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by dieulot 3y ago
America means “french-door” as in https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/French_door
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by dieulot 3y ago
That piece of news is about only a week of pause for a version that’s even buggier than usual. Toss your Snow Leopard dreams.
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by dieulot 3y ago
“Flambéur” isn’t right but “flambeur” means something else entirely (gambler). “Flambéer” would be more legitimate but would be hard to decipher. The title tag plays it safe and uses “flambé restaurant server”.
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by dieulot 3y ago
40% improvement versus what? A docker container for nginx and another one for PHP?
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by dieulot 3y ago
I had a legit $13k offer for 180k users recently (even though it looked super shady, and the result for end-users would probably have been gross).
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by dieulot 3y ago
The catch with those enticing monthly offers (versus selling the extension) is that you are taking the risk to get your extension taken down, while the offerors can at any time switch to another partner/victim. Blog post from an ex-Chr
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by dieulot 3y ago
Could you link to a site where you’ve rolled your own SPA? Or ideally the source code. I’d like to take a look as not many people do that, even less do so with enough attention to detail not to cause UX regressions (not that third-party sol
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by dieulot 3y ago
I used curl|grep every 3 to 10 seconds manually.
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by dieulot 3y ago
Took the second-to-last successfully, thanks!
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by dieulot 3y ago
PhotoFiltre is an image editor that opens so fast that I could set it as my image viewer back when I used Windows, on low-end hardware.
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by dieulot 3y ago
Neither, it’s placeholder content used as part of a collection of web layout experiments, hence the weird URL. https://waivek.github.io/website/
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by dieulot 3y ago
https://archive.is/LXwH7
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by dieulot 3y ago
I’m using it as my primary OS since late 2020.
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by dieulot 3y ago
Alt+Tab lets you switch to a previous window instantly. MacOS’s UI sluggishness is jarring when you’re a power user from another platform.
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by dieulot 3y ago
iOS ⩽ 6 used a radial gradient effect to make it clear that the modal is what’s to be interacted with.
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by dieulot 3y ago
It’s an unreliable tool worldwide because (I assume) it uses Apple’s servers/CDNs, which do not reliably max out my bandwidth (400MB/s in France). Verify the results with another tool if you don’t live in the US.
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by dieulot 3y ago
Yes, retrieval from disk caching is not as fast as one would expect. Detailed article: https://simonhearne.com/2020/network-faster-than-cache/
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by dieulot 4y ago
Full release notes: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...
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by dieulot 4y ago
Most Mac-native apps operate pretty much (usually with binary plist, but MacOS includes CLI tools to operate them) like that today, and likely for ever. https://twitter.com/panic/status/679094045768073216
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by dieulot 4y ago
Can HN German speakers please confirm/rebut that “hallucination” accurately reflects what was said?
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by dieulot 4y ago
React is now the default choice. Google made everyone aware of page speed with their Core Web Vitals — speed/UX metrics affecting SEO. There’s noise about tools and practices to reduce page weight with JS-heavy sites, but in practice i
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by dieulot 4y ago
Kocienda has a twitter thread on this matter (modern iPhone keyboard): https://twitter.com/kocienda/status/1565341723860971520
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by dieulot 4y ago
Safari does it too (on a big screen).
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by dieulot 4y ago
Some engineers post about their past experiences sometimes. https://tidbits.com/2019/10/21/six-reasons-why-ios-13-and-ca... https://twitter.com/taquitos/status/1599824249107406848
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by dieulot 4y ago
That’s Safari’s preview.
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by dieulot 4y ago
They’re working on ending the OS-parity nonsense with AVIF. https://webkit.org/blog/13584/release-notes-for-safari-techn... To be clear I didn’t say I’m holding my breath. Just that it’s not “obviously” impossible
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by dieulot 4y ago
> Apple is clearly not interested They have made no such statement AFAIK. The fact that they adopted AVIF relatively swiftly, and generally improved their cadence a bit, makes me ready to not be surprised if they ship JPEG XL in a year o
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by dieulot 4y ago
MathML is making a return next month. https://chromestatus.com/roadmap
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by dieulot 4y ago
Mozilla publishes hardware stats from Firefox desktop users: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware <4GB devices are ~10.6% of the mix. 4GB are 20.8%.
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by dieulot 4y ago
> Not sure what France is doing though, maybe something right. The telecom regulator (ARCEP) conditioned 5G bands on rolling out IPv6.

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