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MD87

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About MD87

Developer, procrastinator, occasional blogger.

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    First widely available one I saw was this: https://modern-css.com/staggered-animations-without-nth-chil... That would actually fix some ugly CSS I have. The demo works. Neat. Excep…

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    Comment #46861874

    ... also some parts are Apache, and the wording around the AGPL bit is very weird: > ... licensed to use source code to create compiled versions ... Why's it calling out compiling …

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    Comment #46658142

    The bug is somewhat interesting. The entire "Gradual recovery" part of the post makes absolutely no sense, and is presumably an LLM fabrication. That's just... not how anything wor…

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    Comment #44191674

    I totally get how LLMs can help you write, especially in the collaborative way described. But as a reader do I actually want to read that? Maybe for documentation or something it's…

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    Comment #43558848

    The difference is that `ls` is specified in POSIX and everyone has roughly the same expectations of what it does. Nothing specifies what a binary called `sl` does. The user didn't …

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    Comment #42917958

    Any kind of third-party what's hot/trending feed seems to. I guess they get a lot of likes in certain circles... e.g. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dbipwza2663x6hfp2purbn7i/fe..…

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    Comment #41434029

    Presumably you need to be connected to wifi to obtain games, so that's not a great answer. I also found the scoreboards surprising. I wouldn't expect a Gameboy-like device to be re…

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    > I need to think about this, but for sure the clues will be refined to encourage this. Right now, there are only a couple of types of clues and they don't feel very organic. Yes, …

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    It's a cool idea but it fell a bit flat for me. > However, it's important to note that every clue you view will have an impact on your overall score. Exercise caution and strategic…

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    Comment #31005705

    One of the Jekyll plugins that GH Pages supports[0] is jekyll-redirect-from, which lets you put a `redirect_to` entry in a page's front matter. [0]: https://pages.github.com/versio…

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    Comment #30801287

    But you can also say: "Do you know what 11:59PM means? 12:00PM is one minute after that" Midday and midnight are the points at which AM/PM change and you can't logically differenti…

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    Comment #30721983

    So the "Terms of Service & Privacy" link doesn't work, and apparently it's a paid subscription service but you don't find that out until you've signed up and tried activating an AP…

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    Comment #30699722

    There's a much more sensible C# merge sort implementation in the same repo as the oddly-over-the-top one linked in the article, which is very very close to the PHP one: https://git…

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    Comment #30390005

    Docker images actually contain the timestamp each layer was built at, so are basically de-facto non-reproducible. Buildah from Red Hat has an argument to set this programmatically …

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    Comment #30176649

    Same for me using desktop Firefox. Just an error in the console, nothing renders: TypeError: e is null P App.tsx:36 React 2 Fn App.tsx:31

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    No-one needs to be defrauded to make out an offence of Fraud in the UK. "Fraud by false representation" happens when someone dishonestly makes a false representation with the inten…

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    Comment #27653306

    Merit badges and achievements are boolean: you don't have them, then you do a thing, and suddenly you do. Learning something tends to be a gradual uphill climb: through practice an…

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