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by dmitriid 4y ago
You don't have to be gung ho to show more emotion than just blank face ;) I enjoyed the idea of "thrown into the mix of things and slowly warming up to the idea of the rebellion", but it was handled rather poorly IMO. So we h
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Binance did $40 billion in volume in the last 24 hours. It didn't > Even if their effective fee is only 1/100 of a percent that's $4 million. It's not. The reason? They "traded" fictitious currencies wh
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by dmitriid 4y ago
It amazes me how being competent is enough to make you the best thing in Star Wars. Andor is just that: competent (oftentimes barely competent : as most SW shows and movies it still can't master the art of walking and taking at the sa
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Why do you need loud complaints and writing feedback when this doesn't even pass common sense ? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34030839
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> It doesn’t make sense for them to leave such a basic feature behind, especially since iBooks is a front end to a revenue stream. The basic features they butchered/implemented for the "front end to revenue stream": - jarr
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Ah yes. Instead it pollutes the title bar with multiple things with wildly different behaviours with no error margin "less vertical space" so let's have a hamburger menu on a desktop screen. Right next to the window close but
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by dmitriid 4y ago
I call this dribbble-driven design. Looks good on a heavy photoshopped screenshot, ship it
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by dmitriid 4y ago
And yet the corporate world is increasingly on Facebook's Workspace.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Say something connected to reality. Easy. I even gave links to show how modern web "standards" work. To quote myself: "Is this true for 100% of things that Chrome is shipping? No. But it's so asymptotically close th
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by dmitriid 4y ago
And yet I don't hear anyone look at those and say "oh no, you shouldn't judge by the past, it can always be worse" :-\ > But "our repeated accidents didn't end up being too bad" isn't the way to as
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> the US has a much tougher attitude about health and safety than most places. Attitude? Maybe. In reality? Often not. No idea why you think nutrition labels are worse and how they factor in "health and safety" when corn syrup
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> This is like saying SARS1 was as bad as a modern pandemic could be... of course it's not. Of course its not. Meaning "of course it's not like saying <insert false analogy here>". > but with some bad luck, i
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> There is absolutely no indication that either one was the worst case You're trying to prove a negative using Chernobyl (a 50-year old design) as some kind of proof. Even with Chernobyl only 100 deaths are directly attributed to th
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by dmitriid 4y ago
It's still a testament to how safe nuclear power plants really are. - Bad operators? Check - Earthquake? Check - Tsunami? Check ... - "There were no deaths from radiation exposure in the immediate aftermath of the incident, though
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> This sleight of hand is not going to work. It's not a sleight of hand. It's a fact. > and literally hasn't gotten "someone to type up something that describes the Chromium implementation into the standard".
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Something a web app can't, because the web APIs have been much more carefully vetted for privacy. Depends. Chrome for example doesn't vet these as much as the other browsers do. Someone in a sibling thread linked to this twee
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Rust's philosophy is "batteries not included". In Javascript this led to, well, npm. Because there's no standard library, and everyone ended up reinventing everything.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
That's why to do that you need a full-blown browser that consumes enormous amounts of RAM and consumes 17% of CPU to display animated GIFs https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1486364312910368769?s=20...
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Neither tests nor types are documentation.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> The web as a whole needs need to move on from these obnoxious pop-up cookie warnings ASAP. Those obnoxious cookie pop-ups can go away today. No browser intervention necessary. You know why? They only exist because the greedy industry r
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by dmitriid 4y ago
It's worse than that, sadly. A lot of what is perceived as standards (that is they have an official sounding spec on w3c somewhere) are actually not, and are just Chrome releasing stuff. If you go to MDN and click on multiple experimen
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by dmitriid 4y ago
I stand corrected. The reason for my comment is that far too often these complaints are about some things that Chrome ships at neck-breaking speed.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
You can only access them through Javascript running in the browser though. So it might not be that big of a distinction.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
The way Chrome works especially in the past many years is 100% correctly described by the comment you were replying to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33989349 You "counterpoint" isn't even a counterpoi
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Erdogan is using the tactic from his own experience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdoğan#Imprisonm...
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I was wondering what you could accomplish now that many of the apis are now reasonably stable. Many of those "stable APIs" are non-standard and exist only in Chrome. Almost every one that is listed as "experimental"
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> It is relevant to those people. Literally doesn't matter for my original comment > And you’re focusing too much on percentages Percentages matter for the health of the browser ecosystem. Which is, and I repeat myself: - Chrome
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by dmitriid 4y ago
You can't have decent animations on the web without a powerful device, period. The reasons are simple: - animations that affect layout are extremely heavy because you need to re-layout and re-draw the entire page on every update. Tha
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by dmitriid 4y ago
The tutorial used Web Containers which... aren't a standard and are very specifically Chrome-only. And it undoubtedly relies on a bunch of Chrome-only non-standards, too.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I'd be surprised if FF-on-Android was more than 2%, likely it's in the 0.5% to 1% range So. Back to my statement of fact: Which market? There are no browser engines beyond Chrome, a very distant Safari, and a near-irrelevant

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