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by eschaton 3y ago
Nah. This “dominant trend” exists because companies are always trying to get developers as cheaply as possible, not because pretending web pages are applications actually provides real productivity or usability or even deployment benefits o
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by eschaton 3y ago
HTML and DOM lack those because that’s not what they’re for. Stop trying to build desktop and mobile applications using a document markup language. If you’re building a client-side application, use the platforms’ native languages and techno
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by eschaton 3y ago
Thank you. Also, there are reasons people have biases against cops in the US in situations like these, like the 40% statistic…
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by eschaton 3y ago
There are plenty of people who select their political affiliation to match their lack of respect for their fellow human being. There are also plenty of people who are led to such lack of respect via their political affiliation. There are na
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by eschaton 3y ago
Except a number of people have very specifically—and in bad faith—reframed social issues as political issues already, and we need to recognize that as a real aspect of the world we live in and not just a philosophical issue. For example, th
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by eschaton 3y ago
I don’t think kids having easy access to lots of things is a good idea. However, I think adults having easy access to those same things is fine. Why would you bring up that straw-man unless you think that you should still be able to control
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by eschaton 3y ago
I have bad news for you about many cops’ political affiliation. (This tends to be why many of them become cops.)
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by eschaton 3y ago
Who are you to restrict your future children’s access once they’re adults?
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by eschaton 3y ago
So don’t be. What you’re saying is that nobody should be able to be in that room, because you know better than they what’s best for them. You don’t seem to recognize that, at its enactment, drug prohibition had absolutely nothing to do wi
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by eschaton 3y ago
They can’t, they’re just presuming because Apple doesn’t communicate anything unless more information is needed or the bug is addressed in a build the reporter has access to.
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by eschaton 3y ago
What gives you the idea that macOS doesn’t have big changes between releases? Every single release has a huge amount of change in it, even if you don’t happen to notice.
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by eschaton 3y ago
What’s hostile about trying to provide the best possible APIs for a platform according to the vision of the people creating those APIs?
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by eschaton 3y ago
Why? That would constrain Apple’s API design to only that expressible in the common subset of languages developers might realistically want to use.
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by eschaton 3y ago
Indeed. There’s no good reason for this to exist.
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by eschaton 3y ago
It’d be amazing to get those papers and letters digitized.
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by eschaton 3y ago
Anybody trying to do this is missing the point of PDF: It’s a page-description format and therefore only represents the marks on a page , not document structure . One should not attempt to edit a PDF, one should edit the document from w
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by eschaton 3y ago
What reputation? A great many of the things in it were looted by the British Empire and should be returned to their nations of origin.
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by eschaton 3y ago
They probably mean that they can’t get past the fact that it looks more like Algol or Pascal than C. Which is, frankly, a pretty silly argument. I’ve heard this exact argument about VHDL versus Verilog, with the former being explicitly base
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by eschaton 3y ago
Where did anyone say he (or anyone else) should not be held responsible for his unlawful conduct? Even in the so-vanishingly-rare-it-almost-doesn’t-exist-outside-fiction case of someone being found not legally culpable for a crime by reason
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by eschaton 3y ago
Open Firmware can boot an ELF image obtained in a variety of ways, and supply the booted image with both arguments and a device tree, it doesn’t need to do more to boot an OS. It can also be extended straightforwardly to provide boot securi
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by eschaton 3y ago
If they looked the other way while fellow cops violated peoples’ rights then they’re still a piece of shit, even if they also did their job and saved a kidnapped kid.
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by eschaton 3y ago
What are you, a bootlicker?
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by eschaton 3y ago
Just use port and use SmartFirmware, a BSD-licensed IEEE-1275 Open Firmware implementation. It even includes a C to OF bytecode compiler for ease in porting drivers.
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by eschaton 3y ago
This is a lot of what folks refer to as compiler bugs when dealing with ObjC++, yeah, usually when they not asking for help and instead just cobbling together their own workarounds.
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by eschaton 3y ago
Your imagination is incorrect.
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by eschaton 3y ago
I don’t understand how so many people on Hacker News engage in this line of questioning. If by “this technology” you mean “large neural networks” the answer is yes, and we’ve been doing so for several decades now. That’s very specifically w
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by eschaton 3y ago
You should not be more afraid of federal agents than drug cartels. But you should be very afraid of both.
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by eschaton 3y ago
Getting catfished by the law and convicted and imprisoned would probably be preferable to whatever the cartels would have in store too.
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by eschaton 3y ago
The request was for an environment similar to Genera, not an optimal environment for deploying to consumer systems. While it may work quite well for the latter, it fails at the former.
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by eschaton 3y ago
And you’ll get a pile of UNIX tools that are approximately nothing like Genera in actual use.

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