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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
And worse part is that autofill still works in incognito.
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
In sci-fi, the next step is usually to move to living on a dyson swarm harvesting the sun's energy first. Not another planet or different solar system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
This is not an original idea: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html But I don't see credits anywhere.
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
> Chances are if you are calling getImageData regularly, you are doing something wrong and inefficient. I would love to see stats on the use cases. Personally I have never used canvas other than to getImageData in a loop! If I only neede
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
This looks like a pretty naive solution. The more elegant way to do optimistic UI would be to use CRDT or OT. Usually syncing is talked about in the context of syncing multiple clients. Here, we just want to sync the cached offline state wi
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Does anyone have experience doing the same on GCP? In particular right now I am trying to add live reloading to my App Engine Standard app but Standard doesn't support long lived connections (so no websockets) and App Engine Flexible s
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
As someone who is prone to overengineering, I wonder if they also tried adding more standard streams after that (e.g., debug or verbose, different levels you would find in logging libraries today). I think just out/err has been proven
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Interacting with googlers is horrifying. He was ready to commit to the bad decision until he was threatened with a PR disaster of breaking the software used by "hundreds of thousands of school kids". I can't help but think th
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Can you point to a real world example of what you mean? I think I have heard of something similar but it didn’t seem to have caught on in any major web frameworks that I know of (strongly typed json API server which generates runtime valida
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I am not immune to fake news. I think that's why I appreciated your original response so much. I wanted to see how others are interpreting the same events. Human rights violation by china are well documented. You can look them up yours
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I am still waiting for the same article to be written about google so they can fix their shit too. I got phone calls from google cloud platform even though I am certain I didn't give them my number. They even managed to find my real na
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
On twitter/fb, people can look up your account by phone number. This is really fucking stupid because I only added my phone number for two factor authentication. So now I have to choose between security or people finding my dumb throwa
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
This is unintentionally the clearest demonstration of the clash of cultural values in the whole thread. Between harmony and human rights, it's absolutely clear to a westerner which one is more important. From your tone, it is also abso
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
The story defined scissor statements as ones that simply make two ideologically incompatible groups realize the "other" is hiding amongst "them". Close contact and narcissism of small differences means fighting will natu
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I hate that you're right that a mere decade is an impossible time horizon for the vast majority of apps. Low maintenance simply means they can afford to give a few months to shut down a service rather than the next day.
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
> if possible, generate native .exes Exe is exactly what I think of when I think of bitrot though. None of the games from my childhood can run on a modern OS. If you're running js or python etc, even if the interpreters are no longe
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
S3 breaks url format in a backward incompatible way occasionally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19821406 Otherwise this is definitely the way to go. Nothing beats static files that you can just cp into a bucket.
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Technically speaking it's not really apples to apples. One is due to malice (hitler was actively trying to exterminate a race). The other is due to incompetence (mao would've preferred if those people didn't die but was too s
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Sometimes we forget that getting disappeared in china is not just a meme. Police will show up to arrest you just for posting comments online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOAbkTs_a4
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I guess it did partially come true. The GPT-2 model by OpenAI (2019) trained on reddit links did tear some communities apart. :) https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
You are thinking of the most trivial of apps. For example I have worked on a web-based image editor that is practically impossible to make accessible to the blind. Not with current screen reader technology. Another example is Reddit, where
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
It there is one, I hope they made it styled with black on black text and/or with a braille font!
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Rather than crippling the rest of the world for the blind, why not improve the tools for them instead? Screen readers that are limited to structured inputs can't be the end-all final solution right? It would be shortsighted to set this
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Are you trying to quantify the "information" by the size of the DNA? I think this is a pretty meaningless number to multiply since most of the DNA will be exact copies and DNA alone doesn't capture all the information about a
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
One case where you probably can't is for image uploads. You might think it would be nice to allow a user to upload a svg for their avatar or something. But SVG can embed javascript which can lead to XSS: https://hackerone.co
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I have taken a course based on this book (before it was retitled "foundations of data science"). It was more or less a math class where all homeworks are about proving stuff. You won't write a single line of code and usually
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I am not sure if it's what the OP meant, but g9.js has a lot of neat interactive examples: http://omrelli.ug/g9/gallery/ Basically you write a renderer for some data and have a constraint solver (just backpro
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
People do deduplicate files to save on space, except it's usually based on exact byte match using md5 or sha256. Some don't due to privacy issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438181 (e.g., MPAA can uploa
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
Take advantage of student credits! Even when you run out of credits, all cloud providers have a pretty generous free tier. For example see haveibeenpwn.com's cost breakdown for running a hugely popular api for less than a dollar a mont
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by throwaway_bad 7y ago
I love these gaming story. Reminds me of the EVE online stories which also have crazy espionage going on.

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