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by jd3 5y ago
i was also hoping that they would somehow be able to shoehorn an ethernet port inside of the power adapter, like on the M1 iMac on my M1 MacBook Pro (which, throughout the pandemic, has rested on my desk in clamshell mode all day, like a de
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by jd3 5y ago
ignoring its UX, https://upspin.io/ is the closest alternative that i'm aware of
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by jd3 5y ago
ignoring the "thoughts on flash"[0] letter, the apple <=> adobe relationship goes back to at least the apple LaserWriter[1], so that would definitely make sense the Quartz compositor itself has "use[d] pdf internally&qu
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by jd3 5y ago
for those unfamiliar, here's a fun dinner party factoid about a Glindoni painting depicting Dee performing magick at court > X-ray imaging of the stately Victorian artwork has revealed that Dee was originally surrounded by human sku
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by jd3 5y ago
too late to edit; here's the proper formatting for code blocks above user_pref("accessibility.force_disabled", 1) user_pref("general.smoothScroll", false) user_pref("general.autoScroll", true) --- # --disa
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by jd3 5y ago
I, unfortunately, still use a cheap 60hz acer monitor from my workplace. I don't mind the occasional tearing — I usually only notice it when using autoscroll in Firefox at a lower speed/velocity. As a remote SWE, I sit in front of
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by jd3 5y ago
This is only tangentially related (images vs fonts), but a small pet peeve of mine that kept me from migrating to Chrome from Firefox on my Windows machine back in the day is the fact that Chrome uses an internal text antialiasing engine th
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by jd3 5y ago
Over the past ~10 years, I've come to the conclusion that it's best to just pipe high quality video streams into a cross-platform external video player like mpv[0][1][2]. I can't remember what Firefox uses internally to decod
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by jd3 5y ago
On Firefox, if you have an unbelievably large number of entries in your History, Bookmarks, and/or Downloads (your Firefox "Library" — chrome://browser/content/places/places.xhtml), you could theoreti
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by jd3 5y ago
It's been a long time since I used Chrome on Windows — do you know if Chrome's fullscreen mode leverages exclusive fullscreen/fse/fullscreen optimizations[0]? I'm pretty sure that's what most games use to bypas
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by jd3 5y ago
I use a wired mouse with a 1000hz polling rate on an M1 Macbook Pro with vsync disabled system wide (through Additional Tools for Xcode 13.dmg[0] => Quartz Debug.app => Enable Vertical Sync; it only actually disables vsync if you use
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by jd3 5y ago
Was this ever confirmed? NYT tech reporter Mike Isaac issued a correction to his previous reporting about it. > the team dispatched to the Facebook site had issues getting in because of physical security but did not need to use a saw&#x2
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by jd3 5y ago
Lou Montulli's Fishcam, which was the second live webcam and a hidden easter egg in Netscape, is still up and running! https://www.fishcam.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishcam#Netscape http
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by jd3 5y ago
"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it." Calm Technology is "that which informs but doesn't demand our fo
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by jd3 5y ago
In 2019, Russ Cox acknowledged three of the most commonly reported Go pain points: > The top three pain points for Go users, in surveys and direct feedback, have been consistent for a number of years. They are: package management, generi
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by jd3 5y ago
this is the reason why I chose upper/db over pgx/sqlc for my current cockroachdb side project while upper/db is not as type safe, with proper testing infrastructure, it felt most similar to django due to its simplicity/c
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by jd3 5y ago
I love this! I previously used Parker Higgens' 78 sampler twitter bot to discover new entries in the collection, but I really like your autoplay/jukebox feature. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123888 http
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by jd3 5y ago
For what it's worth, the Fastly team recently ported spidermonkey to WASI https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701197 https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2021/07/19/newsletter-fir
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by jd3 5y ago
it seems like ProtonMail should collaborate with Lavabit to see if it's feasible to implement darkmail (DMTP/DMAP protocols) in production http://darkmail.info/ https://protonmail.com/blog/pro
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by jd3 5y ago
> I didn't see any mention of the provenance of these photos. Anyone know? these photos are genuine — they come directly from the - Library of Congress Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph Collection [0] - Library of Congress Ameri
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by jd3 5y ago
> ...currently the only way to build something on Gecko is to build a XUL application. > You can do that in-tree by adding a XUL app to a fork of mozilla-central, like Positron does; you can do it out-of-tree in a distinct repo that u
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by jd3 5y ago
I assume they meant XULRunner[0], which was Mozilla's spiritual predecessor to Electron. Some abandoned modern alternatives included Chromeless[1], Positron[2][3] and qbrt[4][5]. While technically possible using Firefox's XULRunne
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by jd3 5y ago
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/happy-run-some-old-web-brow... https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/03/help-me-keep-home-mcom-com-...
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by jd3 5y ago
I couldn't have put it better myself. I always felt like the netscape throbbers[0] really captured the mysteriousness and wonder of what it felt like to navigate the early web. jwz's favorite throbber (also my favorite) captured t
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by jd3 5y ago
More recent research into auditable voting rules can be found in Rivest's Ternary Plurality Trees[0] and BatchVote[1]. [0]: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs.html#Riv19i [1]: http://fc17.ifca.ai&
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by jd3 5y ago
The revised version of Ron Rivest's ThreeBallot[0][1][2] has always felt like a decent, albeit complex, solution to me. It's clear, relatively secure, auditable, verifiable, and somewhat anonymous. For those unfamiliar: > The i
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by jd3 5y ago
> They can use their internal render engine. What they can't use is their Javascript framework because a modern JIT requires taking compiled javascript code in memory and marking it as executable > You can even ship a custom Java
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by jd3 5y ago
I was also wondering about this — I feel like it was just a couple of weeks ago that I read about the Go team's new unified vulnerability schema/Open Source Vulnerabilities (OSV) database Definitely a step in the right direction o
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by jd3 5y ago
for everyone else that was confused about why an article titled > Go 1.17 is deprecating the traditional use of 'go get' did not link to the original proposal/implementation issues: initial proposal: https://git
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by jd3 5y ago
Not natively, but ntvdmx64[0][1] and otvdm[2]/winevdm[3] work fine, albeit a bit slowly. [0]: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/ntvdmx64.html [1]: https://github.com/leecher1337/ntvdmx64 [2]: ht

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