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Your player likely wasn't written in Javascript back then. Playing video on Youtube causes much more cpu load than playing the video with the same av1 (or even more computationally…

Modern internet is build on premise of repeatedly running megabytes of javascript on everyone's machines to avoid a bit of work.

For someone using sed often enough inventing prettypath won't make sense. However, if producing correct sed command, be it by remembering the options, reading manual or digging thr…

Personally I only ever needed it once. I was re-implementing javascript function doing some strange string processing by using characters in the input string to calculate indexes o…

If I were to choose between bearing the fruits of 20 years of practicing music and equal amount of time spent playing this kind of games, it would certainly be the latter, and I di…

I don't really get the point of disabling Youtube history just to never visit the main page again anyway. That said, recommendation algorithm is actually a valuable asset and it do…

It went from "in 2-3 years" to "next year for sure", so at least it is not constant, like with fusion power.

Was able to correctly guess it's about Therac-25 from title alone. I can't help but think this specific story is being overtold, while other software-related accidents doesn't get …

If you are lucky you might get an image that hasn't yet been shown to enough people for the system to learn the "correct" answer, in which case you get a free pass submitting even …

The scraping and reuploading issue could be solved by some kind of universal global content identification system, integrated into the micropayments system, making sure no matter w…

This is a default, opt-out behavior: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/1296 It's pretty much the same as a phone camera app adding watermarks on pictures, or free em…

Oh, so this is what Reader mode does. The few times I actually tried it, it worked badly, with huge chunks of text content missing from the page. Makes me wonder if with modern web…

> Java's explicit exception system is great at forcing developers to deal with potential failures, but in practice Java developers chose not to deal with exceptions so often that e…

I can relate to idea of refusing to switch to a new version because it removes features or breaks usual workflow. By extension, I can understand the idea of switching to an older v…

Character "⧸" ( https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+29F8 ) is way harder to distinguish from "/" than ん. That said, looking at image depicting a phishing mail in the article, I no…

With delicate task like this, if I were to trust a technical solution I would rather have it open source, reviewed by myself, hosted on my terms and with appropriate degree of redu…

With appliances like battery pack the explanation could be that Type A ports are dirt cheap compared to Type C with all the speed and power requirements, so even removing four Type…

Sometimes PR contains objective evidence, such as LLM responses left in comments, or even something like " Generated with [Claude Code]( https://claude.ai/code )" in commit message…

Note that I didn't say "cheap". If price difference comes from manufacturer's hope of selling its cloud service, then the time and effort required to set it up is not worth the mon…

> but what if it fails to start? Since you're mentioning opening laptop's lid I assume you mean literally failing to start, as after power cycling. For that, wouldn't simple hittin…

So it is essentially all about money, and meaningfulness of the job is just another bonus, along with medical insurance, prolonged vacation period and anything else that might make…

Hacking together something usable out of cloud-first piece of hardware you ended up with is respectable, but I would like to bring up another option to go with if you're choosing a…

It seem that problem is not the use of water itself, but the fact that datacenters buy drinking-quality water under the same conditions and from the same source as regular citizens…

Judging by this https://vt.social/@lina/113056457969145576 rewriting any even remotely complex project to rust will require making decisions (function signatures, ownership and so …