Uristqwerty

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by Uristqwerty 2y ago
It was hard to track down a source to confirm a half-remembered fact, but apparently the expansion content will be split between a number of mods so that you can independently enable/disable them, including quality: https://
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by Uristqwerty 3y ago
How could the AGI punish players who don't help? It's not like it would be able to send an extra logistics bot into their games, set to occasionally pick up an item off one belt and insert it on another, right? Shit, I'd bett
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by Uristqwerty 4y ago
Lawyers don't exist to decide who wins a case. It's all about making the other side show their work, prove that they have valid evidence, it was collected legally, etc. An AI might be able to find flaws in the work of a sloppy hum
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by Uristqwerty 5y ago
You can replace a chunk of innerHTML faster than a full page reload, using a near-trivial piece of vanilla JS. But a full page reload also clears out memory "leaks", old state accidentally kept around in caches, clinging to DOM no
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by Uristqwerty 5y ago
Imagine an email program that, knowing how many total items there are in the inbox, gives you finite scroll! Even if it only streams metadata for nearby items, so if you suddenly drag the bar it has to wait for a network round-trip to sho
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by Uristqwerty 5y ago
Imagine sites like facebook, reddit, and google themselves who have more monthly users than the FLoC ID has bits to count. Imagine they store each result for a given user, and assume that, with high probability, when that value changes it i
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by Uristqwerty 5y ago
So what, those third parties will then request that first-parties run a cookie proxy to generate and relay your unique ID, in order to get better payout rates?
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by Uristqwerty 6y ago
XML guarantees that tag precedes attributes which in turn precede contents, which is a great help when any sort of polymorphism is involved. Heck, anything beyond a tree of untyped arrays, maps, and primitive values adds ugly complexity to
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by Uristqwerty 6y ago
By the time a web app has megabytes of JS and fetches just to show its initial content, is it actually saving money?
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by Uristqwerty 7y ago
If I were an emacs user, I'd figure out how to write a plugin to display tab-indented code to my preferences. No, I used to be a notepad user (on personal projects, not shared work) (you can kinda see it in the use of indentation to
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by Uristqwerty 7y ago
In an ideal world, I'd think you would put a "tab stop" character before arg1, then a single tab on the following line, with the bonus benefit that the formatting would survive automatic name changes and not create an inden
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by Uristqwerty 7y ago
I don't know about anyone else, but I like aligning certain things at half-indents (labels/cases half an indent back, so you can skim the silhouette of both the surrounding block and jump targets within it; braceless if/for
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by Uristqwerty 7y ago
Can you return a bit by deciding whether the executable gets flagged as malicious in response to the network activity? Can you set up a timing difference to send more than one bit per executable?
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by Uristqwerty 7y ago
Consider: Malware that doesn't do anything suspicious unless it can first fetch a plausible benign file from what looks like a CDN. If the goal is to properly inspect the behaviour of potentially-malicious code, what it does after succ
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by Uristqwerty 7y ago
Federation is nice, but going out of your way to hide that federation is occurring from users is a bit too much. Doesn't it matter who gets to see the full URL you are accessing (especially after efforts for DNS over HTTPS)? At least
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by Uristqwerty 7y ago
JSON exposes implementors to all sorts of recursion, numeric precision, etc., where the only advantage is that you can consume the data through whatever JSON library already exists (but also having to handle that library's unique quirk
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by Uristqwerty 7y ago
Reading about speculative execution exploits makes me wonder whether it would be useful to have a speculation register, and an instruction prefix that claims one bit of that register, much as a mutex, while the prefixed instruction is being
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by Uristqwerty 8y ago
The user who posted that has a strong history of looking for, and loudly proclaiming, malice in many decisions reddit makes. They're not necessarily wrong, though, just slightly more deserving of fact-checking than the average reddit u
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by Uristqwerty 8y ago
Is that packaging style the same for all English-speaking countries? Standing on the side of the road and facing traffic, you'd expect all of the near vehicles to be facing right in North America, so perhaps that carried, consciously o
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by Uristqwerty 9y ago
Some time ago, Twitch bought Curse, probably for the Curse App that already does voice and text chat. Also viewing streams and mod management for a handful of games.
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by Uristqwerty 9y ago
When a system tries to do something automagically and makes a mistake, it is very frustrating, especially because, to allow seamless large changes, hide competitive details, or make the UI more "streamlined", such systems rarely g
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by Uristqwerty 9y ago
With labels, hidden checkboxes/radio buttons, and some awkward CSS you can make no-javascript collapsible/expandable content, tabs, user-changable colour themes, and other horrible abuses of pure HTML+CSS. With :hover and transiti
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by Uristqwerty 9y ago
Desktop and laptop systems tend to be in portrait orientation; phones and tablets tend to be in portrait. So you already have to either make two layout styles or accept a mediocre general solution. Cursors and styluses are accurate, but fin
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by Uristqwerty 9y ago
4. 0-day in the kernel's USB code. Your computer crashes. You're not part of stuxnet. You also get a message that tells you how and where to report the bug that was exploited, but the part of your computer that was supposed to log
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by Uristqwerty 9y ago
Facebook probably looked for anything matching "facebook(web-related words)", and were lucky to find one with only one errant character. There were probably enough acceptable variants that the effective computing time was less tha
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by Uristqwerty 9y ago
The barrier for entry of web development is not necessarily lower, it's more that most people have already tinkered with web development informally. Many IDEs have some sort of visual GUI layout tool, but the nature of HTML+CSS makes i
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by Uristqwerty 9y ago
I wonder whether the zip-quine could be modified to insert additional garbage data with each iteration, to defeat any system that stops when it reaches a known hash. Similarly, could a zip-quine that loses data with each iteration be create
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by Uristqwerty 10y ago
Rather than a "TCP2" that, based on name alone, would be far too likely to aim for semi-backwards compatibility but tweak a few things to be slightly better in general but mostly just better for the specific use cases of the one o
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by Uristqwerty 11y ago
I wonder how much of the later trend is due to the combination of early autocompletion and a codebase the size of windows or office, in a language where types can't be determined for sure without running each source file through the pr
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by Uristqwerty 11y ago
With transition:, width:, and :hover, I was able to make an element repeatedly cycle between states with the only user input being to leave a cursor positioned over the page. Maybe it's a browser-specific quirk; maybe it uses features

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