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by Figs 9y ago
Recent post about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/8830oa/and_n...
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by Figs 9y ago
> That’s only because there’s no light on her until the end. It seems like the car is out driving its headlights. Assuming a road line is about 10 feet (as is typical), only about 20~30 feet of distance is illuminated... but at 30mph you
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by Figs 9y ago
There were a couple hours between the two posts, and I was actually pissed off when I wrote the first one -- I'd had more time to think about it and cool down a bit by the time I got through with that second one. As someone who is in
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by Figs 9y ago
Thank you for the link, but I have Android, and I'm looking at the performance by tethering to my PC.
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by Figs 9y ago
I haven't tried to unpack their JS -- but you're right that it might not need to be as heavy as it actually is here.
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by Figs 9y ago
I'm looking at the behavior of the search tool on the page, which makes a request to https://instantdomainsearch.com/services/all/<query parameters> through AJAX and gets streamed lines of JSON back as
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by Figs 9y ago
As someone who actually regularly uses a slow mobile connection (8 kilobytes per second!) with somewhat high ping (~90ms to Google), please don't do this thinking you're making my life significantly better. It barely makes a dif
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by Figs 9y ago
> Teaching these skills in CS curriculum would probably be a good idea. It was included in my college CS curriculum, using the most obvious text (Debugging, by Agans) almost 10 years ago -- though I had a head start, since I read a copy
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by Figs 9y ago
> they have to respect a ruling from a US judge It's not the US, it's the EU, and it's not a ruling from a judge, it's an agreement directly with Getty. http://press.gettyimages.com/getty-images-files-
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by Figs 9y ago
Also, they could just split the book in half at whatever is the most logical breaking point, and print two approximately 264 page volumes. It would probably make physically handling it easier too... Edit: Just finished downloading and took
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by Figs 9y ago
While you're looking at it from a de jure perspective (i.e. power as granted from written law), blackbagboys's post is looking at it from a de facto perspective (i.e. power in the sense of whatever they can actually get away with
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by Figs 9y ago
> Japanese doesn’t have italics or capital letters It does, however, have katakana -- which is sometimes used in a similar fashion.
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by Figs 9y ago
Huh... with JavaScript off, I get the answer "Distance from Sun: 92.96 million " (presumably miles) on the right hand side. With JavaScript on, I get the wrong answer from the title. Edit: Actually, it gets the same answer on the
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by Figs 9y ago
Back when I was in high school and trying to wrap my head around assembly language and how CPUs and operating systems worked and all that fun stuff, I ended up learning just enough x86 machine code to implement small DOS COM programs dire
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by Figs 9y ago
Hmm... How exactly do you know that? I can only think of a handful of full Flash sites I ever used, and of those, I learned of them from word-of-mouth advertising, not through a search engine. (e.g. Homestar Runner). There could have been t
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by Figs 9y ago
> when the entire contents of the page - including the ads - is just a bunch of {canvas,WebGL} draw calls generated by a blob of obfuscated code. Your site would also be unreadable by Google, meaning that you'll be heavily penalized
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by Figs 9y ago
Which is a terrible usability nightmare waiting to happen... Seriously, DON'T do this. This breaks ctrl-f. This is unlikely to work well for people who need to enlarge text or enhance contrast due to vision impairment. This breaks sc
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by Figs 9y ago
> Is Mozilla strapped for cash or something? Nope. According to their financial statement, the Mozilla Foundation had $69M in "cash and cash equivalents" at the end of last year, about $329M in investments, and literally gave a
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by Figs 9y ago
Could you please elaborate on this?
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by Figs 9y ago
Sure, but the community could continue to reject Python3 instead as it had been doing for years . It seems like it is catching on a bit now, but I hadn't really seen any good reason for it other than the upcoming EOL.
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by Figs 9y ago
> Isn't that a bigger problem for Python 2.7 hold outs? Yes, but it seemed like libraries (such as NumPy here) were mainly switching because of the EOL of Python2 rather than for any actual benefit provided by Python3. I've con
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by Figs 9y ago
Frankly, I still haven't seen a single reason to switch to Python3 beyond the fact that the original authors have gotten bored of providing security and bugfix updates and will stop in 2020. That's it. The only thing in the last
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by Figs 9y ago
It won't last that long. The current ESR version of Firefox is 52. It will be switched to 59 at the start of March 2018, and 52 will be completely discontinued in June 2018. That's a little over 3 months until it becomes annoying
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by Figs 9y ago
Yes! Plenty of us are still stuck on mediocre internet connections that have data caps. My cap at home is 5GB/month! 100MB/app is in the range of "I am not going to download it" unless I have a damned good reason to. Dou
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by Figs 9y ago
The git commits are associated with "<user@debian>" rather than a valid github account. Whoever made the commits probably did not set up their git authorship information correctly on the machine where the commits were made.
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by Figs 9y ago
> DAG Feedback and memory are really important features of GI that you will not get out of a DAG ever . You need loops for that.
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by Figs 9y ago
Most of their games are not DRM free, and haven't been for a long time. Almost everything they sell these days is Steam-only. You're better off shopping at GOG if you care about DRM-free.
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by Figs 9y ago
You may find the book Contemporary Logic Design by Katz and Borriello to be interesting. Its what we used in my college digital logic class. For my computer architecture class (i.e. the class where we learn how to design basic CPUs -- and
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by Figs 9y ago
So... after reading your post, I went over to reddit to try to figure out how to embed comment threads for use as a discussion section on a site. You know what? I can't find anything helpful on Reddit about how to do it. I found how to
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by Figs 9y ago
SoundCloud blocked them from making a backup copy of the site. Source: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/888093838107189249 I don't know why.

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