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by afandian 9mo ago
Youtube has tonnes of cookies! Why give youtube a free pass but not some independent hobbyist's site?
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by afandian 9mo ago
What does custom domain mean? Just an email provider other than the mainstream ones?
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by afandian 9mo ago
I've got one. When iPhone alarm goes off, the screen doesn't wake up, so I press the power button. Which snoozes the alarm. Not only did I not want to snooze the alarm, I hoped that the alarm would wake the phone up so I can click
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by afandian 9mo ago
It's deliberately not straightforward. Just like the joke about Americans being shoutier than Brits. But it is meaningful. I read "the non-disabled organization" to refer to Anthropic. And I imagine the author used it as a jo
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Making a small pipe organ from scratch (videos)(youtube.com)
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by afandian 9mo ago
Ditto control flow. It’s tempting to think of repeat bars, DC al fines, codas etc hierarchical structures when in fact they are imperative GOTOs and always have been.
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by afandian 9mo ago
Ok. I think you're misunderstanding that word as it was used. It's not the way I, and other responders, think the author intended it. They did not say 'exclusive benefit'. A benefit of living in a house is that you don&#
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by afandian 9mo ago
Congratulations on launching this. I see why you posted the 'history' page first, as it's obviously been a long story! But from a visitor's perspective, I suggest you let the code tell the story. Some code samples on the
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by afandian 9mo ago
Can you define “hill climbing”? Is it a metaphor?
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I think it means gcc -O0
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Arguably the feedback via the cursor change is feedback to help you learn, like the icons that appear in the close / minimise / zoom, or stickers on the keys of a musical instrument. You pretty quickly learn which one is which, or
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by afandian 9mo ago
I did this for my child with an ESP32, RFID cards off ebay, and MP3s on a SD card. A fun project. Tip: it's much quicker to read the serial number of the RFID card and rename the MP3 than it is to program the MP3 name to the card!
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by afandian 9mo ago
> is not a TS innovation, nor only available in TS > since I avoid TS, I cannot use ES6 and ES7, and my vanilla JavaScript doesn't run in all browsers Where was that claim made? I don't see it in any Typescript docs, or in t
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by afandian 9mo ago
Thanks for going to the effort! > everything remained the same except for the visual presentation of the corner This either seems very well-researched change, or very shallow one.
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by afandian 9mo ago
Do you mean you don't observe the same thing? Or that it doesn't cause you difficulty?
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by afandian 9mo ago
Question for people who have installed Tahoe. Of the regions in the article, which bring window focus / key window? Is it area clipped to the round rect? Or is it similarly weird? If there was a background window in that area outside t
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by afandian 9mo ago
We recently had a significant test of this. Boris Johnson asked the late Queen to prorogue (shut down) parliament in order to prevent debate on the Brexit negotiations between the UK and the European Union. In theory he was asking permissio
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by afandian 9mo ago
Thanks! There's a video I've been looking for, for years. It's about web technologies and recusion ("I put a VM in side a VM"), and it's satire / comedy. It might be this one I'm thinking of, as it cl
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by afandian 9mo ago
I would like to encourage everyone to set some time aside, get comfy, and watch Bobby Fingers. His videos are extraordinary, special, things. I think making a giant Jeff Bezos boat would appeal most to this crowd, but I'd suggest watch
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by afandian 9mo ago
Just very high usage all of a sudden, after years of reasonable usage. Google has indexed it (respectfully) since 2008 just fine. New traffic isn't humans. I blocked some AI scraper user-agents, which helped, a bit. But most new user a
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by afandian 9mo ago
I recently, with great reluctance, had to put a personal site behind Cloudflare free option. It gets lots of use, but brings no revenue (costs me to run) and I have little spare time. Found out that I was blocked from it in my default setup
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by afandian 9mo ago
Storing the prefix and the tagged union of pointer and inline data structure is big difference to Pascal strings though.
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by afandian 9mo ago
That's different from how menu icons apart have been used clasically. In e.g. Microsoft Office the save icon was present in the File menu along the text, and also the toolbar, stand-alone. And it was clear enough that you would trust t
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by afandian 9mo ago
Don't you feel that the circumstances are similar though? There was a pressure (expectation and competition) for new features. There were rapid changes in the UI and UX. But also bugs. And IIRC Mac OS X upgrades were still paid-for. It
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by afandian 9mo ago
I get the site has a frivolous feel, which I do like. And there's no problem with snow if you can turn it off. But it _seems_ like you can't turn the snow off, at which point it does become annoying. And it's actually making
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by afandian 9mo ago
I wouldn't take too much into a book about optimising database storage written for 90s-era hard disks and CPUs. But a file menu is still a file menu, and save is still save. In fact it's remarkable how little that has changed sinc
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by afandian 9mo ago
It's been 16 years since Snow Leopard. I think we're ready for another one.
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No you can't, it just turns the background yellow. EDIT: the snow stops _but after a few seconds_. I toggled it to find out if it would turn off the snow, and the immediate feedback was that it doesn't. That's really _really_
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by afandian 9mo ago
The words 'archive' and 'Spotify' do not go together naturally! (Ditto any subscription service). From the title I was expecting something like "how I archived my Spotify memories in a plain text file".
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by afandian 10mo ago
Thanks for the reminder of eeggs.com! It still has an Easter egg I found in my printer that I submitted 25 years ago. I wonder how many models of obsolete hardware that site documents...

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