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by an_ko 3y ago
Yes, approximately. In X11 at least, the hardware codes are called keycodes, and the human readable names are called keysyms. Example of the XkbKeycodeToKeysym function in use: https://github.com/anko/xkbcat/blob&#
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by an_ko 3y ago
Fads come in waves because it's easier and safer to do or discuss something when it's already on the mind of people around you. Perhaps the irritation comes from having seen enough media that you've started to see this meta-l
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by an_ko 3y ago
This is wildly unsafe. - Some packages contain non-JS files for good reasons, and they may break in subtle unpredictable ways when you mess with the contents of their package. - Node.js will happily run JavaScript files even if they're
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by an_ko 3y ago
What stops Amazon from establishing a separate company called Totally Not Amazon, which employs 1 person, and hosts your software for the rest of Amazon, and has revenue much less than 1M$ so they can use it for free? If they need more capa
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by an_ko 3y ago
From a quick read of the code, it seems like all this does is shift pitch; it doesn't change resonance or anything else that affects how your voice sounds. So it's great for sounding like a chipmunk or a demon, but not that useful
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by an_ko 3y ago
Yep. The docs for Deref also dedicate a whole paragraph, with a conclusion in bold, near the start of the page, to why it's a bad idea. https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Deref.html
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by an_ko 3y ago
Based on their blog, I think they mean this: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2318420/Glypha_Vintage/
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by an_ko 3y ago
What's the point of 2FA if you store it in the same place as the first auth factor? Or maybe I've misunderstood. Are they behind different master passwords or something?
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by an_ko 3y ago
I checked. They will, for some reasons, sometimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Riots_and_civil_disor...
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by an_ko 3y ago
To my understanding, it allows messages on the network to have a total order, even when fully decentralised. Without a hash chain, clients could not tell what order events happened in, and might display them ordered differently, which would
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by an_ko 3y ago
There were many such projects way back when. I remember participating in the emoticon tower: https://www.deviantart.com/leoleonardo/art/The-Re-opened-Tow...
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by an_ko 4y ago
Is this that big of a deal? Surely by the time someone has hardware access, the game is over. The keys need to be decrypted into memory to use them, and nothing stops someone with hardware access from dumping that memory. No amount of encry
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by an_ko 4y ago
Shisa kanko (指差喚呼) translates directly as "finger pointing verbal check". Dictionary entry: https://jisho.org/word/%E6%8C%87%E5%B7%AE%E5%96%9A%E5%91%BC
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by an_ko 4y ago
Beware of the "appeal to nature" fallacy [1]. You are right that exercising and going outside have been experimentally demonstrated to improve mood, but there is no such thing as "your natural state", and even if you arb
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by an_ko 4y ago
Wikipedia has some rationale: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode Probably the most notable: > Use figurine algebraic notation, which replaces the letter that stands for a piece by its symbol, e
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by an_ko 4y ago
Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin have all the melodies on a hard drive. (More info in this Adam Neely video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfXn_ecH5Rw and the TED talk linked in a nearby comment.) So depending on a court'
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by an_ko 4y ago
I'm pretty sure if I look closely enough, I'm nothing but numbers myself. My feelings don't exist, they're just side effects of evolved processes that made my ancestors survive, generated by a neural network too complex
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by an_ko 4y ago
It's a matter of degrees. The title here still gives less information than it could have in the same amount of space, forcing more people to read the article to find out, than would otherwise have.
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by an_ko 4y ago
I don't want to have to hunt for documentation if it breaks. It may have been 30 years and everything but the binary has been lost, and the vendor is out of business. If in that situation all I get is an error code and a link to docume
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by an_ko 4y ago
It would be ethical to mention your affiliation when advertising your own product.
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by an_ko 4y ago
> their complier often runs code inside if(false) blocks (in certain positions) Do you have an example? Sounds like a catastrophic edge case.
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by an_ko 4y ago
If you mean recorded commands, those are stored in registers, which from a quick look at the source [1] seem to just contain strings. So I would imagine their length is only bounded by memory. So I suppose you could just qq, write your enti
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by an_ko 4y ago
You are of course correct. I should not try to think about software at 4am! :)
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by an_ko 4y ago
Most rendering oddities are not directly detectable by JS on the page, with the notable exception of the <canvas> element. Though I suppose rendering differences that affect z-order or visibility could be detected indirectly, by liste
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by an_ko 4y ago
I imagine the "backslash" in the zero is intended to make it more distinct from Ø and ø.
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by an_ko 4y ago
This article praises everything Zig does and lists no negatives of its design. I'd recommend a different article for a balanced take, particularly regarding comparisons with Rust: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writ
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by an_ko 4y ago
I'm only guessing, but perhaps because balloons have fewer moving parts? They're the lowest-tech aircraft. Minimise aerospace engineering, focus on networks for now.
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by an_ko 4y ago
In any actual field of engineering, building everything on systems that fail-open this way would be unacceptable. Universally relying on CPUs that leak side channel everywhere because It Go Fast is like building with asbestos and cardboard
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by an_ko 4y ago
HN does not use Markdown. Compare HN formatting options https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc to Markdown https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
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by an_ko 4y ago
> [Regarding SSB:] It insists on having a chain of updates from a single user, which feels unnecessary to me and something that adds bloat and rigidity to the thing — each server/user needs to store all the chain of posts to be sure

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