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by idoubtit 3y ago
> I have, and I continue to. It's not hard. I also write JavaScript code without NodeJS and package.json. It's not hard when the code is simple. But it doesn't scale. For a complex code, I want a linter, I want automated t
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by idoubtit 3y ago
He may have 3 bundlers. Webpack as a direct dependency, then esbuild and Rollup, because Vitest uses both IIRC.
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Sorry, but I intend to raise a bit of guilty conscience. I know it's unpopular and useless, but I feel I have to, once in a while... A week before this submarine exploded, a boat capsized near Greece. Between 400 and 500 persons died.
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by idoubtit 3y ago
> Usually start with "select * from table limit 10", look at the columns and data available, and then start refining. An experienced person won't do that. For any moderately complex SQL query, before writing it I already h
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by idoubtit 3y ago
From the HTML source of the page, this site was made with "mdBook". No link, but a web search finds the source. On the mdBook site, the official backends produce HTML or Markdown, but community backends offer more perspective. An
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by idoubtit 3y ago
The link "Debate over the bomb" in the section named "Controversy" is broken. As a child, I was taught that these bombings stopped the war in Asia. For decades, I thought it the truth. Then I learned that most historians
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by idoubtit 3y ago
What's missing from this history is the origins of Apache httpd 2.4: as I see it, circa 2009 Nginx started growing. Apache's market share was like fresh snow under foehn (from 75% at this time down to 20% today). Nginx was much mo
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by idoubtit 3y ago
TLDR 30% of http requests are bad bots, 17% are okay bots, and 53% human. The PDF report isn't explicit, but since their assertion is "based on data collected from the company’s global network throughout 2022, which includes 6 t
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by idoubtit 3y ago
> that aforementioned Pixel situation where it stopped being supported _the next year_. That Pixel (from 2016) did not stop being supported the next year (2017). Android 8 was first released in 2017 and was followed by Android 9 one year
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You misunderstood. I had several tabs in Gimp, each with an image. I thought I had exported every one (to .png). Gimp told me I hadn't saved any (to .xcf) and Gimp doesn't care about exporting. *I had no way to know if my images w
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by idoubtit 3y ago
I stopped using Gimp a few years ago because it made me lose data, and I could not find a way to work safely with Gimp. I was modifying several PNG images. Once I was done, I closed the window. As usual, Gimp warned me that I hadn't sa
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by idoubtit 3y ago
I also believe these were the original philosophies, since MySQL emerged from practical issues and Postgresql has more academic origins. But nowadays, I'm not sure MySQL is generally faster. In my experience, the main differences are t
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by idoubtit 4y ago
I've read about this several times, and I'm not surprised the story is popular. Many people see China as a foe, so they like to smear it. That's alright, but anyone should be extra cautious when a story is just what most peop
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by idoubtit 4y ago
> France specifically seems to have a bizarre tolerance for "pay to play" culture and limited access in outdoor recreation. Countries all around them have shown how strong freedom to roam laws ( https://en.wikipedia.o
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This 230 b$ announcement is private funding over 20 years. For a fair comparison, South Korea government's budget is around 500 b$ per year, and this chip center will be funded by circa 10 b$ per year from Samsung (with commodities and
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by idoubtit 4y ago
I concur to that: advertising is a kind of cancer of modern society. One obvious consequence of advertising is the worsening of climate change. I've seen a more direct consequence of advertising on fragile members of the society. Someo
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I fear that syntactic sugar creates as many problems as it solves. For instance, one might wish to sort the results by whitelisted column: query = sql`select foo from bar where zed = ${p} order by ${col} asc`; Unless the lib implem
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by idoubtit 4y ago
In my opinion, the main difference is the history: this search engine has been used for 2 decades in various production sites. Mantiscore is an opensource fork of Sphinx Search, which released its first version in 2001. The fork started aft
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by idoubtit 4y ago
Do you have any sources when you claim that Lucene is the best search engine because it is much more "powerful" to the point it's a "shame" to use anything else, and because every engine "actual search perform
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by idoubtit 4y ago
I think Orwell's fame is totally unrelated to these 6 rules — 5 rules, since the last one is just a warning that rules about style should not be absolute. Why is 1984 so acclaimed? Its style is boring and unimaginative. The character
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by idoubtit 4y ago
The only French mustard that has a legal certification (an "IGP", meaning "Certified Geographic Origin") is the "Moutarde de Bourgogne". It's made with wine while the Dijon mustard uses vinegar. And the la
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by idoubtit 4y ago
> That's precisely my issue with React though - JSX is a DSL React does not require JSX, so it's a bit strange to raise the same issue with JSX as with the DSLs of Vue, etc. If one wants to avoid JSX, it's always possible
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by idoubtit 4y ago
Solar and batteries are not a long term solution that will bring energy independence to everyone. It's not that simple. In western countries, and especially in the USA, people mostly want to live in a private house, with two or more ca
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From the sibling thread about packaging and deploying a single script, there was no consensus. There was disagreement on the best way to package, and doubts about the mid term future of some suggested solutions. The following alternatives w
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The story is great, but there are many inconsistencies. I believe it was decorated to the point the facts were bent to follow the story. After reading the article, I thought that reasearchers learned about the existence of Ajami just recent
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I don't care about Java, I don't care much about its decline, but I do care about a good analysis. Unfortunately, I thought this article was quite shallow, despite its claims it is backed by data. First of all, what do these vario
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by idoubtit 4y ago
On this site, I opened a book at random and was surprised to see several errors in the text. For instance, a full stop was clearly missing in the first line. So I checked the source, which seems to be gutenberg.org (the site has no referenc
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by idoubtit 4y ago
> can you tell me in what way a cucumber is dangerous to consumers, if its shape is bend a little bit more or less I can't tell why a bent cucumber is dangerous, but I can tell tell why specifications for cucumbers are sometimes nee
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I also own a Kobo reader, and I'm especially delighted with the unofficial KOReader software. I've installed it aside the official Kobo software which I don't use anymore. http://koreader.rocks I believe it is sui
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> the paperback will outlive you and probably your grandchildren On Monday I had in my hands a book bought in 1843 by an ancestor of mine, 6 generations ago IIRC. A few page were damaged, but it could still be read. So a book lasts far m

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