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ssdspoimdsjvv··on Microsoft says Windows 11 is now 'more responsive' and runs better on 8GB of RAM
the context menu.. Microsoft, if you're reading this.... why? It's objectively worse.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)
Mostly boring proprietary business applications.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
If I understand correctly, it just wraps an existing Linux driver in a container. You can hardly call that writing a driver.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
Read up on XPath axes:)
ssdspoimdsjvv··on Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
any serious enterprise software that attempts to fit every company's workflow (rather than forcing the company to follow theirs)
ssdspoimdsjvv··on The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
At what point is it easier and faster to just code it yourself? I don't trust myself to write better specs than code.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on 10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026
I've learnt that if a test only fails sometimes, it can take a long time for somebody to actually investigate the cause,in the meantime it's written off as just another flaky test. If there really is a bug, it will probably surface sooner in production than it gets fixed.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on Adobe wrote to my hosts file. I've never had an app do this before
I dislike the intent too. A website should simply not be able to see which apps I've got installed. Imagine Facebook doing stuff like this in order to know what ads they should serve.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on Ask HN: Why doesn't download default to upload origin?
I think uploading a file, editing it and downloading it back is such an uncommon operation that it makes no sense to apply any smart heuristics.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
You, as a maintainer, are free to ignore any such expectations and do what you want. There are no obligations. You only risk disappointing people (or corporations), and losing Github stars. If that leads to unmaintained libraries, that probably means the open-source model doesn't work for this project. And that's fine.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on Ask HN: What's the future of software testing and QA?
Is the consensus that software will be both developed and tested by machines? Will there still be a human in the loop? I hope at least some testing or approval will still be done by people, otherwise the software we use everyday will become even worse than it is now. Unless we envision that machines will also be the only end users of the software. At that point there hopefully will be an interface that allows for immediate reporting and fixing of defects.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on Tell HN: HN was down
Intelligence has many dimensions.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk
The parent comment was talking about a deployed application, and making sure users can't modify the source code.

In that case, your image hopefully was built using source code from a VCS and no such changes will have been applied. This is not so different from building an app by pulling the latest version of the code from Git.

And if you did manage to commit changes that completely mess up your environment, you throw that image away, take a vanilla one and load your source code into it. Again, not so different from using Git.

ssdspoimdsjvv··on Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk
Smalltalk being so malleable also makes it possible to completely disable source code inspection/execution.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on You can't cURL a Border
Perhaps your passport was checked on departure instead of on arrival? At least that's how it worked when taking the Eurostar train.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
How do you define cryptography? Let's say my files are written in a format that only my software can read. Is it then illegal to distribute said files?
ssdspoimdsjvv··on The key to getting MVC correct is understanding what models are
Of course, it just becomes the HelperUtilService!
ssdspoimdsjvv··on XSLT: A Precision Tool for the Future of Structured Transformation
There's a working group dedicated to breathing new life into the standard:

https://qt4cg.org/specifications/xslt-40/Overview.html

Last updated just under a week ago!

ssdspoimdsjvv··on Ask HN: What do you use to write and take notes? Is there a cursor for writing?
An AI-powered editor I assume. Always having to come up with your own thoughts must be tiresome.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs
What about QA, code review, documentation,...?
ssdspoimdsjvv··on Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
Oh sure, it can be represented. But now JSON is the one being noisy, ugly and verbose.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
Streaming is defined in the XSLT 3 spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#streamability. When you want to use streaming, you are confined to a subset of XPath that is "guaranteed streamable", e.g. you can't just freely navigate the tree anymore. There are some special instructions in XSLT such as <xsl:merge> and <xsl:accumulator> that make it easier to collect your results.

Saxon's paid edition supports it. I've done it a few times, but you have to write your XSLT in a completely different way to make it work.

ssdspoimdsjvv··on Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
<p>How would you represent <b><i>mixed content</i></b> in JSON?</p>
ssdspoimdsjvv··on MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs
The web app probably authenticates using an API as well, in which case it's trivial to add that to your shadow client as long as you have the credentials.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on Godot founders had desperately hoped Unity wouldn't 'blow up'
It's a foreign concept in French because in French it's always on the last syllable, so you don't have to think about it.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on PwC tells UK staff it will monitor office attendance using location data
Have you never gotten any inspiration or creativity from talking to somebody outside of a planned meeting?
ssdspoimdsjvv··on Ask HN: How to emulate a smartphone on a computer for banking apps?
Landlines still exist.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on "We ran out of columns"
Does SQLite have sequences yet?
ssdspoimdsjvv··on Open Sourcing DOS 4
No commercial upside for sure. Just some extra reputation points among a very niche group and maybe some happy employees.
ssdspoimdsjvv··on NY Times issues DMCA takedowns of Wordle clones
It was a popular game show in the Netherlands. Loved watching it as a kid.
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