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htor··on Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? Methodology and Results
I think what we are all really questioning about is: how many times can it be rewritten in Rust?
htor··on 100k Stars
Didn’t manage to close the cookie banner before the intro started playing on top of it on my mobile screen. Great “experiment”, Google.
htor··on Deno 1.36
deno is refreshing, but i don't like the fact that it is married with typescript and has built-in support for this and that library. should've been framework agnostic from the start and not marketed as this batteries-included thing.

also, this creates more fragmentation in the node/web community which i don't really see the need for. being compatible with node/npm just carries with it the warts and problems instead of getting rid of them.

htor··on Internet addiction and the habit of book reading
TL;DR
htor··on Google’s next big Chrome update will rewrite the rules of the web
will this get rid of the dreaded cookie popup dialog?

or is that GDPR nonsense still going to make those persist?

htor··on Vim Creep (2011)
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htor··on Graphics for JVM
ah, the old web vs java discussion. "why does the browser not come with all the components i want built-in, having the exact look n feel that my OS has?". "i have to actually write code to get a popup?". "markup language? style sheets?? bollocks!". "surely, java is more mature and will enable me to make better apps, in less time". "it's running on a JVM, didn't you know?". "so it's more performant".

ok. js css html won the web platform. and they have an increasing piece of native. oops! this is not a random trend, but for a good reason.

java for GUIs is not going to be popular again. it's already been tested and it failed the test.

the old timer java mindset still wants the web but it does not want to learn web.

working with the web is not a "hack", nor is the DOM only suitable for representing "documents". you left in 1995 and failed to catch up with modern standards. it's a flexible system, but does not come with all the batteries. but to counterweigh that it has a massive ecosystem, a package manager with plenty of off the shelf parts, if you want them. performancewise, the browser engines are getting faster and faster every day, optimised for rendering. v8 is hugely successful natively. the DOM is very suitable as a generic GUI model to work with. back in 1995 it was not.

wake up Java devs. your arguments are getting increasingly flaky..

htor··on Vim-Mario: Mario on Vim
nice try
htor··on Italian Ruby
localization problem? i believe that is an invented problem. why would anyone write code in his/her native language?
htor··on ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
oh my god HN is like reading ads. what shite front page news....
htor··on America’s largest milk producer files for bankruptcy
but, there is no harm in getting an extra b12 dose for meat consumers as well! plant-based milks are not meant only for plant-eaters (to put it simply) they are of course meant for everyone
htor··on Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments
yes, i forgot to add "anthropogenic" to climate change. ie – this climate change is the direct result of human activity
htor··on Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments
grow human organs inside rats and? how does that work? i don't understand. meanwhile we are entering the sixt mass extinction event caused by a massive climate change. what good is this technology when you have failing crops, extreme weather, no electricity and mass immigration at your doorstep?
htor··on Reborn 3: Desktop browser with Web 3, faster VPN and ad blocker
apparently we are currently on version 3 of the web?
htor··on I Don't Like Debuggers (2000)
you bastard!!!
htor··on Types Are Moving to the Right
this article has little or no substance
htor··on Linux Desktop Setup
this is a terminal, not a desktop. and it's really great at being that.
htor··on MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced
when is the article from?
htor··on A tale of 132 e's
aww, thought this was going to be a story about 132 molly adventures! maybe not the right forum..
htor··on ‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Computer Science Students
there are so many ethical things you can use your brain on. first of all, you can start by not investing your talent/intelligence on advertisement. everybody knows ads are bad and they make making people suffer in many ways. we know so well that facebook, google et.al have no good intentions for the planet and are harvesting massive profits. ultra capitalist, maybe? we have many choices as humans, we can choose to organize, work for honest people and take a big shit on evil companies destroying our environment!
htor··on Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync
all privacy aside. i think mozilla is doing good lately. firefox is fast and it has a great dev tool since i last checked. today i'm switching from chrome!
htor··on The path to $100B [video]
startup culture is destroying the planet! we don't need more innovators we need inventors!
htor··on Ask HN: Is there a modern “power on to basic” computer, for kids to learn on?
do it and re-discover the art of getting lost!
htor··on Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux
beautiful. in a weird way it almost looks modern.
htor··on A new kind of labor movement in Silicon Valley?
what does "blue-collar" and "white-collar" mean?
htor··on Service Workers
> Consumers demand rich apps and interactivity, and it appears they're having it their way.

no consumer ever demanded the web to be like an app. this is marketing baloney crap. stop treating humans browsing the web as targets for advertisement and consumerism.

htor··on Service Workers
> That is how the web works.

good luck trying to convince google of that. they are shaping the web just the way they want it. push notifications? nobody ever except the marketing apartment thought that was a good idea to add to anything. if we try making everything on the web like mobile apps we're gonna get garbage features like this and false expectations on what the web should be like.

htor··on The Jury Is In: Monolithic OS Design Is Flawed [pdf]
gnu hurd was released in 2015, but very few people are working on it i'm afraid. https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2015-04-29-debian_gnu...
htor··on Show HN: A syntax-diagram generator for rust's macro_rules()
do you mean to say there's a rust macro that lets you type java in rust? that's a horrible thing to invent! un-invent! exterminate at once!
htor··on Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available
"gta_full_dist.tar" seems to be one of the biggest "datasets" featured on here. funny this data business.
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