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by lmm 6mo ago
> advertisers will just require that you compile their library into the first party js code, negating any benefit from such a security model. It will become harder for advertisers to deny responsibility for ads that violate their stated
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by lmm 6mo ago
> If the government is violating the constitution or a persons rights why should there be suits all across the country to get that recognized? Because one judge in one county shouldn't be defining the laws for the whole country? Sur
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by lmm 6mo ago
Illegal commerce is still subject to taxation and regulation, famously so in the case of Al Capone.
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by lmm 6mo ago
And Alonzo Church proved in 1940 that you can avoid this problem by using a typed language in which all programs halt. But sadly some programmers still resist this.
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by lmm 6mo ago
> That means proving the absence of bugs, and you cannot prove a negative. You can prove that the program implements a specification correctly. That doesn't require proving a negative, but it does prove the absence of bugs. (I think
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by lmm 6mo ago
Not verifying the parser seems like a pretty big oversight. Parsing binary formats is notoriously dangerous!
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by lmm 6mo ago
> A table is a grid. Lot of UI toolkits have a grid container Sure. As long as the end result is the same grid, it shouldn't matter. But in a CSS world you switch your table for grid-layout divs (or vice versa) and suddenly one corn
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by lmm 6mo ago
> As an example, the structure of HN's reply page Is made up of table tags, which the CSS people will tell you is wrong/impossible/has different semantics.
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by lmm 6mo ago
Oh sweet summer child.
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by lmm 6mo ago
> Open the inspector, select an element and you will find all the styles that apply. That tells me which styles apply to an element. You also need the converse - find which elements a given style applies to - and there's no way to d
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by lmm 6mo ago
It costs you nothing but a few hours (heck, you may even make money on the points) to get a Discover card, which you can use on Japanese game sites that don't apply the Visa/Mastercard censorship (they have a partnership with JCB)
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by lmm 6mo ago
> Cascading Style Sheets recently and I think it's the missing piece we've been looking for. It lets you declaratively specify layout in a composable, hierarchical system based on something called the Document Object Model in a
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by lmm 6mo ago
> And for the rest of the users who have no idea about locales, using whatever locale they have on their computer might be technically incorrect for some of them, but at least they're somewhat used to that incorrectness already, as
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by lmm 7mo ago
Presumably the motor runs once to extend it and then it locks into position (with some kind of mechanical catch that's calibrated to come loose if you hit anything), rather than being constantly running.
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by lmm 7mo ago
Docker containers are great until you need to upgrade something. Then what do you do, rebuild the container and hope that none of the things that change break anything in a surprising way?
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by lmm 7mo ago
> Note the day/night line is a bit tilted – it's not exactly perpendicular to the sun. This is because, as I write this, Croatia uses DST (Daylight Saving Time) – we intentionally shift time to have more daylight in the evening
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by lmm 7mo ago
> Or ... people can use the DoD/Mod and assorted other space to get their IPv4 allocations. There is a ton of unused space in IPv4. Reserved, allocated but entirely unused. Also take back some /8's from greedy companies th
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by lmm 7mo ago
uPnP works fine though? What was the problem you had with it?
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by lmm 7mo ago
"What's the difference other than the difference?". Not being able to forward ports means I can't play Tricky Towers with my friend (who isn't technical enough to join a VPN with me and would have privacy concerns a
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by lmm 7mo ago
> I don't think the UK went from an industrial giant to a desolate wasteland in a single generation like Detroit did. I could be wrong, though. Glasgow went from a prosperous shipbuilding town to the heroin capital of Europe. Sheff
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by lmm 7mo ago
> Hmm, it's been a long time since I watched it. I was thinking more about first contact sci-fi mostly, but Ex Machina is certainly quite prescient. It's also Blade Runner I guess. I kind of felt the opposite - rewatching Ex Ma
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by lmm 7mo ago
All of that applies equally to PRISM and any internal propaganda campaigns that was feeding into, no?
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by lmm 7mo ago
Bernstein's ego is at a level where he thinks most other people are idiots (not without some justification), that's been clear for decades. What are you hinting at?
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by lmm 7mo ago
If you set up dedicated run-users for specific programs then you're very much the exception rather than the rule. I think it's reasonable for tools to serve the common case by default.
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by lmm 7mo ago
> In a village, everyone knows everyone. Kids play with each other and run around freely. Every house protects all the kids and help each other. Everyone trusts everyone. You never feel lonely. In Japan that's true in a lot of city
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by lmm 7mo ago
> why do you think tech or AI company employees are somehow above or beyond the average person? They're supposed to be elite. They went to the best schools, many of them have PhDs, they are getting paid insane amounts of money.
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by lmm 7mo ago
Yeah, people do forget how much of our codebases is already slop. Like, anything that's in a "boilerplate" or "scaffold" is probably code that a human shouldn't be spending time writing in the first place.
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by lmm 7mo ago
Maybe it'll work. Yes, disruption usually starts from the low end, but plenty of low-end alternatives die out without ever disrupting the high-end option. Right now it's making crappy, unmaintainable code, and while you can make a
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by lmm 7mo ago
It's always been the case that you could make something that sort of worked for a while with terrible code. The problem was that your product would have random regressions all the time (which theirs does!) and as a result no serious bu
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by lmm 7mo ago
You should have that option, but you should also be able to install things for all users. That's a pretty common case - most of the time if you install something on your computer, you are the administrator of that computer and want the

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