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by adrian17 7mo ago
I'm talking about the .fla (XFL) format, not .swf (which is documented well - though that doesn't mean its exact behavior its understood well) (note: I'm one of Ruffle's maintainers)
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by adrian17 7mo ago
AFAIK the .fla format was never fully documented or reverse engineered by anyone (FFDEC has an exporter, but not importer), so this alone would be a bold claim.
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by adrian17 8mo ago
Hi, one of Ruffle maintainers here. AFAIK, we do have most of NetConnection API implemented; but direct socket connections are just impossible in browsers. The games should (hopefully) work and connect when run via the desktop player. We al
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by adrian17 8mo ago
> And no-one cares. Probably because there's no (public) disclosure and no CVE. From what I've googled, there's literally nothing about this aside from the tweet.
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by adrian17 8mo ago
> Because the neighbor's formerly quite street turns into a parking lot before people "can't find parking." The people who have quiet streets will also see that and fight to keep a shop from opening near them. This do
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by adrian17 8mo ago
FWIW, the screenshots all have the dates spanning the last couple days. But yeah, I can't imagine me getting used to a new tool to this degree and using it in so many ways in just a week.
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by adrian17 8mo ago
> Here’s the current price of silver. (…) People buy precious metals when they might be worried about the value of fiat currencies, like, I don’t know, the dollar. My (non-economist) understanding was that the silver price spikes were ca
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by adrian17 9mo ago
Couldn't the first example be better done by having a Plan enum type? It'd both be a little more lightweight than text, and better at handling bad queries (mistyped filter resulting in error instead of empty result set).
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by adrian17 9mo ago
I just went to a random OpenAI blog post ("The new ChatGPT Images is here"), right-click saved one of the images (the one from "Text rendering" section), and pasted it to your [1] link - no metadata. I know the metadata
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by adrian17 9mo ago
> Mainly because most of their bets have been unsuccessful: WASI, Component Model. Can you expand on that? I've only been using wasm for web (and the current status quo of JS bindings to the DOM is working just fine for me) so I hav
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by adrian17 9mo ago
> LLVM is still not very good at emitting optimized WebAssembly bytecode. Like I said in the other comment, I find it incredibly weird that wasm-opt can still squeeze like 10% better code (as in, both smaller binary and somehow faster co
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by adrian17 9mo ago
> Even a basic hello world in rust will set you back a few megabytes compared to a the tens of bytes it takes in javascript. That's definitely not true. A debug build of a "hello wasm-bindgen" style Rust program indeed tak
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by adrian17 10mo ago
It's more complex and heavier than using uv. I see docker/vm/vagrant/etc as something as something I reach for when the environment I want is too big, too fancy or too nondeterministic to manually set up locally; but the
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by adrian17 10mo ago
IMO the minimum is to be able to read a “hello world / first triangle” example for any of the modern graphics APIs (OpenGL/WebGL doesn’t count, WebGPU does), and have a general understanding of each step performed (resource creati
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by adrian17 10mo ago
I just checked several of the files uploaded to the news post, the "previous" and "new", both the png and webp (&fm=webp in url) versions - none had the content metadata. So either the internal version they used to g
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by adrian17 10mo ago
> Credits to TaskJuggler for the original project definition language and concepts. That's understating it. Looks like (from conveniently-not-removed `.issue.db`) the entire project was made over last weekend by LLM-porting huge chu
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by adrian17 10mo ago
This probably depends on country, but AFAIK in most of europe, even in public domain, the „you can’t pass another’s work as your own” part of copyright is still active and doesn’t expire.
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by adrian17 11mo ago
As far as I know, “defunding the police” wasn’t a campaign promise, let alone a “core” one. It indeed was the opinion he had in the past (and you can argue about whether he still thinks that privately), but there are also many statements fr
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by adrian17 1y ago
Maybe I'm confused with the timeline but the actors involved, but: > The company offered a managed version with its own proprietary additions Doesn't sound like open source to me?
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by adrian17 1y ago
The commit names look very weird too, feel more like marketing speak: > BREAKTHROUGH: Fix critical ID mismatch in Cap'n Web protocol > TIER 3 ULTIMATE: Extreme Stress Tests & Advanced Capability Composition > Achieve Cap&#
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by adrian17 1y ago
> And in a fun twist, we’ve confirmed that it’s the exact same cell found in Apple’s MagSafe battery pack. You can swap between them and the phone still boots up just fine. Are batteries no longer paired with the device? I thought that a
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by adrian17 1y ago
I agree with the argument on the logical level, but in practice I don't think it should be used be used, at least not as the first argument. For the general public, talking about encrypting a physical letter makes you look even more pa
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by adrian17 1y ago
There's a huge spectrum between dense city center and suburbia; at present, I do consider my area to be "walkable", but it's not anywhere close to a dense city and there sure aren't "corporate HQs" anywher
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by adrian17 1y ago
> From a quality of life point of view The only thing that makes my occasional commute to office or distant family not a complete waste of time, is that I can read something or do a ton of language flashcards on the way. (plus a tiny sma
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by adrian17 1y ago
I was quite confused when I learned that the spec technically supports metadata about whether the data is already pre-sorted by some column(s); in my eyes seemed like it would allow some non-brainer optimizations. And yet, last I checked, i
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by adrian17 1y ago
> Also note that canvas based input is also why Google Docs has so much trouble with emoji and non-English input. It's far from the only thing it has issues with; I've found obviously broken UI patterns within a couple clicks o
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by adrian17 1y ago
> I confess that somewhat surprises me, as I would expect getting machine code generated would be a main source of speed up for a JIT? My understanding is that the basic copy-and-patch approach without any other optimizations doesn’t act
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by adrian17 1y ago
> If I need compile-time reflection, I'll use a C# program to generate C code. This isn't reflection though, it's just textual code generation. In a way, it has the same problem's Rust's macros have (and indeed I
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by adrian17 1y ago
The std::meta stuff are only ever running at compile time, so I don't think this would actually interfere much?
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by adrian17 1y ago
As for syntax, note that as the author says: > I do not have access yet to a true C++26 compiler. When C++26 arrive, we will have features such as ‘template for’ which are like ‘for’ loops, but for template metaprogramming. Meanwhile, I

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