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by thayne 11mo ago
> copy paste didn’t work in google docs under firefox the last time I checked Still doesn't. Because instead of using the standard clipboard API, google docs uses a special extension which of course is pre-installed on chrome, and A
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by thayne 11mo ago
There is one practical difference. IPv6 without a NAT exposes information about different devices inside the private network. A NAT (whether ipv4 or ipv6) will obfuscate how many devices are on the network. Whether that is desirable depends
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by thayne 11mo ago
Why is it "starting with Pixel 10" and not "starting with Android X"? Will this only be available on new Pixel devices?
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by thayne 11mo ago
Or we could stop giving patents for software, that would probably dramatically reduce the number of applications USPTO has to review. And if we reduced the length of patent validity, then invalid patenta would expire sooner and wouldn'
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by thayne 11mo ago
I would guess USPTO (or at least some people at it) probably wants it, because they would rather not deal with these reviews.
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by thayne 11mo ago
I don't think it was just the backwards incompatibility on its own. I think perl would have had a much better chance if perl 6 had been ready sooner. The long period of time between perl 5 development stopping and perl 6/Raku bein
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by thayne 11mo ago
It absolutely does. I've never met anyone with a positive opinion of Oracle, and I know many companies avoid dealing with Oracle. I think this strategy only works if you have enough marketshare and vendor lock-in that customers can&#x2
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by thayne 11mo ago
Oracle is still in business despite using these type of tactics for decades.
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by thayne 11mo ago
Probably better than browser makers committing to maintaining an xslt library.
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by thayne 11mo ago
I don't disagree that Google is killing the open web. But XSLT is a pretty weak argument for showing that. It is an extremely complicated feature that is very seldom used. I am very doubtful dropping support is some evil political deci
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by thayne 11mo ago
> all that’ll happen is that it’s going to get way better Every acquisition announcement says something like this. It is almost never true. In fact, the opposite often happens.
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by thayne 11mo ago
> Apple, like every other vendor, does not have a choice but to implement this as a proprietary characteristic. Pre-BLE, other vendors copied Apple's de-facto `HFP They could publish the details, and not block other manufacturer det
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by thayne 11mo ago
This wouldn't be an issue if copyright expired after 10 years, which seems like a reasonable length to me. Or if a work going out of "print" (or equivalent depending on thee medium) some limited number of years forfeits the c
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by thayne 11mo ago
> Most of this could be resolved by not putting the prices on the products themselves That is already often the case. Prices are usually on the shelves not on the product itself at many stores. And when purchasing online there is no reas
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by thayne 11mo ago
sales tax should be charged per item, not for the total transaction, so that it's possible to list prices that include the sales tax.
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by thayne 11mo ago
I'm a little worried this will encourage vendors to increases prices up to the next 5 cent mark, which will cause inflation that we really don't need more of right now.
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by thayne 11mo ago
That's possible. But it is difficult to get right, and can have poor performance if you you have many such elements.
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by thayne 11mo ago
> God forbid I accidentally make an account with SSO and another with email but the same email. If they do it correctly, that shouldn't be possible.
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by thayne 11mo ago
It can also be used to automatically execute jar files with "java -jar". I don't think arch is set up to do that automatically, but it is fairly easy to do[1]. [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Binfmt
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by thayne 11mo ago
One other problem is there isn't a way to definitely know that a given OIDC provider is authoritive for a given email. Although, this spec could probably be simplified by just having a dns record that specifies the domain to use for oi
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by thayne 11mo ago
> This protocol solves a pretty contrived problem ("By sending the email verification code, the inbox provider knows the user is using that service!") I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but I think the main motivation i
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by thayne 11mo ago
Not everyone uses an email provider that is also also an OIDC provider.
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by thayne 1y ago
But in this case, they weren't on UK soil when they did something against UK law.
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by thayne 1y ago
> It already does this For some things. But there are also several fields that could be calculated, but aren't. > It's assumed that you have read the instructions and done the worksheets elsewhere Yes, but it would be help
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by thayne 1y ago
Yes. I've used Free filllable forms several times. For basic tax situations, and even mildly complex ones, the problem isn't so much that it is hard as that it is very tedious. It involves reading a lot of instructions, with many
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by thayne 1y ago
If your tax situation isn't too complicated, it actually isn't too hard to fill out the forms yourself[1]. But if you are living abroad, unfortunately your tax situation probably isn't that simple. [1]: Although I find it inc
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by thayne 1y ago
For most people, those deductions are less than the "standard" deduction you can take instead. For most of the people who do itemized deductions, it's mostly just your mortgage payment and state taxes, which the IRS already k
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by thayne 1y ago
Does the "Modernized eFile API" still exist?
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by thayne 1y ago
> This is used to test for various kinds of conditions that affect newborns. Then why do they keep the samples?
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by thayne 1y ago
Changing your social security number is only slightly easier. Okay, maybe that's hyperbole. But having your SSN exposed isn't a good enough to be able to change it. You have to show it is actively being abused, and you can't

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