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by nness 7d ago
Isn't Bending Spoons the one who acquired Vimeo then fired all but a skeleton staff?
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by nness 9d ago
Forever burnt into my mind is PNG alpha work-arounds in IE: filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='image.png');
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by nness 2mo ago
It seems like billionaires somehow develop a deep resentment and drive to change the world, whilst not spending any of their money to do it. (I wrote before remembering that lobbying exists.)
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by nness 3mo ago
What is the use-case for a WAF/proxy/etc. to block unknown HTTP verbs? It feels like a pathway for obsolescence with no actual security benefit?
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by nness 3mo ago
"Ports of Half-Life to unusual platforms generally lean on Xash3D, an open-source engine compatible with Valve's GoldSrc"
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by nness 3mo ago
One of the main points of CSS was to decouple presentation from markup — trying to maintain a separation of concerns. Over the years, the HTML standard has deprecated nearly all presentation attributes, preferring CSS classes and style to c
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by nness 4mo ago
I was reminiscing with some mates about LAN parties when we were younger — pushing mattresses against the wall to make room for folding tables so you could pack 20 people into a house. Cat5 running from daisy-chained switches (since this wa
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by nness 4mo ago
"Search without JS" and "static site generation" doesn't make much sense. Without client-side search, you'll need a search product or back-end search functionality? (both of which are not "static")
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by nness 5mo ago
When we talk about an artist being overrated, we're talking about whether their works are deserving of the reverence, praise, and patronage that they attract. Its largely subjective — built on interpretation, comparison, retrospection,
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by nness 5mo ago
Firefox — Everyone loves to play armchair CEO and dictate the ills of the company. But I think they do so because Firefox is largely the only independent rendering engine and with Google's foothold on browsers (to protect their ad reve
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by nness 5mo ago
"First-mover advantage" — its not a guarantee of success. But its more of a guarantee than the guy trying to vibe-code a copy.
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by nness 6mo ago
A novel idea. Once the tumour is gone, I'm curious as to whether any of the C. sporogenes byproducts would be toxic if they were to get into the blood stream (or maybe they'll be in low-enough quantities to not be a problem...)
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by nness 6mo ago
Then you go to jail (penalty is 6 months for impersonating a person and voting on their behalf.) It's not like polling locations don't have cameras. (A few people voting more than once is unlikely to change the results of an elect
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by nness 6mo ago
Australia has a system where you are anonymous and can prove that you only voted once: You have to be registered and must vote within your electorate, so your name appears on a certified list for that electorate and each voting location has
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by nness 7mo ago
There were two reasons the Court of Appeal hearing held that the complaint could be heard in UK courts: 1. They relate to alleged harm caused by decisions and policies made centrally by Dyson UK companies and personnel 2. There was substant
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by nness 7mo ago
I'd still lean heavily on Sass for CSS development. Nestled rules is a particularly big feature in Sass, but not the only one which streamlines development and improves quality. (With Internet Explorer's deprecation, iOS is now th
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by nness 7mo ago
Probably the best Duke3D ever got was the ROCH series. They really pushed what was possible with the engine, and must've been so slow on the Pentium 100. (Hard to remember the names from 20 years ago, but that one certainly sticks out.
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by nness 7mo ago
Blast from the past — I made the EDuke32 logo when I was teenager back in 2004. (I still have the PSD sitting around somewhere...) Back then there was quite an active community on the now defunct 3drealm's forums and I spent a lot of t
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by nness 7mo ago
Despite being depressing and I imagine a lot of damage can be done in a short time without these protections. But I would wager long-term large-scale changes to investment/spend is unlikely, especially if the mid-terms swing blue.
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by nness 8mo ago
Infinite life, finite resources, comes immediately to mind.
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by nness 8mo ago
An annual salary of £85,797 in London for a junior is impressive, too.
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by nness 8mo ago
Not the concept, how it can be profitable given the price of their acquisitions.
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by nness 8mo ago
I don't understand this model. Such significant layoffs would indicate that there is no real appetite for expansion or growth. Their goal might be be to acquire, dramatically cut costs, and then run the product for as long as they can
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by nness 8mo ago
Both are available on Steam and GOG. (But you'll need community patches to run it on modern hardware.)
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by nness 9mo ago
I think the biggest issue, what lead to the toxicity, came down to the question/answer format not suiting the problem it was trying to solve — The answer could only be as good as the original question, and the platform gave little leew
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by nness 9mo ago
Given AustralianSuper is, as its name makes pretty clear, a superannuation fund, I applaud any risk management which protects the retirement savings of their members.
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by nness 9mo ago
Largely, no. AI would need to 1. perform better than a person in a particular role, and 2. do so cheaper than their total cost, and 3. do so with fewer mistakes and reduced liability. Humans are objectively quite cheap. In fact for the outp
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by nness 9mo ago
a la "Popcorn Time."
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by nness 9mo ago
Every time I stumble upon this I end up losing an hour. The Rare era Nintendo 64 games are particularly interesting from a graphical stand-point, as Rare really got the most out of the N64's limited texture cache by blending textures w
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by nness 9mo ago
Performance is remarkably stable for a game running in a browser.

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