eviks

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by eviks 1mo ago
> The MIT license does not require credit. Actually, credit is the ONLY thing that license requires
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by eviks 1mo ago
By the way, had the cheerful vibe coded attitude spilled much into the main codebase or is it only contained in the new platform?
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by eviks 1mo ago
> It contains at the home directory the folder Sync which is what gets synced across all devices and what needs to be maintained. That's a core Dropbox-level mistake of putting the backup cart before the main use horse - your files
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by eviks 1mo ago
> you can fork Progress! > but need to independently implement updates going forward. That's not needed either? But since you've provided no rationale, it's hard to point out where the mistake lies. What's wrong wi
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by eviks 1mo ago
> just a configuration of vim or emacs. So which one?
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by eviks 1mo ago
> Not a fork, I guess you know you're wrong because why else would you need this bizarre requirement?
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by eviks 1mo ago
Yes, you're incorrect. The mentioned Vivaldi has one (and ublock still works). Brave has one. And even with ublock light you get high enough quality that other bad design decisions of Firefox kill the selling point of a better ad block
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by eviks 1mo ago
> Firefox is our last best hope for browser engine diversity and competition. What is the appropriate non-convoluted feeling towards the company that's been killing this hope for many years?
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by eviks 1mo ago
Hasn't the book dust already (been) settled in court?
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by eviks 1mo ago
> a unit of digital media is not a commodity good. Indeed, so there is no limit on how much of supply can simply be ignored, so 100x every year doesn't need to push anything off the rails. And in reality there is no 0 cost, the marg
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by eviks 1mo ago
What progress do you expect in music that would justify throwing poor musicians under the bus (the fact that they get a small portion of IP revenue doesn't explain why that portion should become even smaller)?
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by eviks 1mo ago
Have you said the relevant points or have you decided my points are trivial and not worth debating, thus wasting all your intellectual budget on childish insults, leading to the current confusion?
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by eviks 1mo ago
So stop hiding and say something relevant!
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by eviks 1mo ago
There are both factual mistakes and mistakes in opinions (fact is opposed to an opinion, but mistakes is not part of the trio), and not very relevant. But you're right, not really worth debating around if you can't address even wi
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by eviks 1mo ago
You add a few more common mistakes without addressing the issues I've raised
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by eviks 1mo ago
The bulk of the first half about very lean std doesn't make any sense to me - the fact that you can use "import hashtable" has precisely 0 pedagogical blocks to learning how it's built or how to build your own: you can j
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by eviks 1mo ago
Nobody said you can't complaint about things unless you're forced to use them!
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by eviks 1mo ago
Could you point to things that are not glaring security vulnerabilities that are ridiculed in the same way?
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by eviks 1mo ago
These aren't arbitrary actions, but standard menu actions (open menu, close it, activate an item). Also not sure how forcing clicks entered the scene. These are possible via keyboards in many frameworks already today. > in spite of
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by eviks 1mo ago
> The developer needs to know what to do. No he doesn't, your primary example is the same thing - your menu is uniquely identifiable, so a user can configure F10 to open it if you, app developer, forgot to mark it as main (by the wa
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by eviks 1mo ago
But a framework can provide user keybinds conditional on that Dialog-As-Win being shown so users could reclaim some of that lost automation And more pressure from more options doesn't follow, you only need to study if you actually wa
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by eviks 1mo ago
So in none of the cases they do - it shouldn't depend on any tags, that's the whole point of bypassing the app devs! (not that the tags shouldn't exist, they can make customization easier, just that they shouldn't be nec
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by eviks 1mo ago
What's specifically is the limitation?
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by eviks 1mo ago
> In fact, many GUI framework application guidelines explicitly encourage GUI application developers Instead they should be engineered in a way that allows users to bypass those developers in a (at least) framework-consistent way as ther
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by eviks 1mo ago
Rules 1&2 are about speed, not memory. But also, what do you think the issue with measurement is in this case??
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by eviks 2mo ago
I don't want to step back and go off topic
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by eviks 2mo ago
> Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming So you agree that they should've designed the system to use the appropriate data structure from the beginning?
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by eviks 2mo ago
This one also looks pretty obvious "in foresight" (using the same tools that existed back then. Maybe owner dedupe might be less obvious and require a bit of knowledge and probing into actual data, but for rw vs ro you are fine kn
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by eviks 2mo ago
But what's your expectation of the net?
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by eviks 2mo ago
You explained why it's beneficial for other workloads, but the original point was about this specific design

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