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by defanor 3y ago
There was another technique for falling asleep mentioned on HN, possibly < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17905574 >. It basically suggests to not think, either.
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by defanor 3y ago
It is just a hash map with a few common functions defined; hash maps are occasionally useful, but what is all the praise about? The mentioned "simple" bit is arguable: as a language's building block, a hash map is relatively
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by defanor 3y ago
It calls its terminal multiplexer functionality "terminal emulator", it seems. Unless it has a GUI, but then "terminal-based" is wrong. I am not a fan of nano, as it is not even qualified to attend the editor war, but th
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by defanor 3y ago
AIUI, Go intentionally avoids programming language features considered too advanced by its authors in order to lower the bar (to make it easier for most programmers to pick up, that is) and to keep the code uniform, supposedly to the advant
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by defanor 3y ago
And the article only mentions reduction of costs with automation. Would be strange enough for some tech-oriented magazine, but this one is called "The Economist". Though maybe it is supposed to be read just as a futuristic specula
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by defanor 3y ago
As should the contents.
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by defanor 3y ago
A few issues spotted: - It is not obvious how to get back to equipment selection: the history does not change, and it was not apparent that those step numbers are buttons. - With JS off, there is an empty page in the beginning. - The websit
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by defanor 3y ago
To offer a different perspective: I find XML simpler in that it tends to correspond more closely to most arbitrary data models. From ADTs to C structures, there are product types and sum types to encode, along with more or less arbitrary ba
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by defanor 3y ago
"Federated App" sounds odd: protocols are federated, and apparently they are criticized in the article, not software. The "Learning curve" argument suggests that oligopolies tend to form, so it is not worth bothering. Bu
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by defanor 3y ago
Indeed, I was just about to comment on the linked page overstyling fonts and colors while suggesting to avoid overstyling other elements. The title can be clipped to "Don't use custom CSS" while reusing the same justification
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by defanor 3y ago
Apparently it shows Cornish on the map for each "<language> in <place>" to me (FF 102.10.0esr, JS allowed on that page), and nothing otherwise.
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by defanor 3y ago
ML-family languages are placed in Schemaria as well; apparently it is a catch-all for functional languages.
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by defanor 3y ago
FWIW, I waited longer (30 to 60 seconds) now, and it did load (though was too laggy to interact with). It would be too painful to profile/debug at these speeds, but if you will be looking into further optimization, a few options that c
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by defanor 3y ago
My Firefox 102.10.0esr hangs on that page after enabling JS (the tab is unresponsive, one CPU core is loaded completely).
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by defanor 3y ago
Perhaps worth mentioning that since 2004 there are RDFa and FOAF, serving a similar purpose (among other things). While XHTML is merged into HTML 5 (XHTML5).
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by defanor 4y ago
If this was a comic strip (or some other kind of parody/satire), I imagine it would have been explained by Google noticing that "the decision is final" is not great to write in public, wondering how to improve it, and decidin
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by defanor 4y ago
That's nice. Why no multiline messages though? Perhaps akin to those on modern telnet BBS systems, making use of pseudographics, or simpler ones, like in MUDs, with a line editor. And SSHFP RRs (along with DNSSEC) would be nice to have
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by defanor 4y ago
Indeed, at least for verification. I didn't mean for HN users to trust those, but perhaps should have warned about it: copied the fingerprints primarily for people searching on this page, so that they can follow the link to GitHub (and
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by defanor 4y ago
Here are the expected fingerprints (since they don't publish those via SSHFP RRs): https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou... SHA256:uNiVztksCsDhcc0u9e8BujQXVUpKZIDTMczCvj3tD2s (RSA
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by defanor 4y ago
I don't know about Germany, but sometimes they are sorted in the order they are visited by a bus (describing the route), not alphabetically. Which makes it harder (O(n)) if you know the name, but don't know where it is located on
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by defanor 4y ago
Makes sense with the context, but at first I, too, was confused. And it's not the first time I see such usage of "sic!" as confusing. <joke>Perhaps it should be "(sic! sic!)" in less obvious contexts to clarif
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by defanor 4y ago
Seems to be so: in the past year I encountered notably more seemingly geoip-caused HTTP 403 errors than previously, often with CloudFront or Cloudflare, but usually they don't provide a list of blacklisted countries like that. It'
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by defanor 4y ago
> Restricted. > Sora isn't available in Belarus, Hungary and Russia. Why these countries in particular? I guess it's about having oppressive/authoritarian regimes and being in Europe, but why to restrict it that way?
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by defanor 4y ago
I like GNU documentation (texinfo): reading those both as info manuals (usually in Emacs) and as HTML (in a web browser). Nice search and convenient navigation in an info viewer, available (and convenient) both offline and online, hyperlink
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by defanor 4y ago
> programming languages lead to bigger diffs than necessary (adding an entry to a static list is a 2 line change instead of 1 line) I think in ML-family languages it's fairly common to format like this, which avoids bigger diffs:
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by defanor 4y ago
> The name "AirJet" gave it already away though, that this is likely something different. They mention that those are MEMS membranes in the presentation [1]. But it also sounds like Airjet developers (or marketers) count MEMS m
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by defanor 4y ago
Do piezoelectric fans count as being solid state too, then? If so, this one wouldn't be the first.
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by defanor 4y ago
As the article's author, I like to rant about articles ranting about bloat being bloated themselves, but here's an opportunity to rant about an article ranting about rants about bloat being bloated, being bloated itself! The page
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by defanor 4y ago
Neat, but this part is a bit odd: > As a fan of CSS Naked Day and a firm believer in using JS only for progressive enhancement, I’m obviously in favour. ...And the page it is written on is slightly broken (images follow enlarged thumbnai
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by defanor 4y ago
Not GP, but using a similar setup (.org.gpg files for textual private data, on top of encrypted partitions as well), and Emacs comes with an EasyPG interface; doesn't need an intermediate temporary plaintext file. It can also handle an

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