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by csande17 2y ago
Often you can open the SVG in a browser and then use the developer tools to copy out the resulting nodes as "flat" SVG source code. Chrome even includes a --dump-dom flag you can use to do this on the command line, although I have
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by csande17 2y ago
Rust's "all strings must be valid UTF-8" rule allows them to remove a bounds check in their "get the Unicode code point corresponding to a byte index in the string" function. Like, if you see a byte in the string th
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by csande17 2y ago
The article talks about Hacker News comments "quoted in this article, that I am having trouble finding now on the live version of the site." As far as I can tell, the comment they're referring to is https://news.yc
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by csande17 2y ago
Is it just me, or is this app extremely similar to Alfred ( https://www.alfredapp.com/ )? I guess if you like the AI subscription business model better than a one-time "pro" purchase, Raycast might be the app for yo
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by csande17 2y ago
Given that all those things are from the list of features they plan to ship in the next two kernel releases, "never" seems a little pessimistic. They aren't even selling laptops with this chip yet!
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by csande17 2y ago
The malicious build script included heuristics to only include the backdoor if you were building a .deb or .rpm package (the Debian and Fedora formats respectively). Other distros would have been affected if they used the same packaging set
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by csande17 2y ago
Haven't been to Chuck E Cheese's in a while, but I wonder if they've toned some of that down since moving from tokens to (optionally "all you can play" time-based) cards. Back in my day, the slot machines and coin p
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by csande17 2y ago
FUTO itself also has a YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@FUTOTECH
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by csande17 2y ago
The Rabbit R1 is not a wearable device; you might be thinking of the Humane AI Pin.
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by csande17 2y ago
Companies can decide who they provide service to, and can give advice about who "should" use their products. But I don't think Proctor & Gamble has the legal authority to stop you from using Tide laundry detergent that
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by csande17 2y ago
While some systems include a "cd" binary, it's basically useless since it just changes its own working directory and then exits. Instead, "cd" commands are generally parsed and executed by your shell (/bin&#x2F
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by csande17 3y ago
The article links to some help pages which clarify that, although you need the browser to connect to the VPN, once connected it applies globally to the whole machine ( https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy
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by csande17 3y ago
E-petitions in Canada only need 500 signatures to be presented to the House of Commons and get an official response from the government.
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by csande17 3y ago
The #rrggbbaa syntax was indeed introduced much later -- https://caniuse.com/css-rrggbbaa says it only started getting into browsers in 2016-2017, many years after https://caniuse.com/css3-colors added supp
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by csande17 3y ago
The Greaseweazle device discussed in the article appears to be a specially-designed floppy controller that is low-level enough to read arbitrarily formatted disks.
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by csande17 3y ago
The short version is that they hope to profit on the stock market, from eg shorting companies before publishing a big scandals about them.
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by csande17 3y ago
Wikipedia kinda has this already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift?action=render https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift?action=raw
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by csande17 3y ago
The font could definitely use some technical tweaking for issues like that -- the kerning on "qu" also stands out as a problem. It looks like this is the author's first attempt at making a font, though, and by that standard i
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by csande17 3y ago
I feel like that could very quickly devolve into a Hacktoberfest spam situation where the memcached maintainers keep having to close unsolicited "add a multiply command" PRs. The feature used in the question was designed to be eas
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by csande17 3y ago
Is there a difference, in this case? Addition can also overflow.
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by csande17 3y ago
I think it's useful to have an interview question to identify engineers who, when faced with "add 'multiply' to a codebase that already supports 'add' and 'subtract'", conclude that it's an
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by csande17 3y ago
You could use the <use> element in an inline SVG to duplicate the same bitmap <image> to multiple parts of the page.
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by csande17 3y ago
Nope, it's still available as a one-time purchase. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-home-... https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/up..
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by csande17 3y ago
Well, the Apache License does say "You must give any other recipients of the Work or Derivative Works a copy of this License" when you're redistributing the code. Including a copy of the license in the repo makes it easier fo
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by csande17 3y ago
A few websites have demonstrated an effect where you can use an HDR video to add brighter-than-otherwise-possible colors to a UI on certain devices, eg https://notes.dt.in.th/HDRQRCode . But that's not being used here.
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by csande17 3y ago
ECC memory still isn't standard on consumer PCs, I don't think — although all DDR5 memory includes some error correction, manufacturers suggest it's not as robust ( https://www.corsair.com/us/en/exp
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by csande17 3y ago
Japan has a pretty strong local tech industry. Microsoft Word needed to add all kinds of features, including both vertical writing and weirder stuff like a dictionary of seasonal greeting phrases to use in formal correspondence ( https:&#x2
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by csande17 3y ago
Speak for yourself; I've got JavaScript disabled on news.ycombinator.com and it works just fine.
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by csande17 3y ago
It bugs me that you seemingly can't disable the KDE Store in Discover, because it's not one of the "repositories"/"software sources" listed in its settings. I wonder if this "ghns" kiosk flag is
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by csande17 3y ago
I would suspect that "unintentional fall" also covers falling over (like, the kind of fall that would happen if you tripped over a garden hose), not just falling off something. The former is the most common cause of emergency

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