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by eadmund 2y ago
A good part of why so may of us are cautious about Wayland is precisely that one or more of the things we rely on doesn’t support it. For example, my window manager doesn’t. I use that window manager every single day, and there is nothin
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by eadmund 2y ago
> what they often mean is "Wayland doesn't support $very_specific_feature" My primary complaint with Wayland is that it is a textbook example of Brooks’s second-system effect. It forsook backwards compatibility (yes, ther
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by eadmund 2y ago
Some people really don’t like change. I understand that, but I think that the XDG directory spec is really worth having. It’s wonderful to unclutter $HOME. But I do get that for those of us who’ve been using Unix for decades it can be a
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by eadmund 2y ago
> According to this, what is GraphQL? GraphQL is akin to gRPC: a non-HTTP protocol tunnelled over HTTP. Unlike gRPC, I’m unconvinced that GraphQL is ever really a great answer. I think what the latter does can be done natively in HTT
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This may be the coolest thing I’ve seen this year. Wait, it’s January? This may be the coolest thing I’ve seen this year and last. And possibly the year before. Well, well done. Good luck to you!
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by eadmund 2y ago
Language is a means of communication, and we have to have some sort of agreement on terms. REST had an original meaning; that is a useful thing to be able to discuss. JSON-RPC is also a useful thing to discuss. But the two things are di
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by eadmund 2y ago
> > A signature characteristic of [REST APIs] is that clients do not construct URLs from other information > I don't think this is true in practice. 'recursivedoubts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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by eadmund 2y ago
Protobufs vs. JSON are orthogonal to REST vs. RPC: you can have REST where the representations are protobufs or JSON objects; you can have RPC where the requests and responses are protobufs or JSON objects.
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by eadmund 2y ago
Real REST is a very, very small minority. Fake REST (i.e., JSON RPC) is really ridiculously common.
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You both agree: when he writes ‘format of your URLs,’ he literally means the format of the URLs , not the format of the resources. Like you, I clicked on the article expecting yet another blogger who doesn’t understand REST but it appears
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by eadmund 2y ago
> What will go wrong if one stores a Context in a struct? Contexts are about the dynamic contour, i.e. the dynamic call stack. Storing the current context in a struct and then referring to it in some other dynamic … context … is going t
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by eadmund 2y ago
> why don't they just provide an explicit way of passing values instead of hiding them in the context? Hiding them in a context is the explicit way of passing values through oblivious third-party libraries. In some future version
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by eadmund 2y ago
> the last 10 years of US politics Ten? Oh man. Have you read about the FALN commutation? Iran-Contra? Watergate? The 1960 presidential election? Roosevelt (both of them)? Wilson ? Lincoln ? Those are just a very few of the ins
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by eadmund 2y ago
It sounds neat, but I am uncomfortable with a central CA (Fulcio) and central log (Rekor). And I trust OIDC providers about as far as I can throw them. Granted, the whole point of a central audit log is to make misbehaviour apparent, but
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by eadmund 2y ago
Basing one’s knowledge of history on Bridgerton is much like basing one’s knowledge of New York City on Metropolis in Superman comics. Bridgerton is completely and totally ahistorical. It’s cosplay.
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by eadmund 2y ago
Mostly very insightful article, except for one thing: the reference to the early 1990s recession as ‘the first Bush recession.’ Ancient peoples would sacrifice their kings when there was a drought or a bad harvest, and we are not much bett
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by eadmund 2y ago
It is strange to me how in the last few decades ‘hero’ and ‘victim’ have gotten muddle together. I believe that a hero has to actively do something important in spite of great personal risk to himself which he recognises. As an example, a
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by eadmund 2y ago
> English is defined by its usage Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man. Out of curiosity, how do you refer to the logical fallacy of begging the question?
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> Imagine I wrote an essay on Christianity and based it entirely on the behavior of evangelicals in the South who attend megachurchies (a very vocal minority). I’d expect you to be published in the New York Times, the Washington Post. I
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Artists in Europe have already been fighting to protect the copyright of Tintin to keep the artwork away from large language models (LLMs) training various AI algorithms. There is no copyright in the character anymore, so there’s nothi
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Eeeh, the Electron issue is oveblown. > These days the biggest hog of memory is the browser. That’s the problem: Electron is another browser instance. > I don't think a few hundred megs taken by your average Electron app is
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by eadmund 2y ago
> > replace the gun emoji with a squirt gun > so just to be clear, and in your own words, they changed it from a "gun" to a "gun", right? That is like saying that replacing the car emoji with a train car is chan
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by eadmund 2y ago
I feel like ‘classic’ in the context of a Mac ought to refer to the Macintosh Classic ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Classic ) or Classic II ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Classi
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Feynman's characterization of cargo cults is inaccurate I don’t think that the post really supports that idea at all. It was incomplete, perhaps, but does not sound inaccurate.
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> White people aren't being punished . When the required score to hire a member of group A is 95, and the required score to hire a member of group B is 90, then clearly group A is being punished. When more resources are spent recru
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by eadmund 2y ago
Or using an OS which doesn’t ship ancient software. Linux exists. It’s pretty awesome.
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> How do you figure Google's backup (which backs up contacts, messages, photos, mail, and remembers which apps you have installed) is bad? It uses Google. I have servers, desktops, laptops and phones, all of which are computers and
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by eadmund 2y ago
The Gemini looks really neat, but is there any way to generate a Super key event with that keyboard? > I've heard reports the company is not honoring orders Due to the Christmas sale, or in general?
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I am playing the long game: I want folks to keep on releasing great movies and TV on disc, so I buy great movies and TV on disc.
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> But with programming tools reaching maturity, we'll see more of this. Programming languages reached maturity 31 years ago, with the approval of X3.226-1994, which specified a language which is at once textual and structured, and e

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