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by minitech 1y ago
That doesn’t sound like the intended meaning of “on disk”.
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by minitech 1y ago
For sharing to be a mechanism to transfer data between apps without needing excess permissions is intended, yes.
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by minitech 1y ago
Not sure about the answer to the original motivating point, but as a tangent, gas stoves in homes do cause breathing problems (because of non-CO2/water products). Top couple of search results: - https://www.scientificamerica
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by minitech 1y ago
> Either way, I agree the “artist” who drew this has never used such a device, and may not, in fact, qualify as an artist. I was surprised when the article originally leaped to the insane conclusion that someone who created a stylized s
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by minitech 1y ago
Close! Avoiding wildfire smoke.
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by minitech 1y ago
Hey, I happened to try this recently when I was holding my breath for another reason! It hit 70% or a little lower by the end*, but that was after having exhaled for a while. I do wonder what effect that kind of thing can have, even minor.
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by minitech 1y ago
Yes, that option is the real “just do this”. - escape `<` as `\u003c` <script id="my-json" type="application/json">{{ escaped_json }}</script> JSON.parse(document.getElementById('my-j
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by minitech 1y ago
Supporting binary distribution seems unrelated to the ways in which it’s “like JavaScript’s CJS”, especially in the context of this post about syntax.
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by minitech 1y ago
There’s nothing wrong with the CommonJS approach except that it’s not designed for static analysis (and whether that was really an issue is debatable). In Zig, it’s compile-time.
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by minitech 1y ago
Yes, CSS and <picture> etc. can load different resources based on viewport size. Then there are side channels like lazy loading, layout + what you interact with.
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by minitech 1y ago
> Instead, it's just saying that if you want thread safety, then memory safety is a requirement. It's saying the opposite – that if you want memory safety, thread safety is a requirement – and Java and C# refute it.
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by minitech 1y ago
> I'd rather them write more performant code. In keeping with the theme of the comment you're replying to, writing better-performing code and providing performance options are not mutually exclusive. Both are good ideas. > T
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by minitech 1y ago
Yes, they’re so tertiary that there was no reason to include them on the website. They’re ugly and mismatched, don’t consistently add value to the content, and make a negative first impression (for these reasons and for people who have vali
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by minitech 1y ago
Are all of this account’s comments AI-generated?
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by minitech 1y ago
I think you missed the second, much more horrifying part of the code at the link. The thing “stopping” the output from being treated as instructions appears to be a set of instructions. (permalink: https://github.com/supabas
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by minitech 1y ago
It’s clear from the title (let alone the article) that the author isn’t making the claim you’re arguing against.
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by minitech 1y ago
Matrix does have that problem. I’ve lost so much message history to key management bugs.
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by minitech 1y ago
> And the reality is that even a really precise fingerprint has a half-life of only a few days (especially if it's based on characteristics like window size or software versions). A fingerprint that changes only by the increase of a
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by minitech 1y ago
And what a weird and distracting AI-generated article. The bold-labelled numbered lists (e.g. “the evil plan”) are especially awkward.
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by minitech 1y ago
> Old computers, before sandboxing and Windows defender and real-time protection, were more secure, because people were less likely to plug their bank account information, social security number, birth date, and home address into them. S
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by minitech 1y ago
We should implement mechanisms that make it hard and obvious to do unsafe things and easy to do safe things, in all kinds of computers; even as an expert user, I don’t want to have to think about my text editor’s color scheme being able to
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by minitech 1y ago
For anyone else who’s curious to see this app in use but isn’t willing or able to install it, here’s a convenient link to a random video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-CT9McJF4s&t=2m57s
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by minitech 1y ago
Extensions can already use a better mechanism for this ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web... ) than starting a local web server.
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by minitech 2y ago
Backwards compatibility. Older browsers will still be able to render the <select> and submit it as part of a form, just with its options unstyled.
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by minitech 2y ago
Control+Command+Space or Fn+E or Edit > Emoji & Symbols if you know the character’s name. It’s not very convenient for repeated use, but it gets the job done in a pinch.
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by minitech 2y ago
No, I would not agree that you would be using security by obscurity in that example. Not all security that happens to be weak or fragile and involves secret information somewhere is security by obscurity – it’s specifically the security me
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by minitech 2y ago
I assume people downvoted it because “ASLR obscures the memory layout. That is security by obscurity by definition” is just wrong (correct description here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43408039 ). It does say [flagg
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by minitech 2y ago
Full quote, showing that this is something the artist in question is talking about: > Sanborn, a climate-conscious friend of the Earth who lives on a small island on the Chesapeake Bay, is also appalled by the amount of energy that it ta
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by minitech 2y ago
> Yeah, no; you found something the church called a sin that you could not, or did not, want to overcome. what a convenient all-purpose dismissal of any experiences that challenge your view
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by minitech 2y ago
We have ways to test for latent HSV (antibodies, not viral load), which prevalence estimates are informed by. And yeah, anyone who doesn’t have a virus doesn’t have it “yet” in a trivial sense, but no, to echo the parent comment’s point: no

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