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by loumf 1y ago
The proposal is directed at the websites in the browser (using JS, embedded images or whatever), not the code that implements the browser.
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by loumf 1y ago
Yes. I worked there. But it’s described in the API
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by loumf 1y ago
Here is the answer for Trello: each card and list has a field called “pos” which is a number. The initial values are spread out (e.g. 1000, 2000, 3000) and then when you move a card, it takes on the average of the two adjacent cards. So, if
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by loumf 1y ago
I really want the collaborative editor from glitch. The hosting part is easy.
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by loumf 1y ago
I pair program JS-based games with my nephew remotely using the glitch editor. In the end, it’s just static files. Can anyone recommend another place to do that? What we needed from glitch was the collaborative editing and instant update. I
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by loumf 2y ago
I stopped reading when it said the repos had once been public and were in a Bing cache. That is probably true of a lot of once public, now private, data. Not just in Bing, but also in archive.org, google. It said the repo in question had a
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by loumf 2y ago
“With jailbreak on” means it’s not in the walled garden. I think Apple is fine with apps that crash jailbroken phones.
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It Takes a Village(sophiabits.com)
2 points by loumf 2y ago|0 comments
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by loumf 2y ago
The two links are broken for me because of the ... I think. Can you edit and fix the links.
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Take the Pedals Off the Bike(fortressofdoors.com)
3 points by loumf 2y ago|2 comments
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by loumf 2y ago
I am calling 2025 the Year to Just Keep Swimming to get me to do some simple things over and over, but also to get back into swimming.
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by loumf 2y ago
I took digital electronics when I was in high school. Some classmates wrote a version of “The 12 Days of Christmas” except with names of chips instead of the usual gifts. The only line I can remember is “Five 555s”
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Great Works of Software (Poetry Edition)(loufranco.com)
3 points by loumf 2y ago|0 comments
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by loumf 2y ago
I own all of my own code now, and so I benefit from creating it in the most efficient way possible. That is sometimes via AI and I am fine with it being more. But, generally I don’t see AI as currently such a boon to productivity that it wo
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by loumf 2y ago
It’s really just increasing your surface area of luck. When I wrote about iOS dev in 2008, I got contacted by an editor at Manning and then wrote a book. I have had people reach out to ask follow-up questions on a tech post and then hire me
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by loumf 2y ago
You can do this without reverse engineering a password algorithm.
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by loumf 2y ago
I passed 20 years in December and wrote this about it: https://loufranco.com/blog/it-was-20-years-ago-today I don't have a lot of readers, but the blog opened some doors for me (and continues to).
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by loumf 2y ago
You can try millions of passwords on a wallet without anything stopping you. You only get a few guesses on a bank site.
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It was online for 3 seconds before getting a 404 request for /.git/config(honeypot.net)
72 points by loumf 2y ago|80 comments
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by loumf 3y ago
You are looking at a makefile, not C. The C code is in a string that is being passed to a function called `check_c_source_compiles()`, and this dot makes that code not compile when it should have -- which sets a boolean incorrectly, which p
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by loumf 3y ago
Clickable: https://helpthisbook.com/lou-franco/paying-off-tech-debt-whe...
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(Book in Beta) Paying Off Tech Debt When You're Not in Charge
2 points by loumf 3y ago|1 comments
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by loumf 3y ago
Another big part of it is the tax structure of a conglomerate. He is able to take cash out of See's Candies and Daily Queen (where they cannot do any good) and put it into big capital investments in Trains and utility infrastructure --
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by loumf 3y ago
I would recommend looking at LFP restricted to 25-54 in addition to this. For example: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/data/lfp/women-by-age This shows women participating at nearly the highest levels ev
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by loumf 3y ago
> Any device that responds to voice commands must be listening. Always. This is obvious. Processing sound is required, but recording or sending to a server are not. I think the latter two is what most would be concerned with.
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by loumf 3y ago
Since the point of a title and abstract of a paper is to be a useful summary of the whole paper, the existence of this tool is an indictment of researchers to do this effectively. One thing I could imagine being useful is to summarize it fo
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by loumf 3y ago
If I were to do this, I would ask the LLM to come up with a model that would predict the output and then to estimate the parameters and calculate the prediction (and show the work). For all we know, this is what's happening inside the
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by loumf 3y ago
From experience, I have used a TSI when I need help with a bug in Apple's products. Every single time (about 5x) they "refunded" the TSI because it was an Apple bug. I have never had to pay for extra TSIs -- I use the ones th
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by loumf 3y ago
I think you should judge SICP on what the authors' own intentions were, not on things they weren't trying to do. I didn't get the feeling that cleanness was emphasized or encouraged (any more than in any class). There are oth
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by loumf 3y ago
Hickey has made the point that in real world (not asymptomatic) uses, the constants and depths make a difference he cares about. 10x takes seconds to a minute.

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