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Re:We All Dodged a Bullet on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @01:04PM (#45184962)
yup, here is node's docs for it (WIP): https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html
Re:XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams on Monday April 01, 2024 @12:35AM (#39890942)
in Israel, Friday is generally not a workday (or "business day"), a la Sunday in the western world
For comparison, what percentage of human-generated code is secure?
Re:Give me /events, not webhooks on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @03:40PM (#27825316)
I'd argue against long/persistent polling. Webhooks allows for zero resource usage until a message needs to be delivered.
Re:Give me /events, not webhooks on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @01:55PM (#27823997)
Are events and webhooks mutually exclusive? How about a combination of both: events for consuming at leisure, webhooks for notification of new events. This allows instant notification of new events but allows for the benefits outlined in the article.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:44PM (#25861666)
That's technically correct, but ultimately useless, information
Speed is variable, capacity can be improved. The bigger question re Starlink is latency, which this test doesn't show.
He obfuscated the title!
How do you "shut down" a PWA? At the end of the day, it's just a website?!
Re:Node 11.0 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:04AM (#18290794)
Node.js is a server side implement of js, used for running apps on the server. It's like PHP/Ruby/go/python/etc, only the syntaxt is js
They are considering a conflict (which they don't feel would really affect anyone) as an option: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/20876#issuecomment-39091...