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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
Looks like a Chromium-specific feature: https://web.dev/articles/text-fragments Pretty cool. Doesn't work on Firefox.
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
Thank you! This video was GREAT. I was having trouble putting it all together from the wikipedia page alone.
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
This is pretty fascinating. For easier reading, the Signal blog post [0] they link to is great. Both Signal and Apple went with CRYSTALS-Kyber [1] as their post-quantum algorithm. If you're interested in the math, and maybe learned at
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
> The article doesn't even profess to answer the "how" only the "what" Even the "what" isn't explained well enough if you're not already familiar with the topic. I'm not really sure who i
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
The window was 32k before. 128k was their goal for the new version, and is the new standard window size. 1M is in private preview. 10M has been demonstrated internally.
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
Interesting. I wonder what the author should have done differently. Second paragraph in the article is: > I bought the camera from a profile that was created in 2017. They had some other things for sale, too. The account looked legit — l
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
No joke, a lot of people love that smell.
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
From the page: > No C# or GDNative/GDExtension: Only GDScript is supported. Native extensions are not supported, but you can try to convert them into internal modules.
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
I use the LibRedirect extension for this.
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
I had no idea it was originally talking about a Pascal book, thanks for the link! Fun to read old versions and see what changed over time (language recommendations, for example).
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft, though I wasn't there during the early days of .NET or Windows Longhorn. C# was created as a Java competitor. Although it had great C interoperability, the underlying .NET Framework was still a VM-base
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
Yup, exactly. Swift was specifically designed to replace Objective-C and C++ throughout Apple codebases (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQc9-seU-5k ). C# is a totally different story.
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
Reading this meta-analysis, I wonder how well it would stand up to the independent bias review they used to exclude studies from their findings. It certainly reads like it has an axe to grind (see Introduction and below). Although there are
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
* Some of these platforms have cheaper tiers that are ad-supported. * All of these platforms favor algorithmic recommendations (which are ads) over your personal content queue. * A lot of content on Prime forces you to watch an ad of new Pr
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
You are a brave soul. I can't bring myself to share my pathetic early teenage exploits on Usenet. Hexen was awesome though. :-)
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
How timely! Just the other day I was looking for an old conference talk I was involved in, that for some reason had been taken down from YouTube. It was a decent amount of work even finding a link to convince myself it had ever existed. For
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
Firefox as well: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1860492 It's a shame Theora never "made it". The peak of its popularity is long past.
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
> There's no excuse for dumping someone's pet on the side of the road like trash. Do we know that's what happened? It's what I assumed, but I hadn't followed this story until the article popped up on Ars, so I&#x
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
That was my first thought as well. Ah, to be young again!
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
Octopuses is preferred. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Etymology_and_pluralis...
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
p for picture ;-)
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
But...tables!!!
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
UTM is fantastic for macOS-on-macOS emulation on Apple Silicon devices. Historically, macOS VMs have been so slow on every other virtualization platform. UTM uses Apple's native virtualization framework and it's a godsend for test
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
This is one of my favorite movies of all time. The decryption scene is so iconic in my memory. You absolutely NAILED it! Thank you for this lovely surprise.
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
Same! Not gen x, but I also grew up with it feeling like the only way to get into computing (let alone programming) was to be an enthusiast. Today's locked-down platforms don't encourage the same pipeline. The conclusions drawn ar
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
Woah woah woah, how have I never seen this??? This is incredible, thanks for sharing!
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
Yup, I had to come here to figure out that the + was missing in mine! TIL!
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
Yeah, I was thrilled when I discovered this for myself a few months ago! It's so useful in long-running scripts.
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
Well, I was attempting to reply to questions in the second half of the post. That being said, I don't think communities of that size should really be the goal in the fediverse.
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
You can have an account on one instance and subscribe to a community on another. There's no need for every instance to have a "memes" community, though there will undoubtedly be more than one. Then you can subscribe to the on

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