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by joeraut 4y ago
Great point on accessibility, a guarantee of screen reader support is a benefit that would be lost with screenshots or text without the correct semantics.
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UK aims to get 25% of electricity from nuclear power(theguardian.com)
12 points by joeraut 4y ago|0 comments
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by joeraut 5y ago
A nice improvement! An unfortunate side-effect of it is that it introduces some jitter during macOS's smooth scrolling in Firefox at time of first render, though.
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Google-induced mail migration malaise(robpegoraro.com)
1 points by joeraut 5y ago|0 comments
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by joeraut 5y ago
Archive: https://archive.is/WJLKT
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by joeraut 5y ago
That was an incredibly powerful read. Thank you for your effort.
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by joeraut 5y ago
Some companies are still keeping them on. From the article: > [...]some of them—including Nvidia, as well as giants like Facebook and Google—continued to pay their service workers.
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by joeraut 6y ago
Seconded. This was a great blog post, I think a more visible plug at the end is more than justified.
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by joeraut 6y ago
Happy rsync.net client here, thanks for the great service; the ability to use rclone for exactly this purpose, without having to worry about ingress/egress charges, is a huge value-add. Edit: Will free-of-charge ingress/egress alw
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by joeraut 6y ago
Original post from January 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947551
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China's Ultra-High Voltage Lines(twitter.com)
2 points by joeraut 6y ago|0 comments
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Secret history of Windows Format: by original Microsoft author Davepl(youtube.com)
2 points by joeraut 6y ago|0 comments
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by joeraut 6y ago
It's probably a running joke internally---anecdotally, I've came across it a few times on different Google properties over the years.
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by joeraut 6y ago
This looks very slick. Great job!
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Amazon Lightsail Containers(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by joeraut 6y ago|0 comments
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by joeraut 6y ago
The hero we don't deserve.
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by joeraut 6y ago
Yes, exactly. The procedurally generated world is predictable* if you know the world seed -- land forms, structures and items/loot spawn the same way each time. You can specify the seed when creating a world, if you like. There are cer
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by joeraut 6y ago
You're right — fixed :)
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by joeraut 6y ago
A brief summary: pack.png [0] is a 128x128px image of a scenic mountain within a Minecraft world, and is used in in-game menus. The goal of this project was to discover the world seed used to generate the Minecraft world that pack.png was t
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by joeraut 6y ago
> You have to be a non-blind person to pass the Turing test, as Cloudflare does not offer a handicap option. (Edit: not sure if the above is true.) I was quite surprised to see this. Much effort has been put into making the web more acce
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Kuwaiti Oil Fires (1991)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by joeraut 6y ago|0 comments
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by joeraut 6y ago
Cool CSS animations aside, that diagram is fantastic! Edit: It also handles i18n for EN, FR and ES by displaying different titles and hyperlinks for different system languages. Jaw dropped.
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by joeraut 6y ago
Great service, thanks for running it!
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Smooth-scrolling text on old character LCDs(joeraut.com)
3 points by joeraut 6y ago|0 comments
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by joeraut 6y ago
Link to the start of the thread: https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1182635589604171776
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by joeraut 6y ago
They disclose this in the (beautifully done) about page.
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by joeraut 6y ago
Seconding this. I don't know if it's a fair comparison but Instagram is removing publically-visible like counts because of their associated consequences, and embeddable banner services for tracking GitHub profile views seems inevi
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by joeraut 6y ago
Which "yank" package are you using? I came across one [0], which copies the file selected to the clipboard instead of outputting it to stdout. I managed to get it to print to stdout, though: alias -g Y="| yank -- cat &quo
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by joeraut 6y ago
Yep, I got the same error. The version here [0] works fine. [0] https://fabiensanglard.net/postcard_pathtracer/
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by joeraut 6y ago
Fascinating blog post of yours, thanks for sharing it!

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