AprilArcus

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by AprilArcus 3y ago
I also maintain a JVM which we run some backend JS libraries on via custom Nashorn builds. It's slow and drinks memory. Setting up a façade in front of a pool of ScriptEngine objects mitigates some of the startup cost, but I super don&
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by AprilArcus 3y ago
All you need is a way to branch and a way to loop, so anything with conditional types and recursive types will be Turing Complete
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by AprilArcus 3y ago
Apple holds a rare Architecture license to the ARM ISA due to their role as a founding partner, and can make original implementations without incurring licensing dues, as they do with the A and M series CPUs. I understand why they would wan
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by AprilArcus 3y ago
Yes! And the home row is mostly in disemvoweled alphabetical order: "d_fgh_jkl", another hint at the layout's origins.
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by AprilArcus 3y ago
Have the errata been collected anywhere?
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by AprilArcus 3y ago
My read is that their APIs weren't ready in time, so "make a web app" was a stop-gap they tossed out to developers while they were preparing UIKit for its 1.0 release.
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by AprilArcus 3y ago
>The Higgs mechanism affects electrons, not quarks It effects both. The LHC produces Higgs particles through the annihilation of top-antitop pairs, which works because the top quark couples strongly to the Higgs field.
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by AprilArcus 3y ago
The pre-iOS 7 graphics have black text over a non-uniform background color as compared to white text over a uniform background color. This gives us ranges instead of a single value, but even in the worst case, black is a vastly more legible
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by AprilArcus 3y ago
Green has higher luminance than blue at equivalent saturation. The values for SMS and iMessage background colors are, respectively and in sRGB, #00CC46 and #0080FF, corresponding to relative luminance values of 0.436 and 0.227 according to
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by AprilArcus 3y ago
WebKit (Safari's rendering engine) is open source. WebKit is a fork of KHTML and Blink (Chromium's rendering engine) is a fork of WebKit.
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by AprilArcus 3y ago
NVMe wouldn't give you the best latency, but a 16x PCIe card loaded with DRAM and addressable as a scratch disk doesn't sound bananas. I wonder why Apple didn't market something like that as a first party solution.
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
I like to describe it as an iPad strapped to four cordless drills.
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
It's not terribly unusual for a show to get dropped by a network and picked up by another; some other heavily serialized genre shows that have changed networks include Buffy (started on the WB and moved to UPN), Stargate (started on Sh
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
It's not fun, it's scary and tacky. Those red hats represent a movement that really wants to hurt people like me and my friends.
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
This Is Just To Say I have kicked away the ladder which transcends these propositions and which you were probably climbing to see the world aright Forgive me whereof one cannot speak one must pass over in silen
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
Joining the chorus clamoring for this <3
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
You might be interested in the "Five Planet Nice Model": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-planet_Nice_model
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
Template literal types (a) have nothing to do with tagged template literals, and (b) are a game-changing feature, allowing you to write compile-time string parsers.
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
thanks, fixed
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
`*` is the namespace object. `default` is a special named property on the namespace object. someModule.js: export default 'foo'; export const bar = 'bar'; namespaceImport.js: import * as SomeNamespace
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
Try this: body:has(dialog[open]) { overflow: hidden } body:has(dialog[open])::before { content: ""; position: fixed; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; backdrop-filter: blur(4px);
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
Would love know more about the "dire state" of ppc32 linux
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
The original iPod was an absolute triumph. Scrolling with acceleration, great use of animation to transition between hierarchical views despite minimal graphical capabilities, auditory feedback. It did very few things (playback stored music
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
They are probably referring specifically to Servo parallel layout.
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
Graphile ( https://www.graphile.org/ ) and Prisma ( https://www.prisma.io/ )
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
`template${Math.random() > 0.5 ? 'strings' : 'literals'} have beern part of the language since 2015!`
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
Your code calls a library; a framework calls your code.
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
"just"
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
The limit on earth's habitability is determined by permanent sequestration of atmospheric CO₂ through the carbonate-silicate cycle, not insolation. Once CO₂ drops below a certain level, photosynthesis will no longer be possible and all
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by AprilArcus 4y ago
Fitaly is neat, but it's optimized for a single stylus with high precision, rather than two thumbs with low precision.

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