oldmanhorton

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by oldmanhorton 3y ago
Isn't the problem here the flaky and long running PR gates? There's room for nuance to say "small PRs are a north star but large PRs are sometimes OK too"
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by oldmanhorton 3y ago
This sounds like an extension of performance lint rules which many languages/ecosystems already have.
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by oldmanhorton 3y ago
Maybe not yours, but it's baked into the operating systems used by billions of phones (Android) and millions of kids/others with generally lower tech literacy who may not have great context on the privacy implications of these cha
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by oldmanhorton 3y ago
Is this sarcasm? What's stopping whoever does have the permissions from "sneaking code into production?" This seems like something pretty easily addressed by a combination of code signing and time-gated permissions. A small d
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by oldmanhorton 3y ago
It's a bit strained, but car or TV companies often put out a new model that's identical to the old model +- some but fixes. There's a line somewhere but the law does not specify the line, it seems
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by oldmanhorton 4y ago
Kusto is used extensively within Microsoft and has been for a long time. I think it's generally really well liked and really productive, and while it tends to be quite quick, it has some similar performance pitfalls as SQL
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by oldmanhorton 4y ago
Tauri uses WebView2 on windows, I believe, which should have the same text rendering as the Windows 11 start menu and Edge itself. You may be thinking of older IE-based webviews, which were used even well after "old edge" webviews
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by oldmanhorton 4y ago
I've worked adjacent to windows for a few years, and it's not perfect. They have mountains of legacy requirements by the very nature of being windows and other comments about siloed culture can often be true, though I think this i
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by oldmanhorton 4y ago
In addition to the other sibling comment, crashpad is built with GN, which is basically Bazel and overall much easier to reason about than GYP.
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by oldmanhorton 4y ago
Before the whole project was killed, Node-ChakraCore had a time travel debugger that worked pretty well. I don't know how easy it would be to port the methods it used to a chrome extension (my guess is somewhere between difficult and i
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by oldmanhorton 5y ago
I think Shepherd Smith on CNBC is generally pretty good. He definitely does some entertainment and "feel good" stories but for the most part there's less commentary and opinion than most other cable news.
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by oldmanhorton 5y ago
Is this a comment on serverless products in general, or specifically Lambda and other instances of serverless products that require custom code and architecture? Serverless is also used by things like Fargate and Aurora which, imo, have sig
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by oldmanhorton 5y ago
A lot of this has morphed into the unfortunately named FAST framework, which focuses on web components rather than react. However, they have both Microsoft fluent and unstyled flavors, in case you just want to style things yourself and not
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by oldmanhorton 5y ago
Unfortunately, this assumes everyone is a master at C and that we are comparing straight line speed. In the real world, higher level languages have a much better comparison since everyone's C program has their own slow, buggy "sta
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by oldmanhorton 6y ago
Ok, but school was years ago. I've had years of relevant experience that would make me a good fit for some job since, but I've forgotten how to implement a hash table in C within 30 minutes. Is that really the gatekeeper we want?
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by oldmanhorton 6y ago
Edge is pushed to the vast majority of PCs, and on those machines, I believe it provides a system-level webview2 component. You can choose to package your own webview2 into your app if you want the extra compatability that offers at expense
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by oldmanhorton 6y ago
But, it's also a reasonable response to prevent bloat. Not asking that question is how anything with backwards compatibility guarantees, especially languages, get too complex over time. Asking the question doesn't mean you've
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by oldmanhorton 6y ago
Microsoft does have their own Rosetta, which has been able to run x86 apps for a long time and will be able to run x64 apps within the next few months in preview builds
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by oldmanhorton 6y ago
They're already moving in that direction, though I don't know how mods interact with gamecore: https://mspoweruser.com/gamecore-based-test-game-show-up-in-...
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by oldmanhorton 6y ago
It also underpins Service Fabric Actors, I believe
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by oldmanhorton 6y ago
They have much harder to block ads and better integration with the is for things like camera, clipboard (even if we have seen its too much clipboard access), notifications, etc. However, the fact that you can't block app ads without a
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by oldmanhorton 6y ago
The new edge is just chromium, which already ran on Linux. It seems like a stretch to suggest it is emulating the windows version rather than just being a native Linux app
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by oldmanhorton 6y ago
I think lots of people believe that single family homes are bad due to increased dependence on cars, less public transit, and general wastefulness
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by oldmanhorton 6y ago
I don't think it would demand that the software be infallible. If a "new type of earthquake" happens, the Civil engineers won't be responsible for their bridges failing. In the same way, if there is reasonable effort mad
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by oldmanhorton 6y ago
Windows updates can be installed remotely/using only command line tools with Powershell, though I forget if it requires admin.
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by oldmanhorton 6y ago
Well, i don't think there are rules that they have to offer their proprietary tech at wholesale. I think it's a problem that Amazon is so massive as to own this tech at all, but once you have it, i would believe it's better t
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by oldmanhorton 6y ago
Wasn't this the point of "real" testing/QA teams filled with SDETs? "Professional testers" were often able to do things like this and enjoyed it. The problem was that testers were often considered lower class a
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by oldmanhorton 6y ago
And I'm sure some Germans felt (and perhaps even still feel) that the nazi flag is a symbol of German pride? The pride that they feel for that part of their heritage is still unmistakably antisemitic and hate-filled. I would argue that
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by oldmanhorton 6y ago
Anecdote, my iPhone has a busted lightning port after 2 years of fairly normal use. I wish I could just buy a new cable instead of needing to get my phone repaired, especially in the current health climate.
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by oldmanhorton 6y ago
Chromium will easily take 5 or 6 hours for a clean build on a good professional workstation (i7/i9/low end xeon, 32-64GB RAM, nvme ssd).

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