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by _jsdw 3mo ago
This is funny timing to me, because just the other week I did a dive into WebAssembly and WASI 0.2 ( https://jsdw.me/posts/wasm-components/ ) and assumed that 0.3 would be a while yet as there was no obvious (to me)
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by _jsdw 2y ago
I made Highscore ( https://github.com/jsdw/highscore ) just for the purpose of keeping track of high scores with somebody on a few karaoke games that didn't track individual peoples scores.. never been used for anyt
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by _jsdw 3y ago
Top tip; I used my thumb to cover up the bottom part of my phone, which allowed me to read it! I expect that 99% of the time it's a perfectly fun little pop up, but right now with the post on HN it is amazingly annoying
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by _jsdw 3y ago
I'm not in the market for a car seat, but just want to say that I think you've done an awesome job responding, and I'd be looking at your car seat for sure after reading these :)
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by _jsdw 3y ago
https://jsdw.me Personal blog/homepage for just over 10 years, coding related things, custom design, mostly static pages using Zola.
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by _jsdw 5y ago
What do you mean by "over focusing on the peripheral parts of the retina"? And if this is true, could one reverse myopia progression by doing the opposite?
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by _jsdw 5y ago
Indeed! If somebody was able to print a trillion dollars and stash it away in their bank account, I don't see why any observable inflation would occur.
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by _jsdw 6y ago
Does anybody here use F# in a Linux shop? I'm generally keen on the more functional languages, but have tended to avoid F# under the assumption that if I use F# I'll probably also end up needing to use Windows to get the most out
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by _jsdw 6y ago
“This looks really promising! A Bloom Filter that represents a set of million items with a false-positive rate of 0.01 requires only 9585059 bits and 7 hash functions.“ My immediate thought here was that this wasn't very space efficie
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by _jsdw 7y ago
Rust is a true statically typed language; `unsafe` in rust relates to code that violates memory safety guarantees, but you can't escape the static type checking using it. Rust actually has an `Any` trait which allows for a certain am
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by _jsdw 7y ago
I settled on this a while ago which I think is perfectly readable: const myvar = foo < bar ? bar : bar < baz ? baz : lark < 10 ? lark : 0
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by _jsdw 7y ago
In case it helps, I also had a go at an introductory neural net tutorial which I probably never shared anywhere: https://jsdw.me/posts/neural-nets/ I found that I had to read a bunch of these things to really gras
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by _jsdw 8y ago
Personally, I might be able to convert a number to floating point using the formula, but it's not easy to grasp why. The visual explanation really helps with that. Being able to read maths doesn't automatically mean that it is the
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by _jsdw 8y ago
Here's me: https://jsdw.me I am proud to have maybe the slowest css animation ever used so that, if you wait several hours, you'll see the clouds move across the screen :D
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by _jsdw 8y ago
I wonder whether something like pijul ( https://pijul.org ) might represent the next step forwards; I am no expert in these things but the patch based approach it takes sounds interesting and potentially very intuitive to work wit
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by _jsdw 9y ago
Just saw this, and took a random stab at my number and password and to my massive surprise I got in! 50530999 My username still reflects when I played starsiege as a kid at some silly time over a dial up modem.. Wow!
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by _jsdw 9y ago
Regarding Rust not having a mature websockets lib, this library seems to be a decent websockets implementation at a glance and passes all of the autobahn tests: https://github.com/housleyjk/ws-rs/ In any case, tha