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Are you sincerely advocating that Wikipedia should never delete anything , regardless of notability or verifiability? Do you think that would make it better or worse?

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you don't want people calling these apps TUIs, what would you prefer people call them? And what does the term TUI refer to, if not this?

The parent comment was specifically and exclusively talking about autism, not Down's syndrome. I'm addressing their claim that it is "ridiculous" for an autistic person to "claim" …

> "It's so odd to me that we haven't come up with a term for high functioning autism to separate from low functioning." If you are interested to learn, autistic people are typicall…

I'm sure the browser does do that, and plenty of other optimisations too! This thing isn't trying to do standard text layout faster than the browser, it's trying to enable more exo…

What you're missing is that each segment (typically a word) only needs to be measured once, in the setup phase. The canvas gets thrown away after that, and subsequent layout passes…

It's a matter of integrity. Support or oppose whoever you like, but if you change your principles based on the person in question, then you don't have principles at all.

I saw a docco about her and found it entertaining and interesting. I haven't seen her work in person, have you?

The world became a much more fun and interesting place for me when I stopped rejecting things on the basis of cringe.

> Or do they tag things and say "Customer X signed up on this date, so he is bound by T&C number 12, whereas this other customer signed up a year later and is bound by T&C number 1…

That's what it would mean to place them above unpaid developers in the illustration, yes.

For anyone seeking more details on this act, it is embodied as "18 U.S. Code §1030 - Fraud and related activity in connection with computers"[0], and applies specifically to the Un…

Thrilled to see someone else using a triple-em dash in the wild⸻keep holding the line.

Upload progress. The Fetch API offers no way observe and display progress when uploading a file (or making any large request). jQuery makes this possible via the `xhr` callback.

It's silly to treat this like a totalizing partisan issue where everything must be clearly "pro-ai" or "anti-ai". Browsers are currently incentivised to add a bunch of new features…

It doesn't matter if a library is written in TS or JS; you cannot meaningfully protect against other code calling you incorrectly. Sure, you can check if they gave you a string ins…

Do you really mean this literally? Even the Linux kernel contains tens of thousands of lines of Python, and more lines of shell. Is that undesirable?

Coming from an era of tiles and sprites, Lemmings was exciting because it had real destructible terrain. The game action happens in its pixel buffer, and every little speck of dirt…

Why do they call it even when you of in the true number of out false odd the number?

Oh my god, it's a Quine! This is a linear sequence of bits, which when interpreted as a Game of Life board, "prints" an exact copy of itself 2 pixels to the right (leaving no trace…

> I’m curious, how do you know it was inspired by tiger beetles impl? Describing its design, the readme for libxev says "credit to this awesome blog post" and links to the same Tig…