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Makes perfect sense . NaN is a special type indicating one can't reason about it normal way. It is an unknown or value that can't be represented. When comparing, think of it like c…

Not a referral issue. Doing ctrl-click or middle-click or open-in-a-new-tab all are broken too. Most likely it is just a typical broken spa. Most web apps, are shut for the website…

This depends on the join type. select ... from table1 left join mytable2 on ... where .. If you move contents of where clause to the join/on clause, you will change meaning of the …

BMP supports compression, but its basic, RLE style, so only line art compresses well.

Why not use server side includes? Most web servers support it, and it dates back to one of the early features of webservers. ... main content here

Can you expand on this? How is having WHERE 1=1 AND ...[usual-where-clause]... A performance and security compared to doing WHERE ...[usual-where-clause]...

Last 3 years I traveled extensively and had limited and flakey bandwidth. You should have a low bandwidth setting that also uses new codecs. Like 64kbit stereo opus is to my ears a…

Why not change font zoom for old.reddit.com domain? In chrome and firefox: Settings accessibility text size.

If it were on GOG, there would be no DRM or third party accounts required. With potential exception for online play. But most GOG games are single player offline games. Even online…

The page works, earlier when I tried I got a login page. This page is good. Also awesome to see comparison to EnCodec , which I think is one of the better ones available : https://…

Since Ballard's codec is "AI" based, can you add google's lyrav2 ( https://github.com/google/lyra ) and Facebook's/meta EnCodec ( https://github.com/facebookresearch/encodec ). Als…

Please, keep lossy compression. Web is unusable already with websites too big as it is. What should happen: websites/applications shouldn't recompress images if they already delive…

> The Crew does not seem like an example of this since it is a multplayer game. One can play The Crew single player, it has a whole campaign. There have been tons of games that are…

I would add * ability to confirm email validity by logging into my bank and seeing same email in their communication queue with me My bank sends me emails, and I have no way to con…

Aren't there two arguments for why this is bad? - db will generate new plans as necessary when row counts and values change. Putting in hints makes the plan rigid likely leading to…

The problem is twofold: App developers want consistent look of their application across various OSes, be it Mac/Win/Linux. This means developing with gtk for linux and winUI for wi…

Oh the irony of a text blog bemoaning complexity that won't load without javascript.

Not entirely true either. If it thinks it has network but it's flakey, it won't translate offline, it will say there is network error and will give you a button to retry. No button…

That is something I wanted to know, does IPFS guarantee that same two files have same two IPFS URLs / hash links? Otherwise, someone sharing same data again, because it will be in …

But same font problem exists with PDFs. If font is not embedded into PDF, or rendered into a vector shape that embedded, then PDF will display garbage.

The question is what drives consistency. 80s 90s and early 2000s it was the OS. All apps running under a specific OS would look similar to each other. Behave same way. File menus l…

I worked for a large corporation. The corporation had a program to hire coop students, both from high school (limited to 4 hrs a day for 5 months), and from university (different u…

RAR supports both incremental and differential backups. If you make it solid archive and sort files by extensions and enable max compression with ppm, then these backups will be so…

TM Forum provides a bloated format. It has everything and a kitchen sink. This means that something simple like customer name can be written in multiple places, and different archi…

This is for specific R&D costs, like doing something patentable. Most developers are not doing R&D. Most developers are fixing bugs, helping sales, keeping systems online, keeping …