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by ddevault 6y ago
Speaking specifically as a Gemini enthusiast: We don't want "the web, but less of it". Do you not realize that "less of it" is still a whole hell of a lot of web? Take a look at Netsurf: 13 years of development and
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by ddevault 6y ago
As a matter of fact, I explained exactly what comes after the web immediately prior to the quoted statement in TFA.
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by ddevault 6y ago
target="_blank" is an anti-user design choice. If a link does not set target="_blank", you can always choose how it will be opened: in this tab, or in a new one, with a left or middle click. If it has target="_blank
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by ddevault 6y ago
Correction: YAML is a superset of JSON
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by ddevault 6y ago
To spend it on illegal things.
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by ddevault 6y ago
I mean... no one is forced to use an Electron client to access IRC, so. That's kind of one of the main benefits of using an open, standard protocol like IRC.
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by ddevault 6y ago
IRC still works fine 30 years later, in case you were wondering.
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Ask HN: What are your stories of failure?
1 points by ddevault 6y ago|0 comments
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by ddevault 6y ago
The gig apps are more broadly exploiting the population , if not their users directly. Workers rights are basically non-existent in these companies. And they're doing it for the purpose of driving their more fairly-run competitors o
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by ddevault 6y ago
I bootstrapped my business because I think that the venture capitalist model is unethical. Digital services should be accountable to their users, not exploitative of them - and VC moves accountability elsewhere and uses exploitation to deli
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by ddevault 6y ago
I have a much simpler approach which works on browsers going back 10+ years: https://mirror.drewdevault.com/margins.html
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by ddevault 6y ago
Here's the thing: isalnum has never been a bottleneck in my code. The sum amount of runtime that glibc's optimizations have saved my programs is almost certainly significantly less than the amount of time I had to spend untangling
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by ddevault 6y ago
On the other hand, the fact that no one is thinking about "optimizing KPIs" is a major reason why people like the up and coming federated systems.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Email is a bit different from the new federations we're seeing today: there's less weaker guarantees of identity, and there's less emphasis on choosing what other instances you federate with. In the example of Mastodon, the c
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by ddevault 6y ago
There's no evidence of this happening with, say, Mastodon. The culture is different, and isn't changing. If we know what we want and what we don't want from the start, we can keep centralization from gaining a foothold.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Should be pretty easy, I have a ticket here for this: https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/chartsrv/4
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by ddevault 6y ago
Absolutely not. Long flags are non-standard and non-portable. Don't write GNU scripts - write shell scripts.
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Show HN: A web service which renders SVG plots from Prometheus data(sr.ht)
6 points by ddevault 6y ago|2 comments
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by ddevault 6y ago
Quit using so much fucking JavaScript, it's as easy as that.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Can highly recommend SolveSpace.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Do you not see how this is a self-defeating attitude? Do you recall when I suggested that you would be a great fit for leading an organization devoted to improving accessibility in free software? Have you resigned yourself to failure in the
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by ddevault 6y ago
I agree that bangs are a killer feature of DDG, but I often see the problem of results quality brought up and I have to speak up about it. Google's search results are good because they're spying on you and they already know what y
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by ddevault 6y ago
>I can't imagine the world of hurt, discomfort and frustration of developing against a lib set I can't read source code of or improve. Thank you . It boggles the mind that anyone who can write code would ever use a closed sour
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by ddevault 6y ago
Such a mission has to be undertaken with care. You don't want to become the next Venusian extinction event by mistake.
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by ddevault 6y ago
The motion is consistent with an expanding universe. It gets exponentially greater the further away you go, and everything is moving away from everything else - not away from some "center" position. Also, some of this movement is
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by ddevault 6y ago
That's not true. EGLStreams would be better suited to Nvidia's proprietary driver design, but it's technically inferior. This is the "broad agreement". No one but Nvidia wants EGLStreams, or we would have implemente
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by ddevault 6y ago
Cheers!
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by ddevault 6y ago
Space is growing, not the matter within it. The diameter of a hydrogen atom is dominated by the fundamental forces, and the expansion of space is insufficient to overcome this force.
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by ddevault 6y ago
>This does produce an interesting side question though: aren’t we (humans) shrinking in relation to the universe? Or, without the click-baity phrasing: isn’t the universe growing without us? Yep.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Well, space isn't a tangible (and finite) thing. It's the manifold in which the universe exists. Increasing the scale factor doesn't "stretch" space, it just makes... more of it.

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