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by mlok 1y ago
Also : avoid using IT terms in examples (or "self-reference"), it can be confusing. In examples choose a very different field : animals, cars or anything, so that there is a very clear difference between language keywords (what ne
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by mlok 1y ago
The flying saucer is also there too :)
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by mlok 1y ago
I am curious about other mechanics. Can you tell us more about what kind ? Could you point us towards some resource on this ?
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by mlok 1y ago
Oh they look really cool : https://pine64.org/documentation/Phone_Accessories/Keyboard/
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by mlok 1y ago
An upvote does not mean the user believes the story is true.
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by mlok 1y ago
9/34 ≈ 26%
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by mlok 1y ago
The most important lesson I got from 5 years of Engineer School was the Pareto principle a.k.a. The 80-20 rule
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by mlok 1y ago
I browse in landscape mode on my mobile : on this website 75% of the screen is occupied by the top banner (25%) + sticky "recommended videos" banner (50%). Amazing how they managed to get me to quit their website so quickly.
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by mlok 1y ago
There is a very weird display bug on this site : when I access it in lanscape horizontal position, with my iPhone 8 on Brave or Safari : all the text is trembling, unable to settle on a size. Trapped in a resizing loop. If I rotate the phon
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by mlok 1y ago
I believe some people might find Zjs Components interesting for this matter : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44290315 Paper abstract : ZjsComponent: A Pragmatic Approach to Modular, Reusable UI Fragments for Web Devel
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by mlok 1y ago
Maybe they offer alternatives to webp for those 5% ? See CSS image-set : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/image/image...
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by mlok 1y ago
The band Garbage became popular around 1995. Would be interesting to look for any correlation.
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by mlok 1y ago
I believe it might be this one : https://overcast.fm/+L-hr-xp6c
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by mlok 2y ago
A website about color scheme that does not respect my darkmode browser preference and burns my eyes on my large screen in the middle of the night with its white background. It also prevents my dark reader extension from doing its job (in al
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by mlok 2y ago
Related : "Build a Database in 3000 Lines with 0 Dependencies" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42725163
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by mlok 2y ago
"The Running man" by Stephen King was published in 1982, the movie starring Schwarzenegger was released in 1987 (another adaptation will be released this year in 2025) The story is similar to a Robert Sheckley's short story f
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by mlok 2y ago
Yes that is why I specified it was non-existent. But the idea behind it is in the same vein somehow. Maybe what Sloot envisioned was something similar to LLMs.
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by mlok 2y ago
LLMs, and now this, make me think of the (non-existant) "Sloot Digital Coding System" that could be viewed as a form of "compression". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System
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by mlok 2y ago
For some reason the result page keeps reloading indefinitely, and it renders the site unusable on Brave/iOS :(
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by mlok 2y ago
Add your browser data directory to your backup folders list, and restore that folder in case of a localStorage loss, that should do it.
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by mlok 2y ago
Misleading title. This is true about 5-10% of the human life. For 90-95% of the human life, the exact opposite is happening. More honest title : "The risk of Cancer Fades Over 80 Years Old, and We May Know Why."
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by mlok 2y ago
I am on Brave on iOS and I have no idea how to start the game.
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by mlok 2y ago
It's been my situation, I have had my Brother laser printer for... more than 8 years and I still run on the toner that was delivered with the printer ! Yellow ran low a few years ago, and the printer wouldn't print anymore, so I s
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by mlok 2y ago
Easier to read as an article : https://diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2022/08/06/some-scientis...
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by mlok 2y ago
I wonder what limits sends to 2.5GB ?
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by mlok 2y ago
What about some sort of shadowbanning ? Or "shadowsegregating" : I mean if you detect and group cheaters so that they play with other cheaters ? Leaving normal players alone ? (I am not a player, I don't know how these multip
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by mlok 2y ago
I was wondering exactly the same : did the flight attendant consent to being in a video on the internet while doing her job ?
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by mlok 2y ago
It's a mystery to me how the camera is mounted for the video at 7:55. https://youtu.be/IRJIJPTUXXE?t=474 A drone ? The camera follows the train so precisely that it seems it is mounted on the train, but it passes on th
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by mlok 2y ago
Today on HN : "Coffee Stats – Maximize Caffeine Intake and Get to Bed at Night" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41620002
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by mlok 2y ago
Even more hexagonal : Wilson MicroZone U-648 Array Keyboard from Starr Labs : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffa-XiMMeVo

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