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by gspr 4y ago
> The amount of people for whom the hate is deserved and not just a knee jerk reaction is probably trivial though (at least once you include Typescript and ES6). Modern JS is not a bad language and it's time for hating on it to go o
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by gspr 4y ago
I don't understand. Can you elaborate?
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by gspr 4y ago
> I think trivial. Neither one of us can back up our claims, but: Surely there's a non-trivial amount of people out there who abhor JS and who would still want to be able to target the web as a platform? > Manipulating the DOM wi
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by gspr 4y ago
> (IMHO: using WASM for a framework which spends most of its time manipulating the DOM is wasted effort, JS is much better suited for this type of "dynamic workload", this type of application might be better done with a hybrid
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by gspr 4y ago
> Funnily enough, I'm using the rustc compiler from Debian repositories (who of course is not well-known for eagerness to adopt bleeding-edge), and I've not run into any Rust code that wouldn't work with that compiler. Oh
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by gspr 4y ago
While I love Rust, I think you're spot on with your concerns (apart from the questionmark operator – it's just delicious pragmatic convenience). The culture of exploding dependency trees is a recipe for disaster, especially when c
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by gspr 4y ago
Are they maintained? Or are they latest version or bust "maintained"?
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by gspr 4y ago
No it's not. The Atari isn't one year old. Come on man, from your logic you might as well say that a one year old car should be fed hay since it's practically a horse.
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by gspr 4y ago
If a year old is considered antiquated, we have some major problems in this world. And it's kinda my whole point: code that can only be consumed wholesale as shipped might technically be open source, but if backporting fixes to a year
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by gspr 4y ago
You're kinda proving my point: it works fine if you wholeheartedly take whatever Google gives you. Sure, that's technically open source, but is it really practically so if you can't practically adapt it?
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by gspr 4y ago
If you don't mind me asking: why? What does it have going for it that LibreOffice doesn't?
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by gspr 4y ago
My understanding is that the Chromium folks handle security issues with: "version x.y.z is vulnerable, please update to (x+7).(y+25).(z+2), as it is the only supported version – the fact that the diff from x.y.z is 100 kLOC and touches
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by gspr 4y ago
It's pretty close to being unusable as an open source code base. Look at Debian's struggles with maintaining security fixes for Chromium. Sure, the license is open, and Chromium is therefore technically open. But it's dangero
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by gspr 4y ago
I love those guys. I really wanna start using them, but there's one missing feature for me: currently, I can mail them a few hundred euros, and get a number of years of service. That's great. But currently you only get one block
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by gspr 4y ago
To assemble executable code from separately compiled files. Or to tell your executable code from where other executable code it needs can be loaded at runtime.
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by gspr 4y ago
Maybe he just wants to use his sabbatical to try something different? Someone in his position doesn't have to remain laser focus on their own field.
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by gspr 4y ago
The threat model assumes at least some trust in the system you're running pass on.
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by gspr 4y ago
I don't think I've ever used another browser for as long as Firefox has existed. I think I can count crashes on one hand.
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by gspr 4y ago
For an easy case: compared to itself before Brexit.
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by gspr 4y ago
> Surely there is a space for minimalist office suites and email clients, FWIW, my email life improved massively when I left the likes of Thunderbird and KMail behind for the simplicity of mu/mu4e [1]. I hear similarly stellar thing
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by gspr 4y ago
Luckily you can still use them for that even if you no longer need them for vision correction :-)
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by gspr 4y ago
Because glasses suck, and we don't wanna condemn future generations to wear them if they don't have to (and they still can if they so choose, of course).
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by gspr 4y ago
Or maybe the effect takes years of sustained lack of light to work, and northern summers compensate?
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by gspr 4y ago
That's why I referred to their thinking , not to them per se. Their thoughts are shared by enough people to be a real problem.
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by gspr 4y ago
Wow, thanks for this! I had absolutely no idea either.
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by gspr 4y ago
Fair enough, but that doea still mean that higher rates are factored in. Not just as well/strongly as you and I would like.
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by gspr 4y ago
It's exhausting. His thinking is literally a direct threat to human survival as we know it. Yet somehow, we accept this shit as part of the discourse. I don't see why we don't treat them like flat earthers or cultists.
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by gspr 4y ago
Good point!
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by gspr 4y ago
Same in Norway. Here, banks are required to deny mortgages to people who they do not see as being able to handle much higher rates than on the date the mortgage was taken. Is that not the case in Sweden? (I personally think they should test
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by gspr 4y ago
Something being open source typically doesn't mean you can copy and use it without attribution.

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