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by lolinder 2y ago
> However, in other languages, it may not be clear that your code is not handling a potential exception in a try catch code block, being completely opaque about handling your control flow. In other words, Go's error handling is an
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by lolinder 2y ago
This is pure Russian propaganda that seeks to justify an unjustifiable war.
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by lolinder 2y ago
It's not easier to print things. Only about 60% of the population has a printer and that number is going down, not up.
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by lolinder 2y ago
I'm not on MacOS or iPhone, Safari isn't an option.
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by lolinder 2y ago
Unfortunately I need Linux and Android (and ideally Windows too) before I can make the switch. Sounds like Linux may be on the table for March of next year [0], but that's only half the story for me (unless there's a good way to t
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by lolinder 2y ago
> it's made a bit moot by the big players (evidently, Mozilla included) making bad decisions in spite of (or because of?) their size. True—I'm more counting on big players moving slowly and with lots of eyes on them. Mozilla&#x
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by lolinder 2y ago
Fair. I was thinking only of the big players. Waterfox was sold 5 years ago to an ad company [0], and the developer's response on that thread was... not ideal. From what I understand they separated from them a few years later, but the
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by lolinder 2y ago
Which do you recommend these days? As the article notes, Mozilla is telegraphing incoming targeted advertisements in Firefox. Everything else is a Chrome derivative and unless someone steps up to maintain Manifest V2 (which I've seen n
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by lolinder 2y ago
> even as the code base is now 20k+ lines. That's better than my past experience with hobby projects, but also nowhere near as big as the kinds of software systems I'm talking about professionally. The smallest code base I ha
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by lolinder 2y ago
> just because it accelerates their hack project, it won't accelerate someone who's an expert. I would say that this is the wrong distinction. I'm an expert who's still in the code every day, and AI still accelerate
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by lolinder 2y ago
That doesn't actually work as a parsing of the sentence in English, and besides, they responded to be with a confirmation that they think Firefox is bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43302877
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by lolinder 2y ago
Hey, that's not fair. We all engage with other people's ideas all the time, no one is really a unique thinker. The best model I have for intellectual activity is that it's a multiple-millennia-long conversation between people
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by lolinder 2y ago
The author sort of (but not really) acknowledges this midway through, but this is basically a summary of the most recent Technology Connections video, Algorithms are breaking how we think : https://youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA I&#
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by lolinder 2y ago
> we're all running Chromium and Firefox is bad. FWIW, I'm genuinely unsure where the "Firefox is bad" narrative comes from. I use Firefox as my primary browser across Android, MacOS, Windows, and Linux (KDE) and have
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by lolinder 2y ago
TFA explicitly sets out to contrast the two: > The Lord of the Rings on the other hand — the more seriously you take Middle Earth, the dumber you get about Roundworld. > ... > The thought I began with, that The Lord of the Rings, w
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by lolinder 2y ago
No. Good took the ring all the way to Mount Doom, resisting its Evil all the way up until the end, and then once more the Good person failed to destroy the Ring. Frodo stood at the precipice and took the Ring for himself. The only way the
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by lolinder 2y ago
> does not just go back to whatever he was doing previously. He absolutely does. Being the future king was a core part of his character, everything in his life was preparing him for it. The book version of Aragorn doesn't have the h
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by lolinder 2y ago
> There is very rarely ever a situation in which Good vs Evil is a correct or useful framing This may or may not be true, but Ukraine vs. Putin is absolutely one of those times where it's 100% accurate and useful. Putin invaded Uk
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by lolinder 2y ago
The TikTok ban was overwhelmingly unpopular among several important demographics and undoing the ban formed a part of Trump's 2024 campaign. His decisions with TikTok this year were a reversal from 2020 but entirely expected based on h
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by lolinder 2y ago
To try to stem the tide of "Trump will just make this go away because ${corruption}", I want to remind everyone of a few things: * This is not a Biden-admin lawsuit. It was launched by the first Trump admin. * Of the 14 co-plainti
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by lolinder 2y ago
Discussion on the Proposed Final Judgement yesterday: DOJ asks for judgement requiring Google to divest Chrome [pdf] (31 points 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296045
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by lolinder 2y ago
Sure, but it's as much a lie as "deals" ever are. The whole concept has always been in the business's favor, not consumers', and if something like Honey leads to a lot of people learning that truth, so much the be
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by lolinder 2y ago
> instead of finding you a "best deal", it colludes with the merchants, allowing them to control how many people get what kind of "deals", completely defeating the point. This is how "deals" have always work
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by lolinder 2y ago
I find copy pasting blocks of code to be pretty worthless. It takes way too much effort to give it enough context for it to do anything sensible with my code, so it's usually better to just not try. Cursor is the first time that I have
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Use git This is honestly the only part of this that matters if you do it right. Use composer, but only on a clean git tree. Apply, then look at the git diff and correct anything you don't like. Test it and commit it, then repeat.
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by lolinder 2y ago
No. I used to, but I've changed my mind recently. Firefox is driven by Mozilla, which has long since lost the plot and shows no sign of regaining it. If Firefox were forkable we'd have seen one by now, but even Brendan Eich himsel
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Anyone can go build a web browser if they want to. Anyone can build a web browser that can navigate the web as it existed in the 90s, but that's not true of the modern web. To a cynical observer it would certainly appear that Goog
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by lolinder 2y ago
Right, this is fair. I think the metaphor was terrible, and this is a really good explanation for why.
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by lolinder 2y ago
> The Internet should be Unrated and thus Adults Only by default. Just like public spaces. This is exactly the opposite of the way public spaces actually work, and the way that public spaces actually work is the very justification for
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by lolinder 2y ago
> You're taking the metaphor a bit too literally. Or maybe the metaphor is flawed? GP says that public spaces are adult-only by default, the parent rightly points out this is nonsense: public spaces are Safe for Work (and for kids)

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