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by defanor 7y ago
I thought it has something to do with JS or referrer, but in a web browser with those it leads to a 404 error page.
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by defanor 7y ago
While it sounds nice to me too (and neither am I a native English speaker), apparently there was a bit of misunderstanding in another comment, and possibly here too: I rather wonder about a hypothetical more efficient (and computing-oriente
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by defanor 7y ago
> I don't think you have sympathy towards users for whom monospaced fonts do not work for their language, I do, that's one of the reasons I'm trying to handle Unicode and proportional fonts in the first place. Given the ci
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by defanor 7y ago
While spending a lot of time with monospace fonts and mostly ASCII characters (programming and writing, terminal emulators, IRC/mail/MUDs/feeds in Emacs) and working on a hobby project involving text rendering and selection (
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by defanor 7y ago
> The only viable option being: HTTPS. But why not DoT on port 443? The story about office workers, sysadmins, and service providers trying to make life harder for each other and complicating things for everyone seems unfortunate, but ma
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by defanor 7y ago
See also: array programming [0] (apparently 1970s APL, on which J is based, didn't even have explicit for/while loops). Nowadays even common imperative languages have higher-order functions, so I don't find it very exciting.
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by defanor 7y ago
A single-document version (unfortunately only linked in the end there, after enabling JS): https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/pdf/en-us/the-whole-enchila... Another article on the same topic, which I found to b
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by defanor 7y ago
> "take the lexer from file format XYZ, and I'm going to change the data model it produces" Apparently we've imagined slightly different things (and with the sibling comment too; perhaps I should have provided example
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by defanor 7y ago
> Sounds great, but what's a "library", in the world of file formats? I don't quite understand the linked programming language design advice (i.e., if existence of SKI is a sufficient argument to discard languages bas
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by defanor 7y ago
That section focuses on ease of use, compared to raw TCP, HTTP, and so on, but I'm rather unsure whether it extends (or is any notable) for arbitrary projects (that is, not counting few for which it is suited particularly well), beyond
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by defanor 7y ago
I think one person choosing and others using (and/or maintaining) software is a part of the reason, but another part is that "enterprise software" is essentially a single software package used by multiple users, usually incom
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by defanor 7y ago
Sounds like good news, and similar to how Emacs handles it; do newer versions of web browsers also change the base/default colours when dark mode is used, by the way? Still not a complete replacement of global colour overriding (white
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by defanor 7y ago
Some global CSS themes change them, but then restore original ones on hover. Not perfect, but generally fine. Though regular photos (and videos) are rarely so bright that it hurts the eyes while in a dark environment, unlike diagrams and ot
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by defanor 7y ago
I mostly agree with the article, but not with the HN title (which doesn't match the article's title). The article itself has a nice statement: > If you’ve already learned another language, you can learn Haskell. And even if you
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by defanor 7y ago
For some reason the article doesn't mention it, but there is a few retracted XEPs for IoT (sensor data[0], provisioning[1], control[2], etc). I think it would be neat if they've incorporated Semantic Sensor Network Ontology[3] and
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by defanor 7y ago
Indeed, a quick search suggests that spam is automatically removed every 30 days there. The wording was "Google hid it from me", so either I have wrongly assumed that it's about the spam folder, or it is possible to disable a
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by defanor 7y ago
Not GP, but it matches my experience: with reverse DNS, DKIM, SPF, being in DNSWL (and not in DNSBLs) some of my messages end up in Gmail spam folders (very recently received a reply to a message I sent 3 years ago because of that, for inst
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by defanor 7y ago
> One way is going back to the original WWW design of hyperlinked documents, removing cookies and javascript altogether. While it doesn't seem likely to be viable even for a single person (primarily because of the government and ban
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by defanor 7y ago
Is it illegal to bypass blocking in Iran? I know in some countries it's legal to bypass such blocks if you can, even if a government tries to block proxying as well.
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by defanor 7y ago
> Is that still true today? I think it is. > Docker wants you to log to stdout, so that's what most newer applications do. According to Debian popularity contest [1], which matches my observations, Docker itself isn't a part
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by defanor 7y ago
As yet another person authoring in HTML, a couple of things I found rather helpful are XSLT for a bit of processing (generating indexes, atom feed, etc) [1], and though I generally dislike WYSIWYG editing, as mentioned in other comments, it
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by defanor 7y ago
> The not-so-talked-about but killer feature of Matrix is that you can bridge other services into it. It seems to be getting brought up each time Matrix is mentioned, with a standard reply that it's not unique, and available in XMPP
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by defanor 7y ago
> Turn the brightness down to something not much brighter than a sheet of paper on your desk. You can always turn it up to watch a movie. With the computer screens I've seen, it's only possible to approach paper in a brightly l
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by defanor 7y ago
I think quite an important bit missing in sibling comments is web browsers and setups (in addition to screenreaders) other than the most popular ones. If an HTML document is composed as a document (i.e., using semantic markup, instead of fo
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by defanor 7y ago
I like this style for formulae, though it can be not straightforward to translate into regular text or speech. And in this case there's another issue caused by color-coding: it's tricky to read with altered colors and/or on m
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by defanor 7y ago
Mere hashing indeed wouldn't be useful, but there's SCRAM, and it's standardized as one of HTTP authentication mechanisms (see RFC 7804). Edit: though perhaps it's worth noting that it won't force a server to store
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by defanor 7y ago
While it's down, those checklists are available on github[1]. I wondered whether they are general/reusable, but apparently it's mostly organizational (and rather specific) checklists of a software company as of now. [1] http
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by defanor 7y ago
I found it rather confusing that "local-first" is defined here roughly as "real-time collaboration software that doesn't rely on a central server". But with this definition it's close to saying "CRDTs can
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by defanor 8y ago
Sounds similar to web browsers coming with their own CA certificates instead of using system-wide ones, leading to poor integration and inconsistencies. Though a centralized database of rules for websites sounds awkward on its own.
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by defanor 8y ago
Not exactly an article: it's more like a series of statements, and apparently requires JS to navigate (which is tricky even then). But more easily readable with CSS disabled (or in textual browsers with no CSS).

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