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The idea of this library is exactly to not use HTML ids (or css paths etc), but use instructions you could give to an human browsing the web (enter the page, press tab, type this..)
Re:New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @06:38PM (#22361601)
Which VPS?
Can you tell what area is this? Is it a backend service or something like software that runs on consumer's PCs?
Re:A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command on Sunday February 09, 2020 @01:22AM (#22280703)
Just add an ENV var containing a JSON with this metadata. There's tons of env vars that get ignored by programs that don't care about each specifically.
Hey, I hope you figure a way to back up this stuff, since phones are prone to be lost or stolen (or is it backed up automatically by Google or Apple?)
Re:Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android on Thursday February 06, 2020 @12:34AM (#22253657)
There's no need to get defensive over this. One can do both.
Re:Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android on Thursday February 06, 2020 @12:32AM (#22253649)
No, but they might pirate (but I bet yify is even worse)
Re:Jonathan Blow on Rust on Sunday February 02, 2020 @10:02PM (#22221080)
Dependent types prevent infinite loops at compile time because if you have nonterminating terms, your types are unsound as a logic (you can derive true and false properties altogether)

That's because theorem proving with dependent types is based on the idea that you can prove something by providing a proof object that is a witness that what you want to prove is true. But a nonterminating function can fake it: you can write a function that promises a proof that something is true, while it never returns (so it never has to build a proof object). That way you can prove that false things are "true".

Re:Jonathan Blow on Rust on Sunday February 02, 2020 @09:56PM (#22221058)
> I've been arguing lately that C++ should do something like this: Add a full-on theorem-prover to the language so that I can write my own safety rules specific to how my program works.

Did you take a look at ATS?

It appears to be offline.
Re:Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age on Sunday January 05, 2020 @09:47AM (#21961433)
Do you mean quality and quantity?
Re:I don't use static website generators like Hugo on Thursday January 02, 2020 @12:32AM (#21933245)
Your website layout breaks on mobile (width is too large)
Re:Category Theory for Programmers (2014) [pdf] on Thursday December 26, 2019 @02:55AM (#21882536)
What about optics?
Re:My Business Card Runs Linux on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @02:11PM (#21879955)
Today an esp32 is more bang for your buck. 80mhz dual core, has wifi and bluetooth, and so on

Edit: and you can program it with the arduino IDE

One practical application is DRM
Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin on Friday December 06, 2019 @08:46PM (#21727899)
If Android is "Kotlin-first", why is flutter development done in Dart?