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by mmastrac 2y ago
I was curious how the larger fonts worked in Kitty -- here's the reference for the protocol: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/text-sizing-protocol/
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The Mad Magazine Basic Computer Program(meatfighter.com)
3 points by mmastrac 2y ago|0 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
It took a while to parse this headline. (Ultrasonic (deep drawing)) : (((cuts friction) by 20%) & (extends (tool lifespan))) Apparently "deep drawing" is a metallurgic process.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
In theory you probably should have low-level access to your attached BT radio itself, so this is just kind of expected, isn't it? I prefer when devices have these low-level interfaces. Perhaps the problem is the lack of documentation r
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by mmastrac 2y ago
The I2C part is something of an implementation detail -- it's only _really_ guaranteed to work as an EEPROM interface. It's usable on a lot of platforms, but again, not a guarantee.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Title from the associated bsky post: https://bsky.app/profile/jasnell.me/post/3ljgh5fuikk22
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An unfortunate update on QUIC in Node.js(github.com)
14 points by mmastrac 2y ago|1 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Please stop spamming the thread with the same youtube links over and over.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
> Elon Musk shared a post on his social network stating that Slim could have ties to criminal groups, and five minutes later, Carlos Slim canceled all business collaborations with Starlink in Latin America, which made Musk lose 7 billion
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Interesting. They seem to be abusing a hole where Apple wasn't confirming that the broadcast addresses were valid for tags (ie: "random static" addresses rather than public ones). The BLE broadcast stores part of the lost mes
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Hey Brian, so happy to see this! I always knew you'd knock it out of the park with one of your games!
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Conc – Structured Concurrency for Go(github.com)
4 points by mmastrac 2y ago|0 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Any time you can reduce noise you can recover more signal which would let you push the codec much harder (shorter time slices, etc).
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EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future(geldata.com)
165 points by mmastrac 2y ago|123 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
https://github.com/AR1972/DOS3.3/blob/master/SRC/CMD/SYS/SYS... Send me a note via email -- I might have some more pointers for you
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Here's the code from DOS 3.3. I am reasonably sure they didn't intend to overwrite code -- you're probably just seeing a weird artifact where the failure case is leaving a dangling random value that happens to point into vali
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by mmastrac 2y ago
> I am a little bit freaked out by that because the pointer to the buffer is set before the IOCTL call; the code knowingly sets a pointer to a buffer into what looks like its code area. Let's hope they knew they were done with that
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I previously worked in a five-eyes facing role and it's pretty terrifying when one staunch ally loses its mind. So much procedure and process is based on reliability.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Consider it performance art -- when you write in public, you are an artist playing for an audience, no?
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by mmastrac 2y ago
As humans are squishy, biological, natural AI, we've trained on LLM vs human text and seen that em dashes tend to indicate AI text. Naturally, we also overfit on our dataset. If you want to humanize your text, sprinkle in some artifici
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by mmastrac 2y ago
USPS and Canada Post were the most cost-effective way to deal with customs for the longest time. Unsure if that's the case anymore.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I find it tragically hilarious how the leader of the most powerful country in the world sees tarriffs and fails to understand the interconnectedness of economies that benefit both. When someone thinks of the world as a zero-sum game it&#x2
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I don't think they are trying to have a good-faith argument with DOGE -- I think they are trying to appeal to the hopefully-still-extant, sane, slight majority of Americans.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
This specific case (the large switch table replacing a lookup) is such an esoteric corner case I think it would be hard to convince clang to spend much more than a trivial bit of effort on fixing it. The associated posts are interesting, so
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by mmastrac 2y ago
My relationship with Fighting Fantasy started as a kid and never died I have a bunch of original art from a few of these books I picked up a few years back. I haven't managed to find the time to frame and hang it all, but the quality o
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I've tried to wrap up my philosophy on how a significant chunk of rust code can be written without lifetimes using shared and sharedmut primitives. I've shipped three projects on it and they are pretty much as performant as they c
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I tried the Audacity noise-removal plugin recently and it's complete crap. I fed a high-quality audio stream from a Rode mic into a few different options to see which could remove the noise of my server rack. iMovie made the voice soun
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I read through the FAQ and the answer is "no", but they say it basically as "nobody really cares what your data is". I wouldn't put anything confidential through it.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Hmm, that looks interesting -- I might have to explore a bit. The low-end GPU pricing is pretty competitive.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
It's really a shame GPU slices aren't a thing -- a monthly cost of $1k for "a GPU" is just so far outside of what I could justify. I guess it's not terrible if I can batch-schedule a mega-gpu for an hour a day to ca

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