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Does your journal have cloud sync? That’s what broke on the device in the article.

Sometimes that's true, but sometimes (imo the superior approach) the touchscreen is independent from the cursor. I think touchscreen Chromebooks are like that, for example.

The `formaction` and `formmethod` attributes already exist. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

Correct, it’s a common misconception/sloppy wording.

Digitally rented content is rented. My music via Bandcamp/iTunes, my games from their developers’ websites/itch.io/GOG, and my ebooks are owned (for the purposes of the “owned”/“re…

Alternative what? Government?

> How is this different from struct in C#? A struct in C# has identity Since when? I’m pretty sure structs didn’t have identity last time I used C#, and that would be a very surpri…

and don’t open links like https://tinyurl.com/2s3twstw either, or any other page on the internet that’s able to redirect you to github.dev

This comment is confusing to me on so many levels. What’s with the tangent(?) about a math test your algebra teacher could have generated? Did you bring up an illiterate teacher (e…

Not one window, but one application . Which is, yeah, about the worst of both worlds.

- CSP that allows cdn.jsdelivr.net/unpkg.com (which serve anything on npm, which anyone can publish to) indiscriminately is not effective (and I’m sure some cdnjs script in an Angu…

> in favor of some unlikely cloak and dagger interception scheme someone who definitely understands how crypto works, describing the most basic possible MITM

I know parameters don’t translate directly like that (and that linear and exponential aren’t the only types of growth) but a doubling as a go-to example of “not exponential growth”…

ASLR is (still[1]) not security by obscurity. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43408079

> Any TLS break delayed by more than 15 minutes would be worthless. It sounds like you’re talking about breaking TLS’s key exchange? Why would this not have the usual issue of bein…

> Rather, an interactive window running under the user’s name has implied access to the user’s home folders, regardless of what’s been set under “Files & Folders” (which still appl…

Npm and the other JavaScript package managers do generate and check lockfiles with hashes by default. This was a new release, not a republishing of an old version (which isn’t poss…

Nobody is confused or disagrees about the `--hard` part. It was a minor tangent about contexts where these ASCII substitutions are established, like LaTeX (`` -> “, '' -> ”, -- -> …

It’s about the top-level comment’s horror that ”--” was substituted with “an en dash, not even an em dash”. If you’re picking a substitution for “--”, en dash makes more sense. The…

No, the comment was pointing out that the HN platform automatically replaces `--` in titles with `–`. (I don’t know if that’s true, but that was the intent. Nothing to do with AI.)…

They meant “more appropriate [than an em dash]”. And that minus sign usage of hyphen-minus isn’t unique in Unicode either – see U+2212 MINUS SIGN.

People are using Firefox intentionally, vs. using IE because it was preinstalled. Firefox is a maintained browser. IE was hard to support, and Firefox is not. There are a lot of di…

That’s what rot13 is for.