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He quotes Václav Havel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless

Unfortunately, some apps don't support text selection and on some websites the text selection is unpredictable. I'd actually compare screen OCR to screenshots. Instead of every app…

Fair point, it does not on my device

Text selection used to be frustrating on mobile for me too until Google fixed it with OCR. I get to just hold a button briefly and then can immediately select an area of the screen…

Used for example to write GTA SAMP modes. I remember writing them in Pawno IDE. The scripts would get large as I'd export positions of many objects and paste them into the scripts …

Exactly. In my region there are multiple tournaments a month (in season) where players from no ELO to 2300 play. Swiss system means you're going to be paired up/down. I'm ~1900 whi…

I've promoted to rook several times in over-the-board tournaments. It's easier and quieter than stopping the clock and searching for a free queen piece if your position is decisive…

If you stacked them they would be about fifty thousand Popocatépetls high, give or take a few zeroes. UPDATE: as sibling pointed out indirectly, it's eight thousand Popocatépetls […

I imagine they would counterargument your proposal along the lines of: "the most endangered children cannot rely on their families to protect them online"

No, according to Wikipedia Planet Nine is expected to have about 5 earth masses.

You can cascade the deletes in db layer rather than in app layer

Is there a specific piece of engineering knowledge that powered you to substantially contribute? A software engineering example: knowing that Postgres FK doesn't implicitly create …

1. Have a global append-only function key-value store. 2. A key of a function is something like `keccak256(function's signature + docstring)` 3. A value is a list of the function's…

He was also into cryptography: https://www.cs.trincoll.edu/~crypto/historical/poe.html

But the space of their effects on the Blockchain state is vast. You need software to translate those effects to a form human can interpret as "what I want"/"not what I want". Ie. e…

Viewed through the lens of personal development I suppose one could make an argument that there wasn't much difference between rediscovering an existing valid or invalid solution. …

on average the "cleverer" ones get the degrees easier, hence there's a higher chance to pick a "cleverer" candidate if selecting by this criterion than when selecting at random

Many reasons are already mentioned in other comments. I'd add the following nice-to-have. Sometimes you'd find it easier/preferable to run some scripts with some other shell. You c…

While I did not visit to the conference, I did attend the workshop the blogpost author mentioned. It was an excuse for a train trip to beautiful Vienna. Also, I met Jon Gjengset fo…

Equating cheaters to energy vampires is great comedy, I'm stealing that. I'd love to see Colin Robinson play CS 1.6 with wallhack in his basement.

Looks fantastic indeed. I tried running it on Steam deck but I wouldn't call it supported. The default layout configuration is not working, only touchscreen.

As for promotion: in a valid chess position you could promote a single pawn at three files simultaneously. One by moving forward and then left and right capture. Additionally, you …

I'd like to see something like [dep-tree]( https://github.com/gabotechs/dep-tree ) 's visualization augmented with a keyword or LLM vector search. Your query would highlight releva…

Your ego should slightly overshoot your ability.