drath · HackerTrans

Also, to mitigate the problem somewhat, one could obfuscate the order at which the numbers were pressed by setting a custom pin with repeating numbers. Ideally, just repeating one./s

drath

4년 전discuss

For someone born after it was already a vapourwave, can anyone explain how issues with such deep interlinking were supposed to be solved? Like, what is supposed to happen if the linked host dies, or if the content becomes paywalled, copyrighted, or distributed illegaly in the first place? Or if somebody highly referenced gets hacked and a malicious code gets injected into the referenced text?

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4년 전discuss

Did it, though? I don't think I've used a Delphi/VB-based application like... ever? I've made some myself back in the day and fiddled around with my friend's university assigments, but I can't think of any real world application using it. Maybe you have some examples?

drath

4년 전discuss

Could you provide samples? Maybe it works for you in particular, but all the throat mic tests I've seen on youtube have absolutely abysmal sound quality.

drath

4년 전discuss

> Donation figure for what? Currently you CANNOT donate towards Firefox development.

To Mozilla foundation. Most people I heard donating to them don't realize their money aren't and couldn't be put into Firefox development.

drath

4년 전discuss

1. Why focus on privacy? The niche is already taken by brave 2. To do so, they'd have to drop their half-billion default search engine deals 3. Currently, the donation figure is about $20mil. They'd have to somehow additionally collect $1.5 from every single user annually to prevent layoffs.

drath

5년 전discuss

> Do you think Apple or Google, when making the decisions on browser upgrade-ability, anticipated javascript changes that would break common sites and force users to buy new hardware

Yes, they should, because these are the same people doing both

drath

5년 전discuss

On one hand, it's quite asshole-ish. On the other, google is serving broken frontends to their services and charge ridiculous prices on their API's. When I tried to make a third party search using google engine, I've exhausted the limit in less than an hour. It'd cost me like $40/mo to get what I get for free using their crappy frontend.

drath

5년 전discuss

There is nothing wrong with sitting in front of a large television screen, as long as your eyes are not dry and you don't look at one point all time.

drath

5년 전discuss

Reminds me of http://octodon.mobi/ keyboard. They went through so many many design iterations, tried really hard to get it going, but failed to start production and haven't posted anything since 2017. Guess typing on a phone will remain a pain forever.

drath

5년 전discuss

This should really be solved by using named parameters or by writing docblocks so that IDE can show hints.

Another trick, at least in js, is to use destructuring assignment, e.g.

    function calc_formula({a, b, is_gain}){
        ...
    }

    calc_formula({a:1, b:2, is_gain:true})

drath

5년 전discuss

> if notation was genuinely confusing, why would mathematicians make themselves suffer needlessly?

Because they are unable to change it. Just like with any thing evolved over a long time, like music notation, languages, even, to some extent, programming languages. Every change brings a lot of pushback, it's a monumental task to create a new one and even more so is getting any traction with it.

drath

5년 전discuss

How so? Why not just refuse to sign contracts containing discriminatory terms and refuse such requests?

Discrimination is not a solution to anything and should never even be considered as an option.

drath

5년 전discuss

More like braindead because it was trained on an unfiltered set of data without checking licenses. In effect, they've created a code pirating tool.

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