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by defanor 5y ago
Indeed; I tried to compose yet another list of factors contributing to (or approaches to estimating) software project complexity in the past, with code complexity being just one out of 18, and not seeing it as particularly outstanding. Perh
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by defanor 5y ago
A couple years ago I went for a setup with a regular (gaming) computer screen, speakers, a TV tuner (DVB-T in, HDMI out), and a computer at once, but it works without a computer as well. Noname TV tuners tend to be pretty "dumb",
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by defanor 5y ago
That's yet another accessibility-related project with a website that is broken if accessibility features (e.g., slightly configured FF with minimal font sizes and colours set) or textual web browsers (e.g., lynx) are used. It seems tha
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by defanor 5y ago
I find it undesirable to let individual documents (or applications) to change/control fonts and colours in general, and usually restricting font changes by websites in FF, but sometimes noticing that some websites still manage to mess
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by defanor 5y ago
> Do any other languages have the same kinds of optimisations that PHP has with FPM where it keeps the process alive but pretends it's a complete fresh execution at the language level? I'm not aware of other languages where it
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by defanor 5y ago
That's not quite a language feature though: one can write (Fast)CGI or similar programs in any common language.
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by defanor 5y ago
I find all those streaming I/O libraries (and lazy bytestreams as well) to be more neat-looking than useful: they can produce slightly cleaner code when used for basic tasks (such as those in examples), are fun to play with, and genera
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by defanor 5y ago
This reminds me of RDF recipe ontologies (as they can be used with RDFa: e.g., schema.org's Recipe[1] and the food ontology[2], and there are/were dedicated spiders to search those, such as openrecipes[3]), but with a custom synta
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by defanor 5y ago
I think pink is less clearly a shade of red (it can go a bit into blue), while "голубой" is simply light or pale blue: AFAICT it's used as an alias, and one may call it "light blue" as well.
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by defanor 5y ago
> To a Russian speaker, синий and голубой are not shades of each other, they are different basic colors, like blue and green in English. As a native Russian speaker, I always understood "голубой" as a light shade of "синий
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by defanor 5y ago
> It still fascinates me why people take human-focused formats (SQL, shell commands in one line) and use them in automated programs. I tend to assume that it happens because it is what's available, and possibly easier (at least in s
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by defanor 5y ago
Why "used to have"? htmlfontify is built-in, htmlize is available from melpa (and used by scpaste, to upload it at once), org-mode has HTML export and code blocks with highlighting, and probably there's more.
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by defanor 5y ago
Apparently the author's point is that image compression is useful, but dithering and then using lossless compression instead of using lossy ones sounds like rather poorly reinventing lossy compressions.
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by defanor 5y ago
With multiple data sources requiring authorization, which don't support it on their own, it indeed makes sense to handle at least some of the authorization in the software accessing them all, and then it's indeed more complex. I j
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by defanor 5y ago
These "why X is hard" articles seem to be based heavily on one's experience. My immediate thought about authorization's complexities was that the rules tend to be poorly defined and changing: users usually want to have f
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by defanor 5y ago
That "[1]" was for the registry, the extensions are listed for particular media types, such as application/xml [1]. Also mentioned in RFC 6838 section 4.12 [2]. And indeed, what IANA registers there is media types, so I'
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by defanor 5y ago
FWIW, the IANA media type registry [1] lists "File extension(s)" under "Additional information" for some of the media types, so it may make sense to speak of filename extensions associated with registered media types. Th
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by defanor 5y ago
> In this context, crypto = cryptocurrency, because MasterCard is a major fintech company. The context is obvious. I, for one, was confused while taking the context into account (but having no idea what CipherTrace does): fintech compani
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by defanor 5y ago
The article reads like it's about general-purpose computing, but computing is viewed through a web interface in it.
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by defanor 5y ago
It looks like a rather oversimplified model: the examples assign the same overhead to any component, transformation, or feature, so anything monolithic or that can be grouped together is favoured, even if buggy, clunky, or poorly supported.
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by defanor 5y ago
A more precise (perhaps less clickbaity) title would mention "Western Digital MyCloud users". I thought of their HDDs first, not some of the related products they push (which one shouldn't expect to be secure anyway: being ne
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by defanor 5y ago
Checked out of curiosity: it tries to confirm email existence by initiating mail sending [1] (likely very unreliably, since basic anti-spam measures would reject it before checking whether an address exists), and while it lists existence of
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by defanor 5y ago
The quoted text is what I saw, with "Generate [...]" in place of a shell command. Found that to be amusing, since it looks like a command, while it isn't the intended one.
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by defanor 5y ago
Good, apparently it was fixed in 2018 [1]. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723274
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by defanor 5y ago
> If it was more than five years ago and you generated your SSH key with the default options, you probably ended up using RSA algorithm with key-size less than 2048 bits long. It's closer to 16 years, for OpenSSH [1]. > Open up y
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by defanor 5y ago
Sad-yet-amusing fact: apparently most of the W3C member [0] websites can't pass the W3 HTML validator [1], for some years now (possibly it was the case for as long as both existed). With that in mind, failures to pass fairly complex te
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by defanor 5y ago
This seems to fit the pattern: websites about typography play with typography until it's broken, those about web design in general are more likely to not render well in older or simpler web browsers, and those about security are more l
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by defanor 6y ago
As mentioned in other comments, there's a bunch of drawbacks with this approach, but there's a more general term "boolean blindness" [1], which is usually applied to programs (not databases). I find it useful to avoid us
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by defanor 6y ago
It's hard to argue with that short textual message after it took me 3 attempts to finally load it. The quote for those who still struggle to access it: > I look at the web today. Not as a programmer, but as a user of broken sites th
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by defanor 6y ago
Pretty sure that the common definition (also the one from Wikipedia [0]) is that there's no connection to a network (including wireless ones; the medium is not an important part in the concept). The article appears to say that a databa

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