nuerow

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by nuerow 5y ago
> Breaking backwards compatibility is always painful but there's not one actual criticism of ES Modules as a spec here other than its incompatibility with CommonJS This. Also, the bulk of the rant is focused on how the author str
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by nuerow 5y ago
> I am a strong believer that services that are based on "scale infinitly" really need hard budget controls, and slower-scaling (unless explicitly overidden/allowed, of course). +1 on the budget control, but I don't
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by nuerow 5y ago
> (...) after a month you want to install a new package. What's your point? If you want to update a dependency then you also need to go through all their dependencies. This is not a javascript/npm problem; it's a softwa
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by nuerow 5y ago
> I cannot understand what idiot thought it d be fancy cutting everything into mini dependencies that update every day without you knowing made by amateurish hipsters who transitive depend on each other like their life depended on it.
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CopperSpice, a Modern C++ Fork of Qt(copperspice.com)
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by nuerow 5y ago
> How lightweight can a desktop environment based on QT be? I thought QT is a rather hefty dependency. Hefty when compared to what? In a world of webview-based apps, Qt is extraordinarily lean.
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by nuerow 5y ago
> When Plan A is money printing then the situation is dire. Bloomberg pointed out the fact that one key factor was businesses increasing worker's wages to attract and retain workers. https://www.bloomberg.com/news&
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Of course, NFTs can be used for money laundering as well but art is presumably already used for that purpose. Modern art is primarily driven for the purpose of money laundering. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07&#x
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by nuerow 5y ago
> You may not agree with this use of the technology, but it does not mean the behaviour is primarily criminal. Again, don't be disingenuous. You're literally commenting on a post on how the IRS requires transactions over 10k
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by nuerow 5y ago
> I understand it's a massive scam but I didn't get why prominent artists I follow are getting into it in the first place. Even highly respected artists are not immune to the appeal of making an easy buck. For instance, as le
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by nuerow 5y ago
> That's an incredibly ignorant remark. Right, that must be why this is a discussion on the IRS requiring people to report transactions to tackle money laundering, and how that justifies protests, and not art history. > Art ha
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Why are artists incentivised to makw them? NFTs have absolutely nothing to do with artists or art. They are mainly a scheme to launder money. Please note that the poster whining about the IRS provision didn't complained about sa
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Anyone else encounter this and choose the easy way out - recommending they use Node/Python instead? I feel your comment fails to take into account the main reason teams stick with Java in AWS Lambdas: code and dependency reuse,
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by nuerow 5y ago
So, what's IRC Section 6050I and why was it being purposely omitted by the poster? Answer: https://www.irs.gov/government-entities/indian-tribal-govern... > IRC Section 6050I requires that any person engaged i
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by nuerow 5y ago
> I don’t know of a single example of Firefox doing it, but I feel like it’s fair if people are thinking about it as a possibility. This line of reasoning doesn't add anything of value because the same fear mongering applies to Li
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Until Firefox accidentally disables these settings or replaced them with new ones with new defaults, deprecates these plugins or introduces a new privacy invasion. Did anything of the sort ever happened at all or are we only entertai
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Once it was clear that Chrome was destined to cater to the masses, Firefox should have done a hard pivot with an emphasis on privacy and putting the user in control of their browsing experience. Why do you believe that catering to th
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Telemetry isn't inherently bad or privacy violating. How can you tell?
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by nuerow 5y ago
> The app is down right now. I'm getting 502 errors Seems to be up right now, but CSS was acting up a bit until a few moments ago. Page loads are consistently over 1.5s though, with the HTML taking approx 1s. Not something to writ
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by nuerow 5y ago
> it is not for the market to adapt to our needs, it is for us to adapt to the market and hopefully we can extract what we need. The market isn't a magical entity which demands human sacrifices. It's quite possible to keep it
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Firstly, walkability only means higher prices if supply is limited. Isn't it, though? In fact, not only is it limited, it's also a market on the supply side. > Secondly, a grocery store needs say 500 potential customers
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Why is there no public transport? Because it's losing money due to low ridership. Why is the ridership low? This certainly is not it, because public transportation is in general a public service whose main output is not turning
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Zoning is the biggest impediment. Most US cities have parking requirements, rules for setbacks, and limits on number units in a building. Surely that's not it, because zoning in general and urban planning in particular is what d
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by nuerow 5y ago
> The walkability comes at the cost of tiny housing though. You might have your correlation/causation things mixed up. Walkability means higher quality of life, which means higher demand thus higher prices. In turn, as real estate
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by nuerow 5y ago
> I don’t get why housing should be a special carve-out and don’t see a workable answer to how to provide food for everyone while banning all investment in companies that grow or sell food. The economy exists to support everyone's
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by nuerow 5y ago
Key take from the article: > At the very small scales used here, the process was pretty slow. Over the course of a day, with seven hours of useful sunlight, the setup produced 32 milliliters of methanol, which was mixed in with water as
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by nuerow 5y ago
> [TypeScript] is not very consistent and uses a lot of "special cases" or "special features" to solve specific problems. That's very interesting. Could you please provide an example that showcases that inconsi
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by nuerow 5y ago
> This. Any talk of "labor shortage" should be seen for what it is: a request for subsidized immigration to keep labor costs low. Salary is not the only significant parameter. Awful working conditions also makes it very diffi
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Real BS. I'd say there is no labor shortage, only a exploitable labor shortage. Employers who respect their employees, offer decent salaries, and adequate working conditions don't have a problem attracting candidates. Someh
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by nuerow 5y ago
> I know a lot of senior developers who were hired this way. Knowing the hiring practices of some consultancy firms and how they routinely upsell their hotdog junior devs as prime rib senior developers, I have to say that I also know a

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