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mark_and_sweep

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    Comment #48934070

    > a genuinely good tool that enriches your thinking A smartphone is also a genuinely good all-around tool. Even social media is a genuinely good tool for connecting people. Yet, I …

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    Comment #48072831

    Technically, yes. Markdown was always intended to be used for creating HTML and thus allows you to use HTML inline (with some minor caveats, see: https://daringfireball.net/project…

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    Comment #48017010

    What do you mean by corrupted? Been using Deno happily for many years now. Did I miss anything?

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    Comment #47695743

    Sorry, what? I never mentioned lock-in. I assume by Service Worker API, you mean FetchEvent? [1] As in: self.addEventListener("fetch", (event) => {}); That is a web standard indeed…

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    Comment #47679631

    Their fetch handler [1] is not a web standard. [1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/handl...

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    Comment #47679570

    > > I don't understand how none of the alternatives really embrace WinterTC > You provide handlers that fulfil requests from the system. As I said previously, though I wish they we…

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    Comment #47677632

    AFAIC, WinterTC doesn't specify how to start an HTTP server. Their minimum common API requires, among other things, that the Request and Response interfaces from the fetch specific…

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    Comment #45782295

    As a German, I gotta ask: Is this a reference to Martin Niemöller's "First They Came"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

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    Comment #45580813

    > Is there still a real-world use case for XHTML If I need the markup of a page to not contain any structural errors, I often use XHTML for testing at least because, though it's a …

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    Comment #45579274

    XHTML (or the XML syntax for HTML) wasn't removed (see: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/introduction.html#htm... ). You may be thinking of XSLT, which may be removed in futu…

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    Comment #45311509

    Switching to Deno might help. It's sandboxed by default and offers granular escape hatches. So if a script needs access to a specific environment variable or read or write specific…

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    Comment #44395306

    From my experience, most simple websites are fine with XSLT 1.0 and don't experience any performance problems.

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    Comment #44043521

    > My favorite testing framework, AVA, still isn’t supported. Have you checked recently? The docs ( https://docs.deno.com/runtime/fundamentals/testing/ ) specifically mention AVA as…

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    Comment #43886296

    This bug is specifically about not working in Firefox. How is disabling output escaping relevant in regards to sharing templates between pages?

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    Comment #43882954

    What bug specifically?

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    Comment #43881192

    I believe XSLT 1 is still working in all major browsers today. Here's a simple HTML 5 example with two pages sharing a header template: https://gist.github.com/MarkTiedemann/0e6d36…

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    Comment #43671423

    The study actually shows that the people on UBI switched their jobs more often than the control group. Considering that the group on UBI was also happier, felt more financially sec…

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    Comment #43363090

    A pretty safe option is working for a utility company.

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    Comment #42998638

    I'm driving a 2022 Kia Niro EV. Yes, the sign detection is pretty unreliable, but otherwise I've had no (software) issues with the car yet.

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    Comment #42269463

    There is still a wealth tax in Germany which is, in fact, enshrined in its constitution. However, the tax has not been collected since 1997 due to legal issues regarding its calcul…

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    Comment #42134164

    Lately, the user experience has gotten much worse for Windows users: In July they removed the ability to download content for offline viewing. So everyone who wants to watch conten…

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    Comment #41960785

    As a German, I assumed he's talking about poor connection speeds.

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    Comment #41339399

    Reminds me of KQL (Kusto Query Language) by Microsoft

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    Comment #41067511

    I believe the competition started with Deno. But yes, Bun is part of the competition now, too.

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    Comment #40554244

    Any plans for porting to Android?