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nephyrin

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    Comment #43884575

    used like this is just a poor iframe in a much shakier spot in the standards, mostly for backwards compatibility. Like iframe, it "includes" a full subdocument as a block element, …

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    Comment #41438405

    For those that haven't bothered clicking the link, they add: > Github was struggling with "malware" comment spam lately and we added several filter rules that block this stuff. May…

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    Comment #39999338

    In a world of hot takes, this certainly is one of them. I miss the n-gate guy.

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    Comment #39436330

    Did they actually re-release 0125 as a retrained model with newer data, or was that an oversight? The date of Dec 2023 seems to suggest that was always the training time of the sna…

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    Comment #39434381

    gpt-4-0125-preview has been out for about a month now

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    Comment #38829122

    SteamOS dev here - lack of case folding is one (but solvable, we supported development on native case folding for ext4), but general stability issues are the main concern. Our test…

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    Comment #38822800

    Note that this isn't for github's copilot, but rather for running your own LLM engine locally. It's going to quickly get confused with the unofficial copilot-for-emacs plugin prett…

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    Comment #37029835

    Agree, it feels like levitating a giraffe has been five years away for the last twenty years. The problem is private industry doesn't have a profit incentive to make the leap until…

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    Comment #36870343

    This whole thread is full of Dunning–Kruger victims misexplaining magnets to each other, this is pretty tame.

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    Comment #35253932

    > if that person quits or the company discontinues a product, now we're left with useless crap in the kernel Presumably deleting code is not very hard if it is unmaintained or a bu…

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    Comment #31985057

    UDP is not a privileged protocol. You don't need any capabilities to speak UDP. It's used by web browsers already for HTTP/3 as TFA mentions. But also, apps needing additional capa…

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    Comment #13584697

    > Recently Firefox said they were moving away from threads to processes. I think that's a mistake. Killing Chrome was a pain at times because when it does hang all the child proces…

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    Comment #11802875

    Better hope your browser of choice has a regex JIT. And GPU compositing, 'cause damn.

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    Comment #11168062

    https://nemu.pointysoftware.net/sink/nephscreen-1456332101.p... At one frame per minute, I'm looking forward to where this goes Edit: Progress report (~1h): https://nemu.pointysoft…

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    Comment #10946257

    Mozilla's DXR deserves a look as well https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/ https://github.com/mozilla/dxr

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    Comment #10803624

    So: - Anyone with this extension installed could be trivially owned by any website. - AVG's initial fix was to incorrectly whitelist their own domains without requiring SSL. - The …

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    Comment #10209283

    Are there specific advantages to using this pattern over e.g. just having a service factory with reference counting?

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    Comment #10100630

    I think I was Poe's Law'd by his last paragraph

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    Comment #10099663

    Rewriting public branch history is not generally used by any major project except in extreme circumstances. This reads like an attempt at satire by someone who doesn't understand t…

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    Comment #7476241

    This door? http://nextcity.org/images/made/images/daily/_resized/img_mo... I agree, it's outrageous that a door that opens onto the embarcadero be locked when the room is unoccupie…

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    Comment #7387324

    My config is the repo vdm linked. Minimap "works" in that it can be opened, but terminals don't allow for variable font sizes or images, so it is significantly less useful.

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    Comment #7387302

    DejaVu Sans Mono: http://dejavu-fonts.org/ (Full hinting, greyscale AA)

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    Comment #7383991

    Not sure about sexy, but you can definitely make emacs easier on the eyes than its default Xt-in-1994 style: http://i.imgur.com/zwY3Ewc.png

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    Comment #7358524

    This is a link to a yahoo news scrape of a bgr.com story about a tweet about a picture. Seriously? https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/439577697606701056