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svieira
2y ago
> The idea of an untestable truth is upsetting. May I ask why? If it is true, why do you need to test it? Is your problem unknowable truths? Or something else?
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2y ago
> Worth noting that Apple and Mozilla both have some third party cookie deprecation, but significant unspecified carve outs and exceptions Yep - the fact that there are hard-coded carve outs in webkit's source code for "theonio
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2y ago
You can only pass data back to the originating site in one other way with GET and three other ways with any method that is expecting to have a body. But URL parameters are not a reasonable place to put sensitive information (even short-ter
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2y ago
"New", no, but "not as fully explored by programming languages as other paradigms" yes. A very similar approach to the "explicit propagation" version was used in Midori: https://joeduffyblog.com
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2y ago
It's also not a tag, but an SGML (?) directive (specifically a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_type_definition ) and so it is in fact invalid to produce a closing tag.
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2y ago
The `<use />` tag introduces another dimension to the analysis: "Is a first-class citizen of the web". Most resources can be included from anywhere and the serving and the hosting pages can limit that universality bu
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2y ago
> Your statement is a legal claim The statement quoted by the parent is a moral claim (from which there are follow-on legal implications).
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2y ago
> but that would be so rare in a world without humans heaping up big piles of the stuff Hogs will heap up lots of organic debris and sleep in it, choosing strategically where to urinate in order to increase or decrease the heat emitted b
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2y ago
Yep - all non-primitive types in Java are `TheType | null` - TypeScript actually allows you to strip out the `| null`, which then means that sometimes you want to add it back in. So Java doesn't have a need for `Partial<T>`, it
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2y ago
You cannot write code that will fail to compile `theEntryMethod(null)` unless you only use primitive types. (You can, of course, make that method fail at runtime, but that's not what's being talked about here).
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2y ago
Funnily enough, when you put people into primitive situations it is one of the techniques that they adopt when they can't make better things work: > Lacking guns and even bows, they could hunt only by digging traps or pursuing pre
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2y ago
As I read it this allows civil suites against persons for publishing up a photo where the publisher used the "remove element from background", much less "any Instagram filter" without the explicit consent of the photogra
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2y ago
The text of the House's version of the bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7569... * 10 year statute of limitations * $150,000 limits in damages plus court costs and attorney fe
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2y ago
Fortunately for all those who rely on the state of ambient authority on the web remaining _roughly_ as it has been for the past ~30 years Google _just_ backed down from shipping partitioned cookies. https://privacysandbox.com
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2y ago
Anytime this comes up I plug the excellent "Unyielding" ( https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2014/02/unyielding.html ) and "Notes on structured concurrency" ( https://vorpus.org/blog&
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2y ago
Who within the culture is empowered to authorize you? Can I ask any Irishman for permission to use a shamrock? Or are there particular Irish personages who have authority and I must ask them?
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2y ago
In this case it's the "goals of the people asking for the change" not the "goals of the people delivering the change".
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2y ago
I _suspect_ the impetus here is slightly different. Reading the linked blog the driving feature of this request seems to be more one of "re-asserting ownership and power" than one of "purifying and isolating cultures and blo
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2y ago
No, in this case someone (it's unclear who precisely since the linked blog doesn't have an About page) didn't like it. Why? Because using names that don't belong to you is stealing (according to their view). I'm
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2y ago
The idea of adding plastic to the soil (that's what I'm reading polymer as) to improve crop yields sounds reasonable IFF the polymer also degrades reasonably. Given that caveat, sounds like a shortcut to getting some of the moist
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2y ago
> Education cures all ills. That's what Socrates thought. But I don't think it's correct. Education enables, but does not cure. What one chooses to do is not a product of what one knows alone.
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2y ago
You're thinking about the AST as the-AST-for-LanguageX not the-AST-for-LanguageX-withAdvice. Including an AST node called `Region` or a decoration for "Region" that multiple AST nodes can point to (or vice-versa a list-of-re
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2y ago
Maven: https://maven.apache.org/wrapper/
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2y ago
Some do that humility was the mother of all virtues in the same way that pride is the mother of all vices ... I don't have any data to back it up either way, but I would say anecdotally (and thus providing a single datum), "yes&qu
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2y ago
Two points: 1. Breaking at specific points is something that can be specified by the pretty-printer of the _viewer_ you are using. Think of existing auto-formatters and imagine that they're working over the view instead of the persist
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2y ago
A same-domain iframe would not, but a sandboxed one with the appropriate permissions locked down (or one on another domain) would.
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2y ago
> de-inlining (or whatever the proper word is) The phrase you are looking for is "loop-invariant code motion". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop-invariant_code_motion
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2y ago
Because presuming that all of them are produced by the same utility is a _presumption_. They could be - but they could also be produced by many different vendors using many different methods all of them simply conforming to the specificati
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2y ago
And the dream of Java everywhere is finally realized ... not by shipping a JRE everywhere, but by using Java-the-language and parts of the JRE as a high-level specification and ahead of time compiling it to other languages. The solution
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2y ago
> You tell it to write a program (which is easy to audit) to pull the info from the PDFs Wherein you discover that unless you ask it to consider the fact that PDFs are ... very hard to parse [1] [2] you get something that misses whole bl
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