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TFA takes us on this journey and then at the end, "Image maps ended up not working for us" without telling us what they did. My money is on JavaScript for that "expressive" aspect …

Still. My god.

5 year old low end Motorola Android with Firefox and ublock. Smooth as a baby's bottom. Genuinely surprised!

Jokes on you, I do have a fortinet which does this.... Oh wait, only up to TLS 1.1 or something and it's slow. I forgot the name of the software but there used to be a few tools to…

OpenwebUI and you can run quantized or low end models (Llama 3 4b or gemma 4b) on a 4-6gb graphic card. It's a game changer to run local (no usage caps for a weekend blitz project)…

My understanding is the opposite, see papers for "synthetic" data training. They use a small bit if real data to generate lots of synthetic data and get usable results. The bias le…

I can't figure out how to download your comment. (Written in a serif font textarea which will show up as a generic arial)

Too hard (and i help my wife with crosswords). Hint mode (put one letter in place) would be the best UI

Nirsoft saved my ass so many times on different things. I remember when I lived somewhere without (reliable or consistent) internet access, I scraped all the tools to take with me.…

Li-fi. This combined with ultrasonic and we'll be surrounded by non radio signals!

A well-rounded take in an age and medium of reactionary hot takes! While theres some synchronistic effects... I think the physical manufacturing and logistics base is harder to dev…

Thanks for this, I still provision with a bash script.

Agreed. Been around long enough to see u/sers from another site change the culture here subtly. There was an interesting FB engineering post here about cost benefits to using a QLC…

So say we all. My non-tech friends call me paranoid at the basic level of protection I do - separate browsers for everything, and a couple of VMs for e.g. finances. Vlan has always…

Typed data?! What's next, unit tests? Memory safety? Where will it stop?

Exactly, someone who can answer where media queries fall in terms of loading priorities for FE (when hiring for that.) Electrical engineering is a whole nother thing!

Oohh I haven't seen this, will check it out as a possible metric / sample answer for this question!

That's exactly the point - sometimes too much detail or focused on wrong thing can ve distracting. But having a frontend engineer aware of Safari on iOS or macOS vs assuming chrome…

Consider, do you type or paste the url? With or wothout http/s? Or www? Does it matter? What if you typo wwww.domain.com? And what do you mean physical keyboard, the virtual one on…

That's the beauty... Sometimes too much detail can be distracting, so knowing what to mention/omit is part of it too. As CTO for multiple companies and hiring across multiple compe…

That's the beauty. I could care less if my backend JS candidate knows anything about Ethernet frames, but I damn well expect h3 and async discussion. But my devops guy? He better b…

One of my favorite tech interview questions for any position is, "Describe in excruciating detail, everything that happens when you request and load a website in your browser." You…

Interesting! The only thing of value are pictures, notes, and TOTP 2FA. I use kde connect to backup the first two, and store keys at time of creation instead of scanning QR code fo…

Meanwhile, working on legitimate GPS requests in an app, my fiber optic ISP has the GPS of my IP about 2 streets up from where I live. I took a stroll and sure enough there's a big…

My experience in mainland China cerca 2003 is notably missing from this thread. Entire markets with "daoban" (pirate) DVDs, music, and importantly - English language software. The …