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by ragnese 2y ago
I'll be one of those guys. I see the invisible whitespace from pasting ALL the time. I've literally dealt with user complaints caused by it three times in the last two weeks! (Usually customer issues don't make it to me unles
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by ragnese 2y ago
Firefox's are, nominally, reviewed. I don't know if Chrome's are, but I would've assumed that they are- even if by some automated tool(s). Granted, I'm sure malware slips through. But, what security danger is there
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by ragnese 2y ago
This is the double standard I'm talking about. First, I honestly don't even believe your claim that Chrome was more stable than Firefox for a decade. But, even so, you basically admit in the second paragraph that they're prob
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by ragnese 2y ago
That's it, I think. I think as long as enough of us actually do that, it'll make a difference. People seem to think that you need 50%+ of the users to "rebel" for there to be change, but the truth is that not all "u
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by ragnese 2y ago
There's still hope. I would like to draw a parallel to Microsoft Windows, with my own narrative added over. Tech nerds mostly knew that Windows was not a good server operating system. It was also not a fantastic software development en
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by ragnese 2y ago
It was only true that Chrome was significantly superior (performance-wise, anyway) for a little while. Firefox had to play catch up and it took several years. It was (mostly) called the "electrolysis" (a.k.a., "e10s") pr
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by ragnese 2y ago
This may sound impolite, but what you should do is to tell them to use Firefox. When they don't or say no, then that's that. It's not your problem and you should not feel obligated to enable or mitigate their poor decisions.
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by ragnese 2y ago
> It looks like the recent changes are all about slowly locking down what extensions can do because it’s currently a free for all where random anonymous extension owners have full access to everyone’s browsers. The major browser vendors
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by ragnese 2y ago
The vast, vast , majority of normies I know use Google Chrome and use zero extensions.
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by ragnese 2y ago
Sure, but we saw this coming a mile away (as in, people have been saying this about Chrome for about a decade). People--especially tech nerds--didn't have to switch to the closed source, conflict-of-interest, browser. But, everyone did
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by ragnese 2y ago
I think this is backwards. A calculator app should be a simple thing. There's nothing undefined or novel about a calculator app. You can buy a much more capable physical calculator from Texas Instruments for less than $100 and I&#x27
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by ragnese 2y ago
> My point was that making meaningful contributions such a big fixes requires understanding how the code is _supposed_ to function vs. how it actually functions, that's the hard part. In the majority of cases that's simply not
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by ragnese 2y ago
That's true, and fair point for the example not being the best one. It was several years ago that I was poking at the Chromium code base to investigate something. I don't honestly remember much about the code itself, but I do reme
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by ragnese 2y ago
There are multiple reasons that contributing to various projects may be difficult. But, I was replying to a specific comment about writing code in a way that is easy to understand, and the comment author's acknowledgement that this ide
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by ragnese 2y ago
That's not what I would call a "first-party" library. Yes, it's written by JetBrains and under the Kotlin project umbrella, but we have to add it to our project like any other dependency. I can install a persistent colle
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by ragnese 2y ago
> My goal in most cases now is to optimize code for the limits of the human mind (my own in low-effort mode) and like to be able to treat rules as guidelines. The trouble is how can you scale this to millions of developers, and what are
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by ragnese 2y ago
I have LOTS of opinions about this topic, but I'll try not to ramble. I always found checked exceptions (Java) to be mostly fine/good. I sincerely believe that a lot of the hate for them in the last decade is just cargo culting. I
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by ragnese 2y ago
I think a comparison to Scala is apt. Working with both languages makes it quite clear to me that Scala is most certainly much more functional than Kotlin. Kotlin is really not very functional in practice, in that it really doesn't enc
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by ragnese 2y ago
It's much more "multi-paradigm" or "unopinionated" than Java, but since it is a pretty thin layer over Java and uses its standard library, the ecosystem and idioms are still very much OOP by convention. But, I see t
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by ragnese 2y ago
> We're all bad people, just some of us are more comfortable with our corruption being visible to others to a higher degree. If the GP's story is true (and I have no reason to suspect otherwise), then there are clearly differen
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by ragnese 2y ago
Sure, but it's all so vacuously ambiguous that it doesn't really matter. I hate advice lists like this because it can essentially be summarized by saying "write good code" and you'd be left with almost exactly as mu
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by ragnese 2y ago
> Taxing fake wealth because you own a company > [...] > Why should you dilute your ownership share So... is owning piece of a productive company "fake wealth"? Is it fake when you can leverage that valuation to have acce
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by ragnese 2y ago
Who--other than "governments"--decided that its "your" property and that you somehow deserve monopoly rights to a piece of the planet that you didn't create?
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by ragnese 2y ago
Makes sense. I don't have an X account, so I can only see the linked post (AFAIK).
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by ragnese 2y ago
And if we were in an alternate universe where we had reason to believe that the app did this analysis offline and never sent the data off to be sold to who-knows-who, that would be fine.
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by ragnese 2y ago
I fucking hate this dystopian future we've already entered. It's only a matter of time until every car on the road is connected to the internet and has the "good driver" logging built-in and automatically sent to your in
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by ragnese 2y ago
Honestly, even if it's not sustainable and never ends up profitable, I'd be willing to bet there are multiple entities that exist that would pay you some ridiculous amount of money for that info just to try to resell that info or
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by ragnese 2y ago
To be fair, all of that tracking and data collection would still never add up to some 100MB. It's more likely that they have extremely unoptimized assets (images, icons, fonts, time zone data, sounds, etc) and/or are using one of
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by ragnese 2y ago
That's a fair point. It's definitely pretty different from an unrealized capital gain because, like you said, it's not about your net gain or loss on the house. But, I'd still say that it's practically similar enoug
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by ragnese 2y ago
> Taxing unrealized gains will be extremely complex, and given that they aren't allowing us to deduct unrealized losses its a pretty shitty setup for the taxpayer. I pay taxes on the unrealized gains of my house appreciating in valu

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