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by o11c 1y ago
The immediate question is: how much "resistance" is there? That is, how much light will be lost per node, and as a result how long is the longest circuit you can make without boosters?
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by o11c 1y ago
I have a simpler solution to the latter problem: if upgrading a dependency package breaks anything (barring multi-year deprecation, limited-time experimental previews, etc.), I blacklist it and never install that package ever again . After
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by o11c 1y ago
Mostly unrelated, but does anyone know how are you supposed to make path-less module specifiers work for Node if you are not using npm but rather system-installed JS packages (Debian etc. install node-* packages into /usr/share&
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by o11c 1y ago
SCTP has several fundamental design flaws, which are sufficient to discourage anyone from actually trying to make all the middleware support it.
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by o11c 1y ago
In that case they should've used ï for consistency.
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by o11c 1y ago
"Make [a slider] bigger while the mouse button is held down, and warp the mouse so that when you let go you pick up where you left off" has been a solved problem for decades. And with traditional toolkits (i.e. not HTML) it will e
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by o11c 1y ago
I mean, there is the xattr `user.mime_type`.
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by o11c 1y ago
If only people would actually bother to write the codecs in the MIME type in the first place ...
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by o11c 1y ago
I never once said we had to settle for this solution. I absolutely said that there is a real problem, and the people in the best position to make a real solution have absolutely no desire to do anything about it. Remember that previous
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by o11c 1y ago
I see nothing there that seems fundamentally problematic, but I'm not writing type definitions for someone's entire commercial API. Callbacks are always Hell of course.
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by o11c 1y ago
And as always, the answer to "something should be done, but not this" is "then suggest something else that actually addresses the problem". The internet is full of dishonest "we've tried nothing and we're
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by o11c 1y ago
If the type signature isn't enough to fully constrain that, you need to fix your typing. If you have a `Foo` object, it should always be able to do every possible thing a `Foo` can do. If you need to do something first, it should be
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by o11c 1y ago
That's not my impression at all. The logical "contradiction" it spends all its time talking about only applies if everything is strict binaries, and falls apart if we start addressing how much for every single point. Or to
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by o11c 1y ago
Again: fraud is de facto legal. It is ubiquitous in every part of the business world, both internal and consumer-facing.
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by o11c 1y ago
Lying is usually legal. And even if lying is illegal in a particular context, it's de-facto legal since nobody ever gets punished for it.
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by o11c 1y ago
If you are "copy-pasting" you are not using your password manager correctly.
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by o11c 1y ago
Only at the most crude level. Ever heard of "virtual functions"?
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by o11c 1y ago
It really really doesn't. If you pay attention, $yourside does it just as much as - possibly even more than - $otherside. As evidence, consider the fact that from your comment, I literally have absolutely no idea which political side
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by o11c 1y ago
"People who disagree with me should not be allowed to speak" is definitely up there.
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by o11c 1y ago
Obligatory "there is a way, it's just that your browser refuses to implement it". https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
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by o11c 1y ago
Tree-shaking really only works for languages that are designed to be tree-shakable, which no web language is.
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by o11c 1y ago
It really shouldn't be "extremely expensive to re-encode each language’s video files!". Has this industry not heard of transparent overlays?
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by o11c 1y ago
That's called `pristine-gz`, part of the `pristine-tar` project.
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by o11c 1y ago
It means a lot give how small a percentage of people even touch THC with a 10-foot pole.
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by o11c 1y ago
If it fails to load the CSS entirely , it's not this, just general network problems. Truncation "shouldn't" be common, because chunking is very common for mainstream web servers (and clients of course). And TLS is suppo
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by o11c 1y ago
I just hope that means we're all allowed to feed leaked source code to our own AIs then. This is mandatory if we're to have any sort of coherent legal precedent.
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by o11c 1y ago
Re "SVG-only" at the end, an example was reposted just a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240391 One really nasty thing I've encountered when scraping old webpages: <p> Hello
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by o11c 1y ago
Anecdata disagrees; insurance will reject payouts aggressively. I know someone whose house "coincidentally" burned down while his neighbor had a bonfire, and his insurance fought him for months .
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by o11c 1y ago
Well, that seems to make 2 major assumptions (and several minor ones), both of which are probably false: * that the planetesimals that formed Earth had the same orbital characteristics (notably eccentricity), rather than being averaged out.
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by o11c 1y ago
Keep in mind that carbon dioxide is almost 3x heavier than methane. Part of the reason Venus has "so much" CO₂ is because all the lighter gasses have been depleted. (But yes, Venus is hard to satisfactorily explain, regardless o

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