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by xjay 3y ago
Can also try saving the file with a UTF-8 BOM. [1] BOM > HTTP charset > HTML meta charset [1] https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-encoding-...
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by xjay 3y ago
A byte-order mark (BOM) would have the highest priority. [1] BOM > HTTP charset > HTML meta charset Also works for local files (not served over HTTP). > You could skip the meta encoding declaration if you have a BOM, but we recomme
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by xjay 3y ago
See also data sent to supl.google.com (Android default). > SUPL is used as part of the A-GPS (Assisted GPS) system to get a faster Time to First Fix. The problem is that Android's implementation automatically sends the IMSI (ID of t
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by xjay 3y ago
The battleground, Strand of the Ancients, was originally started using two invisible NPCs that were hostile to each other; one on each faction's boat and dock. The first boat/NPC to reach the dock would trigger a spell/scrip
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by xjay 3y ago
Related: The AI Incident Database [1] > The AI Incident Database is dedicated to indexing the collective history of harms or near harms realized in the real world by the deployment of artificial intelligence systems. Like similar databas
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by xjay 3y ago
Indirection is the root of all manipulation.
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by xjay 3y ago
Speaking of world view/perception, after exclusively using a curved monitor for a couple of months, I switched back to a flat monitor, and it appeared curved for a week or so.
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by xjay 3y ago
Rob Pardo (Blizzard, World of Warcraft (2004)) said they decided to model randomness after how players thought it worked. > ..at least once a week, a developer would come to my office, and say "the random number generator is broken,
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by xjay 3y ago
They'll get a government-issued ankle monitor/smartphone..
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by xjay 3y ago
Related to The Blind Watchmaker: Richard Dawkins wasn't happy with Apple Writer, so he spent close to a year writing his own word processor [in assembly], called "Scrivener", which he then used to write that book. https:&#x2
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by xjay 3y ago
Somewhat related: Earth Gravity Map, GOCE, European Space Agency (ESA) Visualized: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4E5T9PSbo0 > ESA's Earth Explorer GOCE mission was dedicated to map Earth's gravity with unriv
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by xjay 3y ago
If they used absolute <time> the browser could format it to our preference (which varies). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ti...
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by xjay 3y ago
Another view of what a utopia/golden age might look like: > "1893. When a series of suicides were vigorously discussed in United Kingdom newspapers, critic William Archer suggested that in the golden age* there would be penny-i
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by xjay 3y ago
C = Control I think in the world of C, the compiler assumes the author knows what they're doing, and historically, you were probably supposed to use a separate tool, a linter [1] (static analysis tool), to help catch mistakes. HN'
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by xjay 3y ago
2020-12: Some research done with human subjects regarding how the brain reacts when we're reading code. > The researchers saw little to no response to code in the language regions of the brain. Instead, they found that the coding ta
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by xjay 3y ago
In the context of a CPU's memory model, I wouldn't call it style because a byte--as an abstract term for the smallest addressable unit--is subdivided into nibbles (digits), where the size of a nibble dictates what base makes sense
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by xjay 3y ago
Disable automatic updates in this case (Windows). When an update is applied between the first and second profile process, any new tab won't do anything in any of the instances. Firefox likely still doesn't detect this state. Edit:
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by xjay 3y ago
One issue with showing the name today, are customers who start their (legally licensed) software live on stream, (unintentionally) displaying their real (full) name, serial number, etc.
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by xjay 4y ago
There is something similar in Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking, Fast and Slow. In my words, 1) The sender asks "how many X are there" (assuming that the recipient also knows that the answer is a large quantity). The recipient
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by xjay 4y ago
Other optimization awareness resources: > This series of five manuals describes everything you need to know about optimizing code for x86 and x86-64 family microprocessors, including optimization advices for C++ and assembly language, de
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by xjay 4y ago
..and the consequences: "Witchcraft beliefs around the world: An exploratory analysis [2022-11]" > Country-level variation in the prevalence of witchcraft beliefs is systematically linked to a number of cultural, institutional,
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by xjay 4y ago
This is a never-ending problem with web applications that use so-called "routing" (where the client is made to make connections to a variety of URLs, which gets blocked if the URL contains "ad" or similar).
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by xjay 4y ago
Hardware may perform more operations per second, but inefficient software remains inefficient, and it's still wasting roughly the same amount of energy as it did on slower hardware, and waste only accumulates, skewing the performance o
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by xjay 4y ago
I know that the original "MVC guy" and "Bob's nemesis" :^) have been looking into making human comprehension the main goal of a new programming language, "trygve", named after Trygve Reenskaug (MVC). http
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by xjay 4y ago
The sad part to me is that the original IP header included variable-length addresses up to 128 bits, using two 4-bit fields called Source Address Length (SAL), and Destination Address Length (DAL). [1] Early hardware implementations could h
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by xjay 4y ago
I noticed the web site has a downloadable font, which is fine as long as it's optional, the problem is that many web sites have the bad practice of using the private unicode range for icons. Now the web site has become an accessibilit
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by xjay 4y ago
Not to forget that classic increment of a signed integer waiting to overflow and trigger an exception on some critical (unpatched) hard disk drive controller out there.. ++countdown;
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by xjay 4y ago
The private unicode range is often used for icons on many web sites, but downloadable fonts are considered optional on the web, so we're left with unintelligible hex codes instead, at which point we've regressed to a pre-accessibi
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by xjay 4y ago
A safety reflector or other high-visibility clothing is a passive method for sending light back at the driver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_reflector
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by xjay 4y ago
These days we'd tap into the cell phone network/radio waves to track pedestrians. It's the modern safety reflector or high-visibility clothing. Are you not carrying your phone with you? Well, "it would be a shame if some

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