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> i wouldn't expect css gaussian blur of all things to cause slowdowns in some browsers Gaussian blurs are extremely performance intensive. They need to be calculated for every ind…

I'm pretty sure that's because the entire of the site has an 8px Gaussian blur on it: .site-main[data-astro-cid-bpoqdqeq] { backdrop-filter:blur(8px); } Why, exactly? The page look…

> they accept money and direct deposit still with no KYC. But to get the money out? Oh no! We need a picture of your face! Unauthorized deposits aren't nearly as much of a concern …

> when they bought the successful ads company Could you elaborate on this? What ad company did Google buy?

Does the pitch describe the distance between the edges of the pixels or between the centers?

> the size of the rust binary The `render` binary weighed 4.0 MB on disk when I compiled it a few minutes ago. Not sure if that's what you were looking for, but just in case it is,…

The source for the site is here: https://github.com/dyne/cjit/tree/main/docs . It's a VitePress site with a custom theme. Glancing through the code, I don't see any obvious signs o…

I don't think that complaining about things necessitates believing that you're entitled to them. I agree that complaining about things you received for free is in rather poor taste…

Pardon my ignorance, but why does the "447 TB/cm^2" density value use square centimeters instead of a volume unit? Does the information capacity of this material really scale in pr…

The Copilot in Visual Studio (Code) is not the same as Microsoft's Copilot. The former is GitHub's AI product and the latter is Microsoft's AI product. You can tell them apart beca…

Kurzgesagt didn't invent the concept of disassembling Mercury to build a Dyson swarm. Stuart Armstrong proposed it in a lecture in 2012[0]. [0]: https://youtu.be/zQTfuI-9jIo?si=3jw…

There are other substances that can be used for reactor coolant. Molten salt reactors are actually substantially more efficient than water-cooled reactors because they have a highe…

Could you elaborate? Why would being deep in the gravity well be a non-starter? I thought Mercury's proximity to Sol was a huge advantage because of the ample solar power which wou…

They asked if the astronauts "want to risk it", not if it was actually safe. Those are very different questions. The astronauts are, in fact, the world's leading experts on whether…

The semantics that make sense to me is that "DDoS" describes the symptom/effect irrespective of intent, and "DDoS attack" describes the malicious crime. But the terms are frequentl…

Project Hail Mary. It's a sci-fi novel by Andy Weir (author of The Martian) that was adapted into a movie that released in theaters a couple weeks ago. It's fantastic and you shoul…

Firstly, since this argument is about semantic pedantry anyways, it's just denial-of-service, not distributed denial-of-service. AI scraper requests come from centralized servers, …

Unintentional denial-of-service attacks from AI scrapers are definitely a problem, I just don't know if "theft" is the right way to classify them. They shouldn't get lumped in with…

In a similar vein, I want a text editor where pasting from an external source isn't allowed. If you try, it should instantly remove the pasted text. Copy-pasting from inside the do…

Which is especially odd because the author (Sam Hughes) lives in the UK and wrote the original in UK English, but apparently wrote the rewrite in US English. For example, a chapter…

> The only way text can become communication is when the writer has intents I'm curious as to what you mean by this. I assume you don't mean it literally, as that would be triviall…

Counterpoint: a major use case for this technology would be to experiment on human brain structures to research and hopefully cure neurological diseases like Alzheimer's. If you wa…

Is there a reason they're using human brain cells specifically? This seems like it would also work with neurons from other creatures. I was under the impression that the relative i…

> Here's the thing, people make casual remarks, they use imprecise non technical colloquillisms. I think that you're completely misunderstanding my objection here. I'm not in the l…