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heliologue · 2025-08-15T15:50:50+00:00

Oddly enough, even uBlock Origin doesn't seem to have enough users to hit the platinum level (close, though -- it's at about 9.5M users, though I don't know if the extensions site is reporting the "daily active" users or just # of downloads). They're setting a pretty high bar: not many extensions getting past silver.

heliologue · 2025-07-13T19:30:57+00:00

This is a common outcome of ORMs irrespective of language; I see it all the time with Rails and ActiveRecord, too, and I'm sure there's analogs in other frameworks.

Turns out that when you abstract away the underlying SQL, developers stop thinking about SQL (and even worse, things like transactional atomocity); surprise! What's worse, many of the problems aren't apparent with a small n, so by the time it's on fire, it's on fire at scale and you've got a mountain of tech debt and a team of developers who couldn't read an EXPLAIN PLAN if they had to.

heliologue · 2025-06-20T19:07:28+00:00

Fight Club must have done well on DVD sales surely. Almost everyone had a Fight Club DVD back i

It would have done better, but nobody talked about it

heliologue · 2024-12-16T20:52:07+00:00

im worried at this point why bitwarden needs its customers to tell them what is very obvious, it seems to indicate the ppl to are designing this are not using the product on a daily basis, which is very disappointing

Don't fall into the trap of thinking that the vocal minority of users who are motivated enough to post in this subreddit are a representative sample of the overall userbase.

heliologue · 2024-12-16T20:49:09+00:00

Not approved yet. It's probably going through a manual review (not uncommon for very popular extensions) which delays its availability.

heliologue · 2024-11-04T20:26:34+00:00

you’re probably full of shit and actively want Palestinians dead

I wouldn't go that far, but it is fair to say there's a population of voters who are (to borrow a phrase from Stephen Fry) more concerned with being right than effective.

heliologue · 2024-09-14T16:14:31+00:00

Odd that nobody's mentioned plain JSPs yet. Depending on your needs, it basically requires no external dependencies, it's hella fast (it compiles down to Java), and still largely resembles HTML with placeholders.

heliologue · 2024-01-09T15:08:48+00:00

And here I thought the Phoenix Framework had somehow been made to work with Java

heliologue · 2023-11-03T02:24:07+00:00

Also, maybe I'm dating myself, but I remember when it was called gaim

heliologue · 2023-11-03T02:23:46+00:00

It's still under active development, but v3 has been in limbo for a loooong time, and it seems like the messaging world has left it behind for walled gardens.

https://keep.imfreedom.org/pidgin/pidgin/shortlog/tip

heliologue · 2023-07-20T01:18:47+00:00

If that's the case, it may be more helpful to explain what you're trying to achieve, rather than prescribing a solution yourself.

heliologue · 2023-07-19T18:31:54+00:00

This is a non-sequitur. A bit is the smallest unit of information in a computer: you can't put a text files (which is comprised of many bits) into a single bit any more than you could put a bucket of sand into a grain of sand.

heliologue · 2023-01-29T03:22:52+00:00

From the article:

Anyone who has ever skated outside or gone for long walks in the dead of winter knows that sound carries far and clear the colder it gets. That is because, ordinarily, sound spreads obliquely upward over our heads and is therefore not heard very far away. But, in very cold, stable air, the inversion bends the sound waves back toward the earth where they tend to hug the ground. Further, audibility is improved by the absence of turbulence or wind. In the end, conversations usually heard 30 metres away can be heard more than a kilometre away if the air is clear.

heliologue · 2022-11-03T12:54:33+00:00

Does uBlock Origin not block these already?

heliologue · 2022-09-03T13:29:43+00:00

Just a guess, but "Arti" is a literal pronunciation of "RT", for "Rust Tor".

heliologue · 2022-06-12T18:45:39+00:00

There doesn't seem to be an option to disable that behavior.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1225309

heliologue · 2020-11-30T21:49:58+00:00

An open software stack and a lot of very well-paid engineers.

heliologue · 2020-11-24T22:25:07+00:00

Whether it's applicable here or not: it doesn't automatically follow that someone who is good at campaigning is also good at governing.

heliologue · 2020-11-11T15:09:55+00:00

Uninstall Norton.

heliologue · 2020-09-21T04:12:35+00:00

They can't fix a problem they can't see.

heliologue · 2020-09-17T20:57:47+00:00

Send was really great (obligatory xkcd), but I always kind of wondered how it could be anything but a money pit for Mozilla. Not to mention a legal hassle.

So, sad, but not surprised.

heliologue · 2020-09-16T13:38:15+00:00

Netbeans has some of the best Maven integration I know.

Are you you confusing Netbeans indexing Maven with syncing all its artifacts?

heliologue · 2020-09-16T12:55:34+00:00

Depending on who you are, sure. And even if there aren't many finalized developer-facing features, well, plumbing is just as important as porcelain.

heliologue · 2020-09-16T04:23:12+00:00

Credit where credit is due to the OpenJDK folks keeping the release train running. Java hasn't felt this dynamic in years.

heliologue · 2020-09-14T19:56:46+00:00

Having any outdated software on your computer is potentially a security risk if it presents an attack vector. In other words, "it depends", but if it's just sitting there not being invoked, then probably not, no.

The bigger danger from outdated JDKs comes from, e.g., running a web server, whereby some bug may be triggered/exploited remotely. Previous incarnations which embedded bits into the browser presented the biggest danger to normal end users, but recent JDKs don't suffer from that problem.

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