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by gred 4y ago
Point made, but I was actually thinking of the default Java platform support for writing PNG files (javax.imageio + zlib, which has a decent track record). https://www.cvedetails.com/product/111843/Zlib-Zlib.html?v
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by gred 4y ago
> What makes this library modern? It [...] consumes more CPU and memory to simplify the logic and improve reliability. Intriguingly unapologetic, but I think I'll stick to the PNG libraries that are mature enough to be both reliable
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by gred 4y ago
Very interesting read. I'm looking forward to the details in the followups (1/9, 1/23, 3/6). However, I'm surprised that there are no KR banks who build their reputation on their technical acuity and who have elimin
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by gred 4y ago
> has never been in the same room as the concept of sex He has 3 children, so he has certainly been more productive than I've been.
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by gred 4y ago
Here in the U.S. this is also the main women's event. (The women's team will receive more money from the men's team as charity this year than they will earn in the next women's world cup, even if they win it.)
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by gred 4y ago
Yep, thanks!
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by gred 4y ago
This looks pretty cool, and takes me back to my early programming days. > by teenagers, for teenagers > I'm 19. Do you plan to continue contributing after you turn 20? I'm not familiar with the project, so I'm not sure
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by gred 4y ago
PowerPoint is on the list, thank goodness. I can't even imagine all the project status updates that would otherwise be lost. https://www.archives.gov/preservation/digital-preservation/l...
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by gred 4y ago
Preach. If this is really an existential threat, then it's counter-productive to use as just another political cudgel to score Twitter points on the "other" tribe. Doing so actually signals that it's business-as-usual, a
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by gred 4y ago
Realistically? Just steel myself to pay more for heating the house and everything else.
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by gred 4y ago
From the article: > In 2007, the year Wikipedia first became a top-ten website serving the world, the Foundation reported total annual expenses of $2 million. > The Wikimedia Foundation is richer than ever. Its assets and reserves [..
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by gred 4y ago
We'd be seeing significantly less concern in the West if the "official" Chinese worldview were more democratic, less authoritarian, more humanistic, and less illiberal. How long will it take for the emerging Chinese middle cl
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by gred 4y ago
Who needs Toyota's five whys, when we can just skip straight to the root cause of every problem? Whiteness. QED, time for lunch. /s
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by gred 4y ago
This guy is the best kind of curmudgeon. I love it.
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by gred 4y ago
> wouldn't this something that would be more appropriate to be done at the filesystem level? Sometimes? You've gotten a ton of replies digging into the "why" and "when", and I only wanted to add that your qu
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by gred 4y ago
You're getting downvoted, but it's a good question. There was a recent paper linked on HN that goes into a lot of the nuance around this question. It's very good (IMO, as an interested outsider): https://news.ycomb
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by gred 4y ago
I wonder if some of the oddities generated by the "neato" and "fdp" engines (e.g. SC behaving like a peninsula) would be addressed by also modeling the borders with the oceans (i.e. the coasts) and with other countries -
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by gred 4y ago
A more specific example: I moved my children from a (remote-only) public school to a (face-to-face) private school during the pandemic. Now they are back in the (face-to-face) public school, but their peers are far behind them scholasticall
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by gred 4y ago
> Due to heat and power issues, it is likely that disruptions to home and office internet will be a much more common occurrence. As flooding and sea level rise disrupts commuting, working asynchronously is going to be the new norm. Nah.
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by gred 5y ago
> demented You're probably looking for "denied".
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by gred 5y ago
I suspect the engineering schools will be the least affected / first to recover from this trend.
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by gred 5y ago
It also, interestingly, digs the hole deeper. Small developers will almost certainly stop selling into Russia. It's probably collateral damage in the grand scheme of things, but a real side effect nonetheless.
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by gred 5y ago
At least until you reach a certain size.
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by gred 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Seems crazy to me, but hopefully a compromise is worked out soon.
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by gred 5y ago
I wonder where the line is drawn? If you set up AWS CloudFront, does that count as third party? Or is this taking us back to colo / in-house data centers?
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by gred 5y ago
> And madman though Putin may seem to be, he knows NATO isn't an offensive organization. I think he may legit see it that way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOkl2XgZlw0
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by gred 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification!
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by gred 5y ago
> The JS community has devolved into bunch of people who re-invent everything in 2-3 year cycles. Devolved? I honestly thought it had always been this way, going all the way back to the jQuery / MooTools / YUI / Dojo days.
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by gred 5y ago
I have never created an account either, and eventually added the entire Twitter domain to my uBlock Origin block list the day they booted a certain politician from their platform. Different paths, same destination.
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by gred 5y ago
Before I was married I had a bed... but I slept in a sleeping bag on the bed, to avoid the complication of sheets. I did have a pillow, though. It even had a pillowcase.

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