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by cxr 3y ago
> Define Git for me I'll pass. > Git [...] manages diffs (or rather refs of diffs) Wrong. > why on earth is it an algebra about publishing? It's not. I said operations on a repo comprise an algebra of publishing. As for
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by cxr 3y ago
That doesn't make sense. CSP is opt-in.
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by cxr 3y ago
Is there a reason why between what I originally wrote and what you wrote here, you changed enough of the words that it no longer matches what I actually said? > It's not about managing a library of any kind, it's about a tree o
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by cxr 3y ago
Your argument for why librarians (sic) aren't equipped to understand and provide instruction on the theory of content tracking is a well-known example of subpar documentation written by a programmer?
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by cxr 3y ago
Oh boy. I'll take "Motivated Reasoning" for 50¢, Ken.
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by cxr 3y ago
Sorry, I'm not steeped in that world (unlike some of the more presumptuous and clearly self-serving comments surrounding yours have evidently assumed), and I don't know of any; my background is a programmer with a formal education
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by cxr 3y ago
Unfortunately, someone would have to write it first. (Why not you?) My reasoning is in the next sentence: «Incredibly user-hostile and worse, effectively irreversible—there's basically no going back now because browsers don't hav
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by cxr 3y ago
To be clear: I wasn't saying that restricted cross-origin access to style rules was a consequence of CSP; I was likening the effects of document.styleSheets restrictions to the effects of CSP restrictions. (It happens that CSP has oth
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by cxr 3y ago
Git branches are about as real as the most significant bit in an IEEE 754 double's significand. > modern version control systems are a user interface to their underlying mathematics Widespread (mis)understanding of Git is a direct r
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by cxr 3y ago
> When the stylesheets are not accessible by document.styleSheets API (e.g. on a third party domain, what!?) I agree with the !? sentiment. An even bigger WTF, though, is that the server gets to control through CSP which off-site style
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by cxr 3y ago
There's the Open Library < https://openlibrary.org > (a project of the Internet Archive) and OCLC WorldCat.
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by cxr 3y ago
> I dreamed of writing a native app[...] but ran into issues building the UI. Plus, whatever I built would only work on macOS. I started writing Citadel using Tauri[...] to have a cross-platform desktop app. Have you looked at Zotero?
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by cxr 3y ago
> contemporary web browsers are unlikely to be fully rewritten in any other language Right. > it is an unreasonably high bar It's not an unreasonable standard. We're talking about replacement. If isn't replacing C++ f
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by cxr 3y ago
I wouldn't consider a C++ (or C) replacement PLₓ successful until the people working on big compiler toolchains—many of whom are committed alternative programming language advocates themselves (consider the origins of e.g. Swift and LL
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by cxr 3y ago
Most people don't know what they're missing. None of the pages linked (in either the submission itself or the comments here) or other comments actually show any of these graphical features in use. This is a problem that extends
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by cxr 3y ago
There are zero examples named in your comment, and your TLDR ("hooking into the running process and changing the variable") has no relevance to either the question you're ostensibly responding to ("Can you point to examp
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by cxr 3y ago
I think the cultism comes from uttering, "I'm fine with these tradeoffs", without realizing that making excuses on these grounds fundamentally rejects the existence of those outside the cult. It's fine for you. Okay. W
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by cxr 3y ago
Related: NYT sues OpenAI, Microsoft over 'millions of articles' used to train ChatGPT. 2023 December 27. < https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/27/the_new_york_times_fi... > Discussion on HN (86
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< https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_presupposition > < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question >
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by cxr 3y ago
It's possible that you misunderstood and/or are oversimplifying. Failing that, you should be surprised—anyone saying something like that really ought not be in a position where someone looks to them for counsel. This has been li
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Whether you're storing your own copy of a given dependency and whether you've done code review for it are orthogonal concepts. (You can check it in and perform the same amount of review that people do when deferring to `npm insta
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by cxr 3y ago
> Keep a node_modules/packagefiles with all the .zips that you commit to your source control. The expanded files can be kept out as they are now recoverable just using zip! What problem does this solve?
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by cxr 3y ago
I haven't read SICP in its entirety, but that sounds wrong. SICP is explicitly for an intro to programming course, and it's written in a way that's approachable for first-time programmers from what I remember.
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The title should not have been altered. Web WorldWind, linked here, is the JS SDK and a subset of the greater WorldWind project. Also not to be confused with Microsoft and .NET Foundation's WorldWide Telescope. < https://
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It's available under the ISC-style Project Oberon license. < http://www.projectoberon.net/wirth/ProjectOberon/license.txt >
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by cxr 3y ago
This is a hardcore CS book. It's not for beginners. It's not even really a good fit for an American-style CS undergrad course on operating systems. That's before getting into all the errata for the places where what was wri
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by cxr 3y ago
I know it's five hours later and this question has already spawned dozens of responses, but it's worth thinking and speaking clearly if we're trying to arrive at a solution for something. We can start by saying exactly what
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Here's what you're not getting: nobody asked about that. You cannot say to someone who doesn't like hot dogs, e.g., "What makes hot dogs gross?" and then when someone explains why, respond, "I disagree."
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At this point, you're just propping up and tearing down straw men—including your remarks about whether or not italics make an argument "more ironclad": nobody said it did. The italics are a response to your insistence in not
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by cxr 3y ago
> Of course, you see "a diff", not "the diff", because there is no "the diff" 10–15 years ago when I cared about this sort of thing and I was unhappy with the way that Mercurial diffed two sets of files, I&#

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