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by gvx 2y ago
What a fun little project! I thought it was going to be the 30 Rock one!
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by gvx 2y ago
One who thinks "open source" means blindly copy/pasting code snippets found online.
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by gvx 2y ago
Everyone knows investing in cybersecurity is just wasteful spending!
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by gvx 2y ago
You could take a look at SELÖVE, a (severely out of date) fork of LÖVE that is intended to make it safe to run arbitrary .love games. (It used to be on bitbucket, but it looks like it's gone? I'm not sure if I have the repo locall
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by gvx 2y ago
Cool to see you were inspired by Ser!
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by gvx 2y ago
Not exactly. The headline is a bit misleading imho: the article doesn't say that CO2 uptake by plants is up by 31%, rather that new estimates of the CO2 uptake by plants is 31% higher than previous estimates. That doesn't preclude
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by gvx 2y ago
^ That kind of shallow understanding of health is a large part of what makes RFK Jr. so dangerous.
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by gvx 2y ago
It's very possible that if you showed me the MapHub UI eight years ago, I'd have intuited that I'd need to save manually---I can't tell for sure. I am definitely aware that the way I engage with software nowadays is very
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by gvx 2y ago
I work with files every day, and I'm not sure I would have realised I'd needed to save manually with the original MapHub UI either. A web-based interface that looks like that, I expect it to be transparent. If it'd had three
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by gvx 2y ago
With that name I'd expect a tiny implementation of JavaScript.
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by gvx 2y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/793/
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by gvx 2y ago
Anything that needs to be read over the phone should probably be written out using something like the NATO phonetic alphabet, split into smaller chunks if needed: "The code? It's kilo eight niner; one three mike; delta echo lima.&
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by gvx 3y ago
Yeah, other details are missing too. For example backgroundStyle : > cover fills the entire width and height of the node. Does that work like the CSS background-size: cover; or background-size: 100% 100%; ? > ratio maintains t
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by gvx 3y ago
That is correct. The client sends the encrypted (via HTTPS) but not hashed password to the server, both for changing your password and checking your password. So the server receives the password in plaintext but shouldn't store it. Wha
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by gvx 3y ago
> What if you actually needed to differentiate jack from Jack? Especially if Jack's your uncle and he's on a horse...
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by gvx 3y ago
CONVERTING EVERYTHING TO UPPERCASE SHOULD HAVE THE SAME EFFECT ON COMPRESSION STOP IT EVEN MAKES YOUR WEBSITE LOOK LIKE A TELEGRAM STOP
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by gvx 3y ago
In terms of communicating with laypeople, I don't think this is a hill worth dying on. "Confabulating" is not a term I think that many people outside of the field of psychology are familiar with in the first place. If you do
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by gvx 3y ago
This might work in the short term, but I don't recommend it as a general technique. This sort of an approach often causes there to be hidden bugs, which do not generate errors now, but will cause some problem down the line. It also has
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by gvx 3y ago
Shameless self-promotion: https://github.com/gvx/base116676
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by gvx 3y ago
Honestly, most apps don't need a full name. Just a preferred name is enough. If you really need a full name, it'll be because you need it for a specific institution, like government or bank. In that case, you probably need the a
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by gvx 3y ago
I had the same idea. If you look at the sitekeys you can click "View deployment". It's just a "I'm not a robot" checkbox. If you click it, it does some POW stuff in the background and that's it. It's
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by gvx 3y ago
> I really hope ChatGPT causes StackOverflow to change. It already has, and not for the better. SO is currently awash with nonsensical answers that are clearly the result of feeding the question into ChatGPT. Not to mention questions lik
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by gvx 3y ago
How I usually try to answer these kinds of questions is "Shooting yourself is generally not a good idea, for these reasons. If you really want to do it, you can try loading your gun and pulling the trigger again, but a better alternati
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by gvx 3y ago
IMO, if you're writing documentation, you should be aware that any sample text or code will be copy/pasted by someone and will end up in production there.
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by gvx 3y ago
The simplest thing I can think of is by generating keys that follow the exact right structure but some invariant like n = p * q is broken. Of course that relies on the assumption that implementations do some basic sanity checks like that. I
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by gvx 3y ago
I assumed the "Safety Buffer" is really more of a "Safety Factor", and is equivalent to 1 + what you or I would call a Safety Buffer.
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by gvx 3y ago
I think what they mean is that methods like add_header and add_text actually take raw HTML as an argument, which means that if you want to add arbitrary text, you actually need to do import html ... card.add_text(html.escape
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by gvx 4y ago
I killed so many instances of svchost.exe back in the day! Never ran into anything bad that a reboot wouldn't fix. I remember figuring out by trial-and-error which instances were safe to kill by looking at their memory usage. There was
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by gvx 4y ago
"Concentration camp" isn't Nazi terminology. From Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment ): > The term concentration camp originates from the Spanish–Cuban Ten Years' War when Spanish
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by gvx 4y ago
Yeah, in Dutch it's "apenstaartje" (little monkey's tail), although the last decades, it's becoming far more common to use the English "at".

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