nephyrin

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by nephyrin 1y ago
<object> used like this is just a poor iframe in a much shakier spot in the standards, mostly for backwards compatibility. Like iframe, it "includes" a full subdocument as a block element, which isn't quite what the OP
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by nephyrin 2y ago
For those that haven't bothered clicking the link, they add: > Github was struggling with "malware" comment spam lately and we added several filter rules that block this stuff. Maybe this is what triggered disabling the re
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by nephyrin 2y ago
In a world of hot takes, this certainly is one of them. I miss the n-gate guy.
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by nephyrin 3y ago
Did they actually re-release 0125 as a retrained model with newer data, or was that an oversight? The date of Dec 2023 seems to suggest that was always the training time of the snapshot, rather than OpenAI silently re-revving the 0125 mode
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by nephyrin 3y ago
gpt-4-0125-preview has been out for about a month now
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by nephyrin 3y ago
SteamOS dev here - lack of case folding is one (but solvable, we supported development on native case folding for ext4), but general stability issues are the main concern. Our testing with btrfs has not been promising for deploying it in a
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by nephyrin 3y ago
Note that this isn't for github's copilot, but rather for running your own LLM engine locally. It's going to quickly get confused with the unofficial copilot-for-emacs plugin pretty quickly: https://github.com&#x2
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by nephyrin 3y ago
Agree, it feels like levitating a giraffe has been five years away for the last twenty years. The problem is private industry doesn't have a profit incentive to make the leap until it feels like a sure thing.
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by nephyrin 3y ago
This whole thread is full of Dunning–Kruger victims misexplaining magnets to each other, this is pretty tame.
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by nephyrin 3y ago
> if that person quits or the company discontinues a product, now we're left with useless crap in the kernel Presumably deleting code is not very hard if it is unmaintained or a burden. > Why can't these companies just build
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by nephyrin 4y ago
UDP is not a privileged protocol. You don't need any capabilities to speak UDP. It's used by web browsers already for HTTP/3 as TFA mentions. But also, apps needing additional capabilities is rather common and handled by mo
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by nephyrin 10y ago
> Recently Firefox said they were moving away from threads to processes. I think that's a mistake. Killing Chrome was a pain at times because when it does hang all the child processes had to be killed independently. It was possible
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by nephyrin 10y ago
Better hope your browser of choice has a regex JIT. And GPU compositing, 'cause damn.
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by nephyrin 11y ago
https://nemu.pointysoftware.net/sink/nephscreen-1456332101.p... At one frame per minute, I'm looking forward to where this goes Edit: Progress report (~1h): https://nemu.pointysoftware.net/sink&#x2
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by nephyrin 11y ago
Mozilla's DXR deserves a look as well https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/ https://github.com/mozilla/dxr
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by nephyrin 11y ago
So: - Anyone with this extension installed could be trivially owned by any website. - AVG's initial fix was to incorrectly whitelist their own domains without requiring SSL. - The follow up fix (after more harsh words from google) whit
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by nephyrin 11y ago
Are there specific advantages to using this pattern over e.g. just having a service factory with reference counting?
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by nephyrin 11y ago
I think I was Poe's Law'd by his last paragraph
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by nephyrin 11y ago
Rewriting public branch history is not generally used by any major project except in extreme circumstances. This reads like an attempt at satire by someone who doesn't understand the actual utility of history rewriting in git, which is
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by nephyrin 12y ago
This door? http://nextcity.org/images/made/images/daily/_resized/img_mo... I agree, it's outrageous that a door that opens onto the embarcadero be locked when the room is unoccupied, or that th
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by nephyrin 13y ago
My config is the repo vdm linked. Minimap "works" in that it can be opened, but terminals don't allow for variable font sizes or images, so it is significantly less useful.
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by nephyrin 13y ago
DejaVu Sans Mono: http://dejavu-fonts.org/ (Full hinting, greyscale AA)
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by nephyrin 13y ago
Not sure about sexy, but you can definitely make emacs easier on the eyes than its default Xt-in-1994 style: http://i.imgur.com/zwY3Ewc.png
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by nephyrin 13y ago
This is a link to a yahoo news scrape of a bgr.com story about a tweet about a picture. Seriously? https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/439577697606701056
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by nephyrin 13y ago
Mozilla intends to implement srcset/picture, but it hasn't landed yet. Relevant bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=870021 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=870022
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by nephyrin 13y ago
Mozilla (along with most everyone else) took issue with Google's intent to ship Shadow DOM. See e.g. this exchange: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Feb/0152.h...
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by nephyrin 13y ago
Gecko plugin peer here: Unfortunately, no. NPAPI has two modes: windowed and windowless. In windowless mode (roughly): we proxy input to flash, and flash renders into a buffer we provide it. In windowed mode, we create a native OS child win
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by nephyrin 13y ago
Gecko exposes a large number of its interfaces to JS, and the entire Firefox frontend is written as such: http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/base/c...
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by nephyrin 13y ago
git grep -E '\brout|outer\b'
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by nephyrin 13y ago
"Added to HTML5" is misleading. More specifically, the bitcoin scheme was added as a valid scheme that websites may register themselves as handlers for via navigator.registerProtocolHandler, a list that already includes mms: xmpp: webcal: t

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