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by omoikane 3y ago
I think TIFF has some unique features that makes it more prone to certain security issues[1] compared to other formats, such as storing absolute file offsets instead of relative offsets. So I am not sure TIFF is a good container format, bu
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by omoikane 3y ago
I find it funny that they used 能登さん (Noto-san) in the example text for Noto Sans. I wonder if that's a reference to 能登麻美子 (Noto Mamiko)?
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by omoikane 3y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36171696 - "Calling time on DNSSEC: The costs exceed the benefits"
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by omoikane 3y ago
Regular autocompletion also feels magical and unpredictable. This is because I need a tighter visual feedback loop to confirm that the IDE has chosen the right identifiers and inserted extra parentheses and such, and so I couldn't get
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by omoikane 3y ago
I never got into these copilot things because I wanted my text editor to be predictable rather than magical. As such, I am still using regular VIM.
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by omoikane 3y ago
Maybe advertisers would be more willing to pay if their ads were visible to everyone, including those that are not logged in? https://nitter.net/existentialcoms/status/167533822235078247...
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by omoikane 3y ago
Auditing requirements could have been covered by version history for the file containing that hardcoded value, I think? They would have other problems if they didn't have version control.
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by omoikane 3y ago
The other extreme of this would be something like NetHack, where it's very difficult to figure things out on your own even if you read the guidebook through and through. There is no tutorial. (You might discover the one mention of Elb
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by omoikane 3y ago
I see that some of the files came with a "txt" link that shows some credit info, which is nice. But I can't find any credits for the site itself, is that intentional?
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by omoikane 3y ago
Did you need to do anything extra for cooling? One thing that impressed me about old hardware that I did not appreciate back then is that the CPUs don't even need heatsinks. I imagine this PCjr don't have one either, but it&#x27
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by omoikane 3y ago
Maybe the observation is that each platform can be countercultural roughly once, after which they come to be associated with a certain culture of their own. Then, in order to counter that new culture, you need to move to a different plat
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by omoikane 3y ago
I think people can make that discovery but you could always deny that association, and it might be difficult for random strangers to gather enough proof to say that two accounts are linked. Meta appears to be publicizing account association
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by omoikane 3y ago
I can see specific tweets of the form https://twitter.com/<$USER>/status/<$ID> but not https://twitter.com/<$USER> So it seems that links to old tweets would be readable, but it&
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by omoikane 3y ago
See also https://xkcd.com/1179/
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by omoikane 3y ago
The company name is "Nothing". I thought it might be something like the "NoPhone" just from the title. https://thenophone.com/
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by omoikane 3y ago
> Virtually nothing I'm interested in watching is ever on Crunchyroll Curiously, Crunchyroll had virtually everything that we wanted to fansub back then. Their licensing coverage was sufficiently wide that a lot of us just stopped
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by omoikane 3y ago
Probably this one: https://crbug.com/1324296 Linked from here: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/70691
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by omoikane 3y ago
> you aren't spending hours finding needles in a 300lb haystack. I guess that's for people who have a specific thing in mind that they wanted to build. I find a lot fun just picking out random pieces and then thinking about wh
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by omoikane 3y ago
Related, it seems inconvenient that we haven't evolved to be able to just drink salt water, like cats can.
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by omoikane 3y ago
Near the end of the linked post: How can you help? If every individual developer who used libjpeg-turbo on a regular basis donated just $5-10/month to the project through GitHub Sponsors (https://github.com/sponsors
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by omoikane 3y ago
If those terms of use were machine readable, this would have been equivalent to something like robots.txt, but for AI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34324208 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35886
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by omoikane 3y ago
This is the kind of exercise can be done in the background while waiting for stuff to compile. It's also not for trivial things like private or local variables and such, so not really a frequently occurring speed bump. An example woul
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by omoikane 3y ago
What we used to do is announce in our team chat: "anyone around for a round of bikeshedding? I need to name a thing". The thing being named is usually not user facing, so it was more of a team building exercise than anything rel
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by omoikane 3y ago
Someone has spotted one Cybertruck in Mountain View: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/148x6oa/cybert... I am not sure if that's a test vehicle, or if they have started production.
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by omoikane 3y ago
I am not sure a different search engine does any better in the face of reddit and twitter outages, if those places held the content I want to find. In the old days, we ran our own personal websites and we want our content to be discovered,
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by omoikane 3y ago
%n format specifier was lesser known until an IOCCC winner made it famous. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23445546 - Tic-Tac-Toe in a single call to printf
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by omoikane 3y ago
I thought the typical response would be rate limit plus captcha.
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by omoikane 3y ago
> support SIMD vector types I think these are supported through intrinsics, for example: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vector-Extensions.html But I suppose they are not considered standard C.
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by omoikane 3y ago
Twitter has started blocking unregistered users (theverge) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36535822
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by omoikane 3y ago
Twitter has started blocking unregistered users (theverge) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36535822

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