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by missblit 3y ago
A browser rendering engine's output isn't purely graphical, and most things can be tested through other means such as by reading console.log output, looking at the DOM, or looking at computed CSS styles and/or bounding-box in
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by missblit 3y ago
It means that the web is built on top of a bunch of working draft specifications. If you work in the web space you quickly learn to shrug, double check that browsers do actually implement this version, and proceed.
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by missblit 4y ago
Yeah, but any excuse to talk about memory profiling! It's one of my favorite past-times.
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by missblit 4y ago
> Understanding we are memory-bound is crucial, as it directs our efforts towards reducing memory consumption in order to accommodate more users on the server. While this is true, it bears mentioning that in a service handling many reque
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by missblit 4y ago
I am admittedly extremely biased against cryptocurrencies (stop reading unless you're ready for this re-hashed rant), but I don't see how users (read: people with real money) care about any of this stuff. On-chain games? I don&#x2
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by missblit 4y ago
Counter counterpoint: Chrome also has an entire system for gating features behind flags without needing to write a new command line flag for each one. Counter counter counterpoint: I like command line flags and you can take them from my col
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by missblit 4y ago
The word "Zygote" will actually be really clear to anyone who's been exposed to Chrome's multiprocess architecture. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/l...
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by missblit 4y ago
Dear Santa, The one thing I really really want for Christmas is for you to respond to my email with an assortment of well known phishing attempts, spam, and scams. Sincerely, - Jane "Good luck with the email filters" Doe. Edit: A
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by missblit 4y ago
I'd guess approx. zero code is ready for overflow unless it's fuzzed extensively, written in a language that makes you think about it, or part of a section where security or reliability was paramount. At my job we have fuzz tests
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by missblit 4y ago
"Zero cost" here means the author is asserting it doesn't add a bunch of extra branches or instructions or whatever (compared to normal addition) by the time it gets compiled down to assembly. For example there's a slow
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by missblit 4y ago
Flashing lights can cause seizures yes. That's why you'll often see a warning at the start of more visually frenetic videogames. Famously an old Pokemon episode gave several hundred kids seizures. The wikipedia article contains th
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by missblit 4y ago
Streets of Sim City was great. I'd use a bug to create glitchy self-intersecting bridges I called "super springs" which launched cars straight up. The AI certainly didn't know what to make of that.
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by missblit 4y ago
QPDF is a good C++ library for "content preserving" PDF transformations, and is used by the Python PikePDF library.
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by missblit 4y ago
Note that CData can _only_ be used what HTML calls foreign content. So `<math><![CDATA[x<y]]></math>` will print x<7, but `<p><![CDATA[x<y]]></p>` will emit a `cdata-in-html-content` pa
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by missblit 4y ago
<plaintext> is also fun. Unlike <xmp> you can't get out of it with a closing tag. Aside: plaintext is one reason browser DOM is a superset of HTML. By which I mean you can add <plaintext> to the middle of your DOM thr
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by missblit 4y ago
It's milliseconds (well except for 0, which stockfish considers an edge case) See: http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/UCIProtocol.html , https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/issues
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by missblit 4y ago
Weird, it's not letting me promote my pawn even though it looks like a valid move (unless I suck at chess and it's not valid for some reason). The first challenge was fun, but I'll probably stop there since I really don'
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by missblit 4y ago
I loved Free Lunch Design as a kid since good free PC games were slim pickings back then. Icy Tower, Operation Spacehog, and Happyland Adventures were all amazingly high quality for software that was given away for free.
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by missblit 4y ago
How to implement a state machine in Python: def next_state(state): if state == 90000: return 0 return state + 1 But more seriously; once I was asked to implement offsetof in an interview for an entry level C++ p
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by missblit 4y ago
Weird Al said it best: > It's hard to bargle nawdle zouss with all these marbles in my mouth.
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by missblit 4y ago
FWIW as a professional C++ programmer since I graduated university 7 years ago I haven't really had that experience. There's certainly a large learning gap; both for "classic" C++ as well as the popular modern features.
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by missblit 4y ago
It was mentioned at the end of the blog-post as the solution the author used. > Fixed the Gooble App Engine behaviour by adding an explicit configuration to the appengine-web.xml
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by missblit 4y ago
C++ gives lots of optional features, so it requires a bit of discipline to use effectively and avoid running into the state explosion that the author ran into for both their gripes. But ironically one the reasons the author chose C++ is tha
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by missblit 4y ago
> The Solid DID method specification is a specialisation of the Web DID method [DID-WEB] whereby write (create, update, delete) operations are more tightly specified. The Solid DID method is designed to be generic enough to be compatible
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by missblit 4y ago
So we have: * Statically allocated ("frozen") core modules for fast imports * Avoid memory allocation for frames / faster frame creation * Inlined python functions are called in pure python without needing to jump through C *
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by missblit 4y ago
Couldn't you use a Content-Security-Policy for this? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/
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by missblit 4y ago
> browsers no longer cache resources across top level sites. Wait is this true? Definitely warrants some kind of citation. If no one's heard one way or another I might test it later because I'm pretty skeptical of this claim. E
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by missblit 4y ago
Yes. From the article: > To learn more about the scale of the global arachnid trade, the authors of the new paper used a handful of search terms — “spider,” “scorpion,” “arachnid” — in nine languages to identify websites that might be se
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by missblit 4y ago
It is however a lot easier to cart around a chain tool and a replacement chain than a replacement generator.
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by missblit 4y ago
There is a place in the web for animated images, which should be obvious from how much people still use GIF in 2022. Images can be easily embedded in user contents by a wide variety of websites. Also if you forbid animated gifs, you should

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