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spartanatreyu

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    Comment #49266614

    > I always tell myself that I should use backwards-compatible CSS only. > > I vividly remember IE and many hacks to have css elements properly working in it… The common advice now …

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    Comment #49205825

    This is the first time I've ever heard Xcode be called clever. Side note: This feature is in vscode: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editing/userinterface#_mi...

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    Comment #49150189

    > It's an invention that can invent things on its own No. It can't invent things on its own, it repeats what it's already seen. People keep seeing LLM outputs without seeing the or…

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    Comment #49029365

    This reminds me a lot of the articles at: https://ciechanow.ski/archives/ Not just in terms of presentation, but also quality. Amazing!

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    Comment #48839049

    You can, the file just has to be named "index.html".

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    Comment #48838983

    > this TS migration started long before AI was able to help Yes, but that doesn't mean it wasn't also "helped" along by AI. See: 1. https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/pull/…

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    Comment #48484262

    Deno's permissions are closed by default. Node's permissions are open by default. --- Let's suppose that node and deno both have the same 20 permissions. If we have a project that …

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    Comment #48469286

    We already have alternative and superior proposals, it's called Deno. It's node + npm compatible and its permission system locks everything down by default. If you know ahead of ti…

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    Comment #48454009

    It's not just the terrible charging that makes it a bad product. It's also the terrible ergonomics. It's the epitome of putting form before function. It's a desk ornament that lead…

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    Comment #48440845

    It's the first color of the rainbow: Red

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    Comment #48406057

    Except that % is already used to encode something else. Now if someone else a URI, is there going to be any confusion on how many times a URI needs to be decoded? If the answer is …

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    Comment #48392336

    Since it was spat out by an LLM, why not: Sloppy?

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    Comment #48392259

    Yeah, but they left out that Chrome removed their own support for JPEG XL saying no one in the industry was in favour of it despite everyone seeing it was the future screaming for …

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    Comment #48392005

    *Those videos are NOT connected (too late to make edits)

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    Comment #48380824

    All of what I said (except the direct reference to the movie crossing over) came from Kane Pixel's youtube series. Make sure you're not getting confused with random analog-horror /…

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    Comment #48378112

    Spoilers below (use rot13 to decipher): Vg nafjrerq gur gvzryvar bs ubj gur onpxebbzf jrer perngrq. Va 1972 Vina Orpx jnf qbvat culfvpf rkcrevzragf naq jnf noyr gb znxr znggre qvfn…

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    Comment #48351327

    I wonder if it could be made stronger by having the word move around the captcha... Like the dvd logo screensaver

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    Comment #48350819

    No spoilers below: The movie was great but it's not a stand-alone movie, it is a small piece of the full story so don't go in thinking that everything will be explained and tied up…

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    Comment #48230011

    Can confirm it's working now :)

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    Comment #48215725

    The sudoku example has something massively wrong with it's performance. Latency is over a second per click and it halts after a few clicks. The QR example works fine though

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    Comment #48201533

    1x is too slow for me. Whenever I'm watching lectures / talks / podcasts, I tend to watch/listen to them at 2x to 2.5x times speed. I only need to lower it if someone flubs an impo…

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    Comment #48104969

    > I can point you to ReAct loops and tool-calling and agent-based systems. Those literally work with text prediction. If you take the text prediction out of it, nothing happens. Yo…

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    Comment #48104925

    Building everything better with more secure tech instead of just doing what we were doing before. So, bsd pledge-likes, capabilities, design-by-contract, linear types, effect syste…

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    Comment #48104693

    They meant to say the letter "r". See: https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/116529994444529036

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    Comment #48104689

    > To believe that first you would have to ignore tool calling, ReAct loops, and the whole agent feature. That would be silly. How? It all still functions with text prediction