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by trinovantes 4y ago
WebGL was really cool when I first saw it. Today, it's basically a wrapper around OpenGL 3.0 ES. It's too bad development has stopped in favor of WebGPU but it's still in beta which means we won't have access to GPU ray
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by trinovantes 4y ago
This kid will have a bad time trying to create a Google account in the future https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2019/07/03/google-...
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by trinovantes 4y ago
Page 3 of this doc [1] lists the definition of city by state Apparently most states recognize a place as a city if it just has a few hundred residents/voters. There's plenty of abandoned houses (thus $0 homes) in places that fit t
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by trinovantes 4y ago
In the case of Express vs alternatives benchmarks, you're looking at differences in the sub 1ms range as these benchmarks simply test how much "hello world" you can return per second
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by trinovantes 4y ago
The first thing I consider when looking at Express-alternatives is if the API is fully compatible because almost every other 3rd party library/package (e.g. sentry) expects the Express object. This doesn't look like the case as I
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by trinovantes 4y ago
The world cup should be a good stress test for Twitter's automated systems
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by trinovantes 4y ago
position:static is just resetting it to the default value. You should be explicit and use position:unset instead Without 'static' in mobile, it would be position:absolute
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by trinovantes 4y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ligma When your boss is a middle schooler
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by trinovantes 4y ago
Zero-width spaces exist too
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by trinovantes 4y ago
Speed limits (in North America) are simply the 85th percentile speed of drivers on a specific type of road. The onus should be on the civil engineer who designed the road to make it physically impossible to go 150 in the first place - e.g.
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by trinovantes 4y ago
For most people, it's probably harmless. However there's still risks like: - Run facial recognition on the vast amount of public footage to find political dissidents that tried to go off grid - Identify when political figures and
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by trinovantes 4y ago
patch-package is a tool for this specific purpose https://www.npmjs.com/package/patch-package You commit your changes as a diff text file and add the patch-package command to your post-install hook so it runs after eve
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by trinovantes 4y ago
Downside is you can't use patch-package Even the --node-module-dir flag just creates a symlink to your home directory cache so you can't do per-project package fixes (besides forking and rehosting the package) I'm also not su
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by trinovantes 4y ago
You should really have Typescript definitions and ESM exports if you're creating a modern nodejs package
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by trinovantes 4y ago
I found the professional headshots hardest to tell since real ones purposely bokeh blur the background which gives the glowy edges around the hair
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by trinovantes 4y ago
In some jurisdictions, software engineer is a protected job title that requires professional licensing (ever wonder why Google only hires "developer" in their Waterloo office but "engineer" elsewhere?). IIRC the engineer
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by trinovantes 4y ago
My city's NIMBYs shut down a 19 story building proposal to preserve the cultural heritage of a... parking lot https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2022/08/23/co...
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by trinovantes 4y ago
I'm surprised information about who voted is publicly available Will businesses start offering discounts/bonuses for people that show proof that they've voted (under the guise of rewarding those that did their civic duty), bu
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by trinovantes 4y ago
It's unlikely since the smallest possible jpg 10x10 jpg is just under 300 bytes. You might be able to squeeze out a few dozen bytes if you tried multiple browser supported formats (e.g. jpg, webp, png, gif) and pick the smallest one s
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by trinovantes 4y ago
I gave up PGP after forgetting to back up my contacts' public keys when I reinstalled my OS Also xkcd 538 exists
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by trinovantes 4y ago
Both formats are trying to encode the parameters of cosine functions except jpg is implemented natively in web browsers, likely with SIMD instructions. Is the ~200 bytes in savings per image really worth the extra computation cost you'
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by trinovantes 4y ago
It seems more like a modified version of jpg compression which also uses DCT. Why not just downsample the original image to 10x10 jpg and encode it as base64 so it can be directly used in an <img> without blocking your main JS thread
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by trinovantes 4y ago
Is the space savings of using a custom base83 encoding really worth it when modern browsers can natively support base64 image encodings?
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by trinovantes 4y ago
I still use paypal to pay for stuff when I'm too lazy to walk to the other room to get my wallet. As a consumer, the price is the same.
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by trinovantes 4y ago
I'm pretty happy with AI art for some of my game's textures I just wish there's more progress in AI-generated voices that sound more natural, especially for dialog in action sequences like yelling/screaming
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by trinovantes 4y ago
Recursion finally clicked for me after learning induction where you assume you already have a working solution for all cases below n and your only job is to implement the nth case
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by trinovantes 4y ago
Putin may have an interest in destroying the pipelines himself Inside Russia, there's probably some sentiment to end the war, dispose/blame everything on Putin, and resume the gas trade. If Putin removes that option, his opponents
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by trinovantes 4y ago
Most people will not remember what you said or did but they will remember how you made them feel
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by trinovantes 4y ago
There's still non-const enums generating runtime code I think it would be huge if some future nodejs/web browser can parse native TS so we no longer need to deal with the mess of dev tools like ts-node and babel and wonder why som
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by trinovantes 4y ago
Said test can also bias against the poor depending on how it's created. It can ask questions based on subtleties that only private schools/tutors have the time to cover or on life experiences that only upper middle class realistic

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