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by phatskat 3y ago
As much as I miss Newgrounds and grew up with Flash games, and used Flash for lots of art projects, it needed to go. The list of high score CVEs for Flash is 74 with a CVE score of 9 or higher. A decent number were exploits that made use of
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by phatskat 3y ago
There was a time when there were options and they died out because they weren’t as popular. VBScript and JScript to name a couple. Java is still around but I haven’t seen an applet in probably over a decade. Flash was a thing.
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by phatskat 3y ago
> At one time people still had the common sense not to run code they wasn't vetted and that they trusted. At one time? When? People have been executing arbitrary and malicious code since the moment they could share it between two co
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by phatskat 3y ago
That’s a bit of a rosy take of the web of the 90’s-00’s. Plenty of sites failed to render without JS, they just had a noscript tag that said “this site requires JavaScript”. Graceful degradation was ideal but often too much for sites that e
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by phatskat 3y ago
Do you have any good recommendations for designing the design system? I’m currently in a position where our designs don’t always “fit” the spec that in theory exists. I’d like to get us on tailwind but widths and paddings and margins at tim
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by phatskat 3y ago
How so?
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by phatskat 3y ago
As someone generally not in the loop on these kinds of languages, what is the “big problem”?
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by phatskat 3y ago
Petition to change all languages with “+” to repeat the last character for each plus. Going down the list of languages on Wikipedia[0] A+ becomes AA C++ = CCC Clik++ never mind this was a bad call. JJJ RRR Visual JJJ XXX (nice) xBaseee ZZZ
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by phatskat 3y ago
Same, I mostly came to HN through search results or links out of Reddit. Once Apollo shut down I pretty much was done - I only ever used Alien Blue and when it got bought, I was off Reddit until Apollo came along. HN is where I’ll be for my
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by phatskat 3y ago
Oh for sure, just a hypothetical lol. And idk maybe you write software or something that you want to keep as free as you can, so ads make it doable to sustain that. There’s any number of valid reasons to advertise, and if it’s a site for co
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by phatskat 3y ago
I got frustrated with the start of BotW and took a bit to get my bearings. It’s incredibly fun once you get into it but that first bit took longer than I’d like to admit
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by phatskat 3y ago
I’m relistening to the behind the bastards on the Illuminati so…still talking about it to this day lmao
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by phatskat 3y ago
I’m a Reddit expat, the only app that made it usable is dead now so here I am. I know I won’t find talk on Dead Cells tips or Rocket League coaching, but at least there’s lots of good tech discussion and occasional political shitposting tha
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by phatskat 3y ago
That’s incredibly reductive and shows you maybe don’t spend time in these spaces based on your perceptions? Many of my friends are talented makers who use social media to communicate about what they do with friends and fans. I’ve learned a
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by phatskat 3y ago
I get this metric but at what point is the cutoff? If a small home run website has good info and gets popular, and has to add more advertisements, do they then get deranked on the search engine that led people there?
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by phatskat 3y ago
Thank you for that amazing trip back in time
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by phatskat 3y ago
I have a knee-jerk reaction to sites that reveal things or animate as I scroll down. It was cool the first time or two…years ago. Now it feels gimmicky at best, and more often it obscures the page in a way that makes me feel like I need to
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by phatskat 3y ago
There’s an example of that in the linked write up - a user reported really enjoying colorful, full-page images…on the first use. After subsequent use, the failures of the UX made such aesthetics more annoying than useful
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by phatskat 3y ago
There’s plenty of UIs that I would like to be able to either reorganize or remove parts of. Arc Browser has Boosts which do allow for a decent amount of customization which is much appreciated.
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by phatskat 3y ago
Sites with surprise hjkl always make me smile
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by phatskat 3y ago
One I really appreciate is having sane tab indexes and the ability to trigger things like buttons and drop-downs using the keyboard. A slick select box loses a lot of points for me if I can’t navigate and use it with just my keyboard.
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by phatskat 3y ago
I guess I should have qualified that it’s not always the case, but we have also seen a lot of factory and middle class jobs gutted by corporations who favor profits over people. Jobs in manufacturing that paid well and offer good benefits d
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by phatskat 3y ago
As a vim user, I’ve always just assumed the home row bit - very cool to learn more of the history behind it
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by phatskat 3y ago
> That example does result in "better at making money" but that money can then be used to lower prices / increase quality / pay shareholders dividends / pay employees higher wages. Out of these, we often just see
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by phatskat 3y ago
I recently learned about electrical utilities in the US - the only way they really make profit is through building new infrastructure (power prices are set by a control board). There’s zero motivation for them to do maintenance, which is ho
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by phatskat 3y ago
No, I’m saying brains - especially young brains - filter and see the world differently. They make assumptions or correlations that may not be accurate. Regardless of who the audience is, the terms equate a color to either being good or bad
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by phatskat 3y ago
I hope they turn this back on - seems like a good idea. I can’t fathom the right wingers who spread misinformation being surprised. Also “this isn’t a free speech platform” is hilarious - neither is Twitter, Musk just allows bigotry.
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by phatskat 3y ago
I guess I don’t understand how cheating on these things benefits the candidate. Like, you lie about any of that and get put in front of a panel, how’s that going to go?
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by phatskat 3y ago
The words in context have no racist history, but consider a young black student interested in network engineering. They start learning that “good services go on the whitelist” and “bad services go on the blacklist”. I can see a potential fo
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by phatskat 3y ago
That’s a completely invalid counterpoint you’ve got there

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