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by cpeterso 2y ago
Firefox is supposed to block autoplay of videos that have audio unless the user has clicked to play a video on the same page. There is definitely an arms race for ads that find holes in the autoplay heuristics. You might try setting the abo
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by cpeterso 2y ago
There are new games that still use (modern forks of) the Doom engine! https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42392172-GZDoom-Games...
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by cpeterso 2y ago
That matches Bill Gates’ definition of a platform: "A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it."
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Assessing IT Project Success: Perception vs. Reality(queue.acm.org)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
What might a programming language that was designed to be more easily or correctly generated by LLMs look like? Probably something Lispy. Without an organic corpus of existing code, it would need to be trained entirely on synthetic examples
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I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps(arstechnica.com)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
“The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.” — Edsger Dijkstra But sometimes a new semantic level isn’t needed. Abstraction gets so much press when you might jus
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by cpeterso 2y ago
And the user can postpone making their code work with u32 EVFILT_AIO until they update from v0.2.* to v0.3.
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by cpeterso 2y ago
On this subject, I recommend Marianne Bellotti‘s “Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)” . She has managed the maintenance and modernization of large legacy systems at the United States Digital Ser
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by cpeterso 2y ago
> I've adopted a policy that for every significant compiler or build system release, we create a branch that verifies a good build. Mozilla's Firefox CI builds with multiple compilers, including clang trunk and (IIRC) Rust Nigh
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by cpeterso 2y ago
That’s a great point: the client software isn’t listening to the server, so the server software should break the loop by escalating to the human reader. The message response should probably be even more direct with a call to action about th
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Apple removed Safari's DNT support in 2019 (macOS 10.14 and iOS 12.2) for that very reason: https://www.macworld.com/article/232426/apple-safari-removin...
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by cpeterso 2y ago
In response, Apache added code to ignore the DNT header from Internet Explorer 10 browsers: https://www.theverge.com/2012/9/11/3314211/ie10-dnt-header-m...
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WPT Web Platform Tests: An Overview and History(bocoup.com)
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Mozilla: DOJ's Plan for Chrome Risks Hurting Smaller Browsers(pcmag.com)
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> He took a dip in a pool with a functioning nuclear pile xkcd published a What If? video about the consequences of swimming in a nuclear fuel pool: https://youtu.be/EFRUL7vKdU8
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by cpeterso 2y ago
These types of lookalike functions are like homonyms: they might be “spelled” the same, but they have different meanings and should not be conflated.
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I wonder what a language designed as a target for LLM-generated code would look like? What semantics and syntax would help the LLM generate code that is more likely to be correct and maintainable by humans?
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But where did these companies get the ColdFusion code for their training data? Since ColdFusion is an old language and used for backend services, how much ColdFusion code is open source and crawlable?
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To kill memory safety bugs in C code, try the TrapC fork(theregister.com)
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A related article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42114990
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Ecosia and Qwant, European search engines, join forces on European search index(techcrunch.com)
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'We Were Wrong': An Oral History of WIRED's Original Website(wired.com)
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To Gen Z, Google is just a relic – not a verb anymore(bgr.com)
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Automated reasoning often makes systems more efficient and easier to maintain(aws.amazon.com)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Safari dropped support for JPEG 2000 in Safari 18 last month: https://webkit.org/blog/15865/webkit-features-in-safari-18-0...
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Could we convert the brine waste to building materials? Truck it out to the desert and build a giant salt pyramid.
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The inland area could be lower than the waterfront.
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> You can staff an army of junior people for a very very long time on those kinds of projects. Given this is a common business model and has known bad outcomes, what would a Blub programming language and rapid development environment des
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Firefox Send used E2E encryption. The key was generated on the web client and not shared with the Send server. https://web.archive.org/web/20200226024845/https://www.wired...

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