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by handrous 5y ago
Sort of. I suspect an under-appreciated part of the modern Web performing so poorly is how casually we throw in vector graphics (SVG, mostly) and draw/transform shit with CSS, these days. Those used to be things one simply did not do
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by handrous 5y ago
There are lots of hardware configs that don't fully work, or are very unstable, under Linux.
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> Alright, so what about their iWork suite? On second thought, forget about it. People are using Google Docs or Office 365. Next... I'm only able to get away with it because I don't have to send anything other than PDFs to othe
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by handrous 5y ago
The latest Safari is by far the buggiest thing I've seen out of Apple in some time. It fucking crashed on me the other day! That in addition to multiple bad behaviors and glitches. But then, I don't do betas and usually wait u
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by handrous 5y ago
I think if Apple really really wanted to implement it if not for the risk to app sales, they'd have it on desktop Safari, at least. As it is, I just think they don't want to implement it, App Store or no. From observing non-geek
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by handrous 5y ago
It's a pure loss for non-geek users. It should be disabled—no dialog allowed, even—by default, if the feature's gonna exist. That hitting "allow" on a pane that pops up on a site—something users are conditioned to do wit
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by handrous 5y ago
I'd love some data on what percentage of web-push notifications going out are to users who want them, versus to users who didn't realize browsers had added a feature to let websites shit up their desktop, and, like most folks, jus
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by handrous 5y ago
Windows and Linux user for 25 years [EDIT Windows for 25, Linux for 20, to be more precise], heavy macOS user (in addition to those) for the last 10 or so. If it has a firewall of any kind, I've never noticed nor interacted with it. I&
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by handrous 5y ago
Not having web push is a feature. They're the 3rd party toolbar or BonziBuddy of the modern web—often enabled, but rarely wanted—however nice an idea they were in theory.
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> Yeah that sucks, but on OSX side I have to restart my computer every week or so because of forced updates. Huh? I think I restart my Mac for updates perhaps quarterly , and I can't recall it ever being forced.
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Nearly every politics-related thread I participate in on HN ends up with my needing to start back at Book I of The Republic so we can get on the same page about how complex the idea of "Justice" actually is. Literally the first pa
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by handrous 5y ago
> That's what crassness is, and it comes down to our relative apprehension of the real vs. the represented, where typically, something real is powerful independent of who is observing it, and the representation is not. > That dif
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There are tons of excellent pieces of Apple software that come with iOS[EDIT macOS, that is] (or are free to download). Preview's simply amazing and I miss it very much on every other platform, including iOS , but probably doesn&#x2
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by handrous 5y ago
The CAPTCHAs are probably over-applied by people who use the defaults, but they're absolutely necessary for some sites, especially e-commerce. The alternative would be flat-out blocking requests that trigger the CAPTCHAs. An absolute
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by handrous 5y ago
Their service is great if you take money online at all. The $200/m tier plan, that is. I gather the $5,000+/m custom plans are nice if you need all the extra networking features, though way overpriced if you just need basic CDN fe
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by handrous 5y ago
On the other hand, 99% of my looking stuff up online is very low-value, and the trade off for that ease is that any time some question of trivia comes to mind I sort of itch until I find it out, even if it doesn't matter, whereas bef
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by handrous 5y ago
> That could (and often does) mean the next business day or even later. Or it could mean ASAP; they’re adults, and have the judgement to make the correct call. GP was correct—that means you've gotta read every message in case it&#x2
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by handrous 5y ago
That versions so good that I years ago head-canon'd it as the official video. I don't usually care for "AMV" stuff, but that one's perfect.
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Middle and upper management get there via connections and picking things up on their own. It's unsurprising that they don't want to be subjected to competition with lesser people who can "merely" be trained to do their j
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by handrous 5y ago
Should be "when", or maybe "where", then, no? The "why" is just clickbaitese.
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by handrous 5y ago
Win10's supported until at least 2025. Not sure why anyone would jump on Win11, unless some software they're using requires it—which seems unlikely for some time, considering how long previous Windows version have retained good
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by handrous 5y ago
Onboarding to all but the most perfectly-written-and-maintained Rails codebase is pure hell, for exactly that reason. I've done lots of Rails in the past, but sworn it off after enough such experiences. [EDIT] Which sucks, because I re
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by handrous 5y ago
You're doing God's work. Anything reminding people that there's more to the Internet than the Web is a step in the right direction.
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by handrous 5y ago
I thought the name for the collection of kernel features was LXC, I didn't realize (until just now) that was the name only for the also-kernel-level wrapper for those features, which name does not cover the features themselves.
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by handrous 5y ago
Docker relies on LXC, so it's Linux-only. On other platforms it runs in a Linux VM. The host for Docker, then, is Linux no matter where you are.
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Helpful, built-in browser UI elements are being left to rot rather than improved, so I doubt that'll happen. See, for example, the HTTP auth login prompt. That could have been improved into something actually desirable to use for authe
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by handrous 5y ago
The entire page loads faster than most "AJAX" interactions on full-fat Gmail. Plus it doesn't use more memory than my first three Web-connected computers had combined , for a single tab. Only way Gmail's tolerable. Th
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by handrous 5y ago
We'll need to bring back animal fat, butter, lard, et c., then. AFAIK avoiding those (because science said they were bad, at one time) is why we've got all these other fats in our diet to begin with.
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Depends entirely on how long ago I wrote it, though. Maybe it's a style thing, but I tend to have a lot more trouble with "WTF does this (leaky, inevitably) abstraction actually do and where does that actually happen ?", w
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Most folks throwing around "socialist" in a positive light in the US mean it like "social democracy", as in the Nordics or various European social-democratic parties. The socialist-socialists—having known a few—usually j

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