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For a user to correctly answer a permissions dialog, they need to learn programming and read all the source code of the application. To say nothing of the negative effects of permi…

You'd be better off believing neither, but taking the participants' stories as what they believe happened. Then drawing your own conclusions. (Sorry, not picking on you in particul…

Sure, and these are good points, but they solve a problem far less interesting than the real problem. Of the (let's guess) 60 people telling Wil to go do one, up to about half[1] m…

Ah, never mind! It's a simple 56-step opt out process: https://www.voxmedia.com/pages/cookie-policy#your-cookie-cho...

Yes - but never mind the requests, what's up with that "GDPR bar"? Where's the 'No, I do not want you to do this' button?

How do you implement co-operative multitasking in WebAssembly? Do you have to analyze the source program & know where every possible call to a yield is, and store all resulting suf…

I managed to log in, but the system is pretty barebones. Trying to change or apply for a new banking product just takes you to a help page saying the ability to do this is 'Coming …

They're planning both. Reference counting/bump pointer allocation in-frame for temp stuff & no GC & manual memory management for the upcoming high-performance restricted C# subset …

The gist contains a 2018 update section at the bottom...

The article has additions up to 2018 as additional sections.

To add (baseless) speculation to the mix, I think it's more NIH than GPLv3 concerns...

There should be a link on the page. I started binding it to C# over Christmas out of frustration of one not existing, and someone else quickly picked it up and made a cleaner bindi…

That would be a bit inaccurate though - the core library doesn't have a backend. The example you found e.g. implements an OpenGL backend. It doesn't reference any external librarie…

The point of single-file header libraries is that generally they are relatively small, and do not rely on linking with other libraries (outside the C runtime).

I guess you could have just read a lot of books. I don't know if libraries are being closed down in the US, but that's happening a lot now in the UK for cost saving reasons/due to …

And so, XUL is returned to the TLA pool. Anyone got any claims for what XUL should mean now?

I think the expectation the Go lot have been working towards is the expectation that individual pauses are very short. Contrast to a Java server GC, aiming towards overall efficien…

Interesting! IMO it showed that garbage collection isn't some silver bullet (of course), but that with a kick to a quite coarse control it's possible to achieve very good performan…

It sucks that it's gone - it took me months to retrain my muscle memory to stop using backspace - but I've definitely accidentally navigated back from a form before. I've adjusted.…

Wow! I honestly thought they were references to the Church of SubGenius and Discordianism respectively. Odd how the names still make sense when viewed with the hacker sense of humo…

I actually really want to know how Discord does it. Do they actually use the DOM, or just draw everything themselves? Honestly, anyone who hasn't used Discord, I'd recommend instal…

Re. a single editor: The constant, never-ending search for The Perfect Editor :)

This sounds like amazing news. LuaJIT being given a future direction by people who know what they're doing & have additional bright ideas to add, funded by Cloudflare. I mean... wo…

For ShutUp10 at least (and probably the others): Yes. Microsoft resets settings when updates happen. The application explicitly warns you about this. And indeed, I ran the applicat…

That's very good to know! My current project is pretty insensitive to performance, but that's definitely useful info for the future.