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by josteink 3y ago
> I mean, it can run in a web browser, sure, but if what you're building is a server, the chances that you're going to want to run it in a web browser in the end are practically nil, aren't they? We’ve been able to compile
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by josteink 3y ago
> It’s a mess I think everyone agrees about this. What people can’t agree about is how to fix it.
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by josteink 3y ago
> `tsc` is extremely slow to transpile TypeScript sources into JavaScript That’s because its main job is not transpiling to JS, but as a compiler it actually checks the correctness of the code, which is probably the main reason typescrip
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by josteink 3y ago
> There will almost certainly be some laptops that attempt to charge themselves from the iPhone battery depending on which of the 10 versions of USB-C are being implemented. It’s not like there are 100s of phones out there with a USB-C c
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by josteink 3y ago
Self-centered, self-inflating and generally impossible to read. If this is what a girls internet produces, they can keep it for themselves.
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by josteink 3y ago
> the TPM makes for a really bad yubikey. You can't … you can't back it up Technically speaking, the exact same restrictions apply to a Yubikey. That’s what makes it secure.
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That’s some serious hardcore, uncompromised performance-art right there. Thanks for posting!
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by josteink 3y ago
To put it in context: On some devices you have 32MB flash storage in total . 32 Megabytes, not gigabytes. This is not a typo. This needs to fit the bootloader, the Linux kernel, the initrd, the rootfs containing all the user-space tools ma
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by josteink 3y ago
That’s not to say it doesn’t provide value. Using raw ffmpeg is a pretty technical task, with lots of pitfalls, and not for your average user.
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Decoding a single frame can be done a completely deterministic constant-time basis using hardware acceleration, common in embedded systems. Decoding two consecutive frames would obviously require two such cycles, which the hardware may or m
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by josteink 3y ago
> Call me a pessimist but I don't think Mozilla is managed well enough No disagreement there. > We'd need the Linux Foundation Who spends a whooping’ 3% of their total spending on actual Linux? [1] Call me a pessimist, but I
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by josteink 3y ago
Good for Dart-developers I guess. But who on earth is bothering with Dart in 2023?
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Nope. The test page fails for me. At least in MS Edge: https://safari-test.rewind.ai/
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Just installed it. Seems like it requires you to browse using Safari (because of extensions)?
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> just curious, why you would need to force it? For a regular reboot to work, all file-systems must be able to unmount cleanly. If you for whatever reason have a file-system which have become non-responsive and is “hanging” any process w
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by josteink 3y ago
I use both. Google maps is a superior lookup tool. I use this to get the address and location of where I want to go. Apple Maps is superior for navigation when you already have the address, especially if you have an Apple Watch. I also use
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by josteink 3y ago
I’m sure the geo-restrictions placed upon the app, only making it available in the US and a few other select countries are contributing to this. There may be -no- official IG Threads app in the AppStore when curious minds go searching.
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by josteink 3y ago
While that sounds bad, I must admit Plex has been chasing “the wrong things” compared to what I want a Plex instance for. I have streaming services for content I want to rent. I don’t need Plex for that. I use Plex because it’s currently th
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by josteink 3y ago
> It's common for various counterparties, including software, to ask for much more information than they need I believe if you ask for very wide permissions, at least when publihsing a browser-extension in the Google Chrome-store, y
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by josteink 3y ago
> Like apps, extensions have an all-or-nothing attitude to permissions Browser extensions needs to declare their permissions. With Manifest V3 we’re seeing even more need to declare permissions. Any extension cannot do anything not expli
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by josteink 3y ago
Sure. But CLI apps don’t have markup, much less semantic markup. That was my point.
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> as accessibility best practices suggest to convey semantically relevant markup You may have missed that this is about CLI applications, not web-pages.
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by josteink 3y ago
The first rule of karma: don’t care about karma ;) That said I got around 14k and I’m not spending an awful lot of time on HN on a regular basis (less than an hour daily, passive, reading). Posting, like now, is something I maybe do weekly.
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by josteink 3y ago
> With IPEF, even Congress has been shut out of negotiations, which limits accountability and transparency. Both Democratic(new window) and Republican(new window) lawmakers have spoken out to oppose the US Trade Representative’s usurpati
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by josteink 3y ago
A benefit of the typescript compiler being written in typescript is that the compiler-makers get to dogfood their own language. Rewriting it in rust would remove that important aspect c
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by josteink 3y ago
Looking at your posts here, to me it seems like you are actively searching for reasons not to pay. Like you’re trying to justify some sort of cognitive dissonance you have on the matter. Either pay up or admit (to yourself, us, whatever) th
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> Can anyone explain the deep nostalgia and longing for old DOS era software, and in particular VGA text mode interfaces? I’m not using any of those other old things you mention, but I love how I can run my full Emacs-configuration loc
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by josteink 3y ago
This is the most amazing hacker story I’ve read in a good while. Can’t wait to hear how this ends up eventually!
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> The worry is when you buy into something like Nest, who later go on to be brought into Google. Obviously one cannot prevent things like that from happening, but when they do, you can decide to migrate to something else and just sell yo
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No. The point is replacing passwords with something which is equally user-friendly, but which cannot be phished. Ie replacing passwords with cryptographic keys tied to a specific website. That is, your passkey for amazon.com won’t work on a

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