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bepvte

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About bepvte

student at RPI

Recent public activity

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    Comment #44718752

    All of the games that feature this mechanic are bad, empty, fintech husks. Often they feature same neon vaporwave artstyle, maybe with apes, and usually are transparently asset fli…

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    Comment #34044836

    This is one of the best talks I've seen, do you have any other recommendations?

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    Comment #34019661

    You might be interested in https://github.com/servo/pathfinder

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    Comment #25084046

    Corporate lobbying and the wealthy's influence in politics damages democracy far more then this rhetoric ever could.

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    Comment #25083610

    The VC world and the economy of online startups are almost like a planned economy. The extremely wealthy allocate money for these expensive yet unprofitable online services, like u…

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    Comment #25081830

    Vaapi recently got AV1 support.

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    Comment #25030672

    This user script works for me: https://gist.github.com/pixeltris/77c676ef65b0b76e7aa56d8a0e...

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    Comment #24784949

    Uninstalling climacell... know any alternatives?

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    Comment #24680552

    We generally trust doctors to give us medications and advice that help us, and ingest what they prescribe.

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    Comment #24680524

    Read the linked new yorker article at the bottom of this one to see how they played a direct critical role in getting doctors to perscribe them for minor pain.

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    Comment #24664610

    I really wonder what the author of the sites endgoal is. Do they want flatpak to be eliminated? Do they think theyre stopping the next "systemd" from taking over their favorite dis…

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    Comment #24460818

    https://research.google/

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    Comment #24341848

    Can you prove that you aren't yourself? How would someone prove that?? I believe you are allowed to say "free tibet" etc on tiktok without any problems right now.

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    Comment #24248401

    On twitter, im fairly sure AMP links are not hosted by Google. They use a standard developed and pushed by google but I believe the pages themselves are not served by them unless t…

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    Comment #24177670

    Is the "set" evaluated where its written or only during "sum()"? If not, whats the sum for?

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    Comment #24165407

    Edge has more aggressive and persistent tracking identifiers then Google Chrome

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    Comment #24112799

    I agree with the size complaint. Its unbelievably annoying when I have to embed a bitmap image in a pdf and turn some 75kb jpeg into a 26mb pdf for compat reasons

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    Comment #23774509

    Flutter only falls back on the canvas, it avoids using anything but html elements if it can. Fancy animations tend to resort to the canvas

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    Comment #23697711

    Do you rely on redis persistence at all?

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    Comment #23522330

    I still love flatpak, and much of what this article states is hostile and outdated. The "XDG portal" specification makes filesystem access less popular then before. Also, "fakepak"…

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    Comment #23522313

    Flatpaks use a git-like tree of hashes, which cant just be shoved into random places on your filesystem. It has an exports directory you can symlink or add to your path.

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    Comment #23474363

    Great stuff, but it doesn't seem to search titles

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    Comment #23399434

    There are many of these webrtc file sharing services. Most of the time, the traffic ends up getting relayed.

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    Comment #23182174

    Windows has moved several legacy features to the "Add and remove windows features" menu, but not nearly enough