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by pippy 5mo ago
The irony is that the statue is being guarded by the London police.
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by pippy 6mo ago
I built a bit torrent extension for Cockpit. it was pretty fun building software for it
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by pippy 4y ago
The Unicode can be ridiculous at times. It contains a character used once in a single manuscript in a extinct language, but not a standardized glyph for an external URL link.
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by pippy 4y ago
Also would the world be a better place if they gave it back to some third party, so it can be sold to a private collection and be locked in a vault somewhere? Where it is now has a lot of historical and cultural significance. It is currentl
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by pippy 4y ago
Webp is something you can push into production today: https://caniuse.com/?search=AVIF%2CWEBP however AVIF only has about 65% market penetration. If you ran a serious webserver, it would make more sense to do automatic on t
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by pippy 5y ago
I've often felt that English is a prime candidate for spelling reform. Being the modern lingua franca it makes sense to remove the unneeded vestigial remnants of other languages that adds extra unneeded complexity. For some reason it s
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by pippy 5y ago
It seems the article you're talking about is the opponent color process, which here's some great articles about it: https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/color2.html https://blog.asmartbear.com&#x2
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by pippy 5y ago
I highly recommend reading Human color vision / Peter K. Kaiser and Robert M. Boynton. It's a great read if you've gone down the color vision rabbit hole as it has nearly every single topic in regards to human color perceptio
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by pippy 5y ago
Tailwind is great, but ironically it is full circle in regards to OP's post. You describe the page structure in HTML using classes, much the same before CSS was a thing. This is ideologically opposed to semantic HTML where you describe
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by pippy 5y ago
NASA could have built two or more as backups, as most of the cost was in R&D it would have been (comparably) cost effective to do so.
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by pippy 5y ago
People like to use the term free market to describe the optimal market system, but that's pretty lousy terminology. The truth is, functioning markets are not "free" at all. They are regulated. Unregulated markets rapidly
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by pippy 5y ago
Kitset houses are cheaper and better. These sorts of projects hide where the real cost of construction is. Land, foundations, electrical, council permits, drainage, plumbing, telco, it all adds up. Building the walls is a minor cost in comp
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by pippy 5y ago
There's a great passage about this in Genome by Matt Ridley, which is a great book for anyone interested. In mammals both the male and female gametes imprint their DNA in their sex cells to repress certain genes, if you combine two gen
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by pippy 5y ago
The NZ govt did a good job with their version: realme.govt.nz While proving your identity was easy, they've had trouble achieving the next step of information sharing. Traditionally government departments under law were not able to sha
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by pippy 5y ago
The verify email process has a link to go to your email provider. that's slick.
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by pippy 5y ago
I wish them luck with the rewrite, but those sorts of rewrites are usually just replications of Apple's Copland. I suspect these sorts of rewrites are attempts at capturing the zeitgeist of younger developers. OP is going to be in for
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by pippy 5y ago
Immunor & St Georges University of London released a paper outlining evidence that SARS-CoV-2 Spike was artificial. The paper was criticised for going against the popular narrative. While I hope they're wrong, many researches dance
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by pippy 6y ago
with tools like this: https://github.com/tancredi/fantasticon using font icons is pretty easy to use. The biggest issue I found with font icons was getting upskilling new devs. online tools are clunky and explaining ho
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by pippy 6y ago
Plastic recycling by and large is a farce. The majority of all "recycled" plastics in western countries winds up being exported to developing nations who then extract a tiny percent that can be melted down and reused. The rest win
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by pippy 6y ago
There's clear evidence of epigenetics playing a role in brain activity, though these are more linked to hormonal responses such as stress. It's also been proven that RNA transcripts are used to trigger maternal instincts when a zy
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by pippy 6y ago
>France has 70% nuclear Not for long sadly :( Government policy is to reduce this to 50% by 2035.
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by pippy 6y ago
American Superconductor sells wire for $200 per kiloamp per metre. It would worth it getting a lighter superconducting cable given it wouldn't need cooling.
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by pippy 6y ago
I would recommend looking at the PSIO if you're wanting to mod a PSX today. It's a bit on the expensive side, but it allows you to insert a SD card instead of having to use CDs. Over time discs degrade and become unusable, as well
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by pippy 6y ago
Yes, what I was alluding too was that new tooling tends to make it easier for client resources to explode out of control. Don't get me wrong, jsx is great. but it should be used in the right place.
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by pippy 6y ago
The culture change around the importance of performance is frustrating, new developers all seem to love their massive JavaScript libraries. Giving a trivial function such as search box on a webpage or some animation results in a convoluted
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by pippy 6y ago
The original DMCA request stated that they violated copyright by suggesting songs in their source code. While this is a dubious copyright claim, surely the easy solution is to uphold the claim by simply replacing the songs with open source
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by pippy 6y ago
very cool. I struggled to find a good tile editor a few years ago, Tiled didn't seem to make the grade. I would like to suggest a JSON export option.
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by pippy 6y ago
It's a shame that the old guard refused to modernize. Talk to IRC or Jabber fans and they despise basic things like emojis, let alone important things like preserving offline messages and ease of access. There are hills to die on, and
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by pippy 6y ago
Traditional media companies have a motive for social media to implement prohibitive self policing measures. Youtube recently caved and gave media companies an extra boost in their trending algorithm and exceptions to expletive language, whi
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by pippy 6y ago
I love that VT100 in the background of that image. I have a thing for video terminals. Sadly I don't think you'd get tetris running on it very well as it only supported scrolling text

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