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I love SQLite's quality and their docs explaining this kind of things. However, not all parts of SQLite have the same level of quality. I was very disappointed when I found bugs re…

I got bitten by this: user agent stylesheet contains "button {align-items: flex-start}" (at least in Chrome). The default behavior is "stretch". Spent an hour debugging why my flex…

Safari is the only major browser still not supporting scroll anchoring.

A common requirement for tooltips is that they should appear above or below some other elements, depending on the position, in order to make sure they stay inside the screen. CSS n…

I've always wanted to give IPv6 more chances to see if I can take advantage of its features early, but every attempt has left me very disappointed. Issues I noticed during my recen…

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> That's what it is like watching some people try to use LLM's. Exactly. I made a game testing prompting skills a few days earlier, to share with some close friends, and it was you…

Thank you for your feedback! However, I'm really confused. I am color blind (red-green) so I always try to make the life of other color blind people (and myself) easier. I hate red…

Also inspired by this HN submission: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/findl... The model is gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18.

I have been using a small tool I made to hide the time information in my git commits. It also sets the timezone to UTC. So all my commits only have the date information, and don't …

I have been using a small tool I made to hide the time information in my git commits: https://github.com/SmartHypercube/git-date-truncate It not only sets the timezone to UTC, but …

Exact same behavior here. I got it in 24 guesses. New Game doesn't change the color and guesses show NaN%. (Windows Chrome)

If we ignore the information contained in the score numbers, only comparing which score is higher, we could optimize using ternary search (or golden-section search). https://en.wik…

> For example, in games and crypto trading programs, I want to classify all computations into two priorities. I need to do an update / render a frame / compute a trading action in …

I'm not talking about the loading screen of a video game.

Using RCU as the example to motivate GC is interesting. It is essentially transferring the responsibility of freeing from the writer to the last reader, who cannot be determined wh…

Who else is clicking "click to start" like me? It turns out you have to choose one of the buttons. I thought they are there to allow me to enable/disable the sound, but they also b…