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by jmull 3y ago
In a regular OS there would be a bunch of implicit things provided by the OS that the app can access, while in this OS those things are explicit in the context. But I don’t think that’s really that significant… you could, e.g., enumerate al
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by jmull 3y ago
The key factor when de-duping some code is to know whether the code is the same because they express the same abstraction or due to coincidence . If they are the same abstraction then they should always be the same and you're doing
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by jmull 3y ago
This is the Cory Doctorow sense of the word, is it not? (Or, now that I notice your username, maybe you’re making an ironic joke, since complaining about the misuse of the word enshitification is a meme now?)
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by jmull 3y ago
No... I use an iPad with Magic Keyboard case daily. It works pretty well for things designed for keyboard and pointing device -- one of my main uses is to remote in to a Windows machine. The main problems with this setup aren't inheren
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by jmull 3y ago
Well... there still has to be a reason to use htmx, or else why not cut it too?
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by jmull 3y ago
I buy the need for something like FQL. But I don’t buy that this should be connected to a proprietary service. Or that the alternative query language should be a proprietary language. For something long-term or critical, it seems like a p
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by jmull 3y ago
I just don't see how it's incumbent on Apple to implement a standard only because it exists. It takes significant resources and impacts release schedules to, say, support an on-going vulkan implementation... I think there would ne
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by jmull 3y ago
Here’s the actual good advice: Build your system as a set of composable parts. The article doesn’t really quite get there, but is close. Almost everything else in there is wrong and should be ignored. Let’s see… *nix command line never did
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by jmull 3y ago
What problem does using precompiled binaries solve for serde?
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by jmull 3y ago
I think the conventional way exceptions are implemented is pretty bad. First, a lot of languages make you use an awkward, unnecessary scope to catch an exception. e.g., you want to declare and initialize a variable to the value of a functio
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by jmull 3y ago
> This one line is emblematic of the flaws in the article. I don't think you can reasonably dismiss this article based on that line. (1) It's just an aside, not part of the main argument; (2) It happens to be true. Anyway... &q
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by jmull 3y ago
Hang on, we're talking about user sessions and you're talking about access tokens. Short expiration of sessions is bad because of the terrible UX. Access tokens can be refreshed without user interaction, so it's not the same
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by jmull 3y ago
Well, you're trading one problem -- apps need to include their own dependencies -- with a more thorny problem: everyone has to somehow have already installed your app's dependencies. Of course, they don't, so you bundle your
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by jmull 3y ago
It's hard to see how that would have worked. Google can put anything it wants in Chrome, but why would Safari or Firefox have done this? I don't see how they even could from a practical perspective, since they'd each either h
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by jmull 3y ago
With inline styles you can’t do media queries (e.g., so your site can look good on both phones and desktops) or pseudo selectors (e.g. :hover). Also, though it’s lower-level than something like bootstrap, it does have a design system. Boots
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by jmull 3y ago
To be fair, react was badly conceived and designed from the start and has aged poorly since. I’m all for not moving from one hot tech of the day to the next hot tech of the days. But let’s not stop on react. > If you know JS/TS and
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by jmull 3y ago
> Why font-size must NEVER be in pixels This isn't really right (especially putting "NEVER" in caps). Mainly because this is somewhat misleading: > If you've used pixels to define any of the above style properties,
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by jmull 3y ago
> Modern development requires knowing the toolchain framework, idiosyncrasies, foot guns, best practices, etc. All this stuff is the same as learning the details of the language. Once you know the pattern it’s not hard to use it in a con
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by jmull 3y ago
Here's some more info why you might use this instead of plain clang. https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...
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by jmull 3y ago
I think you're fishing for a way to dismiss the concerns of the authors without understanding or addressing them, which is pointless.
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by jmull 3y ago
> May I ask why the flags are checked that frequently? Couldn't they be cached for at least a minute? Not the previous poster, but it appears in the scenario, the SQLite database is the cache.
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by jmull 3y ago
> Do you have a source for this? I didn't see that mentioned in the article. The person who runs prosecraft says "I looked to the internet for more text that I could analyze, and I used web crawlers to find more books." [0
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by jmull 3y ago
That's twitter generally. If your engagement only reaches the level of twitter, you aren't really engaging at all.
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by jmull 3y ago
If you want to do this kind of thing, let authors opt-in (or publishers). Yes, it will take effort and probably go slow, but if the tool is really useful and amazing, it should be doable. I suspect the authors are put-off by a couple thin
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by jmull 3y ago
This makes some sense for straight-up DDoS attacks. For bots/spam my intuition is this could not work. Computation is extremely cheap, and your average legit user is going to have a significantly lower threshold than your spammer.
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by jmull 3y ago
Man, I hated those chiclet monstrosities. Fortunately, I had the 2001-N, with the real keyboard and green screen.
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by jmull 3y ago
> there is no need for such a "special" language feature as described here I think the special language feature is the point , not an unfortunate side effect of something lacking in the language design. The purpose of errors i
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by jmull 3y ago
Well, technically, Rust is unsafe, unless they remove “unsafe”. We’re really talking about safety on a continuum, not as a binary switch. Zig has some strong safety features, and some gaps. Well, one notable big gap, UAF. (Perhaps they’ll f
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by jmull 3y ago
I think the “not” in there is a typo? It reads logically if you remove it. So it’s not really zig deprecating 32-bit macos’s, but Apple, and there’s not a lot zig can do about that.
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by jmull 3y ago
Well, information warfare is warfare by analogy, not actual warfare. It’s useful, so could be a motive of a kind… But if you think Lyme was developed as a weapon of information warfare, what’s your argument? To induce fear and terror, I thi

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