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In my opinion it's a first-principles kind of thing with respect to "what is the purpose of a web browser."

To me, a web browser's purpose is to render markup into something useful for a user, dependent on variables like screen size, user preferences, browser zoom, accessibility needs, etc. A browser's purpose is not to render-a-document-as-an-A4-printout-specifically,-because-no-other-format-will-do.

"Make it look exactly like this" is not an expectation we can or should have about web browsers, and this proposal is an attempt at that.

Anyway, to specifically address your use cases:

> The use case is when I buy a plane ticket it comes with a 3 page receipt and E-ticket, and rather than downloading a PDF, we can have HTML specify how to flow the document into a document

HTML can already specify that document. Why does the browser care that it would be 3 different physical pages? Why would a user care? We're letting the tail wag the dog - just put the information in HTML.

> Why not extend the rules so they flow into a piece of A4 document, or two columns?

Two-column layouts are a concession of print formats due to constraints of needing to get all the other content onto the physical page. We don't have those constraints in Web, there's no need to introduce them.

> Another use case is reports, where there are tabular data, where headers should be repeated at the top of every page. Wouldn't it be nice if HTML/CSS could specify this instead of resorting to Crystal Reports? It'd certainly make us doubly productive.

If we're spinning up this whole AlmostPostscript.js thing to render a <table> with a sticky header, I really don't want to be a modern web developer anymore.
I thought they meant when the King of England was an actual frenchman and French was the upper-class language of the UK.
The CPU in your machine probably doesn’t support native video encoding extensions, thus taking a massive performance hit encoding the video stream for Sidecar. I believe that’s why Apple did this.

Happy to be corrected on this, by the way.
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IT people really love these kind of forced parallels. Can't really think of another sector that does this. Maybe it's all that "Uber/Airbnb but for X" thinking.

Unless your surname is .exe I don't think you need a readme file. You could do the human thing though and discuss expectations with your team though...
But they are presenting their Goldilocks theory as something to generalize, no?
I use a session restore add-on to ensure that I have a alternative location for my tabs. Works nice with its periodic backups of session state. Edit: I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-m... .
No, the best way is to read a proper explanation and understand the concept and the apply what you learnt writing some code in a different context. If you are trying to understand a programming language just by reverse engineering it and memorising the keywords in Anki then probably is not going to work.
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And how does this seemingly absurd exercise make hospital information systems more secure? These non-technical executives are also probably not aware of the intricacies of a knee replacements surgery... and shouldn’t be... these execs should be hiring and trusting skilled practitioners both in the operating room and in the information security dept. NOT injecting their ignorance of these disciplines into the process of ensuring good patient outcomes or security of patient information.
I don't think you can use them to automatically sequester urls to certain profiles though? That's a serious limitation for my use - eg. I always want gmail to open in my logged-in 'engoogled' container, and never want plain google searches to be logged in. I don't want to manually enforce those rules (that's what computers are for).
Algorithms are a valuable part of programming, just like Maths are a useful part of Engineering.

Most of the tricky/smart algorithms can be learned in a few months by smart kids.

But real-world, useful software architecture, requires experience and a wide array of knowledge.
Sandboxie seems to have been a good product with bad pricing and bad marketing. I remember paying for Sandboxie around 2011 and not realizing it was a yearly subscription. When the year ran out, that was the end of Sandboxie for me- I didn't want to repay for the same functionality for a home computer. For corporate use however, an annual fee makes more sense.
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Printing books directly from the browser isn't a solved problem, so it seems like a good project, to me.

I don't see any evidence on their website this is intended for reading in the browser, and tons of clues that it's intended for printing books from the browser. I mean, there are tools for physical page sizes, blank pages, front/back matter, page counters, etc. Things that make zero sense in the browser and are necessary for a nice book printing.

So, what makes you think this is intended for reading in web browsers? As you note, it's horribly unpleasant in a browser...seems like they would have noticed that if they were testing in the browser, rather than using it to print books.
I would much rather be on a project where commenting is prohibited then where it is mandatory, e.g., the senseless babbling that goes along with javadoc/doxygen/PEP-8-like comments. That is such absolute garbage. At some point it even becomes hard to spot the code in between the garbage. Yes, even with syntax highlighting....
Probably you are memorising it rather than learning it unless I misunderstood what you are saying...
Should developers be paid by the lines of code they produce?
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Your quiz example is not about choosing the difficulty of the quiz, which is the variable being considered.

> As though getting 100% on my calculus quizzes indicated that I wasn't learning.

It doesn't say that. It says you would probably be learning faster if the test would be more difficult.

Same category error with the second.
I miss my old MacBook keyboard and trackpad. My xps runs Linux great though
Does minecraft earth and the countless updates not count?
What hacks do you use to manage your product subscriptions?
Do you keep track of recurring payments and deliveries with an app? with a spreadsheet? calendar events/reminders? some other workflow? I'd love to know.

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Another possibility might be to do the side effects in a transaction that gets rolled back?
I've taken to using both.

FF -> main browser with Noscript & and clear cookies on close. Which cripples some website, but is fine for most browsing.

Chrome -> For when priority is site working not privacy. e.g. airline checkin, banking, email etc.

Plus obv all the usual pihole etc.

Currently the best compromise I've managed on blocking sketchy stuff while not going full stallman email myself articles.
Regarding legacy EMRs, are specifications/standards like HL7's FHIR actually gaining any traction and making data interoperability more feasible?
Yeah, that seemed a bit odd to me. Maybe there's some sort of non-obvious hardware dependency. (There is admittedly one issue I've found with Catalina related to Captive Portal which has a workaround but I can at least believe has a hardware component.) But it certainly wasn't clear why the cutoff.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21398893
How so? They've been releasing updates at a pretty good clip each with significant changes.
I played open grade (no weight restrictions) rugby for a season as an undergrad after playing since I was 6. That year left me with several concussions and about 5 years of headaches. Haven't played contact sports since.
It's basically a css print file, which includes a lot of css properties that are not built in browsers yet, with a preview you can see on screen.

print is just another aspect of responsive web design. And paged.js add the possibility to add things that the paper need and the browser don't (page number, cross rereferences, running-head, etc.)

A bit more info about css print: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/05/print-stylesheets-i...

We're sending webpages to printing press, and it becomes a book. That's it.
Stagnant? I don't think you play or know the game at all.
The two are tightly coupled. An intentionally vague CoC permits gaps throughout the governance system.
Actually because Brave aggressively and efficiently blocks ads and trackers by default it has a much better battery & performance profile.

They've blogged about this in detail. One recent post was : https://brave.com/accurately-predicting-ad-blocker-savings/.

Stating that they're simply an advertising company misses a significant amount of innovative work they're doing in-browser too.

They're building a new business model and infrastructure that is diametrically opposed to the current surveillance capitalism model, and this infrastructure can replace donations, sponsorship, advertising and subscription models in a way that reduces transaction friction significantly, and could very likely challenge a significant number of powerful incumbents.
> Everyone else will be for it as it improves their interaction with whatever that job delivers.

That's awfully optimistic.
I think the content is there, but you could keep the structure without making it too explicit.

Something like this should set the tone up for an interview -

Hi I'm ... studied business informatics because I'm interested in the intersection between business world and the computer world. Upon graduation I realized I wanted to understand human psychology better so took that up formally. This eventually led me to game studies. I'd say that makes me come across as a curious person which I identify with.

Over the past 8 years I became a teaching assistant, a coach for teaching assistants, a bootcamp instructor and a programmer/web developer. In total I have about 2.5 years of work experience including 1.5 on teaching development to others.

P.S. Based on my experience, "applied to any job that didn't feel like work" is something better left out from an introduction for a job interview.
The points guy is a terrible source largely full of mistakes and poor information.

For instance: “ If built, the 797 would bridge the range and capacity gap between the narrowbody 737 family and the much larger 787 and 777 families — a slot occupied by the now-geriatric 757 and 767.”

The 787 and the 767 are the same size to a rounding error. The 787 is basically a drop in replacement for the 767 but much more efficient.

And further, the 737MAX and the A321LR (and A320neo) and even the A220 are designed to replace the role of the 757 in air travel. The US market wants smaller aircraft that are more efficient and fly longer range to open up more frequencies. They’re getting them.

> “ I may be biased, since I fly it, but you might undoubtedly call it the most versatile jetliner Boeing has ever built. It’s a medium-capacity, high-performing plane able to turn a profit on both short and longer-haul routes”

Even a quick perusal down Wikipedia would tell you the 757s are incredibly inefficient aircraft, getting a second wind a cargo haulers due to their way outsized power to weight ratio. And even with all that they can’t make regularly scheduled east coast transatlantic flights without often stopping along the way if there are temperatures or headwinds.

As for domestic travel the sheer inefficiency of the planes makes them a poor contender. Really only the full-transcon corridor made any sense at all and even those are being replaced. JetBlue went all A320. They’re by no means “able to turn a profit on short and medium haul flying” solely by virtue of them being scheduled. They’re often flying them for utilization reasons. Can you even call any of this flying “profitable” when American had a 3% margin last quarter across their entire route network, lost money on domestic and made it up on international?

The 737 will absolutely take the place of the 757, and already was scheduled to prior to the MCAS issues coming to light.
I don't know. They've added a ton of underwater content, new structures, mobs (bees, foxes, llamas, phantoms, drowns, etc), sunken ships and treasure maps.

If anything, they've had a better release cycle since the acquisition.
> With exceptions I never know what I might get...

Exactly this. It's just as Joel Spolsky wrote in that fifteen-year-old article that hit the front page yesterday: exceptions are an invisible goto.

> It can sometimes be annoying to wrap error values into an appropriate type though, especially if you combine error types from multiple libraries

For one-off code, the quick-error create is invaluable. For production code, I find this is one more indication of the value of the Rust philosophy. Forcing you to address the issue means you get a chance to thoughtfully consider what API you wish to offer your consumers. Most likely, you want to wrap the original errors so details of your dependencies don't become part of your public API.
Do we actually disagree? The non-outsourcable stuff has inflated in price at the same time that the outsourcable stuff has deflated, and it has destroyed one group of Americans while enriching another, far smaller group.
Yes! Why can't OOP language editors (IDE) simply represent the source code of classes, interfaces and other type definitions as they are without even revealing anything about the files they reside in? The technical detail of source code being stored in files is mundane.
No you're 100% right.

Only the 2016+ generation of Macs support hardware accelerated HEVC encoding/decoding.

My guess is that OP's computer would struggle to use Sidecar with an app like Photoshop (a primary use case for this feature).
An increment like s.current++ isn't atomic either. If two threads increment simultaneously the value may only increase by 1.
We're working hard for that to happen,
and to see browsers implements more of the paged-media specs!
Never had a major problem with Firefox, used it since v2.something, along with Opera, then Chrome, which fell by due to lack of add-ons and stability.

There was a point where I almost started using Chrome due to performance, but the Google powered suggestions, lack of some add-ons, and small tabs when opening a lot of them (can't believe people still put up with that, it's just a bunch of tabs with X on them, how do you live?!) kept me on Firefox. Long may it live!
Laravel, Django, or Rails. The productivity comes from being proficient with the tools. Pick the one you like, each is extremely productive, from my experience.
It's a common Jewish taboo: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1443443/jewis...
Ten years ago, my kinds were all under 12, and I discovered Minecraft from a message on a forum. So different, relaxing and engaging. And such blocky, bad graphics compared to the drive to 3d photo-realism that seemed to be the story in most games. All of my kids have discovered Minecraft on their own. I figured if Dad recommends it, that it is instantly cringy.

Four girls, one boy and all of them love it. Ages 10-22. Roblocks? Not so much.
I'm not sure what you're asking but there is term in manufacturing called DFM or design for manufacturability. Otherwise, design drawings are loaded with specs that call out design tolerances etc. QA and process control are used ensure these tolerances are met
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Which is really valuable if you don’t have tests, or your test suite doesn’t give you much confidence, is too brittle to make the changes without breaking the tests, or maybe the code is structured so that it’s really hard to test all the paths that occur in production.
Holy Moly, this Polar thing looks amazing! And it’s open source too!! I was definitely not expecting that when I followed the link nor when I started reading about it.

Document management, and saving web pages is a huge deal and something that I have been looking for a solution for but which until now I have not found anything that would quite fit, and most of the ones I have looked at and seriously considered would require too much integration work and customization to be usable. But Polar looks really really promising!

I have avoided Electron based software until now for the same reasons you often find people echoing in the HN comments section when the topic comes up, but for Polar I would make an exception because it looks to be perfect for me so I am willing to sacrifice some of my precious RAM for Polar and am willing to accept a certain degree of UI and performance problems that I associate with Electron based apps.

Since a web browser extension is in the works though, would you recommend that I wait until that is released or should I start using the Electron based app now and then migrate/switch?
Isn't that just called a file system?