pmontra

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by pmontra 10mo ago
Not on Firefox Android. Either they already fixed the problem or it's OK here. I didn't check with Firefox on desktop yet (Linux).
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by pmontra 10mo ago
> lack of type checking interest in the ruby community IMHO if we wanted to write types in our programming language we would not have chosen Ruby for our programming tasks. We would have chosen one of the zillion of other languages. Ther
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by pmontra 10mo ago
What we need is a syntax aware git diff https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42093756
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by pmontra 10mo ago
I've been told that western European languages are easy for Russian speakers because you can learn them by removing parts of the Russian grammar. "Oh, they don't have A, and B and C are the same thing for them, and they don&#
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by pmontra 10mo ago
Sometimes they have checkboxes to tick in some compliance document and they must run the software that let them tick those checkboxes, no exceptions, because those compliances allow the company to be on the market. Regulatory captures, etc.
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by pmontra 10mo ago
Sleep and hibernate don't just work on Windows unless Microsoft work with laptop and boards manufacturers to make Windows play nice with all those drivers. It's inevitable that it's hit and miss on any other OS that manufactu
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by pmontra 10mo ago
Good luck using static typing to model many real world unit tests for the programming languages people use most. I start with an easy example: those records should be sorted by date of birth. We can move on to more complicated scenarios.
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by pmontra 10mo ago
Integration tests are language agnostic too: you drive a browser through your app and all it matters is the output. In this tc framework all it matters is the output of the command. The only part that must be customized to adapt to differen
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by pmontra 10mo ago
Customers will evaluate the risks. Thermal power plants are an easy target too, and oil and gas pipelines. And the oil tankers, according to the news of the last weeks. By the way, nobody cares about oil spills anymore. I guess all those sh
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by pmontra 10mo ago
A tangent: > Companies are global, businesses are 24/7 Only a few companies are global, so only a few of them should optimize for those kind of workload. However maybe every startup in SV must aim to becoming global, so probably tha
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by pmontra 10mo ago
"7 GHz clock speed" When did the GHz race start again?
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by pmontra 10mo ago
Well, my Androids do not have ads because I can install Firefox with uBO and Blockada to block ads even inside apps. I don't know if uBO works in Safari and I don't know if iOS allows for something like Blockada. In doubt (and for
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by pmontra 10mo ago
A whitelist is safer than a blacklist. Unfortunately you risk losing those customers that won't be able to load their media, won't contact support, will use a different service.
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by pmontra 10mo ago
They do different things. I'm using both: uBO for ads and hiding UI elements, uMatrix for JS. I wish that the author could support both but time is limited and I'm OK with that. By the way, I realized that most of the tabs where I
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by pmontra 10mo ago
Thanks, I'll check nuTensor. I'm using uMatrix with Firefox on both Linux and Android and I didn't notice anything strange but maybe some of those bugs were hidden under the normal hiccups of finding the right combination of
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by pmontra 10mo ago
uMatrix, from the same author of uBO. It's been officially unsupported for years but it still works and it's UI is better then the UI of NoScript and of course much better than the incomprehensible subsystem of uBO that should hav
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by pmontra 10mo ago
The limits on safety are moved in both directions all the time. Example of more safety: the halo device. Example of less safety: driver controlled active aero in 2026. It was dogma that it would be unsafe so it has been forbidden in F1 sinc
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by pmontra 10mo ago
> Thunderbird for iOS - why is this not a thing yet? They are building Thunderbird Android over K9 Mail, which is an Android app. They would have to start from scratch on iOS, which of course is feasible but it takes more time.
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by pmontra 11mo ago
How did dealers get a better deal with states than manufacturers? I would assume that who has more money (manufacturers) write the law.
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by pmontra 11mo ago
Ah I see, they are not minutes as on the clock. They are runtime minutes. That changes my assessment. I was thinking that they picked a balanced price point not to scare away many people except probably personal projects or unfunded open so
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by pmontra 11mo ago
At $0.002 per minute there are at most 90 dollars in a month. Maybe even after an year of cumulative costs it's less then the cost of switching to something else. Maybe even after many and many years of cumulative costs: the larger the
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by pmontra 11mo ago
It's not so easy to setup. I mean: it's easy but it hits some real world constraints. Example 1. I run Blockada on my Android phone, so I can block every ad even in apps and I can more or less firewall them (the outside calls). Bl
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by pmontra 11mo ago
So Deckard got lucky that the picture enhancement machine allucinated the correct clue? But that was boundto happen 6 years ago, no AI yet.
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by pmontra 11mo ago
After all they started by locking down everything and then they are creating all the openings that real world programs need to do what people use computers for. It's probably a better approach that starting with everything open and att
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by pmontra 11mo ago
> Ford suffers from having corrupt dealers Do you mean that dealers ask for bribes to customers to deliver cars, or that customers bribe dealers to skip the waiting list, or something like that?
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by pmontra 11mo ago
It is almost gone for me too, except that I can't adjust brightness on my laptop with Wayland. I can with X11. It's a long story but that's the TL;DR of it. So until all of that almost goes away, it's full X11 at least f
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by pmontra 11mo ago
Because that's always the case at the beginning, the country doesn't matter. It takes time to learn and improve. People look at the first or second generation models, get complacent and then they are surprised that by the third or
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by pmontra 11mo ago
http://archive.today/bVoD9
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by pmontra 11mo ago
I use a tablet as smart TV. As a bonus it's portable around my house. I'll look into Linux tablets when Android will get too obnoxious to bear. Are they a thing? Basically I need VLC and not much more.
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by pmontra 11mo ago
The next step will be adding a web in a corner, to make us think we cracked our touchscreen /s

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