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by zelly 6y ago
You can still get "scale to 0" with cgi-bin applications. Yes, it's old (but it works). Yes, it's slow (so is Lambda). Unlike Lambda, CGI works on any web server and any OS. It's also extremely easy to mock because
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by zelly 6y ago
Reviews from randoms cannot be trusted. Word of mouth is king. Second is the word of professional reviewers too well-paid to be bought, like Siskel & Ebert. When a top-tier reviewer on YouTube endorses a product, it sells out instantly.
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by zelly 6y ago
Yes, that is it. Thank you.
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by zelly 6y ago
PDF is an open spec--even though it is so complicated that there's only one complete implementation which costs money.
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by zelly 6y ago
Maybe this is the right thread to ask: I vaguely remember a file archive format similar to JAR/WAR (for Java) or ASAN (for Electron) which was designed for bundling software with its dependencies and static resources. It is not a conta
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by zelly 6y ago
A lot of smart TV apps are already HTML and JavaScript webviews. You can create a webview app on Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, a ton of proprietary devices like cars or TVs. What benefit would Firefox OS bring here, besides creating another k
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by zelly 6y ago
> Ditching Rust as a core component of the future of Firefox is also a demonstration that Mozilla isn't a tech focused corp anymore. Rust is going to yield a lot of result when it comes to security, memory saftely and maintainabilit
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by zelly 6y ago
that's what arenas are for
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by zelly 6y ago
> Lambda calculus is a BFD in the subfield of programming languages This is a good example of abusing the vocabulary of mathematics as is common in the FP world. A programming language is not an object in abstract algebra. You can't
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by zelly 6y ago
when we can get cheap symmetric fiber connections in residential is when I'll start thinking about running services at home.
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by zelly 6y ago
they run their own internal DNS resolvers
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by zelly 6y ago
Too many cooks spoil the broth I want a language designed by one very smart person, a dictator. I'm looking forward to Jai but for now the best native language is still C++. It also has too many features like Rust but at least it works
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by zelly 6y ago
Many times I find I can still ssh into the laptop even if the screen/GPU fails to draw the screen on wakeup
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by zelly 6y ago
because I don't want to open my backpack and be greeted by a furnace and 10% battery left
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by zelly 6y ago
the doomsday scenario the top-level comment mentioned is if they disabled that option. it's possible but very unlikely because it would make that browser unusable for many corporate networks.
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by zelly 6y ago
then I'll use a fork that uses old DNS. maintaining a small diff that enables old DNS is easy enough that I could do it myself. much easier than trying to fork out Manifest V3.
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by zelly 6y ago
you can block most ads that uBlock Origin blocks with a hosts file. they still cannot take that away from you. I might actually start doing this now that I considered how much access I'm giving to uBlock Origin.
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by zelly 6y ago
> Rather, I am against the exploitation of data I generate do you really think your "data" is valuable? or was this just an idea put in your head by journalists? ponder that for a moment
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by zelly 6y ago
good way to get pwned
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by zelly 6y ago
2/4 of those are Chrome
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by zelly 6y ago
> changing user-agents $ chromium --user-agent "..." > DoH chrome://flags/#dns-over-https > managing https connections wat this mean? https is meant to be opaque
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by zelly 6y ago
turns out people didn't want to swipe right on the same website their grandma uses good lesson in there that some domains just don't mix
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by zelly 6y ago
there is no end. crypto will continue to swallow up all the world's capital and you'll be furious at how many leading zeros there are in your BTC-priced paycheck.
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by zelly 6y ago
that's just delusion and cope. if the price keeps going up for years, then no matter what you think you're wrong. the market isn't being irrational, you are.
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by zelly 6y ago
no one else can afford to host that much useless content except maybe the US government. the alternative would be that YT dies and nothing replaces it. sometimes there is no alternative to centralization.
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by zelly 6y ago
the social graph isn't all that valuable to outsiders. anyone determined enough can scrape it without permission anyway. no one else can do much with it except maybe intelligence agencies which were already voluntarily given root acces
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by zelly 6y ago
Containers changed the game. 99% of Deno/Go/Rust server software will be running on containers in practice. You're no longer deploying to a system running other programs which may share pages. It's a container, not a pro
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by zelly 6y ago
Developers have already foregone traditional desktop development since webapps and Electron took over. Webapps are as incidental of a substitute for desktop applications as mobile apps that run on desktop would be. Companies don't volu
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by zelly 6y ago
A mobile app written in portable code that runs without emulation on a desktop. The desktop OS would expose the same platform SDK as the mobile OS. (Needless to say, apps depending on the accelerometer, selfie cam, etc. for major functional
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by zelly 6y ago
All of the things you mentioned serve a purpose that, at scale, would have to be replicated in some ad-hoc manner in JSON. Yes XML is more expensive to parse, but so is all the extra stuff you have to do to get around the various limitation

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