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And this highlights how Google and the Chrome ecosystem is strangling web tech. The fact they were afraid of making a move that isn't in lockstep with Chrome means Chrome has too d…

Oh dear, not only is it uselessly vague, seeing the copyright notice owner at the bottom there makes me never want to touch the ESD with any length of bargepole.

The whole argument in that thread boils down to a disagreement over whether tolerance has limits. There is a fundamental paradox contained within the concept of unconditional toler…

Great! The dealership charges inordinately for a new key so I would love to be able to do it myself.

Neat! Old-timers may recall this composite pattern and inter-pixel artifacting was how Tandy Coco games achieved limited colours in PMODE 4. They've really taken this to the ultima…

I suspect Hadoop was just used as an example. For another, I would suggest Concourse (build/CI tool). When I tried it, it was docker images for the default install, vague instructi…

Amen. I avoid any container-based or blindly 'curl |sudo' install (the latter only after manual inspection of such a script). Apps which only offer containers are untrustworthy bla…

A related point which has always bugged me... the html script tag has a type attribute. The only valid value, to this day, is "text/javascript". Why oh why has no one written a run…