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by snek 8y ago
It's a damn shame this font isn't properly kerned, I put it in my term and immediately started throwing up. If the dotsies form a block like they do on the site, then the numbers/punctuation is overlapping and broken.
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by snek 8y ago
quick rundown from my experience: NVDA: oss, people have hacked in normalization that they can flip on when they hear something that sounds like nonsense, and then flip back off after reading that particular part. JAWS: people have to liste
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by snek 8y ago
blind mathematicians don't write english to communicate in these unicode blocks... These blocks don't exist to be used for writing words in the english language.
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by snek 8y ago
It's also against web compat standards to use these characters without providing alt text (failing case: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/F71.html )
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by snek 8y ago
I doubt the average consumer is aware of the way that talc and asbestos deposit, but moreover, this article is claiming that J&J went above that limit.
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by snek 8y ago
> you want to sell the product but if it has a carcinogen in it? do you really still want to? i fail to understand how humans can behave like this.
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by snek 8y ago
This TIOBE index is absolutely hilarious. First it hits you with "The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted whe
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by snek 8y ago
Same with V8, since they added the liftoff compiler back in august
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by snek 8y ago
> If Facebook could sell ad slots without revealing information about you they would. Google literally does this with adsense. It is definitely possible.
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by snek 8y ago
i feel like this article is missing something. i guess the big thing was "you can make a site where you don't track people individually"? but that doesn't seem like a huge revelation.
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by snek 8y ago
perhaps an employee was given access to analyse how their network performed across that week, and afterwards was asked by marketing to make a blog post. you're jumping to a lot of conclusions. FUD.
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by snek 8y ago
Does all this stuff lately where companies are pulling out of china or the US or the US is arresting heads of companies etc feel like thucydides trap is just getting closer and closer?
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by snek 8y ago
They're using ChakraCore, with support for ES6+. you can use all your favourite `const` and `let` and `function*` etc.
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by snek 8y ago
YC's portfolio is staggering. Whatever they use to pick who to fund, they're doing it right.
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by snek 8y ago
damned if they do, damned if they don't
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by snek 8y ago
if the author of the site is reading this, please remove the scrolljacking.
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by snek 8y ago
What would be the sane behaviour for the following situation? my app imports an http request library and gives it net permissions my app imports a templating library and gives it no permissions the templating library is malicious and tries
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by snek 8y ago
this is what the paul brothers already do for a living
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by snek 8y ago
chrome also decreased this month, perhaps there is something larger here?
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by snek 8y ago
quora already sells your data to as many third parties as possible... i don't suspect this changes much.
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by snek 8y ago
Once you hit the IX level you reach the ethical question of should the internet inherently be an equal platform regardless of content. this involves child pornography, terrorism, etc. very very bad things. My personal stance (as I said abov
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by snek 8y ago
Being removed from a specific platform and being inaccessible on the internet are two different things. Alex Jones could purchase IP space, peer with other IXs and theoretically get his own news site to rival any existing ones. This should
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by snek 8y ago
mfw __proto__ instead of Object.getPrototypeOf
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by snek 8y ago
It's pretty cool to see all the different ways ECMA-262 has been implemented. I've been working on my own implementation[1] and seeing how other implementations like v8, prepack, mongoosejs, and now this one solve things has been
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Show HN: engine262, a JavaScript engine written in JavaScript(github.com)
8 points by snek 8y ago|2 comments
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by snek 8y ago
you can sign and distribute xpi addons without putting them on the addon marketplace
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by snek 8y ago
Non AMP link https://www.businessinsider.com/why-im-never-buying-an-apple...
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by snek 8y ago
We connect to each other via VPNs (usually wireguard) and then run BGP through those interfaces.
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by snek 8y ago
I was about to comment about how it might be better to use WebSockets since SSE has a bad compatibility history, then I realized what mercure is.
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by snek 8y ago
its actually more like tag`string ${x}` is tag(['string', ''], x)

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