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by lambda 11y ago
Yep, agree with all of your clarifications. I was mostly responding on the basis of desktop browsers, since most of the rest of this thread has been about desktop browsers. You're right, on mobile the WebKit/Blink duopoly, with th
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by lambda 11y ago
I meant intersection of the features, but yeah, if you're talking about browsers that would be the union of the browsers.
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by lambda 11y ago
I don't really think we're in that much danger. For one, WebKit is now forked, into WebKit and Blink. Both of them are rapidly diverging. And there are still enough people using Gecko and Trident (and now EdgeHTML) that you can&#x
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by lambda 11y ago
This comment does seem fairly harsh for something advertised as "a toy." Why would you expect a toy to be state of the art? When I see that phrase, I think of something that is a personal learning experience, might have an interes
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by lambda 11y ago
In the original article here, they discuss how the reason for this feature is that some people get shadowbanned a little too aggressively. "Banned accounts sometimes post good comments, software filters sometimes have false positives,
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by lambda 11y ago
Yes, I discussed those in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10290874 In this comment I just discussed Go, since that's what the parent comment mentioned. Haskell and OCaml are both great languages,
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by lambda 11y ago
One of the major reasons for being interested in Rust is that it is something that is much easier to convince coworkers of. OCaml and Haskell have somewhat odd syntax, for someone who is coming from C like languages or even Python. You need
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by lambda 11y ago
I'm coming from having written mostly Python, Ruby, and Scheme for my past three jobs. I am not looking at Rust merely for replacing C for native extension libraries. I'm looking at Rust for having a good static type system; I&#x2
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by lambda 11y ago
This is not about replacing cars with bikes, but making biking a viable alternative, such that it is actually possible to get from point A to point B by bike without taking a substantial risk of being killed by substantially faster car traf
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by lambda 11y ago
Yep, I've run into the problems with "expect fork"/"expect daemon" in Upstart first hand. Forking is a terrible readiness protocol, and Upstart is terrible at keeping track of a process that doesn't do exa
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by lambda 11y ago
Here's a browser for the actual tree: https://tree.opentreeoflife.org . It is a little slow to load right now, as this has been posted to Reddit recently. For those of you, like me, who may not be very familiar with modern p
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by lambda 11y ago
It's systemd, not SystemD. Also, this is not yet a replacement for systemd: #include <stdio.h> int main (int argc, char * argv[]) { printf ("defer work on the pid 0 until we have a functioning "
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by lambda 11y ago
No, if you can make a 3D printed model of it, you can CNC mill it. Sure, a CNC milling machine is a bit more expensive than the cheapest 3D printers, but anyone who wants can find a machine shop nearby that will mill something for them, or
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by lambda 11y ago
Oh, come on. You don't need a 3D printer for this. All you need is a piece of sheet metal and a CNC milling machine (or heck, even a manual milling machine and some skill at using it), that every moderately equipped machine shop has on
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by lambda 11y ago
You can't use such a literal-minded interpretation in the real world. The real world is complex and fuzzy. For instance, in species with sexual differentiation, two males or two females cannot mate, but are considered the same species.
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by lambda 11y ago
Heh, I was helping a colleague with some question, and I wasn't really sure about the answer, so we Googled and checked out the top hit on StackOverflow. Wound up being a question that I had answered a couple of years earlier, and forg
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by lambda 11y ago
Most of these LucasArts graphical adventure games were written using a game engine known as SCUMM ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUMM ) that was able to target different platforms, which was ported to the Mac and so ra
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by lambda 11y ago
> People who won't see it don't but if you are at all open to it it's easy to reproduce. So, have someone who is "open" to it go and view something that they haven't otherwise had a chance to perceive in pe
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by lambda 11y ago
Yeah, I guess it depends on how often you use the FFI, and I'm not familiar enough with these languages in practice to know how often that comes up. Part of the point of each of these is that they can utilize an existing ecosystem in w
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by lambda 11y ago
Came here to say this. In fact, I think every language that they give 5 stars to has some form of "foreign pointer", "raw pointer", "unsafe pointer" or the like that is nullable, for FFI and other low level tas
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by lambda 11y ago
Hmm. Some interesting data, but it doesn't really cover anything like the full "pipeline", which goes past the PhD to postdocs and then to faculty positions. And of course, that's only covering academic exits, while goin
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by lambda 11y ago
I'm not sure there necessarily is a "consensus" on HN. However, in general, people feel that you shouldn't take a very large salary cut just for a few options. Most startups are not going to have a significant exit. Some
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by lambda 11y ago
In some cases, yes, but there is a lot of it that has diverged in the years since. In the case of Go, while it originated in China, it really flourished in Japan and the Japanese developed it a lot further, up through the beginning of the 2
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by lambda 11y ago
Sure, but it's been played in Japan for over 1000 years, which is plenty long enough to have developed "ancient Japanese wisdom".
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by lambda 11y ago
It is a feature that it caches your authentication for a few minutes. It's not a feature that other processes running as your user, such as something that manages to do a sandbox escape in your browser, are also able to acquire credent
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by lambda 11y ago
Yeah, the difference with the disk full alert and the alarm is that the alarm is emitting a very obnoxious noise continuously while you're trying to debug it; and in the meantime, not actually providing a useful service, like the serve
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by lambda 11y ago
Mmm, no. If the four largest mining pools go for it, but the various exchanges and online wallets do not, then you get a very dangerous fork where you now have two separate currencies, and have the possibility of double spends. The nodes th
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by lambda 11y ago
Here's a good video demonstrating a similar experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpsMkLaEiOY It is amazing how many of his attempts to silence them fail, until he finally gives up and packs them away in multiple
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by lambda 11y ago
There's also https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv which is fairly similar in how it works to Miller, though it can also index a CSV file and then future operation will be sped up by utilizing the index.
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by lambda 11y ago
> "all women get catcalled" Which one of these videos did that quote come from? I haven't watched them all, but I didn't see it in the few that I watched. > So what about the women who have an entirely different ki

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