions.
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by cxr 2y ago
You're talking about millions of dollars of engineering resources to implement what not only doesn't matter, but is probably actually harmful in comparison to the status quo (however ugly that is). And that's just on the imp
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by cxr 2y ago
> Hemingway drunk himself to dealth "Drunk up 'til his death", maybe.
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by cxr 2y ago
< https://www.w3.org/annotation/ >
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by cxr 2y ago
There's no such thing as "text changes". Only publishers lying about URLs and response bodies. This should stop.
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by cxr 2y ago
The last time anyone did a serious published review of the App Store terms for GPL compatibility was probably 10+ years ago. I remember pre-COVID trying to validate the popular claim that the App Store terms were incompatible with GPLv3 but
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by cxr 2y ago
There's such a weird tone to your posts. It's as if they're meant to give the impression that Kahle had a substantial, if not singlehanded, influence over the outcome. In reality, his input probably didn't have even th
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by cxr 2y ago
Valid take—your sense is that its adjacency to notoriety leads to people imbuing it with quality that they wouldn't if they were actually responding to quality and if it were J Random in the byline instead. It's the same thing tha
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by cxr 2y ago
Too late. You have already been scooped by, of course, tumblr: < https://woodsfae.tumblr.com/post/764918993659330560/gibbet-h... >

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