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mikestaas

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About mikestaas

father, geek, tinkerer, senior software engineer with 26 years experience, passionate about webassembly

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48566570

    In case you haven't seen it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo

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    Comment #48498235

    Slop cannons lol.

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    Comment #48288145

    Local LLMs are getting pretty darn good.

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    Comment #48262607

    The tape jack is a modem.

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    Comment #48217519

    OMG, LegacyScreenSaver is such a memory hog!

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    Comment #48046198

    Search autocomplete but it halucinates the article titles.

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    Comment #48046173

    I clicked a link in your first one and it generated https://halupedia.com/guild-of-amateurs I feel seen :pokerface:

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    Comment #48043664

    Break things, and then fix them. Repeat many times.

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    Comment #48030103

    OTOH being able to ride off into the bush with your mates and build tree houses and whatever and "be home when the street lights come on", have no phone, &c. was very different to …

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    Comment #48018627

    Agilefall, the worst of both worlds.

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    Comment #47786852

    LaurieWired did a good episode about that kind of thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2vQapLAW88

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    Comment #47775069

    Very nice, couldn't work out how to get passed the 2nd level.

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    Comment #47686218

    Hobby related forums are a great way for people working on similar projects to collaborate and share SoTA. Some random examples: https://www.lathetrolls.com/ https://www.shroomery.…

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    Comment #47343180

    I wouldn't generally use hand coded WASM in production, but I've used it for educational purposes [1], and just because I'm perhaps a bit perverse [2][3] (3 includes some helper ut…

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    Comment #47129888

    TI-99/4A was my first computer as well. I still have two of them, and they still work as well as they did in the '80s. I graduated to an Apple ][GS which I still have as well, alth…

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    Comment #47115924

    I recently got a new battery for my N9000, still works fine other than the radio modem not having a cell to talk to anymore, now I just need to update the system.

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    Comment #47022131

    Open source flash player emulator: https://ruffle.rs/

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    Comment #46998577

    Wow. I wonder how it would do with pure CSS a la https://diana-adrianne.com/

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    Comment #46701744

    I believe Santa is only tracking the behaviour of human children who are not aware that he is a fiction.

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    Comment #46321846

    > You have to click buttons in the UI. I like doing development work on a Mac, but this has to be my biggest bugbear with the system.

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    Comment #46011940

    absolute madlad

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    Comment #45985422

    the 8266 is pretty nice as well

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    Comment #45383595

    What is the other interpretation of “Belgium denialism” if not pretending that Belgium doesn't exists? I can't find a reference.

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    Comment #45382749

    Reminds me of https://poke-holo.simey.me/ note: hover over the cards to activate.

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    Comment #45354632

    Oh man, time to fire up my TI-99/4A again.