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931.
by orra 6y ago
Option<T> would sensibly solve the nullability?
932.
by orra 6y ago
It's beautiful, isn't it? Making something simultaneously compatible with multiple formats. A far more interesting use of the PE/COM “MZ” header than simply printing “This program cannot be run in DOS mode”.
933.
by orra 6y ago
It's not. Git is sloowly migrating away from SHA1.
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by orra 6y ago
> patents generally cannot be used to prevent interoperability I think you're thinking of copyright? Where reverse engineering is allowed for interoperability.
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by orra 6y ago
Accepting security fixes isn't sufficient to keep software secure. In the past few years X.org had some major ancient holes discovered. If the authors of the fixes hadn't bothered writing the fixes, I doubt many other people would
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by orra 6y ago
Ah, good explanation. Rsync's command line syntax always felt more intuitive to me, and it being idempotent is part of that.
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by orra 6y ago
> we can expect forks to appear the very day Mozilla falls Eh, forks can legally appear, because it's free software. But maintaining them? Improving the product security, let alone adding new features? That's hella expensive. H
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by orra 6y ago
Yeah, in major population centres like London, about 20% of people caught it. Whereas rural England will be lower than that 6% average. That’s the areas. As for age or demographics of people who caught it in England, I don’t think that is w
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by orra 6y ago
> Most countries have already had SARS-2 work its way through them significantly. Noope, that isn’t what antibody testing shows. Take England for example. Coronavirus working its way through a mere, say, 6% of the population is devastat
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by orra 6y ago
The old extensions were synchronous and ran in the GUI thread. Running firefox with extensions on a HDD would freeze all the time for me, before electrolysis. There also was not a good security model. WebExtensions fixed these problems.
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by orra 6y ago
Thanks. I guess the thing I didn't understand was where this leaves Reason: what is left under the Reason banner? But a fork would explain the overlap.
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by orra 6y ago
I'm even more confused. It's like all of BuckleScript and parts of ReasonML is now ReScript. Except BuckleScript has a new C-like syntax unlike the ML syntax that made BuckleScript BuckleScript as opposed to ReasonML.
943.
by orra 6y ago
Interesting, but how is that not a security flaw? Sounds like user space applications can cause CPU level undefined behaviour!?
944.
by orra 6y ago
You sound knowledgeable, but this I don't understand: > This approach does not work well for real hardware because it makes instruction decoders larger and slower, since it prevents them from assuming that they will only be fed inst
945.
by orra 6y ago
Oh right, it uses the operating system clipboard? That's kinda handy. In other terminal editors I sometimes have to do a slight pause, to work out whether I'm using the editor-in-built yank chain, or pasting from operating system
946.
by orra 6y ago
Yeah, micro seems quite nice. Bit of an uncanny valley, however, because as a terminal editor, it doesn't support emacs/zile keybindings, and by default it doesn't use nano keybindings. However, I just realised that if I thin
947.
by orra 6y ago
Interesting — I did not realise Nano was a GNU project again. In fact, Nano apparently did not leave GNU for very long.
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by orra 6y ago
Sure, it surprising as an outsider. But nor is this brand new. Recentish versions of .NET (Core) have introduced ValueTuple and ValueTasks. These types avoid the heap allocations with Tuple and Task. Hopefully Microsoft think this makes eno
949.
by orra 6y ago
This sounds dodgy as hell. Surely incompatible with GDPR: processing personal information despite an explicit rejection by the user.
950.
by orra 6y ago
The Mozilla Foundation annual financial statement include its subsidiary Mozilla Corporation. And most of the Foundation's expenditure is staff costs, for the Firefox project. If that doesn't satisfy you, note that targetted donat
951.
by orra 6y ago
You say that, but not enough people do directly pay for the development of Firefox. Of course, you are welcome to donate to the Mozilla Foundation. Also, your complaint about an ethical business model seems unfounded, especially in this i
952.
by orra 6y ago
With the coronavirus lockdown, people are staying at home. Many of us are thinking about how we’d prefer a different house. However, in person viewings are not allowed in many countries, including where I live, Scotland. But from experience
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Show HN: Tour Spring Gardens(springgardens.scot)
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by orra 6y ago
I find this interesting. As a mainly desktop developer now doing web frontend work, the JS ecosystem has been so frustrating. Bundlers struck me as unnecessary given JS now has native module support, and that is the premise of this project.
955.
by orra 7y ago
Eh, the UK Government directly appoints some of the board members, and broadly dictates the terms of the Royal Charter and Licence Fee. Yes, the BBC has some operational independence. But it is fiction to pretend the government has no influ
956.
by orra 7y ago
Oh, I absolutely love the surreal numbers! The surreals are a superset of the reals, but that's not why I think they are interesting. In mainstream pure mathematics, you first create the naturals (whole numbers). Then from there you c
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by orra 7y ago
I thought it was a good obit: > To memorialize Gerv’s passing, it is fitting that we remember all of Gerv — the full person, good and bad, the damage and trauma he caused, as well as his many positive contributions. Any other view is
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by orra 7y ago
This is classic misrepresentation of European law by a Eurosceptic. Why not link to the actual source? http://curia.europa.eu/juris/celex.jsf?celex=62010CJ0411&lan... Perhaps because the judgement clearly says sens
959.
by orra 7y ago
“Kicking” is perhaps a charitable way to describe AOO. Indeed, people who are drowning will flail (something rescuers need be ready for). The metrics show AOO development is moribund.
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by orra 7y ago
Were you unable to download files which required authentication? That seems to have been fixed in a previous release.

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