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411111111111111··on Sketch.systems
Isn't that pretty much how design was done back when people used <table>s...?

That predates your article by roughly 20yrs

411111111111111··on I don't need your query language
It does add a few ms, but you're overstating it. For LAN traffic, it's usually 5-8ms last time I checked on my servers.
411111111111111··on I don't need your query language
The funnest part of outputting JSON from the query is that your API now basically becomes a RPC, as you don't have to do any marshalling/deserialization before returning the response with Content-Type application/json

Response times are really fast like that, as you probably already know. Always fun to see <10ms round trips in the browser network tab on some requests

Also no worry about n+1 queries, as they're fundamentally impossible to do like that

411111111111111··on Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
The adage means something very different though. It's about the fact that once you've posted it, someone will have made a screenshot or scrape of the content, which will resurface at the most inopportune times.

I.e what unddit.com did for reddit

What're reddit decided to do here is almost certainly against european law and I expect we'll hear more about it over the following months.

411111111111111··on Two years of teaching high school CS
It really isn't plausible at all. The students are teenagers so the biggest hurdle is always going to be social, not tools.

It just can't be solved by tech, unless it's a complete paradigm shift such as sentient AI teachers with emotions having productive 1on1s with students in a full-dive style VR style environment.

411111111111111··on Louis Rossmann calls community to leave Reddit
That's arguably what they want though. These multinational corporations aren't really focussing at extracting the most value out of what they've got, they're mostly trying to minimize risk.

While a talented and motivated individual can indeed create a lot of value, this will inevitably also create a lot of dependency on said person. Now this person has become a liability, and HR doesn't like liabilities.

411111111111111··on Blocked from Amazon Alexa for a week after racism accusation by delivery driver
> Maybe not this time? Maybe people will hold out? Maybe we won't get locked in by everyone else?

It won't, because 'cloud'-smart home is a total gimmick.

You get better service by getting local first smart services (ZigBee etc), and even that is barely worth it.

It's neat and a fun toy, but ultimately not going to ever see widespread use beyond enthusiast bubbles. I did get my home fully automated though wrt heating/lighting, but it's more akin to a hobby then the value you get from a phone.

411111111111111··on Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent
this is the proposed theory, basically: You have a contract for a 1 year lease but stop paying, getting evicted after the second month.

Saved 10 month of obligations

411111111111111··on First people sickened by Covid-19 were scientists at WIV: US government sources
Not everyone is terminally online mate. My experience mirrors theirs, lots of speculation and jokingly considering the various conspiracies at the time.

Bioweapon was definitely one of the options that was boosted by china's outlandishly overreacting at the start, welding people into their home etc

411111111111111··on Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It
> define open source

denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.

> agpl limitations

The AGPL License does not permit sublicensing of the code; that is, you cannot rework or add to the code and then close those changes off to the public.

considering these facts, your opinion is honestly ... pretty dumb.

There is nothing hard about forking the repository and then creating a readonly mirror of your working copy on a public github repo.

411111111111111··on Don't use custom CSS scrollbars
Yes, that's one of the features that break with endless scroll bars, which was what this whole discussion was about.
411111111111111··on Don't use custom CSS scrollbars
Which is straight up what jmbwell was complaining about, as it breaks their workflow such as tapping on the top to scroll to the beginning and everything else they mentioned.
411111111111111··on The concurrence of three climatic events
The issue is water and sand. While it's currently supplementing other ecosystems with nutritions, these by themselves won't magically become greenery.

It would definitely have an incredible effect on the climate if you could magically make Africa into a Forest again though. Might even make some parts of Europe uninhabitable with that cooling alone. Not gonna happen though.

411111111111111··on The Dutch government wants automatic permission to target victims of hackers
The fear in this regard is more about overreach and stalking by officers twisting the law for their own agenda. Dunno whenever that's a widespread issue with the Dutch police.

As an example: It's doubtful they could get a warrent for their neighbors girlfriend, but now they've got another legal way in.

It remains to be seen wherever that's actually going to happen though.

411111111111111··on Why Do ML on the Erlang VM?
I'm not sure how you could've gotten that idea from my comment. If I put it on a line, I'd say (no typing) < (python optional types) < (elixirs structs and pattern matching) < (typescripts types|interfaces) < (real static types from Java etc)
411111111111111··on Why Do ML on the Erlang VM?
My last weekend Project in Elixir is roughly 3 yrs ago now, but from what I recall the system was leagues better then pythons optional typing. It's just bad if you're used to languages that have been built around types from the start.
411111111111111··on Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs
Yes, it's not price segmentation, it's planned obsolescence.

The 3080 series would be fine for likely beyond the 50x0 series gpu-wise, but current games are already starting to stutter unless you downgrade textures because of its limited VRAM

411111111111111··on Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs
> same league as a 300$ mid-range nVidia card.

$300 midrange Nvidia card? Did you get stuck in 2010?

That's way below entry-level at this point. You're likely comparing it with a 1666 cards or something, which is based on a chip from 2012.

I wish Apple silicone was actually competitive on performance. Nvidia needs competition or they'll likely double prices again with the next generation.

411111111111111··on Desktop Linux is insecure
> You can absolutely limit user access to a subset of superuser commands.

Wasn't that limit basically just a string match?

I.e. when you're allowed to do sudo abinary the whitelist will accept whatever is behind that string? So from what I recall, simply adding a new directory to the start of your path will let you execute your own script instead, giving you blanket root permission. Same with chroot on absolute paths, right?

411111111111111··on Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset
Have you ever used a VR headset?

I doubt there is ever going to be a budget headset with mass market appeal because they'd be incredibly nausea inducing.

The Oculus quest is a perfect example. It's basically manufactured e-waste which is only getting bought because of the fantasy it ultimately doesn't live to.

411111111111111··on Archive your Reddit data before it's too late
Their account is from 2007 and has <2k karma. I'd say they stand by what they wrote on this platform too.
411111111111111··on Shreddit is a Python program to remove all your Reddit comments
The demand for information and entertainment is independent from Reddit supplying it, yes. But if everyone used shreddid, this demand could no longer be fulfilled on the Reddit platform, thus the demand for Reddit would cease.
411111111111111··on Apollo Back end just made public
No, that's just wrong. It's totally fine to put scrappy code up to get a product going, but that time has long since passed if you're already at a scale to have dedicated managers.

At that point you're likely going to cause more damage to the brand/corp with the half-assed implementation then the value you're providing with said code.

411111111111111··on ArchiveTeam has saved over 11.2B Reddit links
They've done it before, shouldn't be a surprise at this point.
411111111111111··on HashiCorp just let go 8%
Funny you'd make that example, as that'd make pavlovs point even stronger imo. Hashicorp is a publicly traded company, so their decisions need to primarily please their shareholders. You’d be well served to do exactly as suggested if you’re currently a healthcare provider in an occultist village. You’d be gambling with your life otherwise.
411111111111111··on First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good
To be clear, it'd be below 720p if you're making them at the same size as an 27" display at the regular distance.

I do completely agree that the promise is there, I've been saying for years that VR/AR is completely pointless as a gaming medium and it's only future is in exactly what Apple is aiming for, here. 4k per eye is just not going to be enough realistically

411111111111111··on First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good
It's 4k per eye. That's great compared to current headsets, but please remember that the screen of your normal screen likely already has 4k, and that's just a rectangle a few cm of everything you see. The 4k per eye means that it's likely going to be <fullhd depending on just how gigantic you want to make the screens

It could be great, but productivity will likely need over 4k per eye to be anything beyond a novelty.

Depending on how the hardware develops, it could become something great for sure. most people calling it a novelty are taking about the device as it's been announced, not the theoretical future it could potentially have if it was different.

411111111111111··on The Wait Until 8th pledge
> We are supposed to parent. Part of the parenting stuff means supervising and guiding in all environments your kid has contact with, including screens.

That's your interpretation of the parenting role. It might be agreeable for a lot of people on this forum, but that's mostly because we're all a self selected group.

Historically speaking, children were free to learn unguided and parents only interfered if the kids didn't do their jobs, which was literal work on a farm or similar.

I'm not advocating for child labor, but your opinion that it's your job to literally supervise your child learning is also a quiet extreme position from my point of view.

411111111111111··on Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest
Do they though? It's not the first time they've done things like this and nothing really happened.
411111111111111··on Calling time on DNSSEC: The costs exceed the benefits
> it got there largely because web browser makers have high-leverage points to exert influence

That's not how I remember it. Unless you excluded google chrome, Microsoft's browsers, and Apples browsers.

The change was brought upon by let's encrypt, and Mozilla is the only one of the founders that has a web browser.

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