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Horses are much more expensive to own than cars. You can't just leave them sitting in a lot for 20 out of 24 hours a day, they only feed themselves if you're living out in the midd…

More importantly, email has become extremely consolidated. It has most of the disadvantages of being federated, and not very many of the advantages (Google sees most of the emails …

Of course it's related to the format. Many formats, like PNG and Gemtext, are inherently self-contained, while other formats, like HTML and SVG, are not. Annoyingly, EPUB isn't inh…

I've seen a few people on here recommending everything from "just use HTML" (which misses the point) to "just use Gemini" (which misses the point even more). Why not HTML? Why not …

https://tomaszs2.medium.com/how-rust-1-64-became-10-20-faste... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33306945

The article is about Ada SPARK, and nVidia using it to develop their firmware today .

The ballot I filled out a few weeks ago had several such things on it. They are called "ballot measures," or "referenda," and the overall ideology for them is called "Direct Democr…

I think you might have a point, but it's not applicable to this situation. Software architecture isn't like architecture. It's more like mathematics, or maybe poetry. There's a lan…

Bringing back XUL extensions won't rescue Firefox, because removing XUL extensions is not what caused Firefox to lose marketshare in the first place. https://cdn.fosstodon.org/medi…

That seems like an impossible standard. What happens if the criminal took a job that payed less because of their criminal activity, put the legal paychecks into house payments, and…

Yes, you technically can write high-perf JavaScript code... https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase/blob/153fa5bf7603b9a5... But freaking SIGH I don't want to. I prefer coding in en…

If you just want to have your language throw up an error whenever it sees an unrecognized element, then you’ll probably be able to simplify it a lot. It’s probably fine, since * as…

> If `class` was instead a kind of child, initially limited to a single instance per element, extending to multiple instances in a backward-compatible manner would not require intr…

No, you're thinking of clickjacking. The "attack" I'm thinking of is hijacking the back button, but done using iframes instead of history.pushState. It doesn't involve any third-pa…

As much fun as it is seeing everybody reiterate the "SPAs are stupid and we should all go back to native apps" argument for the thousandth time with exactly the same arguments agai…

If course LLVM is Free Software. It’s available in the mainline Guix and Debian repositories, and its Apache license is recognized as Free by the FSF.

The article literally says it's probably not going to happen. > He said that it was unlikely that Covid-19 outbreak would shape our immune system in a similar way — largely because…

FOSS is useful, and may be a part of the solution, but it is not the solution in and of itself the way Free Software advocates portray it as. Most people aren't programmers, people…

> That kinda feels like saying Linux is too crazy because new apps get made for Linux frequently. Apps are okay, but other parts of userland that roll out breaking changes on a reg…

Rust is not boring technology. There's too much ecosystem churn, and new language features are deployed too often. C++ isn't boring technology, either. If you just want to deliver …

I doubt it, and also hope not. The Republican party has reinvented itself before, and the internal Democratic Party governance structure would probably not do a very good job of re…

It mostly only solves problems on the consumer side. Only one of these downsides directly affects publishers. * If you don't want JS, don't use it. * If you don't want trackers or …

> Ranked voting isn't vulnerable to bullet voting. "Vulnerable to bullet voting" is the same thing as "violating the later-no-harm principle," which means that some forms of ranked…