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by ori_b 6y ago
Yes, it's certainly cheaper to ignore usability.
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by ori_b 6y ago
When was the last time you removed a dependency due to lint errors? How about your coworkers?
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by ori_b 6y ago
> I'd never advocate for support for such systems to be scrubbed from the Internet. I'm just saying it's unreasonable to expect a maintainer today to support ancient systems. The raspberry pi 3 is ancient?
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by ori_b 6y ago
> It's not popular because it's a fad, it's not about replacing good old static websites with fancy over-engineered JS code. Yet, in practice, this is what happens. When turning JS off is an option, that's usually o
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by ori_b 6y ago
This worries me. Intel was never very clean , but it's so much more open than every other option. There's even complete GPU documentation.
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by ori_b 6y ago
The list of supported hardware is short, but surprisingly accessible. It's likely that random bargain bin hardware will not be fully supported, but with a few minutes of research it's easy to pick out something that will -- like u
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by ori_b 6y ago
Yes, it is working on the latest releases. Note that for 9front tip, there's one small patch that you need: https://github.com/golang/go/pull/43533
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by ori_b 6y ago
Yes, the person who committed it was a high school teenager at the time. Maturity and good taste isn't generally associated with high schoolers. It was tasteless. And it was reverted. My family is full of holocaust survivors. My grandm
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by ori_b 6y ago
Ah, I see, exactly the way an plastic surgeon gets promoted to pediatrician.
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by ori_b 6y ago
> If a doctor posted a plan for passing the medical boards would your first thought be "Wow, look at that massive medical monoculture problem!" If the exam was used to determine seniority of both dermatologists and anaesthes
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by ori_b 6y ago
In the sense that bait on a hook fills a fish's belly.
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by ori_b 6y ago
Yes, I'd also enjoy jira if the company would pay someone else to use it for me.
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by ori_b 6y ago
Also, for IDE style completion: https://github.com/ycm-core/YouCompleteMe
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by ori_b 6y ago
People confuse 'verbose' and 'clear'. Long names make my eyes glaze over as a reader.
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by ori_b 6y ago
Not enough for them to win in the market, apparently.
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by ori_b 6y ago
Doesn't change the fact that if people valued consistency, those apps would be flops on all supported platforms.
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by ori_b 6y ago
> There's no consistency, everything changes every 2 years, the documentation is awful when it exists at all In the days of electron and web apps, it's clear that the users either don't care or developers are shooting them
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by ori_b 6y ago
If a site asks, I navigate away. The times I don't, I usually regret the ad-ridden, clingy, user-hostile experience.
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by ori_b 6y ago
WSL1 was not a VM. WSL2 is a VM.
890.
by ori_b 6y ago
You can also run flatpak in a linux vm, and use X11 to see it in Windows, so how is this different?
891.
by ori_b 6y ago
Docker on Mac or Windows is a Linux VM. It's not magically portable.
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by ori_b 6y ago
It's more than 200,000 lines of code. Lua and its libraries are about 45,000 lines of code. So, yes.
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by ori_b 6y ago
> If you look at the actual list of CVEs, all but one start with ‘Malicious SQL statement’. The single one that doesn't is suffixed with ‘The bug never appeared in any official SQLite release’. The list on the page is partial, and
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by ori_b 6y ago
It's a multi-hundred-thousand line project (current count, excluding tests, is about 210,000). Like any project of a similar size, it has a history of security vulnerabilities. OpenBSD removed it because it was too much code to audit.
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by ori_b 6y ago
> What's there to be afraid of, so long as your workflows aren't made significantly more painful? It's more painful.
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by ori_b 6y ago
How does that compare to the number of daily facebook posters, tweeters, tiktokers, bloggers, youtubers, internet tabloids, and other media sources accessible to a new yorker today?
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by ori_b 6y ago
> The new Edge, Opera, and Brave are based on Chromium Largely because Google has pushed enough complexity into the browser that maintaining a browser engine is unaffordable, so you use Chrome as is. Have any of these projects successfu
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by ori_b 6y ago
To a large degree, yes. I have definitely not bothered sending patches to these projects because I can't be bothered with copyright assignment. And that's with trust that the FSFs goals on copyright align with mine. I don't t
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by ori_b 6y ago
Using what screen size, page zoom level, and font rendering engine?
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by ori_b 6y ago
Very few sites do this, in my experience.

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