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What a fun little project! I thought it was going to be the 30 Rock one!

One who thinks "open source" means blindly copy/pasting code snippets found online.

Everyone knows investing in cybersecurity is just wasteful spending!

You could take a look at SELÖVE, a (severely out of date) fork of LÖVE that is intended to make it safe to run arbitrary .love games. (It used to be on bitbucket, but it looks like…

Cool to see you were inspired by Ser!

Not exactly. The headline is a bit misleading imho: the article doesn't say that CO2 uptake by plants is up by 31%, rather that new estimates of the CO2 uptake by plants is 31% hig…

^ That kind of shallow understanding of health is a large part of what makes RFK Jr. so dangerous.

It's very possible that if you showed me the MapHub UI eight years ago, I'd have intuited that I'd need to save manually---I can't tell for sure. I am definitely aware that the way…

I work with files every day, and I'm not sure I would have realised I'd needed to save manually with the original MapHub UI either. A web-based interface that looks like that, I ex…

With that name I'd expect a tiny implementation of JavaScript.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/793/

Anything that needs to be read over the phone should probably be written out using something like the NATO phonetic alphabet, split into smaller chunks if needed: "The code? It's k…

Yeah, other details are missing too. For example backgroundStyle : > cover fills the entire width and height of the node. Does that work like the CSS background-size: cover; or bac…

That is correct. The client sends the encrypted (via HTTPS) but not hashed password to the server, both for changing your password and checking your password. So the server receive…

> What if you actually needed to differentiate jack from Jack? Especially if Jack's your uncle and he's on a horse...

CONVERTING EVERYTHING TO UPPERCASE SHOULD HAVE THE SAME EFFECT ON COMPRESSION STOP IT EVEN MAKES YOUR WEBSITE LOOK LIKE A TELEGRAM STOP

In terms of communicating with laypeople, I don't think this is a hill worth dying on. "Confabulating" is not a term I think that many people outside of the field of psychology are…

This might work in the short term, but I don't recommend it as a general technique. This sort of an approach often causes there to be hidden bugs, which do not generate errors now,…

Shameless self-promotion: https://github.com/gvx/base116676

Honestly, most apps don't need a full name. Just a preferred name is enough. If you really need a full name, it'll be because you need it for a specific institution, like governmen…

I had the same idea. If you look at the sitekeys you can click "View deployment". It's just a "I'm not a robot" checkbox. If you click it, it does some POW stuff in the background …

> I really hope ChatGPT causes StackOverflow to change. It already has, and not for the better. SO is currently awash with nonsensical answers that are clearly the result of feedin…

How I usually try to answer these kinds of questions is "Shooting yourself is generally not a good idea, for these reasons. If you really want to do it, you can try loading your gu…

IMO, if you're writing documentation, you should be aware that any sample text or code will be copy/pasted by someone and will end up in production there.

The simplest thing I can think of is by generating keys that follow the exact right structure but some invariant like n = p * q is broken. Of course that relies on the assumption t…