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mishac

245 karma · joined February 23, 2016

Web developer based in Montreal

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mishac··on Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload
urgh. What is old is new. "Copilot" is the new omniname, what ".NET" was for a previous generation.
mishac··on Deep cloning objects in JavaScript
Unnecessary _now_ perhaps, but not unnecessary when lodash was written. In 2009, when underscore.js came out (from which lodash was a fork) Array.every() was not something you could rely on. Chrome just came out a year earlier (and didn't support Array.every until version 4) and half the world was on IE 6-7-8
mishac··on Arc Browser 1.0
It got baked into the silicon valley culture for some reason. When the rebellious innovators à la Wozniak and the Berkeley folks merged with trillions of VC spewing finance bros, a weird amalgam was created where while everything is in reality about money, it needs to be sugar coated with drivel about wanting to change the world and solve world hunger via the application of middle out compression algorithms
mishac··on Arc Browser 1.0
requiring an account on day one makes me wary that the whole thing is pre-enshitified.
mishac··on FreeBSD at 30: Its secrets to success
Why do you think NetBSD is more popular? Of all the BSDs FreeBSD is by far the most widely used.
mishac··on Jellyfin: Free software media system
Docker on freebsd's been abandonware for a few years now.
mishac··on Reddit is currently down
Or a causal thing....reddit being down means that some number of people switch to hackernews to pass time.
mishac··on 50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World
the entire point of TPP Was to exclude China...
mishac··on Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended
Steve Job's return to Apple was not like this at all. For all his faults Jobs was never as erratic as Musk, and he never pulled stunts like causing 80% of the staff to be fired or leave, nor did he ever lock the buildings in Cupertino.
mishac··on RIP Google Hangouts, Google’s last, best chance to compete with iMessage
Due to timezones? or is there something in Japanese culture that makes friday meetings disliked?
mishac··on Tell HN: GitHub is down again
If Github had planned downtime every 3 months people would scream bloody murder, so the point stands that github's uptime is almost surely better than someone who selfhosts.
mishac··on Air France-KLM Unveils Tiny A220 Jet in Superjumbo's Shadow
The irony is that the Canadian (and Quebec) government usually get flak for shoveling money and favours to Bombardier, not for refraining from doing it.
mishac··on New smb3 kernel server (ksmbd)
ZFS on linux uses the system tooling for SMB and NFS. Like if you `zfs share` a dataset, it modifies the system /etc/smb.conf or /etc/exports.
mishac··on Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
which goes back to the confusing UI. why should there be a different scroll bar to use than the standard one?
mishac··on Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
which is why phpbb or even (god forbid) reddit is more ergonomic to use for me. If the thread is enormous, then split it into pages. And if it's not enormous, the discourse solution ends up being heavier and slower than just loading the whole discussion at once.

Discourse's voodoo ends up being more annoying to me than useful, not unlike infinite scrolling.

(obviously this is all subjective..I can only speak to the fact that I get annoyed by it and thus instinctively avoid discourse when I can)

mishac··on Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
The fact that discourse hijacks ctrl-f drives me insane. Sometimes I want to jump to a particular part of a thread featuring a word quickly, but discourse gets in the way.

And, though this is more subjective, I find the UI confusing. I end up browsing the github issues or even reddit for answers to questions just to avoid discourse on projects that use it (discuss.linuxcontainers.org - I'm looking at you).

mishac··on size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer
> I personally haven't run into it as a developer

Clearly not a nodejs developer then! npm's insanely nested dependency graph caused me to hit the 260 character limit relatively regularly. (though this was several years ago, so maybe they have mitigations for that now)

mishac··on Casu Martzu
I was under the impression gas leaks are supposed to be foul smelling, since the gas itself doesn't have an odor, and they add a foul-smelling additive for safety purposes.
mishac··on PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey
you can install bash on windows too.
mishac··on Calibre – E-Book Management
Not everyone is happy, which is why many of us wish it had a better UI.
mishac··on FreeBSD Core Team Statement on FreeBSD Development Processes
IIRC OpenBSD's version of pf is single-threaded, which might be an issue depending on your network speed and hardware. A single core of an Atom or Celeron might struggle on a gigabit or 10gig network, if that's the use case.
mishac··on Houdini Engine for Unreal and Unity Now Free
The number of studios not using blender is much larger.
mishac··on Checked C
OP wrote the linked article...
mishac··on How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss
That doesn't work well for me because I get still get pinterest.co.uk, pinterest.ca, pitnerest.it etc etc.

I guess we need wildcard domain exlclusion.

mishac··on SQLite briefing for Linux kernel hackers (2019)
I think by "metric" he means your definition of a good abstraction, not the fact that all abstractions leak.
mishac··on Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained
that would be 28M, not 280M (Which is still a huge number, obviously)
mishac··on Is It a Pandemic Yet?
That's assuming that every supermarket has enough delivery staff. That's not a valid assumption in many places.
mishac··on Leaving Google
It appears to be something related to the sci-fi book "Ninefox Gambit", based on a really cursory google search.

Not having read the book I can't really speculate further.

mishac··on Firefox 72.0
What platform are you on? I am on Ubuntu+GNOME and I was able to right click on the pip window and set "Always on visible workspace" with no issue.
mishac··on Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dark energy is in error
I believe it's just a regional spelling issue (like paediatriction/pediatriction or encylopaedia/encyclopedia)
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