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Comment · 3 years ago
What's the use case for this?
Comment · 4 years ago
It is not the same because in the case of the coins above a flash crash results in liquidation of the collateral to support the peg. In the case of Luna there was no such mechanism as it relies on people doing the arbitrage required to maintain the peg.
Comment · 5 years ago
Initially I read the headline as "How Minecraft reduced Windows 11 update size by 40%" and I was so intrigued. Oh well.
Comment · 5 years ago
Why is type="module" the opposite of nomodule? This isn't a real question... just a big ol sigh
Comment · 5 years ago
> Why would you install the desktop app?

Not sure if this is still the case but the browser version didn't have the same noise suppression features as the desktop client.

Another minor thing for me was that the desktop client doesn't stack with the browser window in the taskbar (i.e. I can still 1 click both if I only have 1 browser window open which I usually do) and it can be minimized into the system tray.

Comment · 5 years ago
I was under the impression that Deno is a runtime mostly intended for the server environment which is probably an area where GPU presence isn't generally as strong as on other types of devices outside of the applications that specifically need it. I could be wrong of course about anything or everything.
Comment · 5 years ago
Most of the times when I interact with the address bar it's either to go to a different site, google something or copy the url - in all of those use cases I interact with the entire address to either replace it or select it.

I would wager almost anything that this is the case for the vast majority of regular users because most of the ones I've interviewed (N = 31) for a uni UX study didn't even know how to read URLs for the most part - especially not after the ? query part.

Comment · 5 years ago
They probably meant that because the guidelines discord has setup are automated bots that occasionally hit innocent people while trying to enforce the rules. I think they were speaking in the broader context of Discord servers rather than the WSB Reddit or Discord specifically.
Comment · 5 years ago
Pretty sure when krageon said "that's not what they said" they were referring to poster of the original comment that was being replied to - not the know it alls from 90s.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's interesting that this seems on one hand "unpredictable" while also being logical. If a company has employees familiar with TypeScript (or even JS) and they have to make a choice between yet another flavor of that or a new language like C/Rust... well the choice is understandable. Once again the path of least resistance to a new web technology ended up being JavaScript - it just wasn't immediately obvious when WASM first emerged.
Comment · 6 years ago
Cortana.
Comment · 6 years ago
I have no metrics on this but I was under the impression that due to the size of the PHP community the package ecosystem specifically for web is probably larger. The community itself being larger is of course another plus as it means you're able to get easier access to the knowledge of others.

Thirdly of course the shared hosting providers (by what I've seen in the past) usually support PHP almost always - this is not the case for either Ruby or Python.

Comment · 6 years ago
I wouldn't say it's unfounded but anecdotal. And I wouldn't necessarily call it "hate" either. PHP definitely isn't one of those technologies that you see often on job listings of major companies - sure they might use it for some things such as blogs but it's rarely part of the stack of their staple products. The question isn't whether they use it but to what extent and in what products.
Comment · 6 years ago
Edge Not Found is such a good idea. I love it! A full fledged unique puzzle game could probably be built around this concept if the authors wanted to expand on it - although I'm probably stating the obvious. Pretty sure Hollow Knight has its origins in a game jam and it would be nice if this competition yielded a success like that. (mostly because I want to play more of it)
Comment · 6 years ago
A lot of people seem to be happy about the possibility here in the comments and I can't really blame them. But one thing to consider is the impact this would have. I have a client with a small-ish e-commerce website that gets about 80% of revenue from Facebook ad campaigns and promotions. They spent a lot of time tinkering with that and optimizing it to improve sales of physical goods in all the areas they can ship to. This is of course an anecdotal example but I imagine there's a fair amount of small business that rely heavily on Facebook like that. There's also businesses where Facebook is an important tool for direct communication with customers.

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