m1el

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1. 61.▲
   by m1el 7y ago

   ["div", "The ", ["a", {"href": " https://www.json.org/" }, "JSON format"], " was invented by ", ["em", "Douglas Crockford"], "
2. 62.▲
   by m1el 7y ago

   > JSON for lists, XML for trees No. JSON is a recursive data structure that can represent trees as well. It's easy to make a concise representation of DOM trees as JSON: http://m1el.github.io/jsonht.htm I find it re
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   by m1el 7y ago

   This line of reasoning is utterly ruined for me by people who equate the mildest form of criticism with "people are saying insert group shouldn't exist".
4. 64.▲
   by m1el 7y ago

   For me, the main advantage of tracing is dynamically instrumenting systems, including production, without significant overhead when instrumentation is not attached. One of the implementations of this pattern is dtrace ( http://dtr
5. 65.▲
   by m1el 7y ago

   I just happen to have a 80T NAS that I plan to use as a sci-hub mirror, is there a way to download it? libgen torrents are dead.
6. 66.▲
   by m1el 7y ago

   I didn't say anything about FBI. FB = Facebook
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   by m1el 7y ago

   Based on historical precedents, I will not believe any "customer commitment" / "privacy commitment" statements from Facebook.
8. 68.▲
   by m1el 7y ago

   I would also like to add that FB is going to tie wallets to accounts so FB will know information about every transation. "Pseudonymous" wallets aren't going to be anonymous to Facebook.
9. 69.▲
   by m1el 7y ago

   As far as I can tell, FB wants to be a bank to print money. Their own money. For every country. All full nodes on that blockchain are going to be owned by FaceBook. FB will be able to see all transactions and take money from people they don
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    by m1el 7y ago

    I researched this topic for a while, and I came to conclusion that Si-based life is nearly impossible for several reasons. > Silicon dioxide melting point: 1710 °C No complex chemistry can survive these temperatures. SiO2 is only soluble
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    by m1el 7y ago

    Here's how I think about quaternions: 1) using complex numbers: A unit complex number (having its length/magnitude/absolute value equal to 1) form a circle, this circle corresponds to all 2d rotations The result of multiplyin
12. 72.▲
    by m1el 7y ago

    "Why play music from your hard drive? No Ads, No Privacy Terrors, No Algorithms"
13. 73.▲
    by m1el 7y ago

    > Well, the problem with this is that every simplistic view at time is... well... too simple. It's not that many people haven't tried, I especially like this article: https://qntm.org/abolish This has nothing t
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    by m1el 7y ago

    I would contest "materialism being absurdly reductive" with a quote from Feynman: > I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how bea
15. 75.▲
    by m1el 8y ago

    The two last links are the same.
16. 76.▲
    by m1el 8y ago

    Conversion between currencies requires access to the API that provides conversion rates.
17. 77.▲
    by m1el 8y ago

    So here's what I suggest to the author: go to the "Issues" page for some project, and see the effect of this redesign. From my perspective: there's now a lot of useless tabs on the top (commits/branches/release
18. 78.▲
    by m1el 8y ago

    Hi, this seems very useful. Since I couldn't find this anywhere on the website, what's the license on the generated SVG files and on the tool itself? Would you release the source code?
19. 79.▲
    by m1el 8y ago

    Text rendering depends on OS, browser, system configuration, browser configuration and installed fonts.
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    by m1el 8y ago

    I want to try out eBPF tracing in Linux. I really do. Last three times I tried to install bcc/bpftrace on my Debian boxes, I failed to do so. The situation has not changed for over a year. I'm not the only one: https://
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    by m1el 8y ago

    The words are defined using Signed Distance Field functions -- a function that determines the distance to object's surface. It is quite simple to write down an SDF for primitive objects like cube and sphere, cylinder, torus, then usin
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    by m1el 8y ago

    > but does it say that the Kilogram will be equal to the Planck constant? No, this statement means that Kilogram will give up its place as a fundamental unit to Planck constant. Earlier, Kilogram was used as a fundamental unit, defined b
23. 83.▲
    by m1el 8y ago

    What happened to concerns on Spectre/Meltdown being exploitable through high-resolution timers implemented through shared buffers/multithreading in Chrome?
24. 84.▲
    by m1el 8y ago

    > The CoC being a political document is expected I agree that both CoC and GPL are political. Developers need to understand something: CoC a political document written by someone opposing one of important principles of free software, mer
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    by m1el 8y ago

    Why, yes, there are ways to do this. One of the interesting ways is adding is adding noise generated by inverse Fourier transforms. http://repro.grf.unizg.hr/media/Ante/Radovi/033008_1_FINAL.p...
26. 86.▲
    by m1el 8y ago

    What happens if I go to Russians?
27. 87.▲
    by m1el 8y ago

    The data is converted to the target type. If you pass a string to setFloat64, the string will be converted to float64 first.
28. 88.▲
    by m1el 8y ago

    Well, then your comment dismantles the topic of the article.
29. 89.▲
    by m1el 8y ago

    Maybe the reason there's not much "public-domain" "closed-source" software is the same as there's not much "all rights reserved" "source-available" software: https://i.imgur.com&#
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    by m1el 8y ago

    There's also an implementation of chess in 1K of JS: https://js1k.com/2010-first/demo/750