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by cxr 5mo ago
You don't need to put it on the Web to be able to leverage the World Wide Wruntime. Epiq looks to be written in TypeScript and distributed as JS via NPM. You know what excels at executing JS? The browser. If you want to actually addr
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by cxr 5mo ago
> DigitalOcean App platform[…] only connect to GitHub They also support deployments from GitLab (so long as you're using the gitlab.com-hosted instance and not a self-hosted GitLab instance). If you've deployed your own self-h
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by cxr 5mo ago
This post highlights but never explicitly addresses the current language trend that involves the corruption of the word "agent" to imply ChatGPT- and Anthropic-era AI. It also speculates on the practices at Microsoft in its opaque
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by cxr 5mo ago
ECMA-262 doesn't require the use of NPM or NodeJS. (In fact, they are at odds, even 10+ years after modules were standardized in ES6.)
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by cxr 5mo ago
> PS: Really cool static site generators that shoot for simplicity don't require you to create extra template files written in a new, made-up template language. When you want to create a new post, you give it (a) the static files
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A new suite of modern tools coming for editing and publishing RFCs(ietf.org)
2 points by cxr 5mo ago|0 comments
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by cxr 5mo ago
> That breaks if the library uses build scripts Uh… no. > setting up native binaries, or native modules linked against the specific Node version So the majority of projects—those that don't use binary NodeJS modules—don't ha
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by cxr 5mo ago
> In this case what’s needed is „npm ci“ instead of „npm install“ or better „pnpm install —frozen-lockfile“. The grugbrain developer says, "I can use git-add to keep a version controlled copy of the library in my app's source t
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by cxr 5mo ago
(2005) < https://github.com/w3c/feedvalidator/commit/8ca2fd4e5a520158... >
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Don't fly if you can help it(michaelbluejay.com)
4 points by cxr 5mo ago|2 comments
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by cxr 5mo ago
Since this is largely/almost entirely for private data with occasional publicly accessible content through share links, this is a good candidate to be rebased onto remoteStorage, which gives you auth and storage for free, and there&#x2
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by cxr 5mo ago
> Wasn't this specifically some lame-ass attempt to combat some click fraud or something these extensions were doing? No. That you believed that was just an unfortunate consequence of HN's kneejerk tendency to upvote middlebro
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by cxr 5mo ago
> Lets say on the low side for their specific use case they spend ~10 hours. That’s $1k of their time Only if there is perfectly elastic demand for their time at the given rate. It's often the case that for people putting in a typi
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by cxr 5mo ago
> Atproto was designed for social media, in an age of Twitter users getting their news in seconds, to the point of being able to comment on live events play-by-play. And this is widely recognized by now to have been a very bad thing, eve
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by cxr 5mo ago
> Atproto isn’t “many servers sending messages to each other”. It’s structured more like RSS Except that, crucially, RSS/Atom plays well with static nodes (e.g. personal websites generated with Jekyll/Hugo/whatever—or even
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by cxr 6mo ago
Itch.io allows for browser-based app distribution and is probably a better path to a large audience—especially those interested in the two examples you listed—than a custom domain is. It's not well-known, but Itch's offline Steam
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by cxr 6mo ago
> This paper has presented a study of a system that provides code generation and continuous code optimization as a central system service […] > Our results have shown that–because of the profiling feedback loop–object code produced
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by cxr 6mo ago
> One may believe whatever they like Indeed.
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by cxr 6mo ago
This comment started out strong, but then: > Pascal compilers have traditionally been written in Pascal, hardly a language which conjures up a "low level" image. It may be the case that it doesn't conjure up such an image,
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by cxr 6mo ago
You're not engaging with the premise. There is no problem involving a wiki that is full of junk and that locking it down is a way to solve that. The concern is that it would be filled with junk if flipped from closed to open.
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by cxr 6mo ago
Your distinction between stated concerns and underlying concerns is a red herring. If their underlying concern is "our wiki will be full of inaccurate info because the wiki is open", and if that's empirically shown that openi
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by cxr 6mo ago
> Those sound like proposed solutions Yes. > not the underlying concerns The stated concern embedded in the first example is "anyone would be able to edit the wiki". > Motivating concerns here might be things like "o
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by cxr 6mo ago
That you have to lock down the ability to edit the docs in your project wiki because otherwise anyone would be able to edit the wiki. That we have to lock down installation of unsigned extensions in Firefox on Linux because spyware/nag
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by cxr 6mo ago
Now on the front page (different submission): < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872324 >
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by cxr 6mo ago
> Most people think Oh yeah? Have you done a study on this?
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by cxr 6mo ago
> I could point out many many flaws in Pascal, C and Zig Yes. They're flawed. Everyone knows, but great detective work. > Rust's compile time is actually fairly reasonable these days. Certainly not fast, but[…] That's
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by cxr 6mo ago
It's all over the article, culminating ultimately in the passage at the bottom, but that's beside the point: what evidence did you have that it was purely a "gotcha" post? Surely if you're allowed to take that (il)
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by cxr 6mo ago
Premise: > "Oberon is an operating system" < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762184 > Claim #1: > this is not correct < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763595 > Cla
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by cxr 6mo ago
> It really isn't up to me. If enough developers find this to be an important issue then the first step would be to[…] That's not what I asked. In one breath, you've said they need to take up that effort. In the next bre
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by cxr 6mo ago
> This development work is already completed. You're prevaricating. Earlier: > they need to replace the RFC I linked to with one that explicitly says what to do or not do Do they need to work on getting the RFC to be more explic

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