arantius

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The Thinking Wattage of AI Agents vs. the Human Brain(codeandlife.com)
1 points by arantius 16d ago|0 comments
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by arantius 1mo ago
> ... fast/audible switching between notes in a chord ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpeggio Many of my favorite chiptunes use this technique.
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by arantius 2mo ago
I guess they've never heard of select-and-drag? Which isn't universal, but is common. And should be universal. I use it frequently. So many one-time-password forms break it in various ways, like wanting the value to go into si
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Jim's TrueType QR Code Font(github.com)
219 points by arantius 2mo ago|29 comments
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by arantius 6mo ago
This is a fantastic claim. I've been making web pages since the '90s and using web browsers just as long, and I can't think of a single instance of this. Perhaps it existed and I never knew about it? Can you provide some e
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by arantius 7mo ago
I've thought a little bit about this, and I agree that always on is a big part of the problem. I think if I were the time lord, I'd aim for crippling wireless computer networking. I think I want everything we have computing and
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by arantius 7mo ago
I can't answer for Americans for a whole, but I live in the USA and I pay with credit card by default. My personal reasons: * Cards are convenient. No need to go get cash, no change at each transaction to manage carrying around. * Ca
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by arantius 8mo ago
What prevents it is that the web in 2026 is very different than it was when OG pagerank became popular (because it was good). Back then, many pages linked to many other pages. Now a significant amount of content (newer content, which is o
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by arantius 9mo ago
For one piece of anecdata: I drive a hybrid with a weird size/shape 12V battery. (It uses the traction battery for starting, so only needs a smaller 12V for e.g. accessories and simple bootstrapping of electronics.) Though I normally
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by arantius 10mo ago
IME the modern web is not amenable to user scripting like it was ~10 years ago. Then, most things were a simple static HTML document, more templated then generated. Now virtually everything (whether it's useful or not) is a heavy com
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by arantius 10mo ago
For Greasemonkey proper (which has always only been a Firefox extension) the big pain point was Mozilla's forced migration to new extension APIs (2015: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-
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by arantius 10mo ago
A penny is less than 3% copper (since 1982).
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by arantius 1y ago
Receiving mail correctly at the address on the label isn't a problem with the post office.
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Primesweeper Number Puzzle Game(vole.wtf)
11 points by arantius 1y ago|3 comments
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by arantius 1y ago
This is an appropriate usage of the word "variant", and applies to anything that can have several varieties.
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Balatro for the Nintendo E-Reader(mattgreer.dev)
126 points by arantius 1y ago|30 comments
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by arantius 2y ago
Sibling already mentions this, but the wording of the article almost directly but not quite says it's "Spy vs. Spy" based. I'm not aware of an official link to document this but https://www.google.com/se
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by arantius 2y ago
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=restaura... Similar in Google trends, but https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r... Much smaller difference, w
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What's the Deal with Magnetic Fields?(lcamtuf.substack.com)
2 points by arantius 2y ago|0 comments
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by arantius 2y ago
For a concrete example: https://www.gentoo.org/support/rsync-mirrors/ Gentoo's package manager most typically updates over rsync.
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by arantius 2y ago
I discovered this back in 2015 (by the version history) and put together a "one sheet" (two sided) version of the rules. The side with the card effects is especially useful. https://docs.google.com/document/d
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by arantius 2y ago
With so little context in your question I'll reply with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project I remember using this in the late 90s (maybe early 2000s). A linux distro designed to be a router, and to
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by arantius 2y ago
Because this misunderstanding and limitation is so common, BitTorrent has workarounds in place. See https://superuser.com/a/1548724
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by arantius 2y ago
> 5. America's Test Kitchen - a youtube channel. FWIW It's a TV show (slash media franchise; see: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/ ) that happens to have a YT channel. I primarily know it from PBS.
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Watching Sunsets(fabiensanglard.net)
3 points by arantius 2y ago|0 comments
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by arantius 2y ago
I'm honestly guessing here because I'm not an insider and I don't naturally understand what's going on with this made up word, but I think it's: 1. Name is "coq" which is pronounced like "cock".
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Don't use a $5 range outlet for EV charging(nerdralph.blogspot.com)
21 points by arantius 2y ago|31 comments
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by arantius 2y ago
I left Google in 2022, but I remember seeing the beginning of this. The system that got built up to do all the things Google wanted to do -- previously "simple" things, orchestrated on raw hosting (Borg) -- got too big and comple
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Why do trucks/lorries hit bridges?(threadreaderapp.com)
2 points by arantius 2y ago|0 comments
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by arantius 2y ago
I used to think along these lines. But in actuality, not so much. By this definition they're the same thing. An electric motor converts electric energy into kinetic energy. A gasoline engine converts chemical energy to kinetic ener

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