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by cpeterso 2y ago
FWIW, iOS's emoji keyboard suggests the lizard emoji if you search for "salamander" (or "gecko", though it's not an amphibian).
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Coating clothes with this simple material could cool your body up to 8 degrees(cnn.com)
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Lego plans to ditch oil in its bricks for pricier renewable plastic(cnn.com)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
FWIW, local sccache has never been a speedup for me. I've never tried to configure remote sccache.
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by cpeterso 2y ago
I can make a clean build of Firefox in less than 15 minutes on my MacBook Air M2, C++, Rust, and all. If you’re working on a frontend feature that only needs to modify Firefox’s frontend JS code, you can use “artifact builds” (prebuilt obje
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The Pentagon Is Planning a Drone 'Hellscape' to Defend Taiwan(wired.com)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
> Because homo sapiens have killed off all other competing humanoid species in the last ~100,000 years. Non-human humanoids are instinctually perceived as threats even today in our uncanny valley response.
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SpaceX is about to send four people on a risky mission into the radiation belts(cnn.com)
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Why is the BCrypt text "OrpheanBeholderScryDoubt"(security.stackexchange.com)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
“Show me your flowcharts [code] and conceal your tables [data structures], and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious.” -- Fred Brooks
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What opposition to delivery drones shows about big tech disrespect for democracy(theguardian.com)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Anyone have fun examples of A/B tests you’ve run where the results were surprising or hugely lopsided?
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Or change the Twitter URL from x.com to the xcancel.com proxy: https://xcancel.com/jason_kint/status/1821554841786683554
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Urchin Software Corp: The unlikely origin story of Google Analytics (2016)(urchin.biz)
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Sonos delays two new products as it races to fix buggy app(theverge.com)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Does a 7 day expiration matter if the tracker can just set new cookies with new 7 day expiration dates as it tracks you? Also, Firefox partitions cookies by site (aka Total Cookie Protection), so first-party facebook.com cookies, cross-site
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by cpeterso 2y ago
> Accuracy remained high for unpublished studies that could not appear in the model's training data (r = 0.90).
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Puppeteer Support for Firefox(hacks.mozilla.org)
655 points by cpeterso 2y ago|90 comments
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by cpeterso 2y ago
ActionScript was a big influence on ECMAScript 4 until it was abandoned and scaled back for ECMAScript 5 “Harmony”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_version_history#4...
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by cpeterso 2y ago
I use a Pomodoro timer browser extension. It’s a small toolbar icon that shows a minute countdown, so it’s not too distracting (until it’s supposed to be).
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Mass Bungie Layoffs Draw Fury from 'Destiny 2' Fans, Past and Present Employees(forbes.com)
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Apple Maps launches on the web in new public beta(9to5mac.com)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Was the R prototype outputting HTML code? What React front end code of any value is the LLM extracting from the R prototype? Other options to converting the code: call into the R code from the Go code. Or don’t let your prototype grow to 12
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by cpeterso 2y ago
aka the spaceship operator. By defining just the spaceship operator for some types A and B, the compiler can synthesize overloads for the typical comparison operators like < <= == >= > for A vs B and B vs A.
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by cpeterso 2y ago
The flip side of “this meeting should have been an email” is that people need to read their email. I think Slack, always on and always interrupting, has eroded thoughtful email habits.
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Experiment finds AI boosts creativity individually – but lowers it collectively(techcrunch.com)
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CCP Games CEO Discusses Decision to Make EVE Online Platform Open Source(mmorpg.com)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Firefox’s website “interventions” are documented on Firefox’s about:compat page. Each intervention has a link to more information about the website issue it’s fixing and a button to turn it off.
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Openvibe combines Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr into one social app(techcrunch.com)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
To try to account for that, I purposely alternate thin and chunky interleaving when I riffle shuffle (the customary seven times :).

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