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by shawnz 6y ago
And similarly that library might as well reuse the standardized APIs of "<menu>" and "<dialog>" where possible. Then eventually, you might not need any library and there will be no code change required.
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by shawnz 6y ago
At best the mime type in the file attributes would also be a hint (since there are many situations where it could be lost or not specified at all). So, what makes it a better hint than file extensions? If you see an extension you don't
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by shawnz 6y ago
Not to diminish the argument about file extensions having a too-small namespace, but... why not just save your SNES music in wav or flac files or something? Wouldn't that be a simpler solution to manage in many ways (not just because o
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by shawnz 6y ago
> ... that seems like something those system must do, if you want a robust solution. Would you say that all the common desktop filesystems, flash memory filesystems, optical filesystems, archive formats, etc. today all aren't robust
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by shawnz 6y ago
I don't think storing the mime type separately is better: That requires every system which you might use to transfer or store your documents to support storing the mime type separately as well.
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by shawnz 6y ago
Are you sure UPX actually beats the standard layer compression which is already provided? After applying UPX, the result should be nearly uncompressable, so if UPX performs worse than layer compression then it might be better for network us
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by shawnz 6y ago
I have seen mixed evidence about hot water being more effective than cold water when washing. Do you have a reputable source?
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by shawnz 6y ago
What's the advantage? If anything, this plan only kills what is arguably the best part of Windows, which is the kernel, and leaves all the worst parts (e.g. legacy Win32 APIs) I don't think the intersection of people who want a Li
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by shawnz 6y ago
To follow up on my comment here, I think Greg KH's later responses were more reasonable. > ... we have the ability to easily go back and rip the changes out and we can slowly add them back if they are actually something we want to d
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by shawnz 6y ago
The suggestion about the IRB was made by a third party. Look at the follow up comment from kernel developer Leon Romanovsky. > ... we don't need to do all the above and waste our time to fill some bureaucratic forms with unclear tim
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by shawnz 6y ago
What's the recourse for them though? Just beg to have the decision reversed?
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by shawnz 6y ago
I think they are saying that they don't want to give the project owner permission to relicense their contributions to an incompatible license. Relicensing to a compatible license should be no problem.
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by shawnz 6y ago
Blocking competition among providers of your app as a service is a burden for users. Users would benefit from being allowed to use the provider which best meets their needs, rather than being forced to use the provider who happens to be all
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by shawnz 6y ago
Just to be clear, had Elastic chosen to relicense Elasticsearch under AGPL, there would likely be no issue with Amazon's usage of it and I doubt Amazon would have forked it in that case. The problem for Amazon was strictly due to SSPL,
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by shawnz 6y ago
How could you tell whether a physical good was paid with Bitcoin or not? Just purchase from another country. In general there is no incentive for other governments to follow suit because those which don't institute bans would stand to
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by shawnz 6y ago
Trying to minimize edge cases can also increase complexity. As a specific example look at the behaviour highlighted in this talk where he shows the result of adding two nonsensical types. In most cases there is probably no sensible result e
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by shawnz 6y ago
I had the opposite reaction. I thought the "wat" talk was entertaining of course, but I've found that it has generated a significant amount of hate towards JavaScript among laypeople who don't really understand that ever
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by shawnz 6y ago
Notwithstanding all the benefits of a package manager, it's always seemed to me like it's not a very idiomatic way to manage Windows apps. I wonder why after all this time Microsoft hasn't created an API to allow applications
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by shawnz 6y ago
You could require authentication (and as other posters pointed out, make sure to spoof any wrong authentications for maximum deniability). It is also simple to serve some pages over HTTP alongside the proxy functionality so that the server
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by shawnz 6y ago
"what is good for you" is a completely tautological way of defining "a good diet". How can you say you are not just reinforcing your own presuppositions? The only intuitive difference I see in those scenarios is that one
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by shawnz 6y ago
You're right, I misunderstood the usage. That does make the possibility of using the path more compelling
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by shawnz 6y ago
True. But the path method has issues too, like, how would you implement that with HTTP 1.1? The "path" field is actually part of the target, so you would have to send the request like `CONNECT-IP https://remote-server&#
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by shawnz 6y ago
The parent is talking about having the firewall attempt its own request, not some kind of sniffing (which shouldn't be possible with TLS)
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by shawnz 6y ago
HTTP CONNECT tunnelling works even with HTTP 1 though, it just might work more efficiently with QUIC. So it could be a seamless fallback.
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by shawnz 6y ago
Why not just use an HTTP CONNECT proxy running over HTTPS?
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by shawnz 6y ago
Why not just require authentication?
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by shawnz 6y ago
I would caution you to make your own judgements with such a hyped technology as cryptocurrencies. Everyone tends to have strong opinions about the way it "seems", both positive and negative.
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by shawnz 6y ago
Yes, which seems reasonable to me. It would be more interesting if a global monetary system could use less than a bunch of casinos. (And maybe that will even happen with the adoption of proof-of-stake)
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by shawnz 6y ago
> And if calculations about Bitcoin’s footprint are true it uses up as much energy as Argentina. An entire country. I don’t think that for the use Bitcoin gets in the developed world it justifies energy uses at that level. Compare for ex
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by shawnz 6y ago
And appropriately it represents a small minority of energy use (~0.6%)

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