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by motorest 1y ago
> We need more Python slander. It annoys me to no end when people trash JavaScript as if it was some exception in bad language design. Python's file system support across platforms is notoriously problematic or even outright broken.
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by motorest 1y ago
CPython is the de-facto reference implementation of Python. Pypy was developed by reverse engineering CPython and their automated tests feature explicit comparisons with CPyton. You made the opposite point you thought you were making.
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by motorest 1y ago
> Python's documentation today[1] is clearly more expansive, better formatted and more readily comprehensible than its documentation from 2001[2] (or even 2008[3]). Documentation is not a specification. Specifications cover all beha
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by motorest 1y ago
> You're finding bugs because you're using the language like a QA tester instead of the way its intended. What do you think this means? Are the bugs there or not?
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by motorest 1y ago
> There are such better ways to achieve encapsulation in modern JS. There aren't that many options even in modern JavaScript. You have ES6 modules, store state in a global map, what else?
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by motorest 1y ago
> It’s a perfectly good comparison. Nazi wants cake. Store owner is refusing to transact based on his own personal moral code. It's clearly not the case at all. Valve wants to sell third party games. Third party game developers want
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by motorest 1y ago
> Okay. I walk into a Jewish bakery and want a red cake with a Nazi flag on it. This isn't a very good comparison, as this involves a payment processing company. An apt comparison would be the payment processor company demanding tha
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MakeShift: Security analysis of Shimano Di2 wireless gear shifting (2024)(usenix.org)
35 points by motorest 1y ago|52 comments
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by motorest 1y ago
> The proponents of liberal democracy should have sold it better. That sounds an awful lot like victim-blaming. What's worse is that your blend of comments somehow omits the fact that fascism is not being openly pushed onto people.
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by motorest 1y ago
This blog post is referenced by Mozilla's page on IIFE. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/IIFE
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Immediately-Invoked Function Expression (2010)(benalman.com)
17 points by motorest 1y ago|16 comments
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by motorest 1y ago
> Of course if you're looking at things purely from a logical, calculating, "lesser-evil" perspective Harris is the better candidate, but a lot of people can plainly see that their quality of life has gotten worse compared
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by motorest 1y ago
That's an absurd argument to make considering how pyrrhic Trump's terms have been. It implies both are somehow equivalent in the utter destruction of people's interests and support infrastructure. They are not equivalent. The
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by motorest 1y ago
> Again, I ask whether you think Harris or Biden produced objectively good results, or fixed any of the problems identified in the article. I beg you to pause, take a deep breath, look at any of Trump's terms, and compare it with th
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by motorest 1y ago
> (...) in 2024 a continuation of Biden's term, represented by a poor politician hand-picked by the party and Trump, the one-term loser. Pause. Even though I'm not a US citizen, it is very hard to try to spin Biden's term
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by motorest 1y ago
> This. Set up your dev env and pay attention to details and get it right. Introducing function declarations before knowing what assembly instructions you need to generate is asking for trouble before you even really get started accrui
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by motorest 1y ago
> Then it's a real bad case of using the LLM hammer thinking everything is a nail. If you're truly using transformer inference to auto fill variables when your LSP could do that with orders of magnitude less power usage, 100% s
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by motorest 1y ago
> This is a sign that the user hasn't taken the time to set up their tools. You are commenting a blog post on how a user set up his tools. It's just that it's not your tool that is being showcased. > You should be abl
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by motorest 1y ago
> The people using it. I'm not sure if you are serious. I mean, look at Chrome and Edge and Safari. They are managed by corporations that control their own platform. I get Chrome, Edge, and Safari because it is actively pushed onto
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by motorest 1y ago
> Let’s be honest, the only advantage Firefox has over other browser and especially chrome is its extension support. And it’s not even Mozilla merit, it’s Google who removed MV2 support. What are you talking about? Firefox pioneered the
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by motorest 1y ago
> Firefox is an antitrust litigation sponge, but you have to keep it rudderless and ineffective. I don't know what makes you believe Firefox is ineffective. It's by far the best browser around. What do you think is missing?
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by motorest 1y ago
> This all started with the "Engagement Team" like … 15+ years ago. I was there (part of the team). They started with mascots, being cute, having this infantilizing attitude towards users. Having mascots is fine. It's like
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by motorest 1y ago
> More rust/C++ writing, less cuddly animals please. Playing devil's advocate: how does that help your average Joe adopt Firefox?
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by motorest 1y ago
> I think the root problem here is that the communication isn't genuine. More than not being genuine, it's condescending and patronizing.
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by motorest 1y ago
> Interesting that traffic didn't return to completely normal levels after the incident. Clients cache DNS resolutions to avoid having to do that request each time they send a request. It's plausible that some clients held on t
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by motorest 1y ago
> They argued the exact opposite, they wanted proper training on how to use the "damn machines" as people were literally dying because of being untrained in their usage. That's very interesting to hear, and also very unfor
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by motorest 1y ago
> But the real word the IT crowd needs to learn is "denialism" - if you still don't see how LLMs is changing our entire industry, you haven't been paying attention. The best part about this issue is that it's a s
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by motorest 1y ago
> The point is who cares. You don't care. That's fine. It's not like there is a retirement to be informed before commenting. Sit this one out and let everyone who do express their concerns.
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by motorest 1y ago
I'm happy to see Valkey consistently outperforming Redis. It should be food for thought for anyone considering rug pulls.
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by motorest 1y ago
> "completely out of touch" is definitely an exaggregationg. Is it, though? I mean, can you present a coherent argument supporting the idea that a global market being dominated by 5 multinational corporations does not flag a ri

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