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I defeated the Power Warp Core and feel genuinely proud of myself. Great job! Love the animations too.

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Here's an old article: https://css-tricks.com/the-difference-between-minification-a... In the example given: Original - 147 KB Minified - 123 KB (83%) Gzipped - 22 KB (15%) Both - …

Looks like it's from a talk the MythBusters guys did at NVISION 08: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3OGgBkRiQ

Those are scare quotes around the word. It's not quoting the parent comment.

I'm disappointed that it doesn't mirror the list from Logan Lucky

It makes me worry about the invisible minions that are pushing the blocks into place. They only have a second, blocks are falling, how can the get it to the right numbers in time? …

I for one wouldn't try to develop AGI if John Wick didn't want me to...

The sports side of college is bizarre. I think it is descended from British upper class amateur athletics, but it makes no sense in modern times. Athletics has nothing to do with e…

Obviously next you switch up the game to do things besides lunar landing. Have it be a take off ascent simulator for example. After a few years we can have an entire space mission …

I think it's like teddit, but worse

At least they can be honest about being evil...

I recommend Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay, which explores this concept by having a future archaeologist investigate a motel from the 20th century and arrive at extremely…

> The long term impact of the ease of generating low nutrition digital content using language models may be that people put down their devices The problem is people don't always ma…

I believe this is the original account. They produced several similar videos: https://www.youtube.com/@AlgoRythmics

I thought that ChatGPT was incapable of anything like real humor, but I have been proven wrong.

Wingspan (2019) was my favorite new (to me) game. I like that you can strategize and compete without directly getting in each other's way. It's great if you're tired of making enem…

Suddenly, I am very curious about what problem could possibly inspire bringing back dinosaurs as a potential solution...

Agreed. OWASP now advises developers on how to avoid account enumeration, so this take no longer makes sense.

That would make things waaaay more difficult for users. "Okay, I'm logged in, let me do something.... Now it says I don't have permission?? Did my account get deactivated??? What a…

Why wait for AI to take over when you can have people run the same calculations and come to the same conclusions?

Actually, this seems like a rather interesting defense of crypto. To use the metaphor, did the trough create the pigs? Or did it only draw a horde of pre-existing pigs to one place…

> you transmit 5 characters of the SHA1 hash of the email address You don't use email addresses at all with Pwned Passwords. The documentation says "first 5 characters of a SHA-1 p…

Vulnerability discovery and programming are different skill sets. I've seen terrible code written by talented security researchers.