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by cxr 2y ago
Tyler Cowen recently interviewed a historian (Alan Taylor), and they approached this subject near the end of the episode—how much the job of a historian still involves browsing undigitized material sitting on a shelf in a cold room somewher
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by cxr 2y ago
> exponentially more No. The word means something. It's bad enough when it gets misused colloquially e.g. by folks on Twitter and clueless podcasters trying to spice up their talking points, but in a thread like this one, it has no
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by cxr 2y ago
This, like most articles dealing with "JS", is really more about the things you'll find yourself futzing around with when you're in the NodeJS and NPM ecosystem. You wouldn't conflate Windows development with "
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by cxr 2y ago
Often their own data is wrong.
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by cxr 2y ago
Oh, cool, another HN-forged strawman!
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by cxr 2y ago
> We’re looking for developers with or without experience in Rust. You just need to be interested in browser technologies. Well, both that and the ability to work on a project that requires you to run a toolchain whose minimum barrier
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by cxr 2y ago
When someone no longer enjoys the food in a restaurant, they tend to stop going. Why not do the same: just not do the thing that you wish not to do?
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by cxr 2y ago
Just change your README to README.html, and put your build script there.
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by cxr 2y ago
Some other food for thought: there's an oddity with the way that we approach binary optimization in that we care about it a whole lot, but a program will never be optimized further than whatever optimizations were in place when the bin
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by cxr 2y ago
> It would be an interesting exercise to make a prototype distribution that does not rely on shared objects, but has everything packed in AppImages. Frankly, I don't think people are ambitious enough—whether it be the author of this
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by cxr 2y ago
> Believing you deserve it (over, say, a family with kids who truly do need the space and privacy) k. So you're not against strawmanning. > And it’s not like it was a barely tolerable existence — I wouldn’t trade my five years li
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by cxr 2y ago
> the entitlement over not being able to afford a private, one-bedroom apartment in a fantastically-popular city center is just absolutely mind-blowing I used to think this way—that is, just like you—in my 20s. From my experience growin
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Vanishing Culture: Keeping the Receipts(blog.archive.org)
5 points by cxr 2y ago|0 comments
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by cxr 2y ago
And then you have someone like the founder of Fly.io who has been explicit about that mindset at least once: > putting work into features specifically to minimize how much people spend seems like a good way to fail a company
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by cxr 2y ago
> but requires markdown files and a bit of Git to deploy Why does it require those things? There's nothing inherent to static sites that demands either. There's also nothing inherent to either static sites or WordPress that k
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by cxr 2y ago
> The entire point of Function.length (slight nit: Function.prototype.length is different and is always zero) If you want to go that route, it's not Function.length, either—which is different and is always 1 (barring potential futur
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by cxr 2y ago
Zune HD was released in 2009.
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by cxr 2y ago
Which is exactly what shouldn't happen. Every serious proposal/RFC needs to have an honest stab at what the competition looks like and why it won't work there. > I often see people believe in their solution and think the
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by cxr 2y ago
For someone who opened their post with a first sentence like that, you're making a lot of (bad) assumptions on your end; most of your questions are unanswerable or have answers that you are clearly expecting to go the other way. Demand
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by cxr 2y ago
> The 9GB limit was not just the Rust stuff, that was for the entire docker environment with compiler, JRE, node, wasm toolkit, typescript, webpack etc. None of this is surprising or exculpatory. Demanding >9GB of disk space to build
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by cxr 2y ago
Everything described here sounds like your team, your extension, and your software development process are the problem. Demanding >9GB of disk space to build a browser extension is capital F, capital I Fucking Insane. Go yell at the Ru
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Critical social infrastructure for Zig communities(kristoff.it)
16 points by cxr 2y ago|4 comments
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by cxr 2y ago
That would compete with Pocket (Mozilla's proprietary, commercial bookmarking service). So there's little chance of that happening. See also: < https://wiki.mozilla.org/Permafrost >
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by cxr 2y ago
Firefox's bookmarks manager exports tags just fine (whether to JSON or the bookmarks.html format). WebExtension APIs are a completely separate issue.
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by cxr 2y ago
Some people are against that, even if only for purely pragmatic (as opposed to moral) reasons. This is another one of those "People who've never really known [otherwise] tend to make a lot of assumptions they're not equipped
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by cxr 2y ago
> Kay’s ideas are definitely interesting, but they can feel pretty vague. I agree on the whole, but I think he followed through this time. He gave pretty a set of cogent examples that doesn't leave the whole thing coming across as
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by cxr 2y ago
This is also why the "computer science" label (until now) never really made sense for traditional programming; you start from an intention to reach a goal, and contrive a system that can achieve it, generally understanding the mea
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by cxr 2y ago
I don't think that's true, let alone self-evident. In any case, a life spent solving crossword puzzles would almost certainly deliver more positive net effects to the "player" (and society at large) than a person spendin
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by cxr 2y ago
This would be a great comment without the fake quotes.
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by cxr 2y ago
This has been done a lot. Marc Andreessen was going to put it in Mosaic. Hypothes.is is the most semi-well-implemented modern incarnation I am aware of. Recently, I came across this paper which describes an implementation called "Web

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