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by kpreid 15y ago
When I opened it I found a mostly-completed puzzle (race car image) which I could make some progress on, but I also found at least 3 pieces which were exact duplicates of each other — one in the right place and locked, and one movable but o
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by kpreid 15y ago
Depends on the game. Minecraft is hardly twitchy, especially if you're building, not fighting; the client proceeds as if each action has already happened, so you don't have to wait for the roundtrip between actions.
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by kpreid 16y ago
“Concerned about theoretical man-in-the-middle attacks when piping scripts from curl to your shell?” This case is where you know what's at the URL you specified, but since it was/will be downloaded over HTTP, in principle a MITM could chang
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by kpreid 16y ago
Base64 isn't exactly efficient. (Though it might be more efficient than an additional HTTP request. But if so, why aren't they using it for the homepage logo, say?) I wonder if they're using it as non-useless padding for stopping the IE-ove
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by kpreid 16y ago
Yes. On the other hand, 'procedural' can be seen as opposed to OO: the notion that the organization of programs is as a collection of procedures (and (incidentally?) data structures), as in C, as opposed to a collection of object types.
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by kpreid 16y ago
PNGs are good at compressing gradients too, I hear.
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by kpreid 16y ago
I generally agree that it doesn't matter a lot, but I've found one case where having well-arranged cables is useful: if you want to move the equipment a short distance temporarily (for example, moving a tower case out from between/inside fu
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by kpreid 16y ago
If the effect of the little green button is to fill your screen with the window, complain to the application developer. It's supposed to go to a useful size. (Finder and Safari are examples of good implementations, though Safari's is slig
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by kpreid 17y ago
Er, that's a “last updated” date, not a “posted” date. Presumably the first part had revisions after they were all written in or before 2008.
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by kpreid 17y ago
That paper claims that the light is due to an arc, and involves vaporizing the liquid in the pickle. Presumably this is not true of OLEDs. Who's right?
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by kpreid 17y ago
"p2p scripting language" has been around for as long as I've been involved in the project. According to the Internet Archive, http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.erights.org/ , it was added in November 2000. The web site's approach ha