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by ollien 3y ago
I'm always really confused about how dotted zeroes became the norm for these fonts. I always confuse them with eights and vastly prefer slashed zeroes. Would love to try this if it had such a variant.
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by ollien 3y ago
heh - a bit off topic, but Grist was the first place I ever applied for a software job. I was a high school student looking for a summer internship. I remember bombing that phone interview (I was asked about some JS semantics, and then I ba
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by ollien 3y ago
Oh! Awesome! I'll have to give this a shot, then :)
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by ollien 3y ago
I don't know if this is feedback on the challenge per-se, but I was a little saddened that I couldn't add dependencies to my `Cargo.toml`; I wanted to solve part of the bencode challenge using nom (perhaps overkill, but it was for
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by ollien 3y ago
My local glasses shop had this as an option, but only at a location that was a bit out of my way. Would have loved to try it, though!
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by ollien 3y ago
What overhead is there at runtime?
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by ollien 3y ago
Well, a couple things. For one, this is just a simple queue with no routing capabilities. It's a much simpler tool. For two, and more importantly, it's built into your application and introduces no additional operational dependenc
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by ollien 3y ago
This might convince me to start using TOML. I hate JSON for configs (not all parsers support comments, yes I know JSON5 exists), and TOML's table syntax really sucks. YAML has its flaws, but it fits the bill the best IME. Now I just ha
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by ollien 3y ago
One thing I've seen about other columnar databases (e.g. Clickhouse) is that they're bad at k/v style lookups. Why is that? Your explanation would make me think otherwise, as we would be able to quickly scan the columns using
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by ollien 3y ago
Yeah, I think this is just an ActivityPub server that supports the Mastodon extensions, right? I think we should embrace the fact that the federated world can be diverse, rather than just call everything "Mastodon"
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by ollien 3y ago
Archive mirror (lol) https://web.archive.org/web/20230814235044/https://blog.arch...
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by ollien 3y ago
I do think that's a bit of a stretch. Regardless of your opinions on the ethics of AI companies training on scraped data, how is scraping publicly available artistic works a privacy issue? Me, personally, I might call it unethical and
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by ollien 3y ago
So how long until Curl is turing complete :)
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by ollien 3y ago
BTW, > 1) The recipient needs to download the app and sign up. How does the Payor know whether the recipient has Zelle app or not This is not strictly true. You can still send money to bank accounts directly, but it's not instant.
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by ollien 3y ago
> I can make modified bot browser that commits ad fraud as long as I don't use a rooted Android phone? Yeah, this just incentivizes spammers to copy the parts of Chromium that do the attestation (or whatever browser has source avail
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by ollien 3y ago
It's fine. The T is as bad as ever, shutting off sections for weeks on end for repairs. Rents are through the roof. But things aren't all bad, it's still a fun city.
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by ollien 3y ago
I think you would agree that harvesting that information is far easier if it's being literally POST'd to your servers (which ActivityPub does) than if you're going out to scrape them, no? It's the same principle with def
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by ollien 3y ago
I could definitely see a benefit for them from a legislative perspective. By federating with other networks, they're able to signal to lawmakers that they're not _really_ a monopoly, they're willing to pay-ball with others. A
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by ollien 3y ago
I mean, I guess nothing, they could absolutely still scrape data, but that's much more likely to be noticed (rather than sucking in data as part of product functionality), and is a higher barrier to entry.
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by ollien 3y ago
Even if you don't use Threads, when they eventually add ActivityPub support, Mastodon users' data will inevitably be harvested. Instance admins have been signing a pact[1] to defederate with Meta for this reason, in addition to th
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by ollien 3y ago
Correct - archive.is doesn't like not getting EDNS from Cloudflare ( https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/ ), so Cloudflare sends you to 1.1.1.7 to indicate a problem.
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by ollien 3y ago
This is likely a result of Cloudflare DNS redirecting you, since archive.today does not have its DNS set up in a way that Cloudflare likes.
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by ollien 3y ago
I disagree. One of the big things that bugs me is you can't see how far you are through something without pausing. Also, you enable subtitles by pressing... Down on the remote? There's no button for it. It's all just polish
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by ollien 3y ago
The jellyfin app pales in comparison on Roku. It lacks a lot of polish in the player, IMO
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by ollien 3y ago
Wow really? I'm genuinely shocked (pun not intended).
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by ollien 3y ago
Those USB ports probably don't supply more than 5W. You almost certainly need a full 120V outlet. These do exist on planes, though, just not all.
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by ollien 3y ago
When I learned about it, our professor told us it was an "if I did it..." type of scenario. Very cool to see from the mailing list that it was more than a hypothetical
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by ollien 3y ago
Thanks, these are helpful recommendations. I'm currently working on a Gameboy emulator and making tests with many permutations is very verbose with `#[test_case]`. I'll have to check these out.
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by ollien 3y ago
I didn't read it like that at all, more that he doesn't have a major commitment that a lot of people do.
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by ollien 3y ago
I've heard about the Lemmy dev's politics, but what's this about the Kbin devs?

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