mediumdeviation

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by mediumdeviation 1mo ago
I'm not sure what prompt you put in but did Gemini replace the all of the images in the original with its own? That would be really weird behavior unprompted.
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by mediumdeviation 2mo ago
On the capitalization, it seems the BBC will always use title case for acronyms (Nasa, Nato) and all caps for initialisms (ATM, SNP). I did try to search for SQL to see if the Beeb thinks it should be read as Sequel or Es-que-el, but their
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by mediumdeviation 2mo ago
Ugh I would recommend anyone reading this to just skipping over it, it's mostly just a glorified loading bar. The visualization is obvious Claude slop, there are better and clearer visualization below that actually picks out the useful
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by mediumdeviation 7mo ago
We went out and used our editor against our and customer's documents. The Open part of OOXML makes as much sense as the Open in OpenAI. Microsoft made OOXML available to fend off an antitrust lawsuit, there is no incentive for them to
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by mediumdeviation 7mo ago
Ah these poor fools. Having built this exact product (OOXML compatible editor in React) before, it took all of two minutes to find a bug. The issue is that the OOXML spec is not in fact definitive - Word is, and trying to implement it from
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by mediumdeviation 8mo ago
Also while searching for SimCity screenshots I found someone recreating NYC in SimCity 4 https://www.reddit.com/r/simcity4/comments/12dkxey/check_out...
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by mediumdeviation 8mo ago
Another fun fact - lodash/fp doesn't deduplicate with lodash when bundled. For a couple of months I was wondering why our app had bundled two copies of lodash. I dismissed it as a measurement artifact at first. It took so long to
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by mediumdeviation 8mo ago
Links can have that as their href and it will also work as you'd expect. It's the telephone equivalent of the more well-known mailto: scheme
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by mediumdeviation 8mo ago
It's not random, setting the query string to a new value on every fetch is a cache busting technique - it's trying to prevent the browser from caching the page, presumably to increase bandwidth usage.
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by mediumdeviation 8mo ago
Pretty sure that blog is hosted on Wordpress.com infrastructure so it's not like the blog owner would even notice unless it generates so much traffic that WP itself notices. That said I don't think there's many non-malicious
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by mediumdeviation 8mo ago
Note that this is 51kb, it's not exactly lightweight https://bundlephobia.com/package/@js-temporal/polyfill@0.5.1 . Still good for forward compatibility or on the server, but for smaller apps it's signifi
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by mediumdeviation 9mo ago
Yeah, supporting iOS 12 in 2025 is odd. I was investigating browser support levels just recently for a library and also settled on iOS 16 as a reasonable level. For reference, iOS 12.x and below are used 0.33% globally https://br
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by mediumdeviation 9mo ago
For anyone confused by why the text says the performance is improving between each graph but the lines don't seem to show that - the color for each key and the scale changes between graphs.
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by mediumdeviation 10mo ago
Since it didn't gain traction the first time round, I'll just leave this here: > Clad Labs launches Chad IDE, the first ever "brainrot IDE" https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OgV-chad-ide-the-
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by mediumdeviation 10mo ago
It's because the website is using cufon, a very early attempt at supporting custom fonts on the web using HTML canvas - basically every word you see is rendered as an image rather than text. The end result does not look good on hi-dpi
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by mediumdeviation 11mo ago
It's the scanline effect, here's three lines of JS to disable it from the developer console s=document.createElement('style'); s.textContent='body::after{display: none !important}'; document.body.
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by mediumdeviation 1y ago
I think you mean congresswoman, Adelita Grijalva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelita_Grijalva > On September 23, 2025, Grijalva was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election to succeed her
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by mediumdeviation 1y ago
Since the article doesn't mention this, the intended use for this property is to act as a hint to the browser about what characters are supported by the font, and if the page doesn't have those characters then the browser can choo
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by mediumdeviation 1y ago
The news cycle is moving fast enough that shockingly enough this news is already pushed off the frontpage of these news sites, but the article is there if you dig a little. - BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/
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by mediumdeviation 1y ago
There’s some discussion in the specs here https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-secure-contexts/#is-origin-t... > In particular, the user agent SHOULD treat file URLs as potentially trustworthy. > User agents which pri
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by mediumdeviation 1y ago
> The main concern about the numbers is that they are probably a massive undercount. Every hospital in Gaza has been bombed by the IDF, and the healthcare system is barely functioning at all any more. Beyond that, there is rubble everywh
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by mediumdeviation 1y ago
Please for goodness sake just read React's docs. https://react.dev/learn The new docs are very good, they address common questions most devs have, up to fairly complex cases. The "book" unsurprisingly reads l
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Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters(thepinknews.com)
157 points by mediumdeviation 1y ago|185 comments
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by mediumdeviation 1y ago
The other part that's disconcerting is the person who did all this has decided to put his name on the public record in an interview with journalists. After reading through the article I had the feeling this would, in a few years, show
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Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish for 15M Windows User(forbes.com)
34 points by mediumdeviation 2y ago|15 comments
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Ukraine thrown into war's bleak future as drones open new battlefront(bbc.com)
15 points by mediumdeviation 2y ago|15 comments
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by mediumdeviation 2y ago
> So far as I know even SF has only ever had one avowed socialist politician Surely you’ve heard of Dean Preston, the DSA member of the Board of Supervisors who owns a $2.5m house in the city and is also the least pro-housing member on
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by mediumdeviation 2y ago
> It was already solved though (in Singapore and many other places). I feel like people saying this don’t understand how radical Singapore’s housing solution is. It starts with the government repossessing most of the land in the city t
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by mediumdeviation 2y ago
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a right winger advocate for “increasing state capacity and improving the government’s ability to solve problems itself”
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by mediumdeviation 3y ago
It's the name of the network/group, the links are to articles about their previous activities. The article reads fine to me.

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