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by znort_ 1y ago
indeed, but they're not talking about your phone, they're talking about android, which is something you don't buy nor own, you buy a license to use it on the provider's terms. linux phones can't come soon enough ...
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by znort_ 1y ago
interesting! i wasn't aware of that, thanks for pointing it out. to be clear, my point was that where the state has to be managed is more often than not an architectural decision given by the requirements, and the choice of tools shoul
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by znort_ 1y ago
reducing complexity is important but is hardly the fundamental reason to choose between server side or client side rendering or state management. that just depends on the nature of the problem and the context it has to be solved in. sometim
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by znort_ 1y ago
like a glance at the menu wasn't enough ... btw, i just now did glance at the menu online, i had no idea that this crap i wouldn't dare to call food (unless i were starving) is currently selling in spain. this is a tiny bit depres
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by znort_ 1y ago
"Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts through POP." seems quite clear.
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by znort_ 1y ago
cool information, abysmal user interface ...
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by znort_ 1y ago
there are indeed monster packages but you should ask yourself if you need them at all, because if you really do there is no way around performing nr1. you get the code, you own it. you propagate malware by negligence, you're finished a
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by znort_ 1y ago
agreed, bad wording. it so happens though that sw development includes many problems and practices that aren't easy and are still part of the job.
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by znort_ 1y ago
npm in itself isn't special at all, maybe the userbase is but that's irrelevant because the mitigation is pretty easy and 99.9999% effective, works for every package manager and boils down to: 1- thoroughly and fully analyze any d
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by znort_ 1y ago
"I've been building data systems for long enough to be skeptical of “revolutionary” claims, and I’m uncomfortable with grandiose statements like “Built for the AI Era”. Nevertheless, ... ... i'm gonna make revolutionary claim
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by znort_ 1y ago
books will be around for a while. but i wouldn't mind getting back to the internet of the 80/90s where you could easily find more genuine content and less aggregators, replicators, marketeers and clickfarms. if that's "
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by znort_ 1y ago
> The Internet itself is decentralized, which made it extremely resilient. So is democracy. extremely? i wouldn't bet on that. how do you even measure that? books have been around for over a millenium, that's quite resilient. t
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by znort_ 1y ago
in the stock market?
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by znort_ 1y ago
in this case, no. it's a client game and performance isn't at all critical, so the state and loop could be trivially handled by a regular js function. if at some point a server architecture was desired, it would be trivial to host
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by znort_ 1y ago
that's assuming working computers or phones are sill around. a hardcopy of wikipedia or a few selected books might be a safer backup. otoh, if we do in fact bring about such a reboot then maybe a full cold boot is what's actually
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by znort_ 1y ago
> just because iOS didn’t support dynamic libraries (so we had to statically link it) if you develop closed software for a walled garden then relying on gpl is still possible but a rather contradictory philosophy. i guess the alternative
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by znort_ 1y ago
> But I don't know how to make an adblocker, so I decided to report the issue to Google in August 2023. (...) For the report, I netted a massive reward of $0 rome doesn't pay traitors.
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by znort_ 1y ago
"write programs that do one thing and do it well. write programs to work together." it's sad to see this core principle being increasingly ignored in linux, but i guess that ship sailed a while ago.
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by znort_ 1y ago
i don't think spamming boilerplate bullshit like "Over-Communicate Intentionally. I share status, context, and decisions proactively. In remote settings, what's unsaid is easily missed—so I err on the side of more clarity, no
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by znort_ 2y ago
Mammals that eat seeds grind them apart orally before even swallowing. As a result, any seeds ingested by mammals are very likely to be completely destroyed. not really true, mastication isn't practiced to perfection in the wild, whi