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by gblargg 2mo ago
This reminds me of car safety features, how drivers have become more complacent to offset the benefits. QR codes were made to be robust in the face of errors, but over time this has been eaten into for aesthetic purposes. Businesses commonl
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by gblargg 2mo ago
I wanted to see how big the example clips encoded down to. Or is this just a technical test to see what it's capable of playing back, not an attempt to optimize the video size?
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by gblargg 2mo ago
I'm apparently not good at spotting it. I was put off by the overly dramatic presentation. It gets tiring that the author apparently finds this more exciting than I do, and writes like it's enthralling. I just assumed it was an ex
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by gblargg 2mo ago
If you never backed up the keys, any failure of the hardware/software results in loss of everything. Maybe you'd buy multiple of them and copy the keys over. You trust diceware because you can trust the dice to give random numbers
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by gblargg 2mo ago
I saw the weird subtle pattern and first freaked out that my monitor's backlight was failing (high flicker rate revealing LCD refresh patterns). I also was playing a video with the browser in the background and it was choppy, and I fir
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by gblargg 2mo ago
Who would ever trust the built-in seed generation of a wallet? Diceware, write them down, then enter them into the wallet.
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by gblargg 2mo ago
I'd imagine that counterfeit-prevention is part of it. This theory predicts that they changed the design regularly, and each one was significantly different so operators could quickly tell whether it was the new design.
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by gblargg 2mo ago
I assumed it was really just AI that found them, which allowed Google to know to fix them.
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by gblargg 2mo ago
BTW the web page uses massive iGPU if you don't have a fast machine.
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by gblargg 3mo ago
> At least one of those game controller modes even lets keys behave as analog inputs. Now that's a really cool feature I never thought of when considering a Hall-effect keyboard. I knew you could adjust the activation position of ea
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by gblargg 3mo ago
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
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by gblargg 3mo ago
Isn't boiled water what goes up into the air?
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by gblargg 3mo ago
Why would people get jury trials if bench ones were better? Is it only when the person is innocent?
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by gblargg 3mo ago
Rather than wipe the phone to an obvious reset state, this feature should boot into a benign setup with normal contacts etc. after it erases the user's data. Let the user periodically boot into this benign setup to add basic contacts e
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by gblargg 3mo ago
Sounds like parent was taking into account all costs, not just certain ones.
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by gblargg 3mo ago
So true. "No eggs" https://youtu.be/9he_ZRnZDlk
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by gblargg 3mo ago
A variation: you could modify the UI for the next people to deal with. Change font, size, wording, layout.
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by gblargg 3mo ago
The whole point of pimpl is to store additional per-object state in a separate object (to reduce header dependencies). So it should act just like normal member variables for standard constructors and assignment.
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by gblargg 3mo ago
The compiler is the software factory. It builds the executable given the specification (code).
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by gblargg 3mo ago
The point of each improvement is fewer easily-made errors. Having implicit deep copying handled avoids lots of errors with manually implementing it the oldest way.
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by gblargg 3mo ago
My first thought was that the simplified illustrations of the dishes actually make for quickly finding something, or familiarizing yourself with new foods.
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by gblargg 3mo ago
Scrapers prefer old.reddit for the same reason users do: it's lean. Oh well, good thing Reddit has solved the scraping problem. It's a small price to pay to not have their site scraped anymore.
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by gblargg 3mo ago
> This is much, much simpler than you think it is. Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager. If you lose your passkey, you'll reset your passkey the same way you reset your password, probably with a "forgot m
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by gblargg 3mo ago
I don't care how it works, but as long as it requires me to physically have some device to log in (and doesn't have a backup, like emailing me or calling me), it puts security in my hands.
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by gblargg 3mo ago
My compiler knows SIMD. However, knowing the limitations of SIMD might help avoid a calculation that can't be optimized to use it.
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by gblargg 3mo ago
> Eh? No. That's what I thought. It is vetted software, just like on Linux. Microsoft just doesn't care if it shows ads.
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by gblargg 3mo ago
LG now installs adware when you merely connect one of their monitors to a Windows PC.
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by gblargg 3mo ago
Wait, you're saying a monitor can just advertise a URL over the video connection for its driver and then Windows will blindly install it, without user confirmation? I thought that LG had submitted these "drivers" (adware) to
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by gblargg 3mo ago
So does this mean that using a proxy will cause all of the "smart" features to stop working? Win-win.
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by gblargg 3mo ago
That ballpoint pen wasn't going to write itself.

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