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by omoikane 2y ago
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40320166 - KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features
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by omoikane 2y ago
A more sneaky thing to do would be to keep the job listings but never interview anyone or extend any offer.
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by omoikane 2y ago
~500 pixels for every byte seems wasteful, I would have expected just ~8 pixels for a single byte (using just one bit from each pixel). For comparison, this IOCCC entry can encode ~128 bytes of random binary data in 33000 pixels, or ~16K of
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by omoikane 2y ago
Anecdotally, some of the people I follow on Twitter have increased their usage of Bluesky, although their primary activity is still on Twitter.
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by omoikane 2y ago
The "unsafe" in the title appears to be used in the sense of "exposing memory layout details", but not in the sense of "direct unbounded access to memory". It's probably not the memory safety issue you ar
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by omoikane 2y ago
Did you mean the page not showing the generated error messages? The actual error messages would be many gigabytes worth of text, and aren't as interesting as the entries that produced those error messages.
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by omoikane 2y ago
> transmission of misinformation is inherently easier This may already be the case, according to "Study: On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories" (2018): https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-ma
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by omoikane 2y ago
Did you mean: instead of trying to become a maintainer to a trusted open source project, how about bad actors simply bribe the existing maintainer to do their bidding? There would be no maintainer changes in that scenario. Related, the mot
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by omoikane 2y ago
Related research: "Is the Great Attractor a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?" https://jgeekstudies.org/2016/05/19/great-attractor-ttgl/
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by omoikane 2y ago
I like how they pay attention to backward compatibility, particularly with "Reverse Z for the depth buffer" in the linked blog post[1]: 1. I'm sorry we broke your shader. 2. I trust you know how to fix your shader.
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by omoikane 2y ago
This reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8070879 - Rendering Worlds with Two Triangles on the GPU (2014)
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by omoikane 2y ago
I suspect people who buy expensive watches aren't bothered by having to adjust them a few times a year, assuming they didn't buy those watches as investments. I have a very cheap (~$10) mechanical pocket watch, and it's not a
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by omoikane 2y ago
According to speculations from some random thread[1], it might be Dragon Quest Monsters 3 that's at risk, especially since Toriyama Akira was involved with Dragon Quest and he died earlier this year. [1] https://togetter.com
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by omoikane 2y ago
I believe these fall under "interpreter pattern": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreter_pattern https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/bytecode.html https://wiki.c2.com/?Inte
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by omoikane 2y ago
I generate those with VIM macros. For example, I might type "day", "may", and "buy" on separate lines, move cursor to "day" and then type something like qayy3pklli[^<ESC>A]|<ESC>gJli
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by omoikane 2y ago
Spoiled by grep: cat words \ | grep -E '^(da[^y]|d[^a]y|[^d]ay|[^d][^a][^y])$' \ | grep -E '^(ma[^y]|m[^a]y|[^m]ay|[^m][^a][^y])$' \ | grep -E '^(bu[^y]|b[^u]y|[^b]uy|[^b][^u][^y])$' \ | grep -
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by omoikane 2y ago
Instead of replacing "moonshots" with "show me the money", I think we should try "roofshots". https://web.archive.org/web/20160715152958/https://rework.wi...
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by omoikane 2y ago
Dependency management and automatic parallelization (via `make -j`).
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by omoikane 3y ago
Layoff is not the same as "fired". Please use the correct terminology in consideration for those who lost their jobs. Also, the termination dates for those who were laid off in January 2023 would be around April 2023 (the layoff
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by omoikane 3y ago
Maybe similar in spirit as idle games: I used to enjoy BoxCar2D where you just sit back and watch cars evolve using genetic algorithm. The original version[1] requires Flash, but looks like someone ported it to HTML5[2]: [1] http:/&#
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by omoikane 3y ago
I appreciate Pixiv letting users set their preferred region and actually respecting that setting, unlike Twitter which ignores the user's "country" setting and do all ad targeting using GeoIP instead.
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by omoikane 3y ago
Often, the problem is with the persons offering the solution not seeing things from the perspective of the people receiving them. The helper felt that they were sincere in their intent, but their intentions aren't always desirable. R
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by omoikane 3y ago
Did you mean page count? For the novels I read, 200-300 per volume seems common. This seems comparable to the English novels I have, so it feels like less money for roughly same amount of content. Because many light novels come in series
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by omoikane 3y ago
I just tried logging in and looks like there is a captcha now. There wasn't one before.
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by omoikane 3y ago
> $15-20 US book prices seem weirdly expensive. I just sampled the prices from the best sellers here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/ https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/bestsell
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by omoikane 3y ago
> single account I think that's actually multiple similarly named accounts with the same prefix. I believe there are rate limits on how fast a single account can post.
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by omoikane 3y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for... I used to run LiteStep, and I remember the one productivity feature it had over regular Windows was virtual desktops. Windows 10 natively suppo
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by omoikane 3y ago
There is also Yusuke Endoh's version, where the only thing you do is guess. Computer will automatically mark all the spots where it has enough information to make an inference. https://mame.github.io/minesweeper-spoi
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by omoikane 3y ago
Looks like this version is lagging behind slightly (doesn't have "Mosaic" yet), and the "custom" game types are not available.
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by omoikane 3y ago
I would have expected pixel shift to be more useful in studio settings, e.g. product photos, macro photos, etc. This article doesn't seem to mention those.

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