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by notriddle 4y ago
> At 50%, do you start fudging numbers to ensure you go no higher? I get why you wouldn't want to trust Apple's self-reported numbers, but why would Wikimedia [1] also report Android as being more popular than iOS? What do they
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by notriddle 4y ago
Are you sure it doesn't have something to do with Microsoft holding 80% of the desktop market at the time, while Apple only has 50% of the smartphone market now?
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by notriddle 4y ago
https://wiki.winehq.org/Cygwin_and_More
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by notriddle 4y ago
Since Edgium isn't part of that 67% number, it doesn't matter.
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by notriddle 4y ago
> Chrome is holding on to a 67% market share on desktops[0] despite not being pre-installed on either of the two most popular desktop operating systems. 1. It's advertised on the two most popular search engines. 2. Microsoft doesn&#
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by notriddle 4y ago
That's half the reason. The other half of the reason is that Web applications are way easier to deploy, even if 100% of your users are on Windows, because the second-order-effect of being locked-down is less gatekeeping and less scare
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by notriddle 4y ago
I hope they added a sign, “keep children away from train,” to the fence.
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by notriddle 4y ago
Brave has so few users that Wikimedia doesn’t even list them on the summary table. They get more hits from Apple Mail. https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit... Relevant xkcd: https:/&#
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by notriddle 4y ago
> Why? Because the alternative is that businesses do for data privacy the same thing they already do for things like manufacturing and corporate taxes. That's even worse. It's a lot easier for big business to control a single s
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by notriddle 4y ago
Swift is great. Apple should use it more.
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by notriddle 4y ago
Of course, but there's a difference between a Bud Light ad glorifying beer, and E-B secretly funneling money towards academic studies that show positive impacts from moderate consumption of alcohol. Some groups aren't really expec
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by notriddle 4y ago
Approval voting is a cardinal system, not a ranked choice system. That's why it's able to satisfy all of the Arrow's Theorem criteria.
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by notriddle 4y ago
> The problem with cardinal systems is that political parties will tell their followers "just vote 10.0 for me and 0.0 for everyone else". Of course parties will try to convince people to do that. The question is whether voters
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by notriddle 4y ago
If you're going to talk about vote counting systems, please consult this interactive blog post: https://ncase.me/ballot/ And the HN discussion surrounding it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3
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Rustdoc Cleanups and (Invisible) Improvements(blog.guillaume-gomez.fr)
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by notriddle 4y ago
It’s also missing the point. Not every disability has a known cure, even if WalterBright’s examples do.
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by notriddle 4y ago
The back button problem is fixable. Discourse (which you’ll see on discuss.python.org and users.rust-lang.org) uses the history API to keep track of your location. You can create a URL that points at any individual post, and the page will a
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by notriddle 4y ago
Most of those problems already exist. The working-weekends one is the result of mismanagement.
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by notriddle 4y ago
So, Python urllib, the JS URL object in Firefox, Chrome, and Node.JS, the address bar in Firefox and Chrome, the Rust url crate, PHP's parse_url, and wget are all of the opinion that this URL does not contain an authentication section.
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by notriddle 4y ago
No, it’s not, and writing VM configuration as a Turing-complete program means you can’t perform structured queries over all the VMs you manage without executing arbitrary code, and you can’t make bulk modification at all. At least, not with
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by notriddle 4y ago
I can text someone a link to a website, they can click the link, and it just opens without going through an explicit install process.
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by notriddle 4y ago
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as an ad blocker, is in fact, a content/ad blocker, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, a content plus ad blocker. Ad blockers are not an extension unto themselves,
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by notriddle 4y ago
It’s a poorly-conceived first thought. How does having the source code protect someone against a tracking bug hidden underneath their car? Is a stalking victim supposed to upload a modified firmware to a computer they don’t have physical ac
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by notriddle 4y ago
> When you have an algorithm that suggests things to people, you are a de facto publisher and whatever you do, you're choosing what to promote. But CloudFlare doesn’t . That’s why they position themselves as a common carrier.
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by notriddle 4y ago
> unless that call for violence is intended to produce an imminent lawless action So it’s fine to call for violence, as long as the violence in question would be legal if it were acted upon? That makes so much sense, it seems like it wou
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by notriddle 4y ago
The point is that "JavaScript Applications" aren't just written with JavaScript, and so-called "JS frameworks" really aren't doing much with JavaScript (except, I suppose, JSX). Mostly, they're DOM enhance
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by notriddle 4y ago
> Firefox has been an Electron-style app for 100+% of its lifetime That's technically correct, which is the best kind of correct, but horribly misleading. Firefox has always been mostly written in JavaScript, but not HTML [1]. A bun
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by notriddle 4y ago
GitHub does: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/importing-your-projec...
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by notriddle 4y ago
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/108/556/56...
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by notriddle 4y ago
> It seems like the simplest solution here would be to not ban accounts automatically for CSAM detections, but to have a process to do so based on police recommendation. The police aren't going to recommend a ban. They don't wa

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