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721.
by progval 6y ago
It makes a network query, and stops at this point if it fails. And it often fails because the website is overloaded.
722.
by progval 6y ago
Did you read an article about Edge's performance recently?
723.
by progval 6y ago
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26427960
724.
by progval 6y ago
You didn't address this: > or copy it to multiple flash drives or CDs How would you use 'split' without either dumping the whole archive on disk or pluggin all drives at the same time?
725.
by progval 6y ago
Another example of https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has... : > "Google Chrome ads started appearing next to Firefox search terms. Gmail & [Google] Docs started to experience selectiv
726.
by progval 6y ago
> this was never the case in the EU, where bundling handsets with a GSM subscription was banned. It is not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_lock#European_Union Last time I was looking for a phone (~8 years ago), i
727.
by progval 6y ago
It's not just about years, and it's already explained in the article. When I see the date "02/03" or "02/03/2021", I can't tell if it means "March the 2nd" or "February the 3r
728.
by progval 6y ago
I too was skeptical at first, but it does look like this is a heat pump. Heat pumps take as "input" a stream of air at temperatures T_cold and T_hot (T_cold < T_hot) and output streams at temperatures T_verycold and T_veryhot.
729.
by progval 6y ago
In addition to the other answers to your comment pointing out that the way you wrote (b) is very unfair; I'd like to point out that (a) assumes that the developer of the application is aware of the security update of their dependency a
730.
by progval 6y ago
For security by isolation, you don't even need containers. Just run each application as its own user. This is already done by most (all?) daemons packaged in Debian that don't need to be root.
731.
by progval 6y ago
> I'm tired of seeing this plea for everything to behave exactly like C or scripting languages because every distro wants to be its own special snowflake and it would be too hard to adapt. The same argument can be used the other way
732.
by progval 6y ago
> If you publish a Python library without pinned dependencies, your code is broken. > you will be unable to today publish an end-to-end set of commands that will work in 2025 Not necessarily. Since ~2010 I maintain an application with
733.
by progval 6y ago
I can't tell if it's sarcasm. Just in case it is not: there is already such a standard header, it's List-Unsubscribe and it's a used by all mailing lists and "legit" ads I can think of. (And may of the "hi
734.
by progval 6y ago
> because the two sides of the ternary are guaranteed to be expressions rather than blocks But expressions can contain blocks. Therefore, this is valid: int main(void) { while (1) { 1 ? ({ break; }) : ({ break;
735.
by progval 6y ago
Nope, it should be an array. You use a hash so order isn't preserved and duplicate keys are removed. (Assuming that's Yaml)
736.
by progval 6y ago
> Why not have a law that your policy must have a summary that is less than 140 characters long? Not as explicit as 140 characters, but it's already covered the GDPR From the preamble, paragraph 32: > If the data subject's
737.
by progval 6y ago
And fnt has little to do with apt; it's a wrapper around curl + ar + tar, that doesn't support any of the important features of APT (signature checking, dependencies, updates, keeping track of what is installed, uninstalls, ...)
738.
by progval 6y ago
I don't have VSCode installed at all, and I don't get the blank page. Did you check the debug console of your browser for errors? Also check you have Javascript enabled.
739.
by progval 6y ago
https://takeout.google.com/
740.
by progval 6y ago
Or use a browser extension that blocks referers, like uMatrix. (It's a good habit for privacy in general, and doesn't break any website I know but JIRA)
741.
by progval 6y ago
> but there was nothing like EC2. Infrastructure as code made all the difference. I believe Grid5000 did it before Amazon [1]. It opened in 2005 and allowed users to automatically book hardware (with OAR [2]) and install their own images
742.
by progval 6y ago
But the screen reader needs to say the word, and the pronounciation of "coin" isn't the same in every language. I don't know about Irish, but it's radically different between French and English, the only sound in co
743.
by progval 6y ago
> git dates are unsigned timestamps You are thinking of the in-memory representation of the (main) implementation, not the git format itself. The on-disk/wire format is text representation, encoded in decimal. You can add a minus si
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by progval 6y ago
> I'd be curious to see if anyone here can actually present a site that doesn't archive in the Wayback Machine or archive.today. * Reddit: https://web.archive.org/web/20210106020050/https://w
745.
by progval 6y ago
Twitter's goal is explicitly to have a single codebase that works everywhere: desktop website, mobile website, and mobile apps. (Sorry I can't find a source for this, any search with the "twitter" keyword is flooded with
746.
by progval 6y ago
archive.org probably doesn't have the same computing power as Googlebot.
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by progval 6y ago
> Google search hasn't died because sites use JS. I believe it's the other way around. Websites use just as much JS as they can get away with, without sinking in Google results. If Google never ran JS in the first place, most w
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by progval 6y ago
> [Jan 17, 2020] - Reward of $5000 issued It's 2020, not 2021. The issue was reported in december 2019.
749.
by progval 6y ago
Mozilla also pushes for DNS over HTTPS, so the browser uses a hardcoded server by default (eg. Cloudflare).
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by progval 6y ago
What about your commits' RSS feed; assuming most of your commits are only to add a page?

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