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chrisfarms

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About chrisfarms

Web Developer, Brighton UK

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    Comment #48736395

    The "satisfies" keyword may be what you are missing. Most of the cases I used to need "as" (usually weirdly permissive types from some lib) can be nudged in line with a "satisfies"…

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    Comment #40766549

    > Video games tend to use UDP for the same reason everyone else mentioned does: timeliness. You want the most recent position of the various game objects now, and you don't give a …

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    Comment #19893984

    Tell us more... Is this for previews of the artist assigned you? Or something else?

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    Comment #19387440

    Is there a relationship with the "Build" component of Knative here? ... It seems they were working on a very similar abstraction of CI/CD... This seems like a more general abstract…

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    Comment #17025133

    I'm really happy Google are giving a go at making ChromeOS into something more than browser on steroids. I really believe this is a path to a decent Linux Desktop future. I'm def c…

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    Comment #14446278

    > Why exactly Australians need a peer-to-peer payments system isn’t exactly clear... Probably as the first steps towards removing cash. Cash must be such a pain for a government, I…

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    Comment #12891913

    You do, and xiwi (X11 in a window) is almost magic in letting me spawn a proper terminal emulator integrated with ChromeOS's window manager (Aura?). ...but it feels like a bit of a…

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    Comment #12891570

    As surprised as I am to say this; I think Google could steal a large chunk of the developer market overnight with some slight changes to Chrome OS. I needed an emergency machine la…

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    Comment #10849647

    Maybe just a new colour.

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    Comment #10751031

    I like how the Signal app (at least on Android) also works for insecure SMS to give me one place for messaging... well apart from everyone who uses WhatsApp at least. What I'd love…

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    Comment #10648858

    > His prediction was that everyone would dress in uniforms. But that’s the complete opposite of what has happened. And I don’t think people will be dressing in uniforms anytime soo…

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    Comment #10628980

    Pretty sure Dart has it's own VM. It just also happens to compile to Javascript.

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    Comment #10611910

    > don't go to sites that have them That's not really a viable solution. You cannot know the site you are about to visit has ads on it or not.

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    Comment #10605162

    My bedtime reading recently has been Propagator Networks[1][2][3] ... and I keep daydreaming of a resource management system just like Dave describes in this video... I do believe …

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    Comment #10521526

    Not very clear what this is from the home page.... appengine-style PaaS?

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    Comment #10506992

    I don't see anywhere in the bill what EXACTLY an Internet Connection Record is, and since there is no such thing as a standard Internet Connection Record in any of our existing net…

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    Comment #10439462

    Whenever I see those sorts of limitation I assume there's probably some kind of poorly handled escape situation to exploit and their fix was "well just don't allow that pesky < cha…

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    Comment #10071984

    There's a guy in Brighton (UK) with one of these... he always looks so happy and surprisingly stable on it. It seems to make up the relatively steep hill I live on, but I've never …

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    Comment #9725161

    No the contexts in pools do not share any state. Once you call an Eval from Go-land you'll be tied to context until that Eval returns, but Go-land will yield during that time so ot…

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    Comment #9724764

    I built a package to bridge spidermonkey/Go last year[0]. I ended up doing most of the communication via JSON (after several less stable versions using reflect) which was fine for …

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    Comment #9582314

    Looks closer to siege[1] than ab. https://www.joedog.org/siege-home/

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    Comment #9582288

    I guess if the phone has a pin/pattern unlock... that could be argued as the "something you know" part.

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    Comment #9505792

    Luckily for all those times I've walked face first into a spider's web: Spider silk != Poop

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    Comment #9504421

    Skitter[1] would have been all over this. [1] http://worm.wikia.com/wiki/Taylor_Hebert