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by dmitriid 4y ago
IANAL and all that. This is the most vague part of the law because the law couldn't just forbid everything and then run into issues. For example, to run a business a merchant doesn't need anything more from you beside you name and
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by dmitriid 4y ago
1. GDPR isn't just about cookies. It's about your data in general . So it covers even offline interactions. 2. Governments shouldn't mandate solutions . Instead, EU stipulated a requirement . And industry as a whole decide
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> People can just use whatever language they want in the browser now. Except, you know, WASM has zero access to browser APIs, and all interactions have to go through JavaScript. And on top of that you need to load your language's en
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Why did you spend time to figure out and set up vim, tools, and extensions, but only spend 15 minutes with an IDE? vim's "design decision" to have extensions and external tools that you need to manually string together someho
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by dmitriid 4y ago
On search: IDEA out of the box has: - fuzzy text search across your entire codebase. Supports regexes, when you need them - fuzzy text search for symbols only (e.g. when you only need to search for method names etc.). Supports regexes, when
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by dmitriid 4y ago
350 B worth of speculation "evaporated" from a number that was nothing but speculation to begin with. Stock market is gambling and wishful thinking, but with worse outcomes.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Royalty free, agile etc. codec is aggressively pushed by Google on pain of removing support for and not allowing to run its products https://www.protocol.com/youtube-tv-roku-issues Also, support for HVEC in existing devices
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Do you know that Google basically punishes others fir not using VP9 and AV1? https://www.protocol.com/youtube-tv-roku-issues
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by dmitriid 4y ago
In Turkey cinemas used to have intermissions for every movie. Even in early 2000s. I don't know if it's still the case.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> How much resources are used to produce something is determined by the value of that something. How much resources are used to produce something is defined literally by How much resources are used to produce something. > about $150
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> The amount of transactions the Bitcoin blockchain handles does not impact how many transactions can be done in Bitcoin via higher layers like the Lightning Network. So there's no misconception. Bitcoin is as slow as ever, and hand
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by dmitriid 4y ago
That first link is a thing of beauty. Also, it's terrifying because it's just one of hundreds of standards that WebKit (and Firefox) might not have the time and resources to fight.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Google is known to sabotage other browsers by slowing down or breaking its apps in all but Chrome. See this thread from Jonathan Nightingale: https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871243301625856 Edit. Johnathan
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Additionally: form fields are styled to look disabled.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
This is, of course, untrue. Chrome ships hundreds of new web APIs a year. Most of them are Chrome-only non-standards. Firefox and Safari are more closely aligned: https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence
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by dmitriid 4y ago
So this was solved by adding immeasurable complexity to a feature whose impact is dubious at best and potentially harmful (slow and/or metered internet) at worst.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
There's literally nothing contractual in "smart contracts". They enforce nothing. It's just code. Ticketmaster's tickets are actually more of a contract because the ticket you get is actually covered by laws, Ticket
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by dmitriid 4y ago
The absolute vast majority of companies can run from the cheapest Digital Ocean droplet for an indefinitely long time. No cloud necessary.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Yes, there are a few specs where I wish they were faster in implementing them.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> smart contracts might streamline ops (international logistics comes to mind) "Smart contracts" is just code. In case of crypto this code is running on world's most innefficient VM. Elsewhere its just code and code has be
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> keep refusing to acknowledge the trade-offs in the technical implementations of crypto. No, we don't. The thing is, every time a "good application of crypto" comes up the next question is "show these to us". An
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Bitcoin. Ethereum. Etc. This is tech. Not its applications. > The smart contracts running on Ethereum are open source, unlike your PHP script, can be audited, and if marked immutable, Ah, to once again have a child's wonder and
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> there ARE crypto projects that have interesting applications Name some. Some that can't be better done with an sqlite database running on a Raspberry Pi.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Safari hasn't required a prefix since version 9 (except for the backface-visibility property which I personally never heard of) https://caniuse.com/?search=transform Last release of version 9 was in 2016, 6 years ago.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Google has a very large share of developers' minds. They have a large network of "developer advocates" whose only job is to promote Google and Chrome under the guise of promoting web standards. And, of course, these "web
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> mobile Safari seems intentionally behind on PWAs There's no such thing as a PWA. There are a dozen disparate standards, and everyone has their own idea which collection of standards constitutes a PWA. Mobile Safari supports the ab
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> support for free media formats/codecs like webm, webp, and av1. You mean codecs developed exclusively by Google (often in rapid succession) and which Google aggressively pushes by abusing its dominant position https://w
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by dmitriid 4y ago
They are mostly one-off features that don't create a coherent whole. See what Figma has to say about this: https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to...
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Constraint-based layouts where proposed to w3c in 1999. They were rejected because people thought they would be too resource-intensive for the time. Don't forget, the core of HTML and CSS until this day basically relies on "we c
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by dmitriid 4y ago
When it comes to CSS Safari is rarely behind, and often ahead. When it comes to Chrome-only non-standards Safari is right where it needs to be: not implementing this bullshit.

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