fredthedeadhead

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by fredthedeadhead 2mo ago
> The compiler is itself compiled to WASM Nitpick: it's Wasm, not WASM. Wasm is a contraction of “WebAssembly”, not an acronym, hence not using all-caps. https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/intro/i
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by fredthedeadhead 2y ago
I really miss reading new blog posts and series from Shamus :(
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First Look at Declarative Gradle(blog.gradle.org)
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by fredthedeadhead 2y ago
What does the author use to measure sound and create those graphs? I'm interested in automatically monitoring an annoying noise that's coming from a neighbour.
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by fredthedeadhead 2y ago
The blog post is 404ing, here's a Web archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20240610032818/https://asim.bear... The author has added an important edit: > I want to preface this by saying yes t
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by fredthedeadhead 2y ago
> The Google Cloud situation What's the Google Cloud situation?
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by fredthedeadhead 2y ago
So, I think this hilarious, but link shorteners have to be stable, right? What happens when link shorteners go offline? Is there a way of decoding shortened links without the server?
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by fredthedeadhead 3y ago
Project Rho gives several compelling reasons why there ain't no stealth in space https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewardetect...
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by fredthedeadhead 3y ago
Thanks, I missed that! It looks like it landed on quite an incline, almost 45 degrees.
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by fredthedeadhead 3y ago
Are images of the damage available to the public? "Imagery revealing damage to the rotor blade arrived several days later." https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/after-three-years-on-mars-nasa...
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by fredthedeadhead 3y ago
The site is down, so here's a working archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240125111236/https://www.coldb...
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by fredthedeadhead 3y ago
Sonatype's response https://www.sonatype.com/sonatypes-ongoing-commitment-to-mav...
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by fredthedeadhead 3y ago
I'm pretty interested in Breeze as an alternative https://breeze.social/ * There's no endless swiping. Users can only see a handleful of matches, each profile stays visible until users say yes/no on each prof
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by fredthedeadhead 3y ago
The blog was removed after OkCupid was acquired by Match.com, which is another problem in online dating apps that isn't often mentioned. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group#Dating_services_... This chokes
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by fredthedeadhead 3y ago
Fireship did a 'SurrealDB in 100 seconds' in case anyone would like a quick video summary: https://youtu.be/C7WFwgDRStM?si=va17q7zagn4lIoi3
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by fredthedeadhead 3y ago
A couple of other peculiar colourful facts about Bristol: * Ex-mayor George Ferguson (mentioned in the article) always wears red trousers, except when Bristol won the European Green Capital 2015 he wore green trousers in celebration. * All
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by fredthedeadhead 3y ago
> You've listened to a shitty song a lot. I don't know what song it means, the link is broken https://www.yourmusictastesucks.com/google.com
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by fredthedeadhead 3y ago
> Dr. Porges hypothesizes that the larger your screen, the less mentally taxing it can be. “As you narrow the visual field, you’re increasing the demand on your nervous system to exclude everything outside of it,” he said. Scientific jus
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by fredthedeadhead 3y ago
One high-level benefit of Kotlin Coroutines is that they're multiplatform, so one could write common Kotlin code that could compile to JVM, JS, or Native targets. Virtual threads are only for JVM.