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alexlur··on So, you don't like a web platform proposal
Pretty deceptive to present yourself eager to discuss when you aggressively locked and closed issues where people present legitimate and well thought out concerns. If you don’t want to take responsibility for the proposal, withdraw your name from it.

> Political/ecosystem arguments are technical arguments.

No they are not. You don’t get to retcon a term just because people spotted a flaw in your argument.

Edit: I noticed you posted this while closing off the repo completely for new comments. You can’t make this up.

alexlur··on Why was western printing superior to Asian printing?
Kanji is not the only script in the written Japanese language, in fact it’s not even the most used script by a large margin. Kanji usually makes up less than 30% of the text while kana is around 70%.[1] Both kana, which are phonetic syllabaries, are also larger than ASCII, so chances are you confused them with kanji.

1. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/234725928.pdf

alexlur··on Why was western printing superior to Asian printing?
There’s no language called “Japanese Kanji” since it’s just a regular part of the language, but the books are larger simply because Japanese is an agglutinative language whose famously long suffixes outweigh whatever information density advantage using the characters has.
alexlur··on Hyoka
It means “evaluate”, but in the sense of evaluating a piece of artwork, so my guess is that the author justed ran the word through Google Translate.
alexlur··on Ask HN: Are there any decent GitHub Copilot Alternatives?
I checked out your GitLab repos and yep, this is vaporware.
alexlur··on Show HN: Semantic Search for Ctrl+F
I looked at the source code and found `new a.OpenAIApi(new a.Configuration({ apiKey: ... }))`, so I assume it’s calling a remote endpoint.
alexlur··on How easy is it in 2022 to find a SHA1 collision?
It will decrease the security.
alexlur··on Node-ipc supply chain attack: peacenotwar
18 U.S. Code § 1030
alexlur··on Japan’s deep connection to childish relationships (2019)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21793936
alexlur··on Remote code execution in cdnjs of Cloudflare
Great job on finding the vulnerability. Anyone who uses a CDN link should use the integrity attribute, which can be generated by https://www.srihash.org/.
alexlur··on Zoom’s encryption has links to China, researchers discover
He received his visa on his ninth try in the 90s. Is there anything that prompts you to doubt his citizenship?
alexlur··on Tars: Tencent's microservice RPC framework, open-sourced to Linux Foundation
German/French/Spanish are sister languages of English. So yes, it’s way more different.

This is open-source software, if you are not happy with the language choice of other developers, send a pull request with your own translation.

alexlur··on What’s New in ES2019
Oh wow. Looks like I’m wrong.
alexlur··on What’s New in ES2019
That Function.prototype.toString change is probably going to break some Angular.js code who relies on scanning function argument names for dependency injection.
alexlur··on What’s New in ES2019
String#padStart already exists: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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