mrighele

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by mrighele 6y ago
Most of the people outside the US cannot afford an iOS device, so my guess is that missing Android there would be something else (Blackberry ? Windows Mobile ? who knows how it would have gone)
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by mrighele 6y ago
One example that comes to my mind: libraries that handle bytecode manipulation (e.g. javassist) may require to be updated because they give new and strange error if they meet newly introduced bytecode. Since those libraries are often used b
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by mrighele 6y ago
The article is about the improvements since Java 8. In other words the title should be read as "[Java 11/14/etc is so good that] you can't afford to run [i.e., stay on] Java 8" I agree that the title was a poor ch
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by mrighele 6y ago
> This may seem like it's irrelevant for the user. It isn't. Lots of things us users want are much easier and more attractive for developers to add to the clean slate design that is Wayland. This is something I don't under
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by mrighele 6y ago
Or you just return to the previos (and working) version of the website while you fix the issue. At least if you a good old monolith; if you have 10s of microservices it may be more complicated
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by mrighele 6y ago
> because like many other modern apps they are convinced I only want to switch tabs in a seemingly random order(instead of, you know, the order that's literally shown on screen), If you mean the behavior of Ctrl-Tab, yes, that'
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by mrighele 6y ago
Not "is exporting", but "plans to send", quite different. Meanwhile EU exported at least 3.9 million doses to Canada, 3.1 million doses to Mexico [1] https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/inde
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by mrighele 6y ago
> This account "owns" digital goods, thousands of songs, and many domain names. It seems it's not only about a free Gmail account.
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by mrighele 6y ago
I use NoScript, and the page loaded fine: if you don't load any JS there is no code to detect an ad blocker :-). (This doesn't always work of course, but it does for many websites). Oh, and the website loaded in ~500ms with a 50k
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by mrighele 6y ago
On the other side, if you release the software more often, there is an higher probability for a bug to end up in the hands of the users instead of being found internally. Given that most people won't ever report a bug, do like firefox
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by mrighele 6y ago
I call it Obama-era because the guy got a Nobel Peace Prize while doing that. I have a even lower opinion of Trump, but at least he was widely despised by the international community, unlike the former
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by mrighele 6y ago
Even worse, SV is located in a country that is not better than Saudi Arabia when we talk about extra-judicial killings (just think about Obama-era drone killings)
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by mrighele 6y ago
> If you can't do the due diligence of even reading the one word that declares from whom you're buying I'm buying from Amazon. From my point of view the other company is not more than a supplier. If I am the one at fault i
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by mrighele 6y ago
> Did you seriously get them when buying from Amazon itself Does it matter ? I go to amazon.com, I give my money to Amazon, I receive a package from Amazon, so for me (and the average user) the one selling me a counterfeit is Amazon.
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by mrighele 6y ago
When Google started with its ads they were both unobtrusive and non-deceptive.this, together with the fact that they were context sensitive, was one of the reason they were much more appreciated by the users (cannot quickly find examples ri
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by mrighele 6y ago
> When WhatsApp came around, it wasn't free. For me, the fact that WhatsApp wasn't free was a plus. "Hey, maybe for once I am not the product". How naive of me.
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by mrighele 6y ago
> App stores can't spend too many hours on each app because there's tons of them, In this specific case it seems they didn't even spend one minute, since the app is not working. If at Apple they don't have the resourc
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by mrighele 6y ago
I was thinking specifically about PWA on Android. I don't think you can change the browser used in that case, and I could see Google decide that you cannot open a PWA if the website is on the blacklist.
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by mrighele 6y ago
Even easier, the website used by the PWA can end up on the blacklist of Google Safe Browsing [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802366
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by mrighele 6y ago
I think that another good reason to enable swap is if you use a memory filesystem for /tmp (e.g. tmpfs). /tmp tends to accumulate garbage, so it is nice to have the system page out files that are still present but effectively no
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by mrighele 6y ago
And I guess that the name of the company, Vita Nuova, comes from Dante's "La Vita Nuova" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Vita_Nuova
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by mrighele 6y ago
A few years ago I moved for work from a town in northern Italy to another. While only 70km away the two places have very distinct accents. After a couple of years people from my hometown would comment on how I sounded as a guy from the new
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by mrighele 6y ago
I thought that the point of vaccinating essential workers first is that they are those that are more likely to spread the virus so by starting with them you stop the virus before it reaches the seniors. Depending on the factors (% of senio
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by mrighele 6y ago
But speed doesn't come for free. You need to spend time either using a lower level language or improving algorythms, time that could be used to add functionality to the product. Speed can be a feature, but one of many.
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You're right. Still, a better approach could have been adopted, like blocking a change that would cause some service to go over quota, or have the automatic system change the quotas gradually, thus giving time for alerts and human inte
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by mrighele 6y ago
Shouldn't there be a soft limit that start sending out warnings before hitting the hard one ? Unless some service started eating the quota so fast that it reached both limits in quick succession, the upper limit should never be reache
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by mrighele 6y ago
> So all too often with these types of searches, I'll just reflexively append "Fluentd vs. Logstash Reddit" or "Fluentd vs. Logstash HackerNews" because at least I feel like you're likely to get an honest di
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by mrighele 6y ago
> I find it really disconcerting how many people on Hacker News want a corporate entity to decide what information is deemed acceptable to know. It's up to a corporate entity to decide what should be in its platform though. The issu
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by mrighele 6y ago
You should always have backups, but for this specific issue I think that snapshots are much better since you can run them more often (I do a snapshot of my system every hour) and it is probably easier/faster to recover a file from a sn
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by mrighele 6y ago
From the article: > The scp command is a historical protocol (called rcp) which relies upon that style of argument passing and encounters expansion problems. It has proven very difficult to add "security" to the scp model. All

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