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by hackrmn 1y ago
It's been a while I've had to sit down applying or writing a parser or a parser generator, but it being/offering a "simple recursive descent" parser, does that mean left-recursion is a no-go? In my opinion, parser l
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by hackrmn 1y ago
Testing by "simulating" button presses and other actions like that, including inspecting pixels, is part of so-called "black-box" testing, and offers merit(s) of its own. At least because software is used by people who c
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by hackrmn 1y ago
In my experience, writing readable code and writing code that behaves correctly (fulfills the contract/requirements without hiding potential faults) is often mutually exclusive -- most people end up doing one or the other. This is rela
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by hackrmn 1y ago
Current state of things is a mixed bag, in my opinion. XSLT wasn't perfect, and XML required a lot of repetition and neither got the amount of scrutiny both deserved to advance past their own inconvenience. But a lot of what we have to
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by hackrmn 1y ago
Is XSLT enjoying the equivalent of Streisand Effect? Ever since news came out of Google wanting to rid Chrome of XSLT support, there has been a number of XSLT-related news here. I am not complaining, I think XSLT deserves a second life, it
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by hackrmn 1y ago
I've not heard of Jane Street, but looking at the site, it seems they're quite the tech-savvy group for an _asset trading_ company. And reading the article, they apparently "trade" (pun intended) in quite a few different
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by hackrmn 1y ago
In software engineering the statement "interfaces, not implementations" has been used for a long time (certainly at least Robert "Uncle Bob" C. Martin started teaching), which is a generalization on the "we don&#x27
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by hackrmn 1y ago
I've always been a staunch opponent of using `/v1/` kind of element in the URL. I understand its function and the convenience it allows for "versioning", but I grew up with HTTP and I always liked how it insisted th
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by hackrmn 1y ago
I know opinions are divided on what I am about to mention, but what about CAPTCHA to filter bots? Yes, I am well aware we're a decade past a lot of CAPTCHA being broken by _algorithms_, but I believe it is still a relatively useful gen
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by hackrmn 1y ago
This isn't accurate. I mean in generally you're pointing in the right direction. Your vague statements on "esoteric OS" are not helpful, and in fact I think that it is maybe _you_ who don't know your computer as wel
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by hackrmn 1y ago
> can anyone explain the modern trend of not including publishing dates in blog articles? In such cases, I usually try to see if the `Last-Modified` header served with the HTML document over HTTP, can be useful, but I conclude that often
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by hackrmn 1y ago
Well, it only took about 15 hours for the site to be discovered by the Internet Troll Federation and be absolutely stuffed with slurs and hate memes. Which was to be expected, frankly. Not sure at which point the site allowed HTML, but for
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by hackrmn 1y ago
While an alluring title, and commendable argument, I do not necessarily think this is about computer or user interfaces. Ok, so I, instead of navigating Finder, or Windows Explorer, or something analogous where I have an idea in my head of
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by hackrmn 1y ago
I appreciate your response. I made a point of not revising my comment after posting it and finding in a subsequent parable the following, quoting: > Each SM is broken up into 4 identical quadrants, which NVIDIA calls SM subpartitions, ea
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by hackrmn 1y ago
Plenty of circumstantial evidence pointing to the fact NVIDIA prefers to hand out semi-tailored documentaion resources to signatories and other "VIPs", if not the least to exert control over who and how uses their products. I woul
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by hackrmn 1y ago
I grew up learning programming on a genuine IBM PC running MS-DOS, neither of which was FOSS but taught me plenty that I routinely rely on today in one form or another.
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by hackrmn 1y ago
I find the piece, much like a lot of other documentation, "imprecise". Like most such efforts, it likely caters to a group of people expected to benefit from being explained what a GPU is, but it fumbles it terms, e.g. (the first
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by hackrmn 1y ago
Native applications is a relatively fragmented market of different hardware and OS for platform, made more complicated by relative lack of interest (which is because the market is fragmented, a catch-22), and factors like needing to learn a
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by hackrmn 1y ago
I'd argue that depends on what you mean by "innovation" -- Google has been pretty busy, meaning specifically developers on their payroll, churning out more or less useful Web API implementations, certainly at a far more frant
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by hackrmn 1y ago
I get your point, I do. Then again, a lot can be said about the "PR value" of letting what could be miniscule (by comparison) costs of serving static hypertext, be saved in the eyes of "potential" customers. It's pe
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by hackrmn 1y ago
With "free range organic" are you describing people or food? As in, "it's better to be a free range organic human [vs. battery/caged livestock human-like resource for exploitation]", or "it's better t
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by hackrmn 1y ago
So Tonsky's punishing us for leaving JavaScript enabled?
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by hackrmn 1y ago
My go-to reaction to these things that Microsoft does, removing content, is always the same: Microsoft, are you running low on hosting space, or something? I mean, how does one of worlds largest software corporations, handing people OneDriv
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by hackrmn 1y ago
Related: https://htmx.org/essays/htmx-sucks/ (on the actual HTMX upstream site)
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by hackrmn 1y ago
Saying "I don't care about 'privacy' because I have nothing to hide" can be compared to saying "I don't care about free speech because I have nothing to say". Which says a lot, frankly.
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by hackrmn 1y ago
I've been shouting this from "the rooftops" ever since I eventually independently had come to the same conclusion through sufficient volume of experience and empiry. I consider it a small tragedy, however, that my words tend
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by hackrmn 1y ago
I, too, have been saying this on occasion. In my observation, Mozilla has been in an increasingly suboptimal position with Firefox, for a while now, as Google and Microsoft have largely settled on splitting the market in between themselves
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by hackrmn 1y ago
Given what you're vaguely implying -- that the switches would be nowhere near the first thing a pilot would normally think of in the kind of situation -- what are the odds the pilot asking on record "did you flip the fuel cut-off
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by hackrmn 1y ago
I disagree on the general principle of adding APIs -- the platform suffers not from lack of APIs, when you really think about it, but from "another API to rule them all". It's frankly a similar fallacy that struck Microsoft w
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by hackrmn 1y ago
To be fair (pun intended), I am still on Fairphone 4, and I've gotta say it has lasted me very well, and the battery is still in good condition so the selling point of being able to swap the battery (something I actually _have_ practic

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