Mr_Minderbinder

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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
Those numbers are from Google. Third parties have not found WebP to be as good as Google claims.
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
> ...as it's a pretty bad look to upvote such a low-quality submission. I had already just about dismissed HN as a place for any serious discussion of AI for a multitude of reasons. After seeing this I think I will be hammering in t
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My Silly Quest to Own Every Video Golf Game(netizen.club)
1 points by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago|0 comments
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The Trolley Problem: the UX of shopping carts (2023)(usamawaheed.substack.com)
9 points by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago|0 comments
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Chess with Different Armies(chessvariants.com)
3 points by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago|0 comments
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
> And 10s is not the worst boot time out there. A Librebooted ThinkPad takes 10-15 seconds to reach a login prompt which I think is perfectly satisfactory considering that prior computers with roughly equivalent computing power (say a Cr
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
Is there a resource that identifies every species that Hooke examined in this work? There were a few that I could not identify and was curious about.
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Railroad Picture Archives(rrpicturearchives.net)
1 points by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago|0 comments
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
> Killing Flash was one of the biggest mistakes we've made. Flash was a proprietary extension to the Web. That important parts of the Web were implemented with it was a travesty and reason enough for it to be killed as it threatened
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
Before those came along I was perfectly content using a computer with 4 or 8 GB of RAM or less and thought that ought to be more enough for anything I wanted to do with computers for the rest of my life. Now I find myself wondering how much
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Dotnom – Simple Recipe Pages(dotnom.com)
1 points by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago|0 comments
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
I did the conversion in my head as I was reading.
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
I have spotted another error: > is within LAC 0x1003 (decimal: 4009) It should be decimal 4099.
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
I notice a pattern in the kinds of software that people are complaining about. They tend to be user-facing interactive software that is either corporate, proprietary, SaaS, “late-stage” or contains large amounts of telemetry. Since I tend t
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
Unfortunately there is a distinct lack of any scientific investigation or rigorous analysis into the phenomenon allegedly occurring that is called “Wirth’s Law” unlike, say, Moore’s Law despite many anecdotal examples. Reasoning as if it we
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
> Image maps date all the way back to HTML 3.2, where, first, server-side maps and then client-side maps defined clickable regions over an image using map and area elements. Server-side image maps were specified in HTML 2.0, in section 7
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
They should have been using the application in the first place. There should be no need to “switch”. That we should even speak of the inferiority of a website in comparison to an application, is a sign that we have gone seriously wrong. The
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
Not if you believe websites and applications should be two different things.
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
> I've never understood the hate for table layouts. Then I would say you have never understood HTML. Using tables for layout conflates content/structure/semantics with presentation and this is a problem in general with the
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
I have long thought that it would be nice to have a new Web-alternative based on XHTML. With XHTML you get a clean break from the legacy early HTML cruft and design errors as well as avoiding the corporate browser vendor designed HTML5&#x2F
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Florb – A simple map viewer and GPX editor(florb.shugaa.de)
1 points by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago|0 comments
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
People have always complained whenever YouTube changed its layout but I think the Polymer skin crossed a threshold of awfulness that caused people to start actively fighting against it by creating their own interfaces or finding workarounds
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
My phone is 11 years old, from 2014, and I will probably have to buy a new one when they shutdown 3G since VoLTE is not “officially supported” with my device.
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
Meanwhile, loading up a channel page with Invidious pulls in about 700k and half of that is the banner. JavaScript was not mandatory (on public instances) but it is now due to AI scrapers.
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
I cannot remember the last time I downloaded and installed an app from the Play Store (it must have been several years ago). Instead I have been getting apps from GitHub, F-Droid or the developer’s website.
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
Many countries have that but what is unique about this is that it was a freight service, perhaps the last of its kind.
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Steam operation ends in China (2024)(trains.com)
2 points by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago|2 comments
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
Why would an employee tracking device be necessary to make transactions? It is just people without a cash position performing mental gymnastics in an attempt to justify it, by trying to bring it down to the level of electronic payment metho
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
> The choice of JPEG 2000 is unexpected. What format would you have expected? > Maybe the advantage is that you can have more than 8 bits of color depth. Yes, that and the (at the time) near state of the art compression efficiency. I
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by Mr_Minderbinder 2y ago
The world of software is far larger than those two operating systems.

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