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I was momentarily confused because I had commented out an importmap in my HTML with , and yet my Vite build product contained <script type="importmap"></script>, magically uncommented again. I tracke
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Easter(?) egg: The 7SEGG-CHAN font appears in the preview image but is not documented on the page, other than a mathematical reference in the "Misc." section.
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The backgrounds are achieved by having two overlapping <span> elements in different colors. If you use the font standalone, you wouldn't get the two-tone appearance.
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I am glad they improved this but I still like Optional[], and to a lesser extent, Union[]. It's much more readable to have Optional[str] compared to str | None.
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> Uber driver Juan Prado made six figures in 2021, often shuttling passengers in town for job interviews and doing frequent drop-offs near downtown tech offices. Now, he said, demand is much lower. “There are moments where you can be onl
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This is brutal. It seems to me the Liquid Glass transition for Mac is a sacrifice for visionOS. Today, you can run iOS apps on an Apple Vision Pro, or create a virtual Mac display, but these are lesser spatial experiences: You still use a t
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There is a perfectly cromulent grammar for a unit-aware calculator: <expression without units> [<unit> [in <unit>]] <expression with units> [in <unit>] "1+2 feet in meters" and "1 fo
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You mention that this is a USB HID device a few times but how are you capturing the display? Does ReplayKit broadcasting give you access? Or is the hardware also acting as an HDMI capture card or something?
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Many years ago, ~2009ish, a friend pointed out that Calculator.app was giving the wrong sign when raising a positive number to a negative exponent. It turned out to be a bug in CFNumber affecting virtually every app. I noticed the other da
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A reference to the 2010 iPhone 4 demo perhaps: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2297843/steve-jobs-wi-fi-m...
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Can you elaborate on how Blender exemplifies “the way science should do software”? Are you talking specifically about some aspect like community governance, user experience, code quality, etc.?
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I am out of date on the latest from the jailbreak scene, but checkra1n supports the device up to iOS 14. If you updated to iOS 15, there may not be a full jailbreak, but not all is lost. The latest release of Xcode, Xcode 26, still allows y
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Many years ago there was a project in which researchers swapped localization strings to turn The Sims and Grim Fandango into language practice experiences. Generative dialog that is contextual and skill-appropriate dialog could also be a ki
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LLM slop, in addition to not being a convincing argument. There is a vast space of PWAs that could be implemented without Bluetooth APIs, push notifications, or rotation lock. But iOS has had “Add to Home Screen” since 2007, longer than the
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I've considered using one of Dinamo's fonts, Diatype, but I can't bring myself to license each font weight for €140, double that if you want italics. Wait are you building a web app , distinct from web site , using desktop
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Nonetheless, xz has the best sshd integration.
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Apple enthusiasts like John Gruber believe in an ideal Apple. (See his reference to the Founder's "backs of the cabinets" quote.) The real company is distinct from this ideal. Believers support the company's actions so
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These are several years old at this point, but many open source project leaders contributed to the series "The Architecture of Open Source Applications", which is free to read online: https://aosabook.org/en/i
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I wonder how many people have paid for International Drivers Permits from scam websites. In the US these are only issued by AAA, and until recently they were only available by mail or in person, creating an opening for grifters to sell prin
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I've spent a fair amount of time on K4, and my conclusion is that it's simply a poor puzzle. At this point 24 of 97 characters have been revealed, and yet there's seemingly still not enough information pointing to how the k
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Conference badges are basically insta-e-waste too.
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Hi, I’m an Independent Advisor. It sounds like you expected Microsoft community support to be a valuable resource for answers to your technical problems. I can understand how frustrating that would be. At this point, the most reliable solut
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There is a Base64 quasi-fixed point: $ echo -n Vm0 | base64 Vm0w It can be extended indefinitely one character at a time, but there will always be some suffix.
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Out of curiosity, was it James Tailor in Bangkok? I was whisked there on my last day by my hired guide while she stopped for an “errand”. It struck me as a preposterous hustle, but now I’m curious if this is a common ploy.
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Third-party vendors are selling parts harvested from damaged, used devices. Apple’s prices do seem astronomical, but the comparison isn’t Apple’s to apples. Also, how do these prices compare to what Apple charges for an out of warranty repa
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> Docker `:latest` tag guarantees you always get current docs without manual updates. The docs should probably be pinned to the version of the tool you have installed. Aside from that, pinning to a specific container hash (not tag) allow
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When Impossible was new and only available in burger format at a small number of partner restaurants, I ventured out to SF to try two of them. I concluded that it can make for a genuinely convincing substitute, but the key is preparing it w
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I use GitHub every day and follow news about the company but I’ve never heard of this. https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/accessibility/github-...
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On my Mac, Google Chrome takes 1.8 GB. I would be pretty sore if I had to download that on cellular while trying to hail a cab in a foreign country because the app requires something like the Battery Status API in order to extract a surchar
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So these web apps will prompt the user to install and configure a third-party browser engine?

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