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by cpeterso 3y ago
Inform is a popular modern programming language for “interactive fiction” (text adventures). The language and its data structures might give you some inspiration for how to model interactive fiction for an LLM. https://en.m.wikip
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I hadn’t seen wuffs before. Interesting approach to writing safe libraries: Wuffs is not a general purpose programming language. It is for writing libraries, not programs. Wuffs code is hermetic and can only compute (e.g. convert "com
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Projects Innovating Around RISC-V(thechipletter.substack.com)
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The Development of the C Language (2003)(cm.bell-labs.co)
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Dark Mode: How Users Think About It and Issues to Avoid(nngroup.com)
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“ID” can mean “identity document”, such as a passport.
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The Orb's "Towers of Dub"? Genius.com says this song's sample was a "prank call was made by Victor Lewis Smith, a British film, television and radio producer, a TV and restaurant critic, a satirist and newspaper col
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by cpeterso 3y ago
If Twitter was as much a treasure trove of user data that Elon thinks it is, then why is Twitter's ad targeting so much worse than Facebook's and Instagram's?
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Artificial Intelligence and Copyright: Request for comments(federalregister.gov)
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COVID-19 made wearing face masks normal. No one needs to know if you’re wearing a mask to protect against COVID or to protect your privacy.
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The First Stable Release of a Memory Safe sudo Implementation(memorysafety.org)
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Microsoft deprecates some Edge features to improve and simplify its browser(neowin.net)
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There is no best approach, but this article highlights some common aspects from a survey of 100+ tech companies’ approaches to project management: “How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum” https://blog.pr
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Bumper-Sticker Computer Science (More Programming Pearls)(quotes.cat-v.org)
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Including the day isn’t even enough because Mozilla actually releases two Firefox “Nightly” builds a day, one every 12 hours or so.
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Yep! > In the coming months Mozilla will launch support for an open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’ll announce a definite launch date in early September, but it’s safe to expect a roll-out
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Amazon is reportedly testing a confusing star rating system(engadget.com)
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Top of the Charts: The Songs the Sound Engineers Use to Tune Your Stereo(caranddriver.com)
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The article says: > Because Secure Time Seeding used SSL certificates Windows already stored locally, it could ensure that the machine was securely connected to the remote server. The mechanism, Microsoft engineers wrote, “helped us to b
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India launches contest to build homegrown web browser(theregister.com)
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Sun did the same for Solaris, jumping from version 2.6 to 7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Solaris#Version_history
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Normandy is the name of Mozilla’s system to run A/B experiments in Firefox. You can check if you are or have been enrolled in any experiments by entering about:studies in your Firefox address bar. Here are instructions for opting out
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Which settings would you like to change in about:config?
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The "user hostile" tab design change was the addition of a space of a few pixels between the tabs and address bar: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/1/22463321/firefox-design-re...
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> Why do you need 1000+ staff to roll out an open source browser engine / browser and an email client? How many people do you think work on the Chrome team? Then include companies like Microsoft, Samsung, Igalia, and others that con
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Mixing CamelCase type names and snake_case variable names feels chaotic to me, but it’s the standard coding style for Python, Ruby, Rust, and Google’s C++ code. I wonder who used it before Python.
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Dwarf Fortress publisher is helping Caves of Qud roguelike cross the finish line(pcgamer.com)
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Firefox on Android supports PDF viewing (using pdf.js) as of version 111: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/111.0/releasen...
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Hungarian National Tourism Agency steps in on Booking.com payment troubles(hungarytoday.hu)
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Thanks. It's interesting to see the commonality (path dependence?) of these ISAs and RISC-V's extensible design. I'm reminded of "How DEC Developed Alpha" (1992), an article describing how DEC designed the Alpha arc

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