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by leeoniya 6y ago
i've had this thought as well
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by leeoniya 6y ago
the link is non-https, your ISP might be MITMing you
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by leeoniya 6y ago
High precision air bearing CNC lathe and grinder: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFrVdoOhu1Q
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by leeoniya 6y ago
relevant: parser recovery in codemirror6 (inspired by tree-sitter but adapted for IDEs): https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/lezer.html a standalone incremental JS parser with error recovery: https://github.com&
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by leeoniya 6y ago
somewhat related (2013): https://www.pcmag.com/news/10-jaw-dropping-gigapixel-photos
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by leeoniya 6y ago
> Huge difference: when Higgs was predicted there was a clear path to how to find it. is that really a huge difference? plenty of eventually-proven math conjectures were initially posed with no knowledge of how a proof will be found. p
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by leeoniya 6y ago
to add to this, the Higgs boson was predicted in 1964 and not detected till 2012: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
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by leeoniya 6y ago
the way to make massive change is through regulations on the producers and pricing in all externalities. that disposable polysterene plate is not $0.01, it's actually closer to $0.10. individuals will not act until there is famine and
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by leeoniya 6y ago
> [port-knocking] is very much security by obscurity, because it's trivial for anyone who knows the port sequence to defeat in what way is this different than a passphrase you don't know? i can trivially defeat any password whi
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by leeoniya 6y ago
it has always been impossible to donate directly for firefox or any specific mozilla initiative. any donations just got black-holed with questionable sideshow shit continuing to happen. i stopped donating at that point; that's not how
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by leeoniya 6y ago
if they asked their advanced users to pitch in $10/mo to keep at least some of that talent and to ween off google revenue, i doubt any of us would have had issues. but they did the most absurd thing possible :(
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Stacked Area Charts: Just Don't(leeoniya.github.io)
1 points by leeoniya 6y ago|0 comments
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by leeoniya 6y ago
> But she said even if Moalin and his co-defendants had clear notice of that, it wouldn't have helped their defense. parallel construction is a hell of a thing
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by leeoniya 6y ago
i got curious why neutron stars don't collapse to black holes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/06/13/the-... although it did not explain how black holes form then. do they nee
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by leeoniya 6y ago
well, yes, it also means that. nothing in that statement implies that crashing was not preceded by normal, controlled flight. the term "crash" has no innate implication besides violent impact. though, yes, in actual use it often i
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by leeoniya 6y ago
has a better ring to it than "crashing into the side of a mountain"
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by leeoniya 6y ago
the term is "rapid unplanned disassembly" also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_flight_into_terrain
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by leeoniya 6y ago
> unexpected "off-nominal"
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by leeoniya 6y ago
wonder if this was an inspiration for https://drawntogether.fandom.com/wiki/Xandir
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4 points by leeoniya 6y ago|0 comments
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by leeoniya 6y ago
except you as an individual could opt out of the original Wild West; this one, not so much. perhaps it's exactly like the Wild West from the viewpoint of Native Americans: we're taking your skys.
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by leeoniya 6y ago
the pendulum can swing too far in either direction. but pumping out features with no regard for how they will be maintained is a recipe for lower velocity and less stability in the future.
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by leeoniya 6y ago
> but if the code you are writing is for a new product that is still trying to find a market-fit spending a lot of time in the architecture of something that could drastically change doesn’t make much sense to me. "Nothing is more p
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by leeoniya 6y ago
> I'm very satisfied with a Chromecast you might be more satisfied with: https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast
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by leeoniya 6y ago
Fossil also got a new release today: https://fossil-scm.org/home/uv/download.html
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by leeoniya 6y ago
i should have clarified that i was asking why Mali is more terrible than Adreno, MediaTek, etc. AFAIK, all embedded GPU drivers have to be reverse engineered and none are open source. as you mentioned, it looks like Tegra might have some
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by leeoniya 6y ago
> Mali is terrible care to elaborate? the Panfrost project has reverse engineered a bunch of popular Mali ISAs and now there's hardware support on the kernel for VA-API on these chips. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.p
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by leeoniya 6y ago
conversely, it may be just what RISC-V needs to go mainstream sooner.
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by leeoniya 6y ago
not quite the same but certainly addresses the Electron bloat criticisms: https://neutralino.js.org/
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by leeoniya 6y ago
i wonder when the other shoe will drop. maybe as part of the ARM and iOS/macOS consolidation. things are much more likely to go the iOS route given it's already ARM.

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