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by eschaton 4y ago
But… they don’t, really. “SPAs” are just a corruption of the web brought about by people who obsess over replacing end user operating systems with HTML+CSS+JavaScript. Most actual users would be just as happy to install a real native applic
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by eschaton 4y ago
That should be true though, if it doesn’t have indexable content whose URL could theoretically be permanent, it shouldn’t be crammed into a web page. Write an application instead.
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by eschaton 4y ago
Climate change also risks causing the methane clathrates to outgas substantially as well.
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by eschaton 4y ago
Dollars to donuts they’re a “sound money” kook who wants the Federal Reserve not to be able to manipulate the money supply to achieve societal objectives like “low unemployment” and “inflation that closely tracks growth in economic activity
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by eschaton 4y ago
Are you really, honestly suggesting that mail and news supporting the `In-Reply-To :` header and some people choosing to use clients that leverage it to order messages is an almost unbearable burden for community formation? How is usi
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by eschaton 4y ago
Huh? Things like message threading are not only common on forums (like HN and Reddit and Slashdot and…) but with newsgroups and mailing list they’re entirely up to the client application you’re using to access them. I use Mail for email and
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by eschaton 4y ago
Take a look at Groups.io: You can set up a group with both a mailing list and a forum for free, for up to a certain size, and then it’s some minimum price and $0.04/month per user for all the feature.
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by eschaton 4y ago
That’s because forums are themselves an abomination, just create a newsgroup in the `alt.*` hierarchy or set up a mailing list and be done. Just because you insist on using a web browser to access it doesn’t mean everyone should have to. Yo
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by eschaton 4y ago
Forums have the same problem of locking up knowledge, and they also keep out anyone who doesn’t want to constantly visit a web site. Mailing lists and newsgroups are the proper mechanisms for this. And you should be able to use them with a
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by eschaton 4y ago
No, nobody _says_ this. An enormous number of people make statements that imply they believe this. Honestly, that’s one of the common criticisms I see of HN: That it’s full of people who believe they’re doing something new when they’re just
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by eschaton 4y ago
What causes you to find it dubious? Homelessness rates track housing costs pretty directly in studies I’ve seen.
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by eschaton 4y ago
Except it does, quite intentionally: It was specifically created to prevent what happened to Nixon from ever happening again. He was forced to resign from the Presidency, or he was going to be impeached (by both Republican and Democratic Re
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by eschaton 4y ago
I’m not. When you meet a good manager with an MBA, chances are they’d have been (or were) a good manager without one, too. But in my experience, no bad manager has ever improved by getting an MBA. All they get is an indication they’re upper
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by eschaton 4y ago
This is exactly the Cocoa exception model: Exceptions are treated as assertions, while errors represent things the program or user should be able to act on and recover from. Swift reifies this by not having exceptions at all, just fatal ass
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by eschaton 4y ago
With “read French history” they’re not saying French history should be emulated, they’re saying it should be treated as a cautionary tale: Those at the bottom can only be pushed so far before they start building guillotine.
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by eschaton 4y ago
If the effects of the stimulus were so dire how come publicly traded companies are continuing to post record profits? You need to account for this in your model if you want to be taken seriously by anyone who isn’t a Mises goldbug.
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by eschaton 4y ago
The 68030 was the first implementation with an on chip MMU. The 68010 and 68012 could work with the 68451 segmented MMU and the 68020 could work with the 68451 (since it was a memory-mapped peripheral) and with the 68851 paged MMU. In add
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by eschaton 4y ago
No it hasn’t. The current economic turmoil has been caused by companies using the stimulus as something they can blame inflation on when they raise prices even though they’re actually increasing their margins. You can trivially see this by
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by eschaton 4y ago
What are your inclusion and diversity policies?
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by eschaton 4y ago
I can vouch for Josh, I’ve know him for many years: He knows his shit, and he gets shit done. He’s also an excellent “connector” —- he’s gotten to know tons of people across our industry and the larger field of “creative work,” and is great
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by eschaton 4y ago
On Apple’s platforms the primary motivator for sharing code within an application is that an application isn’t just one component. You may have an application that has any number of app extensions in it that provide access to its features i
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by eschaton 4y ago
You assume there’s a philosophy or coherent reasoning behind it, rather than “This is the way we did it with static libraries, so when we adopted shared/dynamic libraries we didn’t change anything else.” Because near as I can tell that
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by eschaton 4y ago
Yes, Apple had the Mac II with support for the 68851, but they weren’t the only ones to use it. Though Sun and HP and Apollo all skipped it and continued using extensions of the paging MMUs they’d developed for the 68010. And plenty of thos
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by eschaton 4y ago
You missed 1983’s 68451 segment/limit MMU for the 68010, as well as 1985’s 68020 with 68851 PMMU. There also were MMU implenentations for 68K without instruction resumption—Lisa had one, and Apollo initially used two 68000s to support
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by eschaton 4y ago
Why were doctors prescribing antibiotics for COVID?!
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by eschaton 4y ago
A more honest headline would be “Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to avoid paying competitive wages” since that’s really how a free market is supposed to address shortages, isn’t it?
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by eschaton 4y ago
To me, both being plugged by Jack Dorsey and taking cryptocurrency donations are indicators that this probably isn’t worth paying attention to. Anything that doesn’t start from a position of interoperability with ActivityPub is going to be
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by eschaton 4y ago
The way it’s phrased can be read as having the implication “Other things are newer or more popular, so why bother?” That may not have been your intent, but this is how it can come across, especially when people have been insincerely asking
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by eschaton 4y ago
The early workstations like the Alto, PERQ, and CADR were portrait by default, and used specialized CRTs. Personal computers tended to use 4:3 displays because they started out with either terminals (which used television CRTs) or by being
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by eschaton 4y ago
The article says: > Implementing ARM compatibility is a big-deal for normal software, and emulators are far from normal. This is bullshit. ARM compatibility is trivial for normal software, and unless an emulator wants to leverage some

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