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by billyhoffman 3y ago
EDIT: Ahh, I was wrong and missed the addition of "strerror" The PR is pretty devious. JiaT75 claims is "Added the error text when printing out warning and errors in bsdtar when untaring. Previously, there were cryptic error
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
In the US child-to-teacher ratios have maximum limits usually set and enforced at the State or municipal level. This ratio also varies by age level with lower child to teacher ratios for infants than for toddlers. In Georgia the ratio is 6:
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
* The entire paper is 278 words, excluding references * There are 9 references, but no footnotes to show where a referenced work is actually being used. * The paper provides no data. * The paper mentions correlation between data that was ta
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A Gemini browser, inspired by Netscape Navigator 2.0(obsessivefacts.com)
4 points by billyhoffman 3y ago|0 comments
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
> LAION datasets (more than 5.85 billion entries) are sourced from the freely available Common Crawl web index and offer only links to content on the public web, with no images. We developed and published our own rigorous filters to dete
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
WARC files (used by the Internet Archive to power the Wayback machine, among others) use this trick too to have a a compressed file format that is seek-able to individual HTTP request/response records
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
I love Andy's early history of the Mac at Folklore.org. It's a great read. A few years back, with Andy's blessing, I extracted all the posts and converted them to Markdown, to address a few issue I found with Folklore.org: *
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
I think most people have an incomplete understanding of what a product manager should do. It's bigger than "project management" or "project management + defining a roadmap + talking to customers." What you are build
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
Sadly an Apple TV can't also be the media server (at least for something like Plex). But just about anything else can run media server, and you can go really low end especially if you don't need it to transcode your media. Some so
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
wow, I was not expecting to fall down a hole of the creator's work for 15 minutes. This was especially fun: https://textures.neocities.org
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
Because Google pays Mozilla ~$500M dollars a year, nearly 80% of all of Mozilla's revenue, use Google as the default search provider. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-go... If Go
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
So they created a new event so people can use JS to create "reading indicators which move as you scroll." You know what else can do that? Scroll bars. In the browser. That don't disappear. Those tell you how far you are in th
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
Because their target is Twitter, and the people fleeing it. So time to market is critical. A PM would be laser focused on shipping a product with the feature set needed to do that as quickly as possible. Integrating with the fediverse doesn
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Patrick Nagel's art used in Intel 8086 ads(intel.com)
1 points by billyhoffman 3y ago|1 comments
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
Patrick Nagel has a distinctive minimalist style, most widely known for creating the cover of Duran Duran's Rio album. I was surprised to learn he created ads for Intel. More examples here: https://intelalumni.org/histo
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
Open the start menu on a consumer version of Windows today and you mY think this already happened: Candy crush, Bejeweled, Netflix…
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
JSON won because parsing it on in the browser was just was a call to “eval()”, and then you just access the object using normal JS conventions/syntax (e.g data.foo[0].bar). Whereas XML required creating a DOM parser and document fragme
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
Do they? While eGPUs were a thing for Intel macs, I don’t know if any external GPUs they could be used for graphics with Apple silicon, even in a thunderbolt enclosure.
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
I think this is unlikely. All of Apple Silicon is based on a unified memory architecture. GPUs and CPUs share the same, incredibly high-bandwidth memory. In fact, the GPUs CPUs in unified memory are all part of the same chip package. Wherea
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
Reminds me of a funny take from @marginalia: The Static File Startup: > We’re going to disrupt Internet hosting and serve static files in a novel way through a cloud based SaaS. https://www.marginalia.nu/log/51-the-f
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
> If you bothered writing a spec, it might as well be unambiguous, no? Sure, people want unambiguous specs. However there is a list of literally dozens of working clients, servers, and libraries that were implemented based on the Gemini
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
I've built search engines, servers, clients, a Wayback machine, and other things in Gemini, so I have a better-than-average informed view of the protocol. Many of these observations are wrong or don't matter in practice. (Paraphra
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
Awesome. My commute time is now 5 hours each way. Please pay me. Hyberbole aside, how would that even work? The further away from work someone lives, the more "commute time" they get paid? That has perverse incentives: * I no long
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
> We continued to mark HTTP as insecure in the URL bar.
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
not exploits of the OS, but I've used this to exploit web applications quite a bit. Tricks like these get your past a lot of input filters or validation logic. This allows me to trick these apps into making HTTP requests to internal or
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
Wow, it’s not often I see something posted to HN that also is a Gemini capsule: gemini://playonbsd.com/
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
If it ends at Ben’s Chili bowl I’m done. That place is delicious
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by billyhoffman 3y ago
https://help.pornhub.com/hc/en-us/articles/5357457259155-202... PornHub has transparency reports tracking how many upload there are to the system, where they come from, how many uploads get removed, how the r
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
I've met Douglas a few times at JS Conferences, and he is an excellent engineer (read up on his work on the NES version on Maniac Mansion). However this passage about starting a company and trying to raise capital from VCs demonstrates
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
For the terminal, I use amfora: https://github.com/makew0rld/amfora For a GUI, I use Lagrange: https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange Lagrange is sort of the Netscape of Gemini. It works on all the m

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