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by simias 6y ago
While what you say is plausible, can't it also simply be that they saw a gigantic portion of their userbase making these incredibly risky bets and they were worried that it'd end up blowing in their face?
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by simias 6y ago
I suspect mainly technical. Chromium is already embedded everywhere, Gecko a lot less so (I can't even come up with a single modern example, although I'm sure they have to exist). There's probably a lot fewer resources and su
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by simias 6y ago
>This release integrates Brave's Rust adblocking library if the "adblock" Python library is available. I can't parse this. It's a Rust library in a C++ browser but you need a Python library to use it? Beyond that
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by simias 6y ago
While the general idea that rich countries should help poorer ones has some merits, the idea that poor people in rich countries should be shafted in order to provide cheaper drugs for everybody else doesn't quite make sense to me. I&
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by simias 6y ago
> Firefox exposes this stuff just fine: its context menu on videos has “View Video”, “Copy Video Location” and “Save Video As…”. (I thought that Chrome did too, but maybe my memory is faulty or maybe they removed it at some point.) You&#
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by simias 6y ago
I would argue that the fact that video content is often so frustrating to scrape is symptomatic of the massive cultural shift the web has seen over the past decade or two. In the "old" web you could basically right-click -> sav
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by simias 6y ago
I concur. I wrote a web interface for a crappy 20yo DSP last year, the thing doesn't even have an MMU and only 32MB of RAM. I basically put all the code in the browser, on the device there's only a very simple C HTTP server that s
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by simias 6y ago
Of course there was always violence and sexual content on TV and elsewhere, but comparing Japanese anime and Tom and Jerry to stuff like https://www.reddit.com/r/DeadorVegetable/ (NSFL) or the hardcore porn you ca
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by simias 6y ago
I'm only a couple of years older than you are. Some of my friends had internet at home well before me during high school, but I only got it when I moved after High School (my parents weren't so much anti-tech are completely outsid
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by simias 6y ago
I've always been a bit extreme on this but I more than ever believe that it's insane that we consider that leaving teenagers with unsupervised internet access is reasonable. Maybe I'm prude or naive but I remember vividly whe
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by simias 6y ago
Ooh, that's interesting. The way it was described made me think that you needed some JS to check if the data was in cache or not. I guess it's probably a bad idea to let the browser send this type of potentially unique info to the
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by simias 6y ago
Note that the root of all evil here is Javascript being opt-out instead of opt-in (and effectively mandatory for a big chunk of the internet these days). Letting any website and their friends (and the friends of their friends) run turing co
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by simias 6y ago
Indeed, and especially if they already have the tracking tech anyway. Why bother turning it off? I wish that paying for Spotify meant that my privacy would be respected, but I have zero illusions that they basically gather at least as much
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by simias 6y ago
I agree. I haven't given Neovim a chance yet and I'm not a huge fan of Lua but it would certainly be a pretty good upgrade compared to clunky Vimscript. Vimscript feels like a configuration file format gone wild (probably because
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by simias 6y ago
Note that many of these entries seem pretty old and are probably "wontfix" in practice. This one stood out to me: > Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times when doing a ":hi clear"
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by simias 6y ago
Even if that were true (and it's not completely true by the way) autotools is not used to build the kernel. You can very much use autotools to build modern software for older kernels. That's... kind of the point of using something
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by simias 6y ago
Come on. Next time you get rid of some electronic device I recommend that you open it and try looking for the main controller. You might be surprised to find that it's not in fact all running on Ryzen and Apple M1 CPUs.
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by simias 6y ago
I side with the parent here, if you don't care about portability why even bother with the autotools? And if you bother to use the autotools, what would you get by purposefully breaking compatibility? I'm still to this day paid to
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by simias 6y ago
That's insane to me, I'm at around -3.5 and I feel highly handicapped when I don't wear glasses. I most definitely wouldn't drive without them for instance.
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by simias 6y ago
That's good to hear, they don't operate where I live but I'll be sure to give them a try when do. I just hope that it's not a temporary thing, I seem to recall that many of these services often start with very advantageo
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by simias 6y ago
>Rust editions, which as far as I can tell have been a complete success. Rust's commitment to backward compatibility is certainly extremely commendable, but I don't think the language went through anything resembling the switch
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by simias 6y ago
Well tourism is a pretty important revenue source for France and many other European countries, that's not particularly surprising. If you want to see the non-theme park France feel free to ask, I can give you the address of my favouri
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by simias 6y ago
I genuinely wonder what's the real number. It is easy to find accounts that look like they could be bots, but I wonder what portions of those are just very dedicated individuals. I don't use social media a lot but I do regularly p
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by simias 6y ago
>How else would you lazy-load a database of (say) 32GB into memory, almost instantly? By using an existing database engine that will do it for me. If you need to deal with that amount of data and performance is really important you have
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by simias 6y ago
By that logic you can do it in unsafe Rust as well then. Obviously in safe Rust having potentially dangling "pointers and references to things outside of the mmap'd area" is a big no-no. And note that even intra-area pointers
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by simias 6y ago
I'm not sure I see the issue. This approach (putting raw binary data into files) is filled with footguns. What if you add, remove or reorder fields? What if your file was externally modified and now doesn't match the expected layo
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by simias 6y ago
Indeed. I think gamers are an easy target because they've collectively very little impulse control. Every single time there were talks of boycotts nothing really happened as far as I recall. For instance the justification for "pai
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by simias 6y ago
I recommend looking into gitolite, it's very simple and low maintenance and makes managing access a lot easier and with much more granularity than authorized_keys. It's basically just a simple perl script and a couple configuratio
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by simias 6y ago
That's very insightful. It's also interesting that the tendency is to do the opposite: if it's your code you may not want to trash it completely and instead work on an incremental refactor, while if the codebase is foreign it
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by simias 6y ago
I don't think anybody is pretending otherwise. It's a cool cult car, that's all there is to it. I guess it would also be a cool technical challenge to update it to modern standards while keeping true to its roots.

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