romeovs

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by romeovs 2y ago
tesla.sexy contains the following text, which is slightly concerning: love your fate become your own ubermensch you are the master of your soul be kind there is so much to love, so much to live for follow your h
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by romeovs 2y ago
Finally we can set up verifiably fair betting! $10 that the NIST beacon at 1727710980000 will have more than 15 A's in it!
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by romeovs 3y ago
Why do you “have to oppose induction” now?
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by romeovs 3y ago
This might be off topic but has anyone else noticed the sloppiness in Apples' websites lately? On both Safari and Firefox on my machine the titles on this page appear without the correct fonts (falling back to Times). On apple.com a lo
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by romeovs 4y ago
Obligatory "Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity" by Scott Aaronson[1], one of the best reads I've ever had from a paper. It debunks the kind of arguments this blog article makes quite deftly. For insta
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by romeovs 4y ago
YouTube themselves haven't done this, but a lot of content creators have started integrating their own ads and sponsorship deals into their content. This is often done in fun ways where the ad is integrated into the content of the vide
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by romeovs 4y ago
Nice! A welcome addition! Too bad they're not using KaTeX [0] instead. It renders the maths server-side, so there's no runtime needed. An additional bonus is that the resulting math is copy-pasteable, which in the case of disply m
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by romeovs 5y ago
My hunch is that it’s not explicitly provided to the website by the browser, but there are ways to measure what the zoom level is using JavaScript on the page. One could use element.getBoundingClientRect and similar APIs to measure what siz
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by romeovs 5y ago
But nothing is stopping the US customs service (or any other service) to store the unencrypted data for later reference right? I don’t find it farfetched that some big players would have a database that holds basically a huge lookup table t
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by romeovs 5y ago
Oh man, there was a post of a (new?/in preview?) productivity/project planning app on HN recently that I've been looking for in a while since I lost the link. Hoping that shows up here again. I don't remember the name bu
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by romeovs 5y ago
That would be more effective! But that's not something Apple is trying to solve here (or could ever solve). They are trying to prevent CSAM images from being stored and distributed using Apple products. If that goal is easily circumven
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by romeovs 5y ago
A lot has been said about using this as an attack vector by possibly poisoning a victims iPhone with an image that matches a CSAM hash. But could this not also be used to circumvent the CSAM scanning by converting images that are in the CSA
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by romeovs 5y ago
This is pretty cool! It reminds me of a similar project that’s been around called drawille [0] which is pretty nifty. [0]: https://github.com/asciimoo/drawille
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by romeovs 5y ago
Yep! I build this font in FontForge. Such a simple pice of software.
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by romeovs 5y ago
Hi everyone, quite unexpected to see this on the frontpage of Hacker News! I made this so many years ago but I'm not using it myself anymore and I haven't been maintaining it. I was (and am) also very inexperienced making fonts so
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by romeovs 8y ago
This concept is really neat! I do have one question: how would something like this work when your webpages are being cached or when you're behind a CDN? As far as I can see none of this can work unless all requests hit your web serve
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by romeovs 11y ago
It is to my understanding that Apple and its lawyers aren't claiming that the code they create is "speech". They are claiming that forcing Apple to digitally sign the codebase (which would be necessary to make it installable
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by romeovs 12y ago
You could do this (although it is likely to be impractical): avoid writing java code altogether. Use a language with better abstraction features like Scala or Clojure. Those two compile to JVM bytecode so you could still use them in your ja
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by romeovs 13y ago
great read!
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by romeovs 13y ago
http://alternativeto.net/ kind off does this. Although it is not for programming only so I don't know if this is what you're looking for.