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by AgentME 7y ago
A <video> tag can play a webm without needing any javascript, and it has an attribute to enable running in a loop.
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by AgentME 7y ago
Natural selection still happens for humans. Natural selection just applies for our current environment, not some ancestral environment. It's not longer selecting for the ability to outrun lions. It's selecting for the ability to a
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by AgentME 7y ago
This is what excites me the most about machine learning: the ability for software to adapt and learn at runtime. I've been disappointed that ML is almost exclusively talked about as something that is trained by the developer and then d
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by AgentME 7y ago
Redux already has ways to do fine-grained rerendering. (That's why redux has you give selector callbacks that operate on the state instead of just exposing the whole redux state to components. Redux only re-renders the whole component
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by AgentME 7y ago
React Fiber is the internal name of some of React's systems that were necessary in order to support the Concurrent Mode feature.
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by AgentME 7y ago
It's true that React can't pause in the middle of any individual component's render function, but when there are many components being rendered, React is able to pause and interrupt rendering between different component insta
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by AgentME 7y ago
It feels like someone recreated the experience of a slippery ice floor from a platformer game in a webpage. It's amazing that they found something less pleasant to do on a webpage than the mouse-following-sparkles that used to be popul
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by AgentME 7y ago
When was the last time a Java or .NET codebase had an RCE from writing past the end of a list? The only RCEs in safe languages generally only happen in uncommon explicit code-loading calls or explicitly unsafe memory access calls.
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by AgentME 7y ago
>Sounds like you volunteered for emotional labor you weren't tasked to do. And he possibly prevented a flamewar and a lot of company drama. Maybe it wouldn't have developed into a flamewar, but without him, it's more likel
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by AgentME 7y ago
I wonder if tech people are assuming this is super obvious (the object manipulation is the hard part; the cube solving part is just an extraneous detail since that's been solved since forever) while communicating about this project, an
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by AgentME 7y ago
>good point, but from a tactical perspective, not moderating might have made sense, to force lawmakers' hands in passing stronger laws about spam, harrassment, propaganda, etc. Why would companies find that preferable to moderating
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by AgentME 7y ago
This is exactly why some versions of Windows required you to press ctrl-alt-delete to open the login form. Programs aren't allowed to block Windows from receiving ctrl-alt-delete, so a fake login program would not be able to stay on th
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by AgentME 7y ago
A lot of people in this thread and others have recommended devs to try out screen readers to get familiar with developing for them, and I added to my mental checklist "look up screen readers and try to find a good one to try out eventu
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by AgentME 7y ago
Think of all the confusion that could be caused if the voted name was actually "whose name the district has forbidden me from actually saying".
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by AgentME 7y ago
The obvious interpretation of "'Keeping your identity small' has certainly gone out of fashion." in this context seems to me to be "caring about pronouns is a big identity; people should have smaller identities than
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by AgentME 7y ago
The way she writes about a sharp distinction about a "negative commandment" vs "positive requirement" in the rules here makes it sound like she's really against respecting people's preferred pronouns and lookin
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by AgentME 7y ago
On a topic about pronouns, is "trans identity" not the obvious meaning/aspect of "identity" here? Yes, I know the PG essay. The PG essay is great when applied to not thinking of yourself as a "X programming lan
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by AgentME 7y ago
Agreed. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading most of the commentary here on HN or elsewhere about this. I get that there's some details about this case that are a bit ambiguous, but it doesn't seem obviously worth a wit
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by AgentME 7y ago
>If I don't want to be a dick and am aware of the preference, then I will try and use the person's preferred pronoun - but I'm certainly not obligated to do so on SO or even in person. I think it's perfectly reasonabl
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by AgentME 7y ago
A big part of a CoC is making sure everyone is on the same page about what being nice to people is, and presumably "don't willingly misgender people" may be part of that.
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by AgentME 7y ago
Sometimes people exclusively use "they/their" to refer to trans people who prefer "he" or "she" as a way to try to publicly demean the person's transness. This isn't a rare/theoretical occur
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by AgentME 7y ago
They talked about external-origin iframes, which are very similar to web workers (besides that iframes get a DOM). All communication with them is asynchronous.
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by AgentME 7y ago
>For starters it lacks bounds checking on memory access inside the sandbox Right, but you can't use that to escape the sandbox.
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by AgentME 7y ago
The Realms polyfill solution was inherently hacky: it tries to shim a sandbox into an environment that didn't have one, and it makes it too easy to accidentally leak capabilities into the sandbox. WebAssembly was built from the start a
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by AgentME 7y ago
>>If we can make one qubit, can't we just make a bunch of them by copy and pasting circuits similar to how we used vacuum tubes in the 60s and 70s? How come our current limit is only around 54 or so? >Quantum physics forbids c
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by AgentME 7y ago
>A bit has the storage capacity of 2 distinct bits of information. A qubit has the storage capacity of 2 complex numbers, which corresponds to 4 floats, which is at least 16*8 bits of information if we are conservative about our assumpti
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by AgentME 7y ago
Seconding Greg Egan. I'd highly recommend Permutation City and Diaspora by him. The books explore mind uploading from lots of interesting angles.
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by AgentME 7y ago
Who repairs or dusts off the optics? The maintenance person probably didn't even know that someone once thought they saw something with it in order to know to tell them it turned out to be broken. Any mundane explanation like that is s
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by AgentME 7y ago
I agree, only somewhere that hosts neo-nazi websites would be trustworthy enough for this. /s
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by AgentME 7y ago
Aren't solar sails just for propelling yourself once you're in space? I can't imagine how you could launch off the surface of a planet with a solar sail.

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