benjaminjackman

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by benjaminjackman 7y ago
Iirc didn’t they have it then disable it because of spectre/meltdown?
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by benjaminjackman 7y ago
One minor suggestion: just in case you haven't considered it , is to `favor undo over confirmation`. So when the user deletes a note, instead of asking if they are sure with an alert dialog, just delete the note but also have an undo
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by benjaminjackman 7y ago
Does anyone have any experience or knowledge about the process of porting a Godot game to consoles? I know it’s not built into Godot because all the sdks/apis are behind NDAs for the consoles, I was wondering how difficult it is, what
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by benjaminjackman 7y ago
> But among the projects I've seen where performance has been an issue, it's largely been the product of a developer's failure to understand how the engine is processing their content, and by extension their failure to arc
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by benjaminjackman 7y ago
There really needs to be an always ask next to don’t ask again.
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by benjaminjackman 7y ago
I’m personally not upset just worried about the fact that security is now a huge risk because you’re having to trust an extension creator that has access to your entire browser history or worse and who is one auto-update from turning to spy
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by benjaminjackman 7y ago
That's a really interesting approach. I wonder if there are reading apps which have that dictionary integrated, but which still require a mouseover / tap to display it for a particular word (they are just using a translation langu
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by benjaminjackman 7y ago
Let me just say I didn't mean to come across as overly negative, I think everyone working on the extension has done a fantastic job, it's a very minor quibble in the grand scheme of things I use multiple different machines so whil
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by benjaminjackman 7y ago
Overall I really like this extension and especially its interactive programming / notebook features. I am a big fan of jupyter notebooks, and wrote my own version for Scala (it was more inspired by Mathematica since Juypter didn't
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Announcing CodeSandbox v3(hackernoon.com)
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
I don't know if you meant it to parallel the Bezos quote about blue origin / the desire to push our species out across the solar system but it came to mind right away when I read what you wrote because I have been thinking along s
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
Maybe it will be possible to compile Sqlite to wasm and then using indexdb as a backing store for it. In which case perhaps a good enough polyfill would be accessible to Firefox.
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
Never say never, they are literally in the same building here: https://i.imgur.com/lz7evie.jpg
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
> Current battery technology is right on the edge of where it needs to be. It means most designs have to be pretty small, very light, and short range. 1-2 people. 30 to 100 miles. Not at all like an improved conventional small airplane,
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
>“Cognitive spaces are a way of thinking about how our brain might organize our knowledge of the world,” Bellmund said. It’s an approach that concerns not only geographical data, but also relationships between objects and experience. “We
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
Given that the implementation of setInterval is far from trivial[1], that is likely correct. 1: https://overreacted.io/making-setinterval-declarative-with-r...
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
Would be interested to find out because if its just uncalibrated plotting out the relative differences it still would be useful (e.g. seeing a X% increase on whatever scale the sensor using at night versus day could provide enough of an ind
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
Having experimented with and used proxies a decent amount, the MDN page is my goto reference when I need to use them: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... The biggest pitfalls,
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
> If you need to login to a captive portal that redirects, there's always neverssl.com There's also: http://http.rip (which is easier at least for me to remember for some reason)
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
I remember looking forward to the Sunday paper for the electronics store ads more than the paper itself (except maybe the sports section).
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
Just an FYI: The Dijkstra map algorithms mentioned in the article can be used for a lot more than just pathfinding. I’ve used them in a hobby game I’ve been developing with a lot of insight from http://www.roguebasin.com/ind
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
And that is sort of solving a language verbosity problem with classes and inheritance and the fact that to mixin behaviors classically one would use inheritance but it doesnt compose well and had problems passing things up to different cons
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
Do any cars pull themselves over when they detect flashing emergency vehicle lights? That would’ve probably worked here and might be the ultimate answer.
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
I think they fundamentally json is just the wrong format for these files. Speaking from (ancient and limited) experience I made a little notebook-style interpreter for learning scala back in 2009 or so called scalide. It saved its files (&q
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
>But if I give them 1USD and get back 1USDC, which later can be exchanged back to 1 USD, where are they making money? Historically that's basically how banks have made money. Issuing bank notes while earning interest on the capital
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
For some reason the notion of Economists “Pour[ing] water on the flames” of a bull economy made me think of the doctors “bleeding out the bad humors” from the front page story here a couple days ago about the techniques used in treatment of
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
Am I the only one that finds that the DDG’s bang commands actually make DuckDuckGo more useable than google, even for googles own products? E.g. it’s faster to type in a location and append !gm after (which will cause DuckDuckGo to redirect
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
Do you have a recommended guide for setting an XMPP server that supports end-to-end encryption?
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
While searching for more information on a configuration value mentioned in the article (javascript.options.wasm_gc) I came across another article on the topic, which I also found interesting because it's a bit more technical: https:&#
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by benjaminjackman 8y ago
Minor clarification: The DOM builtins should be helped by the Reference Types Proposal for WebAssembly. [1] `The host bindings proposal` is going to help speed up new and getter/setter calls. [2] 1: `Currently the only built-ins that

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