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by gaazoh 9mo ago
And Disasterpeace encoded a puzzle in the Fez soundtrack: https://blog.krzyhau.pl/fez-spectrograms-adventure (and nobody has solved it in over a decade!) Also, C418 put a creeper face in Minecraft's soundtrack.
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by gaazoh 1y ago
If anything, Ladybird is an independent implementation of the web standards, and the devs have identified and helped solving quite a few bugs and and ambiguities in the standards, which benefits everyone, from browser devs including the big
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by gaazoh 1y ago
Very cool, I implemented this once in python, it's a fun exercise, and knowledge that is gradually disappearing (modern phones with 12-key physical keyboards usually don't even have a T9 implementation, and when they do it doesn&#
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by gaazoh 1y ago
I tried using a Nokia 6300 4G for a while a few years ago, because I don't use phones for much else than phone, SMS and a bit of Wikipedia. I had a terrible experience, nothing worked correctly, basic, fundamental apps such as phone, c
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by gaazoh 2y ago
OEMs have been doing basically this for years with their phones for decades at this point, pushing customized builds of Android with every phone they make, this has been successful to close the gap Apple created when they released the iPhon
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by gaazoh 2y ago
Mostly DDG, but that's beside the point. Kagi seems to be marketed at the general public, for whom FAANG companies control the narrative. Even though they are obviously bad actors wrt privacy and UX dark patterns, they claim otherwise,
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by gaazoh 2y ago
Kagi has popped up a couple of times here recently and looks interesting, but there are a few things keeping me from actually trying it out * I don't trust the product's claims. Sure, privacy and user-centered results sound cool,
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by gaazoh 2y ago
Not only that, but underground infrastructure and surrounding buildings put a high constraint on pavement design by putting a hard limit the total thickness of the pavement: can't build too deep or you'll disrupt other infrastruct
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by gaazoh 2y ago
I think it's a great project to learn and contribute. The scope is very broad, so there are plenty of different areas to contribute to, including not-so-advanced functionality. For example, the initial find-in-page feature was introduc
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by gaazoh 2y ago
Google has a near monopoly on web search, and they are very aggressively doing everything they can to keep it that way, both by tightly integrating it in their products (browser, browser engine, and OSs, mainly) and funding competitors (Saf
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by gaazoh 2y ago
Acceleration and deceleration aren't relevant here, the limit would be passenger comfort either way. Curved tracks do mean limits on top speed, as the centrifugal force needs to be kept below what would be uncomfortable for passengers.
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by gaazoh 2y ago
This is Switzerland, where land is not as plentiful as in Texas, not by a long shot. Plus, the support structure is free in this case, it's definitely cheaper to lay solar panels on those dishes than tearing them down just to lay panel
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by gaazoh 2y ago
Still requires hosting AFAICT. Would you know of a native Windows software alternative, perhaps? I could probably manage to host Photo Prism or Memories, but there's no way my parents would take the time to learn and set up a server, y
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by gaazoh 3y ago
Of course it didn't, it wasn't designed to be either the fastest nor the best. Just OK and simple. Yet in some cases it's not completely overtaken by competition, and I think that's cool. I don't believe QOI will ev
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by gaazoh 3y ago
The inclusion of QOI in the lossless benchmarks made me smile. It's a basically irrelevant format, that isn't supported by default by any general-public software, that aims to be just OK, not even good, yet it has a spot on one of
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by gaazoh 3y ago
It's very possible to have other goals than having a usable and marketable product, Andreas Kling and SerenityOS developpers have explicitly stated other goals on numerous occasions, and other positive side-effects have emerged from th
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by gaazoh 3y ago
I just had the exact same reaction! So I opened a random PDF I had laying around, and yes, it's mostly a text format. Some (most) objects are binary data streams, but some are also text data. Likewise, objects may or may not be compres
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by gaazoh 3y ago
That's kind of neat, but it looks too complex of an object for that purpose. A knitting spool (aka a jig to knit gloves) can be as simple as wood ring with nails around it. Even though it might work, it looks way too precious for such
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by gaazoh 3y ago
Purely speculative/anecdotal, but: Atari 2600 games are just not that fun. Of course, for a while it was the best gameplay experience one could have, but when the next generation of consoles came, it was flat out outcompeted. I (and qu
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by gaazoh 3y ago
Even a door-open alarm works better as an actual alarm than an app notification. My fridge does that: it beeps if the door is left open, so you can get your ass back in the kitchen and shut it. I don't want to receive a notification fr
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by gaazoh 3y ago
One of my pet peeves is when I go to the trouble of flattening indents, usually for some good reason like improving clarity or readability and some busybody comes along and indents it all for no good reason other than pandering to their own
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by gaazoh 3y ago
Not everything Google does is gospel, it feels kind of weird that you post these without further context. Although most coding guidelines seem to have converged towards spaces over tabs (see [1], [2],[3], your source, and many more), it als
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by gaazoh 3y ago
That's a Leslie speaker in the video, it doesn't operate on the same principle. Leslie speakers creates sound using a conventional vibrating membrane, whereas the rotary woofer does so by using a variable pitch fan. The rotating p
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by gaazoh 3y ago
> how would you like it if that announcement, say, contained an abortion-related proclamation that you don't agree with? "If they said something else wouldn't you feel different?" A key insight is that the poem doesn&
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by gaazoh 3y ago
I agree, including other guided transit (trams, urban gondolas...) on the metro layer would greatly improve public transit routing. But bus routes are a harder problem to integrate, especially in larger cities. In Paris, there are more than
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by gaazoh 3y ago
Text is so yesterday, just look at that fancy Flash photo gallery. The future is now, get used to it.
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by gaazoh 3y ago
I like the philosophy of QOA (and other similar projects, including QOI and TinyVG), but unlike others, it seems like it's not ready to use yet, see https://github.com/phoboslab/qoa/issues/25 > I have
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by gaazoh 3y ago
It's a custom wrapper for tkinter made specifically for the lesson. There's a download link in the "basic shapes" chapter. This could definitely be improved by: * explaining what is in graphics.py, and that it builds on
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by gaazoh 3y ago
The landing page (and only page, AFAICT) severely lacks information. I have a rough idea of what I'm looking at, but for the most part, all I can do is guess. The "demo" (not really a demo, but an example) can answer some que
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by gaazoh 3y ago
> we also have a hard time judging Ladybird’s progress for the reasons stated above There are plenty of available test for web browser stack, allowing to compare browsers and their implementation of standards, including Ladybird. * A

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