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by sethaurus 1y ago
Yes, preventing the app from running in the background (entirely) would prevent it from listening on a port and collaborating with websites via this exploit. As for the second part: no, logging out of the apps would not necessarily be enoug
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by sethaurus 1y ago
These days that's pretty well-supported in the base language: const updated = { ...existing, someKey: someNewValue }; You mention nesting. That starts to look messier: const updated = { ...existing, someKey: { ...existin
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by sethaurus 1y ago
Apologies if I'm missing a joke, but Pocket used to be called "ReadItLater". Instapaper still exists and I imagine they're about to get an influx of Pocket refugees.
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by sethaurus 1y ago
At the risk of unbearable pedantry, there's never been an iPhone 9. (There was never a 2 either; there was kind of a 3, although it was really called the 3G.)
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by sethaurus 2y ago
For anyone finding em-dashes too small, behold the majesty of U+2E3B, the triple-em dash: ⸻
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by sethaurus 2y ago
It's transport-agnostic in the sense that it works locally (over stdout), not just remotely. It's not just for web-services. That's why HTTP isn't baked into this.
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by sethaurus 2y ago
> What happens in this C proposal if you put a defer request inside a loop? Is it a compile time error, do they somehow to try to give it meaningful semantics, or is it undefined behavior? The action runs at the end of the loop-body, bef
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by sethaurus 2y ago
VC-funded startups go out of business because they are unable to grow fast enough . Bootstrapped startups go out of business because they are not profitable . As a customer, knowing that a vendor is already profitable and sustainable is a
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by sethaurus 2y ago
Forgive me for being obtuse, but what exactly are you claiming here? Are election results being faked?
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by sethaurus 2y ago
That's true of the compilation step, but type-checking always uses `tsc`. They're no TS spec, so it's very hard to build a fully-compatible competing implementation. Erasing the types syntactically is a lot easier.
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by sethaurus 2y ago
At that time, what would have been the distinction between "programmer" and "developer"?
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by sethaurus 2y ago
I'm struggling to understand how this is a bad look for Typescript. Do you mean that the specific choice of Go reflects poorly on Typescript, or just the decision to rewrite the compiler in a different non-TS language? If it's the
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by sethaurus 2y ago
There's a quite comprehensive list of them here: https://github.com/GSA/govt-urls
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by sethaurus 2y ago
This is the core trick in the Fast Inverse Square Root[0], as made famous by the Quake III source code. It uses a shift (equivalent to dividing) and a subtraction in integer-land to estimate x^(-0.5) in float-land. [0]: https://
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by sethaurus 2y ago
> Why is the option to use the AirPods in “normal” mode being removed? I'd challenge the idea that off/passive really is the "normal" mode, from the ordinary user's POV or Apple's POV. The headphones just do
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by sethaurus 2y ago
It's always fascinating to discover a comment on Hacker News arguing against using network services in any way without the written permission of their owners and operators. We'd have a very different internet today if people had
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by sethaurus 2y ago
What are the typical password requirements in the Chinese and Arabic writing worlds? Given how rarely English-first websites even accept non-ascii characters within passwords, I honestly have no idea.
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by sethaurus 2y ago
Those of us who find calorie-counting easy and effective are the blessed few. Most people appear to find it even harder than other behavior-change approaches to weight management.
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by sethaurus 2y ago
From a legal point-of-view, yes, Reddit had control of the data and chose to alter the deal. And the app developer did have an exit plan: shutting down the app and refunding subscribers. The developer appears to have weighed his options,
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by sethaurus 2y ago
How does one pass a lambda to a CLI tool? Outside of using a regex or equivalent pattern syntax, I'm struggling to understand what you are proposing here.
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by sethaurus 2y ago
For anyone else unfamiliar with this initialism: > Cost of goods sold (COGS) refers to the direct costs of producing the goods sold by a company. This amount includes the cost of the materials and labor directly used to create the good.
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by sethaurus 2y ago
You've gained the convenience of not round-tripping through your email client every time you want to login/authenticate with the service! The same is true of passwords, of course; if there's an email-based password-reset mech
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by sethaurus 2y ago
> IVR menu i googled this; looks like it means "Interactive Voice Response" menu, describing automated phone systems where the user navigates a series of options using either their phone buttons or their voice.
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by sethaurus 2y ago
This is very common feature of rich-text (and markdown) editors. GitHub comment boxes do the same thing even though they are not WYSIWYG. Confluence and Notion do too.
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by sethaurus 2y ago
The grandparent is implying that "Taylor Swift" and the "Evil Manager" are two sides of the same coin; they don't need to even be different people. The system lets a (big) artist extract value while keeping their pu
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by sethaurus 2y ago
Performance is less of a concern than binary size. Without WasmGC, you need to ship a compiled garbage collector to the user along with every WASM module written in a GC'd language. That's a lot of wasted bandwidth to duplicate bu
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by sethaurus 3y ago
Slightly off-topic: I’ve been thinking about getting a Geiger counter as a hobbyist toy. Anyone got a recommendation?
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by sethaurus 3y ago
Most people don't have the ability to choose what affects us emotionally. We can learn to build resilience and get less reactive, but we can't just turn off our emotional reactions completely. If you can do that, it sounds great.
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by sethaurus 3y ago
I've been very disclosive about my diagnosis, and many people I work with have in turn revealed their own diagnoses to me. I'd like to hear more about your experience with this ⸻ how is this info getting used against people?
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by sethaurus 3y ago
There’s no escape analysis at all; it’s purely lexical.

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