skrebbel

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by skrebbel 6mo ago
I agree with you that the HN title is editorialized and misleading, but I disagree that these requirements make sense. They only make sense if you think it's OK for kids to send face scans to scary faceless corporations. And even if yo
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by skrebbel 6mo ago
My kid is 13 and likes to make silly Roblox games. No way I'm going to let him take a face scan with whatever creepy unaccountable AI data hoarding outfit Roblox decided to team up with, just so share his creations with 6 friends. How
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by skrebbel 6mo ago
> the art is load-bearing This is beautiful
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by skrebbel 6mo ago
On Mondays it’s pronounced Hiker News
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by skrebbel 6mo ago
Friends don’t send friends AI summaries
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
Love the 69MB of zeros.
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
Wow so witty!
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
Yeah it's awful huh. People think you get time when the kid sleeps but really it's just.. the worst :-) Sure thing my kids were cute when they were small but I'm pretty glad they're bigger now!
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
Revision had no maximum filesize in the demo compo.
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
In demoscene nomenclature, an "intro" is a demo with a sizelimit. This was entered in the demo compo, ergo "no size limit". With file size, most democoders go all the way, both ways. By that I mean that if they choose a
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
Huge difference between constantly being in passive alert mode waiting for the kid to wake up and cry their heart out, and proper uninterrupted “I know have x minutes for myself, no matter what” time.
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
Who cares where a law originates? What matters is whether it’s a good idea or bad. Eroding privacy protections is bad. If the EU had come up with that all on their own (and they try that aplenty too; chat control anyone?) then it’s also b
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
Meh, you're right but the EU also makes laws in the US ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect ). In the end it's not about who makes the law but whether it's a good law. Ecodesign laws making US v
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
FWIW it took me multiple US television shows to figure out what "ambulance chasers" are and why they exist.
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
I wonder what percentage of "obedient" teachers saw through the facade, realized that the learner wasn't a very good actor, and was just having a good time playing along with what must've seemed like some psychology prof
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
Only if they're not funny
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
But it's a nice ad!
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
Fair. Pretty lame tho.
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
Let's not forget that most of these pictures were made by teenagers, doing the best they could (and hoping others didn't know about Boris Vallejo). The demoscene was very young back then. Copying is generally considered pretty lam
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
EPP proposed it, but then it got amended (ie toned down) so much that they turned on their own proposal. This apparently happens quite a lot. So the way I understand it is they turned it down not because they thought it was bad, but because
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
I would like to share here that the author of this site made it very easy to call. If you read this and are in the EU, I urge you to try this. Find a representative you think is at least somewhat likely to change their mind, and call their
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
This is 100% teams who set up their build tooling back in 2015 and haven't updated since. There's plenty widely used apps and libs that date this far back, and back then, IE8 compat was considered pretty important still, esp for p
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
This is so cool! Excellent writeup also. I feel like I understand it all except the last step: > I could feel the closeness, and a very simple fix for this kind of aliasing is to supersample: apply the dither thresholding at a higher re
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
don't read too much into a downvote here or there. as i read this the downvotes are already gone again. some people are just idiots. also some people just misclick.
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
My zod schemas are 100x simpler than all those SAX parsers I maintained back in the day. Honestly I kinda doubt you've worked with XML a lot. The XML data model is wildly different than that of pretty much every programming language&#x
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
I read both, but I feel like they both miss what it was like to work with APIs back in the bad old XML days. Yes, XML is more descriptive. It's also much harder for programmers to work with. Every client or server speaking an XML-based
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
I feel like your excellent curation is a big part of the magic here. Amazing work.
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
I agree but he's arguing with people who's personal attachment to their OSS work goes a lot deeper than "I did a few code dumps back in the day". It was stupid of me to say that he does "not really do OSS" beca
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
This is because Carmack doesn't really do OSS, he just does code dumps and tacks on a license ("a gift"). That's of course great and awesome and super nice, but he's not been painstakingly and thanklessly maintainin
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by skrebbel 7mo ago
How is that different from "People with access to your CMS can put terrible lies on your company website"? The vulnerability is still "people who have access to things have access to things" but written maximally science

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