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Ask HN: Restrict Firefox Extention to a Container?
2 points by pbronez 5y ago|2 comments
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by pbronez 5y ago
This particular pattern is so dark that the FTC is cracking down on it[0]: Under the enforcement policy statement issued today, businesses must follow three key requirements or be subject to law enforcement action, including potential civil
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by pbronez 5y ago
I agree with this. Most people need to simply their writing and convey their ideas more clearly. Once you've mastered that, you can explore more sophisticated prose.
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I bet ligatures would be unambiguously helpful in programing if they were limited to the presentation layer and controlled by the syntax highlighter. For example, the author uses Fira Code[0] as an example of well-intentioned by problematic
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by pbronez 5y ago
Oh cool, I wasn't aware of that. I like that option a lot. It's nice to have access to both a walled garden and an open one.
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by pbronez 5y ago
WASM actually started life as a subset of Javascript called asm.js. Code in other languages was compiled to this subset of Javascript so they could execute in the browser. Once that proved useful, they decided to skip the Javascript step an
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> Personally, I can't imagine someone would go through this much trouble just to ship a trojan I agree it’s not very risky, but I can absolutely imagine this.
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by pbronez 5y ago
The book (really, the series) is absolutely worth a read. I'm only a few episodes into the show, but so far they're not at all comparable. They're different stories with some common touch points. The original Foundation books
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by pbronez 5y ago
Classic example of the Do Stuff / Tell People You Did Stuff balance. This stuff is arcane and invisible by default. The coordination and communication tasks that surround the direct work are important. One was to strike a good balance
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by pbronez 5y ago
That’s the real question. Aruba has some relevant offerings, but UniFi is still pretty unique in what it offers to prosumers.
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“Utilizing data from approximately 7 million online job postings between February 2014 and February 2020, the researchers find that a 10 percent rise in average Amazon wages is associated with an increase of 2.3 percent in the average adver
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Hmm are there any Climate Change strategy games? There are games for nuclear war and pandemics that are fun and educational about the globe-spanning dynamics of those catastrophes. There are also games like Universal Paperclips that provide
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by pbronez 5y ago
I love LEGO and have recently gotten back into it with my kids. There are tons of wonderful sets to choose from and the designs are much more realistic than they were when I was growing up. BUT... I've consistently had pieces missing f
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by pbronez 5y ago
Originality discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27339887
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the article says that the Foundation owns the Company. Wonder how that changes when the company IPOs... maybe the Foundation retains majority ownership? "The Raspberry Pi Foundation, formed in 2009, is a registered charity with a goal
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by pbronez 5y ago
> Shuttles were almost SSTOs in the sense that the fuel tank could be placed in orbit (and reused as pressurized habitation space, with some extra work). That is super cool! I gotta dig into that.. pity they never did that. It would be n
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by pbronez 5y ago
I thought that some of the MOOC companies open-sourced their LMS. Have you looked at https://open.edx.org/ ?
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by pbronez 5y ago
> that they just don't trust in-house expertise over basically any vendors. Another way to look at this: they recognize that they aren't software firms. If you bring in OSS, you have to manage it like a product. You have to re
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by pbronez 5y ago
Great word, thanks! Here it is in context: Exxon’s ad in The Daily used a common climate misinformation technique called “paltering.” No individual sentence was 100 percent false, but together they created a misleading impression of the com
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The article addresses that directly: "Note that this is a very different challenge from the “replication crisis” that has most famously plagued social psychology. The average treatment effect of appointments in our study matches the on
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by pbronez 5y ago
Yeah HE is a totally different security model. It moves all the trust out of the hardware. You ship encrypted workloads to an untrusted party, who computes on the encrypted data and returns an encrypted result. Then you decrypt the result t
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by pbronez 5y ago
Interesting. That's a restriction on Tesla's infotainment system as well. I wonder how the underlying standards differ. What makes group messaging so much harder to implement? I agree it's a pretty key feature. Of course, the
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lol hilarious landing page.
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by pbronez 5y ago
> Fable is a compiler that translates F# source files to JavaScript and Python. interesting. So if you want to program python in a functional style, you can use Coconut to add functional features to python, or jump all the way to F# and
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Nope, Monty Python reference https://coconut.readthedocs.io/en/master/FAQ.html#id18
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+1 Also, the editor should include an auto-print option that's on by default. The first snippets I tried (copying up from below) didn't include a print statement, and thus didn't show any output when run.
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> Munger Hall could dodge all the bad publicity about fake windows if it sports a "next pandemic ready" ventilation system out of the blocks. Apparently it will: "[The building] will provide built-in social distancing as r
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They claim to address health effects of light with dynamic "virtual windows." I agree it would be useful to study how well this works. If nothing else, it would inform how we design long haul spacecraft eventually... “All virtual
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Looks like that's actually been accounted for directly: "[The building] will provide built-in social distancing as required by COVID. Fresh air, the architect insisted, will be vented into all rooms at twice the rate mandated by e
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Only since 2008 really. We still haven't allowed the market to correct from that mess. Now we're just printing money to keep things alive another day.

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