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by pmontra 2y ago
An anecdote about that pressure and how we assume that people are messaging or browsing all the time. I was playing a game of Power Grid [1] about one year ago and I noticed that everybody were tapping on their phones all the time between t
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by pmontra 2y ago
They are more or less the same thing. Fascism in its original form (with that name) in Italy one century ago had an anti communism flavor because communists were its internal enemies to the road of power. Remove that and you are left with n
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by pmontra 2y ago
> 8. Europe puts boots on ground and air cover over UA. Given the size and battle experience of their armies I think that it's more probable that it's Ukraine that will cover Europe and not viceversa. And if they'll have t
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by pmontra 2y ago
The most noticeable difference back then (before JS and before CSS) was that browsers displayed very visibly the destination of links, while input buttons were totally opaque. We created buttons with images inside an a href tag to make styl
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by pmontra 2y ago
Sometimes, for groups with only messages of truly ephemeral value. If nobody values much what's written there (memes, where and when to meet, good morning, etc) then everybody is happy to see pictures and videos disappear and storage r
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by pmontra 2y ago
In a different messenger: people enable disappearing messages in WhatsApp not because of a threat model but because they don't want their phone to run out of space. The problem here is that messages are deleted for everybody in the cha
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by pmontra 2y ago
For all the length of the cable? Anyway, ships must let have routes to pass over those cables or we would partition the seas into small patches. Any ship passing over a cable between two mines can cut it. Edit: or do you mean mines anchored
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by pmontra 2y ago
It depends on who wins the war and on which terms. Examples: after a surrender you better have to buy anything from the winner at the price made by the winner. After a stalemate you buy somewhere else.
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by pmontra 2y ago
Elixir has been in that place not too many years ago, on the verge of being mainstream. I'm not very sure that it's not still there now but I paid my bills with it for a while and I was generally happy with the language except for
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by pmontra 2y ago
I never used Chrome much. I think I jumped from IE5 to Firefox. IE6 only for testing web apps. Frankly nearly everything has been working well in Firefox for a long time. The only two sources of problems are: 1) Long tail experimental sites
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by pmontra 2y ago
> the browser is acting as a "publisher"of that file If that's all is required to be a publisher then ftp, scp, rsync and hundreds of similar tools are also publishers of the files they transfer. However they don't ha
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by pmontra 2y ago
> When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information, Taken literally it means that when I use Firefox to upload a file to a customer's w
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by pmontra 2y ago
By the way, how do people carry those laptops on airplanes if regulations mandate that every radio equipment must be off?
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by pmontra 2y ago
Yes but people can genuinely forget the exact words they spoke time ago, even one minute ago, or a whole conversation. Examples: Who did I talk to yesterday? Did I met that neighbor of mine yesterday or was it the day before? I don't k
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by pmontra 2y ago
That does not solve the problem. A country can forbid F-Droid and Debian and anything else that is not in a short list of vetted app stores that comply with the law of that country to backdoor everything.
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by pmontra 2y ago
About the last part of the post, Ada has asserts if my memory is correct. And Oberon, if it's still alive. And Eiffel with assertions on preconditions and postconditions of routines (functions or procedures.) Probably those features we
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by pmontra 2y ago
None of my customers ever asked for type definitions in Ruby (nor in Python.) I'm pretty happy of the choice of hiding types under the carpet of a separate file. I think they made it deliberately because Ruby's core team didn&#x27
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by pmontra 2y ago
A former customer of mine is creating AI apps with Rails. After all what one is those apps need is to call an API and output the results. Rails or any other system are more than capable of doing that.
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by pmontra 2y ago
Thanks. I waited and the animation finally started. Too bad that the browser has no feedback for unfinished loading like this one. And I didn't understand what all those dots falling down from above mean, but that's another story.
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by pmontra 2y ago
> You can't be forced to hand over data on your servers that you don't have access to, warrant or no. But you can be forced to record and store that data even if you don't want to.
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by pmontra 2y ago
Lack of reciprocal action is called self deterrence. Or in simpler words, it's what happens when you keep doing what the bully at school asks you to do, more and more, because he could escalate, even if you are as strong as him or stro
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by pmontra 2y ago
It's empty in Firefox Android. Play button, slider and nothing else.
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by pmontra 2y ago
I don't agree with that. We had two powers dividing Europe in two, placing their own armies all over the place and doinglg their best to convince the other party that the world would be destroyed if it dared to attack. That was what br
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by pmontra 2y ago
Your experience is more or less my experience. I even know a person that remembers from well before being 1 year old. That person started speaking very early, maybe that's related to having early memories. Different people develop at d
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by pmontra 2y ago
That's when they understand that they have to start fighting their peers and talking with the big boss to get their P1 ticket moved in front of the other P1 tickets.
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by pmontra 2y ago
My laptop is 11 years old and handles Slack quite well, and Jira. I eventually maxed it out at 32 GB and that probably helps. It's only an i7-4xxx though. Java in the 90s was really slow. It got much faster with the JIT compiler. JavaS
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by pmontra 2y ago
It kind of works on Firefox Android. I can't use m to move windows and there is no shift key but the core functionality works.
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by pmontra 2y ago
A very tangential note about this: > Much like a door handle should communicate whether to pull or push a door, For many common doors it's not the handle, it's the frame. Standing on one side of the frame we see that the door i
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by pmontra 2y ago
Many C*Os plunder the companies they work for, then move to another one. They don't care about the market share of the company they'll leave, no more than bugs care about a tree they are eating. They'll move to the next one.
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