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bartl··on What if half of Switzerland's rooftops produced electricity?
Rooftops in Switzerland are covered with snow for many months each year. Yet this article doesn't even mention the word "snow".
bartl··on GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to DCLXVI
Format it as code (indent with at least 4 spaces). Problem solved.
bartl··on A collection of bad practices in HTML
"helpful"?
bartl··on V Programming Language
> One can imagine modifying the compiler to output llvm bitcode. You now can throw plenty of optimisation at it for free (but you are now slower to compile).

If you look at the FAQ, you'll see they can do exactly that but using gcc/Clang, not LLVM.

bartl··on V Programming Language
Yet I've skimmed the entire site and nowhere do I see mentioned how to use C libraries in V.

I don't have to convert C to V and then compile the entire V program, do I?

bartl··on V Programming Language
I can't help but wonder why Volt on Mac is 300kB and on Windows it's 2.1MB.
bartl··on Startups Aren't Cool Anymore
I am not going to read that, because of the huge number of ads on that page.
bartl··on Used PHP in a Hackathon was made fun of and it made me feel really shitty
Really? There's no "[-]" in front of the user name?
bartl··on A new JPEG format
>You'll never see JPEG-XS images stored on disk or sent over the web.

I don't see why not. The image quality is near perfect, according to the article, for not even double the average file size, and it uses much less energy to encode and decode, so it's better for your battery life on mobile devices.

bartl··on Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)
It's slow as mail. I tried an URL several minutes ago and it still hasn't come back.
bartl··on It's time to head back to RSS?
But Google News says "This RSS feed is deprecated"...?
bartl··on Pose: A declarative motion system for HTML, SVG and React
Great, something really important like the old blink tag. /s

Only people programming ads will like this. Everybody else will pretty much hate its guts.

bartl··on Facebook turned on face recognition silently
I'm OK with this, under the condition that Facebook only uses it to alert you of photos you likely appear in, i.e. those two first examples of what it can do.

I would not allow them to show those results to other people.

bartl··on Google Calendar should prevent spam by default
Still, you should add it yourself, and not some overzealous system.
bartl··on Google Calendar should prevent spam by default
Somebody's birthday is interesting info to keep.

That doesn't mean you should get a notification when it comes up.

bartl··on Show HN: Hacker News Classics
Second link is dead. So is the fourth.
bartl··on Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”
It's insane. I can't even access the web interface of my own printer any more, because it's not https.
bartl··on Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability
>Intel, AMD and Apple face class action lawsuits over the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities.

I sure hope Intel will face a class action suit over this botched update. Many professionals have wasted countless hours dealing with this junk.

bartl··on Fakespot – measure the legitimacy of reviews on popular sites
It probably is a learning system... It got trained more. The review itself doesn't have to change. The system merely adjusted its parameters due to more exposure to new reviews.
bartl··on I decided to disable AMP on my site
I think people share Facebook pages because they found the content on Facebook. Speed has nothing to do with it.
bartl··on Linux utils that you might not know
Use `cal -m` if you want a week to start on a Monday. AFAIK Sunday is the (US centric) default.
bartl··on Microsoft’s New Patent Identifies Pirated Content: Flags Repeat Offenders
OK maybe I'm missing something, but what is new about this patent? The schematic "how does it work" figure 6 is nothing but a napkin design. Anybody with half a braincell can make that up within 5 minutes after being introduced to the perceived problem. In other words: the subject of the patent looks to be very obvious, to me.

OTOH This might discourage other companies from implementing a similar idea, which is something at some users will appreciate.

bartl··on “A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (2003)
People who have studied electrical engineering may recognize the word "dual" with the prototypical example in electrical networks: Norton vs. Thevenin. Both are equivalent but from coming from opposite ends. A current source in parallel with a resistor (Norton) is electrically equivalent to a voltage source in series with a resistor (Thevenin).

(See, for example: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/direct-current/chp...)

bartl··on IBM and Red Hat to Vote “No” on Java Modules (Jigsaw)
>Jigsaw does not provide a clean upgrade path for Maven-based projects to move from the packaging of code into JAR files to modules.

No upgrade path from JAR files, the most common packaging system for Java?!? That sounds like a good enough reason for me to dislike it.

bartl··on Vue Loop – Infinite scrolling
I see the same thing except with no crashes.

Anyway: this looks like a failed experiment to me.

Next!

bartl··on Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
I love Javascript.

But 160MB for a chat app? That's insane.

bartl··on Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks
Traffic accidents happen. According to your reasoning, we should forbid people from owning and driving a car.
bartl··on Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks
>Let's say someone does modify the code.

Let's not. These farmers don't want to change the software. They only want to fix their hardware.

And because of the close tightness with the software, they can't.

bartl··on Ask HN: What are pros and cons of PostgreSQL and MySQL?
Using Drupal, MySQL (or MariaDB) simply works much smoother than PostGres. That is because apparently Drupal has been designed around MySQL. You may be quite sure that if you are having a problem with Drupal on PostGres, that the same problem doesn't exist when using MySQL.

In 2011, we started out using Drupal with PostGres. After a year or two, we migrated to MySQL.

I think it's likely that the situation is quite similar with WordPress.

bartl··on Do not let your CDN betray you: use subresource integrity (2015)
It's very important in the storage of hashed passwords, but not in checking the integrity of files, which is the use case here.
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