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by owl57 7y ago
Curious if there are any browsers and circumstances where instead of the dialog window.print() would immediately print something.
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by owl57 7y ago
So, someone can just spoof that mac address and have their activity logged as yours? What could possibly go wrong?
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by owl57 7y ago
Buyer's only get a chance to regret it after they've spent a lot of time with the vehicle. Several years ago, probably. Now, when their previous car already has a similar touchscreen?
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by owl57 7y ago
Why not? I'm typing this on a fairly typical 2k 5" display, so, about the same pixel density.
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by owl57 7y ago
Don't they already do that? Many sites switch to mobile layout when you ctrl-+ a lot.
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by owl57 7y ago
It's not like you can't clobber PATH with ease and in diverse ways… It's just less easy to unclobber: huge hacks like Nix are born in this quest.
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by owl57 7y ago
Not only that, but now people are evaluating other decisions that Mozilla has made separately from this in an unfavorable light (Studies and Normandy, specifically). Sounds like a good thing. Probably sounds like a good thing to some of t
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by owl57 8y ago
3 - C brags about performance and is probably the slowest language to compute string length I have a feeling that of all axes of performace C cares the most about memory overhead. Then the obvious idea is to have it at exatly one byte per
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by owl57 8y ago
Yes! But not exactly relevant: this deployment technology is supported by Perl/CGI just as well.
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by owl57 8y ago
Probably OCaml: that looks like an ML-style function signature.
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by owl57 8y ago
Or openly gay 15 years ago and have them scrape old data and find out. Do you have any sources on this? This kind of retroactive censorship seems to be the latest fashion in the English-speaking world [1][2][3], and it's reasonable t
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by owl57 8y ago
It says "Emacs-inspired" on the tin. So, it shouldn't really be just an editor. It should be an editor-shaped interactive environment for some language. Sure, it would be nice for this environment to contain a good enough edi
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by owl57 8y ago
Well, I liked the end-of-level screen, but the rest of UI was not so new-user-friendly, especially not sleepy-new-user-friendly. About half the time I was staring at the instruction "the box will unlock now" with the box in questi
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by owl57 8y ago
What if apps maximized for less time spent Today I used an automated delivery booth. At the end it reported in big letters: "you took your order in 2 minutes 12 seconds". Made me vividly remember the end-of-level screen in class
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by owl57 8y ago
Is it more difficult in the English-speaking part of the Internet? My captcha for small sites entirely consists of a decoy <input type=submit style="display:none"> for, like, last ten years.
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by owl57 8y ago
You got it backwards. These problems arise when you want to use an (a -> b) function as (Maybe a -> b), not vice versa.
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by owl57 8y ago
Because it would be just as illogical to allow a function `Vec a -> b` to be called as `a -> b`. And Rich must agree because Clojure itself does not support that! Maybe Clojure's standard library just isn't that focused on
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by owl57 8y ago
Re: off-topic: You have to do it fast. You certainly can tweet a lot of identical tweets if you aren't in a hurry: there is a "Rock in the forest"[1] that tweets "Nothing happened today" (in Russian) every day for s
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by owl57 8y ago
nobody ever writes the book about a language/paradigm's downsides Indeed. One can argue that books like "optimizing X" or "secure X" are about ways to easily write slow or insecure code in X, but this is some
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by owl57 8y ago
That is even red and there's no obvious way for the attacker to disable that. But do people really look at the build log as long as the build is successful and the intended containerized program seems to work just fine?
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by owl57 8y ago
Data point. I just converted a small app to Elm 0.19. So, that's a real 0.x: breaking API changes all across the standard library. I just repeatedly ran the compiler and jumped to the next error. About an hour for my 1 KLOC app (and El
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by owl57 8y ago
Long term: yes, the controversial banning of "native" code [1] is in part motivated by the idea that JS should be an interchangeable implementation detail. Short term, officially: hell no, Evan declares a sharp focus on one use-ca
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by owl57 8y ago
I'd say Elm is a plausible alternative, though maybe not right now: there are a lot of small rough edges in the ecosystem after 0.19 release. On the other hand, a lot of the 0.x breakage comes from the very high priority of the unusual
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by owl57 8y ago
I believe this claim to have two more narrow meanings: 1) If it compiles, you won't get a "undefined is not a function". 2) If it worked, you changed something and looked at all the places compiler told you to look at, all th
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by owl57 8y ago
the application or portal would only be in use for maybe a year or 18 months before a complete rewrite or total redesign Why on earth is this such a popular idea? Do customers somehow prefer to see all the buttons in new places and old ur
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by owl57 8y ago
> For thousands of years people have been issuing imperative instructions to each other. This ancient culture is pretty strong, you're right. I've lost count of times I begged people to skip all this unreliable "turn right
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by owl57 8y ago
It seems like complaining that Haskell doesn't give you instructed ASM blocks. Well, Haskell doesn't give them out of the box, but it allows implementing and distributing all sorts of crazy unsafe stuff in libraries, includi
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by owl57 8y ago
> existing apps won't be able to update to new APKs using older SDKs starting in November So, some developers will probably defer handling the changes until November, and then if there is some critical bug (security or otherwise) th
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by owl57 8y ago
I believe a big part of the famous Javascript semantics can be emulated in Scala with a library. Once upon a time I wrote a toy Android app with Scaloid, and tried to use some on-device print-debugging. toast("foo") worked just fi
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by owl57 8y ago
Nitpick: non-random numbers are rare (this word is usually formalized as "the set of all non-random numbers has measure zero"), but still uncountable. The set of computable sequences is countable, but it is only a tiny subset of n

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