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by untog 6y ago
I have to say I’m impressed by how far PHP has come. I haven’t written any in years (well over a decade, even) but the commitment to improving a language many have written off as a dead end is laudable.
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by untog 6y ago
> In 2015, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) relaxed its guidance but still required men to abstain from sex with another man for at least a year before they could give blood, a policy that the the American Public Health Associat
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by untog 6y ago
Then you’re doing web development wrong, frankly.
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by untog 6y ago
SwiftUI is better than React and CSS... on iPhone. It’s not going to help you at all on Android. So at a bare minimum you’re replacing React and CSS with two totally different UI implementations. Maintaining two separate code bases (and hir
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by untog 6y ago
There are a lot of not-altogether-scientific reasons. Gay people can’t give blood. If I recall correctly British people can’t either because of Foot and Mouth disease, something that happened in the 90s.
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by untog 6y ago
Does the Big Bang Theory encourage violence against creationists? I don’t ask that question seriously, just to point out that generalising things isn’t always useful. For example, “hate speech” is a defined term and the Big Bang theory ain’
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by untog 6y ago
I don’t really see anything very different there. Voters have always been easily manipulated: by newspapers, TV, whatever. Though I suppose one key difference is that the source of that manipulation has been hidden: you used to know what ne
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by untog 6y ago
I suspect for a lot of people this will be of next to no consequence: I can't imagine Bill Gates has actually done all that much chatting in the DMs. But some might have. Elon Musk, perhaps?
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by untog 6y ago
> do you ever hear about ER docs who become depressed or mentally ill from being exposed to so much horrific human suffering? Yes you do! But I would imagine it is at least somewhat offset by the fact that they are doing a lot of good: t
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by untog 6y ago
You do not have absolute certainty that every old cached version of a file you have published has been purged by every third party cache, no. But the vast, _vast_ majority do get purged very quickly. I've done this myself when in a bin
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by untog 6y ago
Facebook already hires moderators inside the US via agencies, and they have their own problems: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo... As for the volunteer side, it's a real
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by untog 6y ago
> the only-case scenario is that all the sites you have pulling from that CDN break until you recompute the hash Until you recompute the hash and communicate that new hash to them and they implement it on their site. It’s not nothing
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by untog 6y ago
> It is just that there are small pockets of people who are psychologically capable of tolerating this or even enjoy it. I wouldn't assume "watches this stuff" and "is psychologically capable of tolerating this stuff&
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by untog 6y ago
I think it's fair to say the sheer quantity has changed since Facebook first came around (FB predates smartphones for one!) I also think part of the objection here is around off-shoring. It's similar to other complaints about off-
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by untog 6y ago
It's difficult. I like the idea of subresource integrity a lot, but a counter example: Twilio discovers a bug in their JS SDK. Without subresource integrity they can push up a fix and propagate it to all clients immediately. With subre
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by untog 6y ago
"force installing" in this context means "you want X? you're getting Y too, whether you like it or not". No, you're not forced to install both X and Y. But it's pretty clearly taking advantage of a dominan
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by untog 6y ago
Very happy about this. I tried to combine the two a few months ago and it was not a fun experience. Great to know I can give it another go now.
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by untog 6y ago
A matter of perspective IMO. Before I learned Rust it looked messy but now that I know it I don’t think that at all. In fact the way you can use match statements and Result<T> structs make it quite beautiful to me.
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by untog 6y ago
This feels a little over sensitive. As you say yourself it’s just a turn of phrase! > News and the way they are presented to us are stressful and largely irrelevant. This perspective comes from privilege. Nothing wrong with that but I co
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by untog 6y ago
“AWS is down” is phrasing shorthand, it doesn’t mean every single service they offer is nonfunctional. It means that for the vast majority of people it is not doing what it is supposed to do. Again, it’s not a technically correct statement
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by untog 6y ago
Patronising much? The simple reality is that if your site is down because AWS is down then it means a lot of other sites are down too. Which means you don’t look anywhere near as bad as you would if you were the only site not working. Logic
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by untog 6y ago
Easier said than done. It’s increasingly difficult to find a “dumb” TV these days. Almost all have smart functionality. (and besides, most TVs have other ways of watching Netflix that ought to be more convenient for a visitor. A $30 Roku st
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by untog 6y ago
They think they're well informed... by YouTube videos. They won't read a book. (broadly speaking, obviously, I'm sure some will)
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by untog 6y ago
Except, no. As a startup you are absolutely not going to get the contract to create a new unemployment web site for a government. Even aside from the bidding process that is deliberately set up to exclude small players any responsible gover
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by untog 6y ago
Well, it was just a Bitcoin scam... it had the potential to be huge like the AP hack but the hackers didn't use the exploit to its full potential. Why, I have no idea. Imagine if a raft of prominent blue ticked accounts started tweet
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by untog 6y ago
> Do you really think someone like elon musk will pay a bitcoin ransom assuming there is anything incriminating? Maybe? I mean I certainly don't dismiss the idea out of hand. The one strong counter-argument I can think of is that ve
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by untog 6y ago
Try Googling Windows, Android, React, Java, Python, Ruby, Assembly, C(!)... it seems like things have worked out OK for all of them. IMO worries like this are overblown.
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by untog 6y ago
But as the article points out, it's faster. IMO the case for Edge over Chrome isn't that convincing, but the Safari one is. If it had container tabs like Firefox (which has become a must for me) I'd switch in a heartbeat.
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by untog 6y ago
Easier said than done if you're watching YouTube on, say, a Smart TV. Personally I'm very content with my Google Play Music subscription that also includes YouTube Premium. The music service is no different than Spotify (for me, a
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by untog 6y ago
> I was under the impression—based on several reports I've read—that at launch Apple actually had no intention of building an app store or allowing third party iPhone apps I've seen contrary rumours that Apple always intended t

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