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by rf15 1mo ago
In my experience, for most basic services, Passkeys are absolute overkill: Your ability to recover your account without too much hassle usually beats having a key explicitely tied to physical hardware (even worse, your phone that you carry
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by rf15 1mo ago
> Fine, I'll build my own text editor > “They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore” resonated with a lot of folk. My first kneejerk reaction was, no, Sublime wasn't even that good or performant. We also really don't
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by rf15 1mo ago
Some of these seem incredibly far off for no reason
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by rf15 1mo ago
Ok, I'll bite: no, considering these are very different domains and you don't get system access by getting the wrong speculative branch for your next text token, you just get a slightly different (but probably still related enough
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by rf15 1mo ago
I watch gaming-related news daily for fun and I don't remember this game at all. I remember other big publisher competitive online games fine, so I feel this one is particularly insignificant.
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by rf15 1mo ago
This article just made me think "wait, people still buy Ubisoft after everything they pulled in the past 15+ years?"
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by rf15 1mo ago
This is a solved problem with dedicated servers and a proper community. They're just trying to sell you One Faceless Corp Server because it makes them more money, even though it is less efficient because of scaling problems and also yo
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by rf15 1mo ago
yes it's perfect, I'm having flashbacks
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by rf15 1mo ago
Well, to some of us in Europe, Trump is just the true face of America. The vanity, the arrogance, the greed, the vindictiveness, the kiss-the-ring shit - none of it is truly new for anyone who looks at american foreign policy through the le
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by rf15 1mo ago
Or the use of AUTO_INCREMENT, a feature which is already a footgun if implemented badly (as it clearly was)
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by rf15 1mo ago
Won't this lead to even less people looking at the platform? Are they trying to cut off the cultists inside from any outside observability? Doesn't that directly result in less power/influence for Musk?
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by rf15 1mo ago
As someone with basically only popsci knowledge of black holes: people claiming it would be a literal point never made much sense - fundamentally, common sense (as much as it can apply here) dictates that you cannot compress particles to an
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by rf15 1mo ago
We are reverting to a more forum-like data shape, which is hilarious. (and good)
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by rf15 1mo ago
I wonder just how different their processes really are, considering both can be safely described as "full custom design". I write this especially in the context of apple always being about The Look, so they might also describe the
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by rf15 1mo ago
If current trends are anything to go by, who's to say that these aren't stepping stones towards it?
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by rf15 2mo ago
What about this: Happy people try less hard (because why would you? things are going great!), thus getting challenged less, thus appearing not as smart/proving themselves less.
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by rf15 2mo ago
> trapped in a shape everyone else seems to be moving on from. Really not sure if we were ever there. Foldable phones still feel like a novelty that is expensive and fragile, among other tradeoffs. Also moving on to what, exactly? The re
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by rf15 2mo ago
This is fiction...
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by rf15 2mo ago
Most products don't spy on you?
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by rf15 2mo ago
I guess it really shows how people like to ignore that there's just not that much money in the economy
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by rf15 2mo ago
> Then you need to quit confusing simplistic pattern matching for logic. Details matter, as do degree and scale. But that's the core problem of AI fanatics, isn't it. They cannot comprehend how people who saw and used the same
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Leading economies' borrowing costs highest since 2008(theguardian.com)
4 points by rf15 2mo ago|0 comments
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by rf15 2mo ago
Basically every culture is built around the consumption of carbohydrates, which are all similarly easy to absorb like sugar. Rice, Potatoes, Bread, it's all in the same category in my understanding. An easy source of burnable energy, e
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by rf15 2mo ago
<drug> consumers every time: it's actually not bad in moderate consumption/I can quit any time/medication is always a question of dosage Looks to me like even taking meds for a prolonged amount of time shows you that to
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by rf15 2mo ago
I was expecting that this would increase battery performance, but it seems to mostly offer new and exciting ways to drain your battery faster.
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by rf15 2mo ago
It already comes with a standard library, but, since the drawing algos left a lot to be desired, my watchface ships with its own image format and rendering code to allow for handling of transparency and blending modes (since you can not onl
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by rf15 2mo ago
Should be doable with the vector graphics system they have, or compressed images depending on the size of the images used. Point me to your project on GH or wherever if you want me to have a look, I've optimised a lot of code in this l
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by rf15 2mo ago
tldr: issues with the way penpot generated SVGs (afaik not even SVG itself) and how they improved it in the WebGl renderer. Also a quote and reference to the three body problem to give this a veneer of intellectualism that the rest of the t
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by rf15 2mo ago
Don't think that China stands that close with Russia and Iran. Or needs them, for that matter.
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by rf15 2mo ago
Both. Renminbi is the currency name, while the yuan is the base unit.

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