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by mmastrac 3y ago
I used Haxe in the past. While it isn't necessarily modern usage I'd agree with the parent comment and suggest either Rust (using the WASM target) or TypeScript. Compiler ergonomics are important for me these days.
842.
by mmastrac 3y ago
I used it a few years later for some work with Nickelodeon. Somewhere in a backup I have some Spongebob games and a version of Pai Sho. Haxe was never great, but it was a bit more efficient and productive than using the GWT-based PlayN (for
843.
by mmastrac 3y ago
A $3T monopolist sending scary C&D letters tends to get the attention of the government.
844.
by mmastrac 3y ago
APNG is extremely well-supported these days: https://caniuse.com/apng Fun fact: APNG is better supported than JSON.stringify
845.
by mmastrac 3y ago
There's a second overload that takes a base: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/canPars...
846.
by mmastrac 3y ago
Normally I find Fabien's articles to be a lot clearer, but I came away from this one not understanding what it was really talking about. Does the monitor have XDR? Does it auto-negotiate extra bandwidth on newer MacBooks?
847.
by mmastrac 3y ago
No official docker images, but lukechannings maintains ARM/Linux builds and an unofficial docker container that are well supported: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/lukechannings/deno
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by mmastrac 3y ago
I haven't specifically tested it but it _should_ be supported. I don't have easy access to graviton instances at this moment, but I've previously used https://github.com/LukeChannings/deno-arm64 with gre
849.
by mmastrac 3y ago
I work on Deno, specifically the CLI. We support both Mac and Linux ARM, though the Linux ARM builds are currently produced by a third party contributor. If you have specific issues with ARM, I'm certainly interested in fixing those. I
850.
by mmastrac 3y ago
I would love it if we could move to thin-line thousands separators and middle dot for decimals [1]. I know it won't happen, but that would be amazing. [1] https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/117982/ce
851.
by mmastrac 3y ago
Ideally it would be "critical Danish infrastructure" with no comma, but the comma probably disambiguates the headline quite a bit making it clear that two adjectives apply to the noun "infrastructure". The frustration in
852.
by mmastrac 3y ago
Yep, I got that one backwards. Thanks!
853.
by mmastrac 3y ago
Fun story - the band Bush was known as Bush^x in Canada only because of a name conflict with a British band. https://thevogue.com/artists/bush/
854.
by mmastrac 3y ago
I'm so tired of these crypto dudes thinking they are something important and dismantling the protections for small investors.
855.
by mmastrac 3y ago
Are they concerned about bacterial growth? As long as you hit the critical temperature and time during cooking, extended warmth should be fine, right? You might need an agar plate experiment to convince them, hah.
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Macs can now inform Apple if any liquids have been detected in the USB-C ports(9to5mac.com)
4 points by mmastrac 3y ago|0 comments
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How to catch a wild triangle(securelist.com)
142 points by mmastrac 3y ago|43 comments
858.
by mmastrac 3y ago
We just returned from Japan having used luggage shipping the whole way and it's definitely the way to go. The pricing in the article is a bit off. It was about twice what he suggested, but it might have been because our luggage was hea
859.
by mmastrac 3y ago
24/6 grind kinda sucks though. We need three point five Sabbath days really.
860.
ECC RAM on AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs(sunshowers.io)
344 points by mmastrac 3y ago|190 comments
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RISC-V chip technology emerges as new battleground in US-China tech war(reuters.com)
139 points by mmastrac 3y ago|106 comments
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Error correction and concealment in the Compact Disc system (1982) [pdf](pearl-hifi.com)
73 points by mmastrac 3y ago|51 comments
863.
by mmastrac 3y ago
A CD signal stream fed to a DAC is a 44.1 kHz 16-bit signal, period. All you did was force the drive to spin a bit faster to keep tracking, or let it fill its buffers more slowly if it spun at the same speed. The buffers, after error recove
864.
by mmastrac 3y ago
> I can also write how CD tracking quality affects audio clarity, but this comment is long enough. In short, Yamaha's old CD-Recorder, CRW-F1 really improved sound quality by abusing Red Book standard by lengthening the pits of audi
865.
by mmastrac 3y ago
I think it's a figure of speech meaning that it's just not widely known.
866.
by mmastrac 3y ago
I know it's a non-serious play on the piracy/theft meme, but in seriousness, "stealing" is probably not the right word for private information leakage.
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EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals(appleinsider.com)
570 points by mmastrac 3y ago|1319 comments
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by mmastrac 3y ago
This was a brilliant design. It had to balance cost in terms of pins and dynamic refresh, with capacity and reliability. It hit a sweet spot for everything that basically let this design take over the world of early computing and it was eas
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by mmastrac 3y ago
I hadn't heard of this company or that story but it was wild https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/15sfisq/bambula...
870.
by mmastrac 3y ago
There are not many people who have done worse things for this world than Rupert Murdoch. I cannot wish him anything but the karmic retribution for all the hate and suffering he's caused over the years. The hilarious final paragraph whe

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