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by gambler 6y ago
Yeah, keep pimping these "mitigations" instead of a better security model that doesn't require everyone perfectly jumping through hoops. When you get fucked over by one of such security exploits it will be a great relief to k
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by gambler 6y ago
Yes, those are some of the examples. You can roll your own as well. With modern JS and CSS selectors you can create useful, reusable libraries with just several dozen lines of straightforward code.
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by gambler 6y ago
Really, this is the question I'm being asked on Hacker News? Are we at the point where an average user here never heard of BitTorrent, Tor and other similar systems? Or is it a way to demand for me to post a complete description of the
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by gambler 6y ago
>Developers in a variety of domains were invited to apply, as long as they fit the themes of empowerment, privacy, decentralization, community and so on. Funny. I'm seeing how the Web is being fucked over in exactly these areas, a
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by gambler 6y ago
>With a framework-authored site with client-side routing, we can start to do more interesting things. We can make informed guesses based on analytics about which things the user is likely to interact with and preload the logic and data
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by gambler 6y ago
This. I've long ago abandoned spaghetti mega-scripts and SPAs in favor of targeted JS libraries that extend HTML capabilities. They're not web components, they don't require some framework to manage, and my HTML works fine wi
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by gambler 6y ago
This is, in reality, the biggest problem. A lot of modern technologies have built-in assumptions that most people promoting them didn't ever think through. "Everything will be updated all the time, everywhere" is one of those
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by gambler 6y ago
Replacing FM radio is a huge societal mistake. Its simplicity enabled countless innovations that would and will not be possible with satellite radio. The technology (unlike analog TV) works perfectly fine for its core purpose and has numero
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by gambler 6y ago
I would be gladly writing a lot of stuff in a Prolog-like language if there was a dialect that separated rule construction from traversal manipulation. This is such an obvious thing. I should be able to construct a set of rules and then say
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by gambler 6y ago
>I think the article takes a very balanced stance. Not really. It just does the usual cowardly trick of complaining about something by selectively citing cherry-picked experts. Rather than this quote salad I'd very much prefer hon
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by gambler 7y ago
>You're saying to literally wrap your face in plastic Are you trolling or serious? I said forehead, not face. Obviously, do not wrap plastic foil around your face.
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by gambler 7y ago
Like I posted below, you can make an improvised "face shield" out of plastic food wrap in about 15 seconds. No parts needed. Wrap it around your head at forehead level so it sticks to itself. Keep the bottom part loose, so you can
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by gambler 7y ago
>It's really hard to breathe through food wrap and it doesn't cling to hair well. You wrap it around the top of your head (forehead level), so it sticks to itself. You keeps the bottom part loose, so it doesn't restrict
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by gambler 7y ago
What is the point of 3d printing something that clearly needs to be mass-produced in great quantities? Maybe it "feels good", but it's just too slow. I'm honestly not sure why people don't just use plastic food wrap
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by gambler 7y ago
Most chain stores and even some local stores have online storefront and still ship items. It's a good time to support them. You don't want to live in the world where Amazon is the only game left in town. Also, Ebay.
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by gambler 7y ago
Three weeks ago, "hackers" here were posting their ventilator "designs" based on Arduino ducktaped to a CPAP machine and getting hundreds of upvotes. Now Tesla cooperating with actual medical equipment manufacturers is n
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by gambler 7y ago
>I am working on a project where I initialize some DOM elements with data- attributes and control their visibility in response to a form input change event. It would be nice to somehow run the visibility check in more of a declarative&#
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by gambler 7y ago
>The problem is building proper architecture, so code won't quickly turn into spaghetti [...] With vanilla JS it's the wild west. This is a "problem" that I solved for myself years ago. It's not even that hard.
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by gambler 7y ago
This is a nonsensical response on two levels. First, you're missing the obvious fact that the response to this pandemic is largely dictated by data processing. People are modeling the spread of the virus, trying to make predictions abo
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by gambler 7y ago
I've been hearing about deep learning revolutionizing "everything" for the past 8 years. So, can someone name me any significant impact it made on figuring out what to do about the recent epidemic? If not, I think it's w
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by gambler 7y ago
>A few year back, I got locked out of my primary gmail account due to a 2 factor authentication SNAFU. I was never able to recover it. This is the downside (or hidden cost) of 2FA that most security experts purposefully ignore, because
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by gambler 7y ago
>The GOP [...] racist, xenophobic [...] It's pretty obvious that the wast majority of people in power right now are not very good at preparedness planning or rapid crisis response. This includes both parties. This also include
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by gambler 7y ago
Flathead screwdrivers are used for zillion different things, though. From prying open cans of paint, to making holes in stuff, to short-circuiting CMOS reset terminals. Now, a powered screwdriver is immediately less versatile. A lot of mode
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by gambler 7y ago
If you shut down Jimmy's Bar and Grill for 1 month, it can be reopened 1 month later. The only thing you would need for that is some money (a loan, possibly) and food. If you shut down a factory, this affects every single company that
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by gambler 7y ago
>How is an electric car factory an essential business? Because it's not like a restaurant that you can close and then open a month later with little consequence to the public. If you stop production of components or cars, you will
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by gambler 7y ago
Yeah, sure, the fact that many journalists are consistently choosing to publish blatant lies, propaganda and click-bait garbage are all the fault of their readers, the Internet or maybe "capitalism". But not the journalists themse
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by gambler 7y ago
By some strange coincidence maintaining a working web browser became a task that only Google can do "properly". Microsoft gave up. Firefox is struggling. Doing something from scratch is insanity. So here we are. A website choke-fu
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by gambler 7y ago
If we're talking about disease-based games, I highly recommend Pathologic 2. Nothing realistic there in terms of modeling disease spread or cure mechanics, it's a very artistic and somewhat abstract game, but it conveys certain so
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by gambler 7y ago
heck significantly more in the nordic countries I think some of them instituted programs to fix vitamin D deficiency a while ago: https://www.nutraingredients.com/Article/2015/05/28/Sweden-t... Damn, o
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by gambler 7y ago
Thank you for clarification. Yeah, the numbers look interesting.

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