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by fouric 5y ago
AFAIK Twitter already considers bots impersonating people (if not just all bots) to be against their TOS and actively works to hunt them down or remove them. The fact that they're imperfect and so your strategy might work some of t
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by fouric 5y ago
> vimscript plugins are better because they work with both vim and neovim I think you mean "vimscript plugins are better for plugin adoption because they work with both vim and neovim". From the language-design, performance,
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by fouric 5y ago
>> If you have to dig into the details of a function to understand what it does, you have failed to sufficiently explain what the function does through its naming and set of arguments. > This isn't always true in my experience
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by fouric 5y ago
This quote does not scale. Software contains essential complexity because it was built to fulfill a need . You can make all of the beautiful, feature-impoverished designs you want - they won't make it to production, and I won't u
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by fouric 5y ago
Yes, coding at scale is about managing complexity. No, "Keeping methods short" is not a good way to manage complexity, because... > then mentally model the entire graph of interactions at once ...partially applies even if you
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by fouric 5y ago
Speed, efficiency, and reliability have nothing to do with whether you use a stock or custom UI toolkit. As an example: the GNOME file picker is computationally inefficient, ergonomically inefficient, and feature-poor. I'd much rather
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by fouric 5y ago
> How would you prevent this from happening? Very simply - enforce security permissions at the OS level, rather than the app store level. There's no technical reason an app store also has to handle permissions. Leave the discoverabi
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by fouric 5y ago
Sure, it's not arbitrary, but you didn't nail the actual reason: to make money. If Apple was actually concerned about circumventing the App Store review process for the purposes of security , they would implement OS-level sandbox
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by fouric 5y ago
> due to a lifelong habit of putting things away when I'm finished with them, I always close windows and quit applications when I'm done using them for my current task ...but that's not a need - that's a preference
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> When I need to open an editor QUICKLY Do you actually ever need to open a new editor ? Why not just start whatever editor you want when you boot up, and then open files in it? You probably don't shut down and start up your web
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by fouric 5y ago
There's very rarely a good reason to do so. The vast majority of times when I find people saying that they use a tool for its startup time, it's not because they actually have a good reason for not keeping their editor running (
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by fouric 5y ago
I don't think that (1) is true at all - you have the same problems in building a collaborative application using a web app as you would desktop software (e.g. let's say that you want to do multi-user real-time collaboration - you&
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by fouric 5y ago
It hasn't been debunked if there's no source for the claim...
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by fouric 5y ago
As it happens, I purchased the only two pieces of technology that I actually like in the past two years. The first is the ReMarkable 2[1]. While imperfect (not open-source, support is atrocious), its utility is so high that it more than m
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by fouric 5y ago
My favorite esolang, not mentioned in the article, is Malbolge[1], simply because it's so difficult to write working programs in that it took two years for the first program to be found, which was discovered (not written) using a heu
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by fouric 5y ago
Seconded, Lobsters is good. Now, my perception has been that it's beginning to have its Eternal September, including a significant uptick in political content, but as it stands it's still much more technical than HN.
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> getting angry is just another sales tactic That's legitimately horrifying. I've never had the misfortune of experiencing it, but now I know - if a salesman ever tries to pull that tactic on me, then instant threat to call the
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by fouric 5y ago
> the conversion is inefficient. It takes a lot of power to extract H2 from H2O. How inefficient? That number matters. If it takes 500 kWh to make a tank that stores 100 kWh, you'd be a fool to use that energy directly, as that ta
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by fouric 5y ago
Because others of us have good memories associated with the term. Given the choice between having more language available to use or less, I don't see a reason to want less.
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by fouric 5y ago
I agree with you. I also think that the keyboard was likely designed to be familiar to those comfortable with the standardized keyboard layout, as opposed to being efficient. From an efficiency perspective, there's a lot that you can
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by fouric 5y ago
What do you define as "book reading posture"? Book at eye level, arms holding it up?
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by fouric 5y ago
> Whether it's 100m or 2bn doesn't really matter. ...yet, it will absolutely matter if it's $20B - Google's 2020 operating income was $41B. You're making the claim that since Google wasn't fined enough, fine
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by fouric 5y ago
> (Mind you, there's no similar feature for Android, so FAANG might be carefully snooping on only Android users. But it's pretty unlikely.) Android has about two billion users - there's an extremely strong incentive for
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by fouric 5y ago
> That’s a superstition Why do you say that it's a superstition? Have you reverse-engineered the Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger apps?
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by fouric 5y ago
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please d
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by fouric 5y ago
> But that only applies to targets who are "in the game." The problem is that any entity in a nation that you're aggressive with can be "in the game". You can steal IP from foreign companies, damage foreign inf
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by fouric 5y ago
Cryptocurrency has properties that make many kinds of criminal activity far easier than most other kinds of "wealth". There's a reason that ransomware payments are now exclusively transferred through Bitcoin.
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by fouric 5y ago
Name a single company that has died due to data breaches. Meanwhile, I'll name a dozen that got breached/leaked data, and got away with it: Experian, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Marriott, Yahoo, First American Financial Corporati
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by fouric 5y ago
The existence of "reasonable alternatives" is largely irrelevant. Firefox is a reasonable alternative to Chrome, and yet very few of the people I tell about Chrome's tracking switch - they just don't care. Same for Proto
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by fouric 5y ago
> And encryption your data doesn't help if you don't have backups. Actually, it does. "We'll delete your data." is not the only ransomware threat - the other one that's not quite as big, but growing, is &quo

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