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by snek 7y ago
I wonder how much energy would be saved if people stopped using recaptcha v3, which is basically a perfect storm of event handlers and network usage.
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by snek 7y ago
OP, please Google "promise chaining", it will make your life so much better.
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by snek 7y ago
I'm so tired of this "best interest of shareholders" thing. When you invest in a company you should be investing in its mission. Tesla's mission is clearly not to make the most money, it is to improve applications of ren
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by snek 7y ago
On the note of webassembly's text format (WAT), it's a fantastic introduction into a low level assembly. Wasm is a virtual stack machine, and it's strongly statically typed, so WAT is surprisingly readable. That being said, i
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by snek 7y ago
As someone who has worked with PNaCL before, I think its really important to stress how utterly terrible it is to work with. The intermediary representation for PNaCL was based off of LLVM IR, which is not (contrary to what a lot of people
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by snek 7y ago
Wasm has no concept of a browser, or any outside-world interaction APIs. Wasm hosts can provide APIs, for example emscripten provides bindings to wasm for canvas and networking.
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by snek 7y ago
You have to remember that even if you don't care about your account getting hacked, hacked accounts are a nuisance for other users of the platform as well.
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by snek 7y ago
That's Twilio's database, not Discord's. Maybe it's fair to be upset at Discord for using Twilio if Twilio can't keep their database up to date, but I don't think there are that many alternatives to Twilio.
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by snek 7y ago
2FA is account security, not proof of being a good human user. TOTP is a very simple algorithm (python impl: https://github.com/pyauth/pyotp ) that can be easily automated. After all, your phone telling you the code to
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by snek 7y ago
Article is unrelated. The overhead for Wasm is from copying structs into and out of the Wasm's linear memory. Wasm only has ints and floats at the boundary, so you have to copy everything into structures it can understand. Note that th
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by snek 7y ago
"Classes considered harmful"
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by snek 7y ago
wowee two pages of very large sans-serif text and "Think about this...". Is it just me or does this look like an 8th grade social studies report?
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by snek 7y ago
Well that is the point of activist short sellers; not too different from security researchers having a monetary incentive with bug bounty programs.
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by snek 7y ago
I really hope that the web archive can put this to good use, similar to how they emulate MS-DOS games in browser.
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by snek 7y ago
Unlike flash player, this runs in the browser sandbox. It's limited to what WASM and JS can access. It's also OSS, so definitely not proprietary. I can't answer the resource usage part.
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by snek 7y ago
Well if you read the article, they say that the media should take these stories as opportunities to discuss pressing social issues instead of skating around them. Reporting is about bringing cohesive context to information, and these storie
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by snek 7y ago
having the option between free maya on an educational license and blender, i still chose blender. before 2.8 the ui in blender wasn't fantastic, but it's always been better in terms of features (at least as long as i've been
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by snek 7y ago
I'm looking forward to the "UEFI: The Good Parts" O'Reilly book.
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by snek 7y ago
Using a UA switcher and FF, I can't seem to find anything broken. I think the author of this page is just a bit zealous for chrome. It also seems to work without UA switcher, but still states it won't work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by snek 7y ago
engine262 is primarily designed as an interface for developing and verifying JavaScript languages features as they're added to the JavaScript specification. If you read through the source, most of the code mirrors the algorithms as the
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Show HN: engine262 - the self-hosted JavaScript engine(engine262.js.org)
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by snek 7y ago
Many licenses require that the license be distributed with the code. uglifyjs, babel minifier, and google closure compiler all try to preserve license information.
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by snek 7y ago
The sad truth is that Google's goal isn't efficiency, it is keeping people on Google's property. The best way to do this is to make people package their websites into little bundles that are safe for Google to preload. They&#
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by snek 7y ago
Real question: should they be trained in formal logic? Should everyone be trained in formal logic? (I think so, anyway)
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by snek 7y ago
This isn't just a thought experiment, this is how some of the most influential slow motion to date has been shot, from the famous bullet dodge in the matrix to the first 1-billion fps camera. (Okay yes technically the 1-billion one is
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by snek 7y ago
You're asking the wrong question. AMP isn't bad, Google ranking AMP pages over equally-fast non-AMP pages is bad. But Google's main goal here is to preload/render content without the content knowing it is being preloaded
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by snek 7y ago
Actually, github monitors for that. They discuss it a bit at https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-token-scanning , although the list of companies is a bit outdated.
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by snek 7y ago
Many of these protocols are already whitelisted by firefox so that they can be handled by extensions.
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by snek 7y ago
I think browsers are somewhat unique even among "large projects" for the sheer breadth of their codebases. Everything from networking to graphics to midi is somewhere in there, and they all have to provide a somewhat common interf
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by snek 7y ago
This is the thing I would want to ask Matthew Prince about if I ever met him. Cloudflare working on AMP really surprised me, I would've expected them to make some sort of de-AMP product.

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