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by sflanker 9mo ago
This is a totally different class of software than what that post is ranting about. Charles is a local developer tool intended for temporary use when debugging. It only inspects TLS connections if 1) you enable that feature and 2) you add t
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by sflanker 9mo ago
The main link for this post doesn’t make sense. This might’ve better suited for a Show HN type post.
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by sflanker 11mo ago
Presumably she is young enough to have completely missed out on Myst, which will be very dated now but was groundbreaking at the time and is most definitely a work of art. These puzzle games are all very distinctive and beautiful in my opin
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by sflanker 1y ago
The EU’s oppressive regulations are based an absurd lack of understanding of how technology works. If consumers find an aspect of the protocol bothersome they have the power to use a browser or extension that makes it possible to block or d
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by sflanker 1y ago
I feel like this essay just regurgitates a handful of themes from what were groundbreaking, prescient, and serious science fiction novels from decades to the better part of a century ago. However, one upside is that now I want to go re-read
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by sflanker 1y ago
Same. I find perplexity to be much better for researching technical topics than Google or other classical search engines. I have only had occasional accuracy issues (like it suggesting something from a feature request that hasn’t been imple
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by sflanker 2y ago
Tangentially interesting: while leveraging Perplexity to try and find the blog post in question this post and your StackOverflow question already pollute the results it draws from and causes it to abort any more detailed search for such a b
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by sflanker 2y ago
https://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/12/16/animated-map-path-fo... Not an exact match for your description, but in the same vein
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by sflanker 2y ago
Full text here https://www.hawley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Haw...
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by sflanker 2y ago
I have used Kaboom https://kaboomjs.com/ to help a diverse group of kids build a simple 2d game together. It’s a toolkit specifically geared toward 2d platform we type games but it could be adapted to make other 2d games. I
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by sflanker 3y ago
Oh duh, this is inherent in binary counting. When y is equal to one any even x will be a zero. The when y is equal to 2 you get groups of zeros two at a time 0, 1; 4, 5; 8, 9; etc. The pattern repeats in lengthening, self similar way as th
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by sflanker 3y ago
If somebody can explain why bitwise ands generate serpinski triangles I would sure like to know. (y * 4 & x *4) % (frameCount / 10 % 300)
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by sflanker 3y ago
Here's a p5js sketch using WEBGL to do something similar. Not as flexible as the shadertoy, but arguably simpler to interact with: https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2203876