superjan

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by superjan 4d ago
The farm also runs the website that gets paid for ads. Google notices that the site triggers a conversion, so they will get the same ad again… It might be more involved but this is a large part of it.
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by superjan 7d ago
The phone shows a date of April 1 in several screenshots. I would guess that is to pretend that the images were for an april fools joke in case they leaked?
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by superjan 14d ago
The false chanterelle that I know is not poisonous.
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by superjan 17d ago
How feasible would it be to only offer a binary git (partial) download and move the html rendering to the client? It would still be a lot of requests, but less work for those servers. Not that I like SPA’s, but they could be useful here.
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by superjan 27d ago
What also changed is bands don’t sell records any more. You got to pay the bills somehow.
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by superjan 1mo ago
Careful what you wish for…
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by superjan 1mo ago
You only need one dev with the bright idea to pass data around via a clientside blob or cookie.
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by superjan 1mo ago
I don’t know if this is sarcastic. A lot of bloat in GUI apps is because they are built as websites with a bloated front end, dependencies, custom fonts plus the binary compiled code and the decompressed images cached by the browser.
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by superjan 1mo ago
When I was working on a post recently, I rediscovered that it is actually fun to draw. Much more fun than debating with an AI tool to generate an image for me. And given the time I already spent on the subject matter, the effort was not tha
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by superjan 2mo ago
Not a mathematician, but I suppose there is pressure to publish like everywhere else in academia. And a publication generally requires a new contribution.
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by superjan 2mo ago
It tells you that human attention can be gamed.
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by superjan 2mo ago
You do pay taxes.
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by superjan 2mo ago
In order of priority, I’d say: 1. If you write CRUD apps, make sure that the database does the heavy lifting. 2. Take note of algorithm complexities, use hashtables as appropriate, and write good hash functions when you start using hashtabl
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by superjan 2mo ago
I can imagine it is not the same everywhere. I guess I have an active local chapter of editors. Given that I have 2 comments disagreeing and none concurring I guess this is an exception.
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by superjan 2mo ago
They can’t do so automatically. Osm Editors must approve. Apparantly OSM fears legislation when people copy info from google maps. They like to see evidence, like street sign photos. In my limited experience anyway.
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by superjan 3mo ago
You can’t make smaller chips features with photonics. Visible light photons have a wavelength between 400 and 800 nm, much larger than current chip features. When you go to higher frequencies they get smaller, but they are really difficult
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by superjan 3mo ago
Do we known what ink is used?
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by superjan 3mo ago
Is the camera roll excluded? I bet I am not the only one who has a passport picture in there. I don’t know about other people’s camera rolls, but I bet it is occasionally more saucy than mine. (Sorry for not testing. Chrome-hater)
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by superjan 3mo ago
I’m not sure we are talking about the same virus, but for the version prevalent in northern europe, there’s a vaccine.
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by superjan 3mo ago
That is effectively what Uber did. Internet and GPS make taxi companies and “Knowledge” unneeded for taxi drivers. This destroyed local (badly run) monopolies, but also job security for taxi drivers.
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by superjan 3mo ago
What I also noticed: when there are two contradictory definitions to choose from, it is usually one of those two. For all its shortcomings, this was part of the fun, deducing the likely correct answer when you see a word for the first time.
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by superjan 3mo ago
It did not work that way for me. My music interest has been rekindled since Spotify. You can also hunt via Spotify. Songs and artists can help you find curated playlists (by other artists or fans) where you discover new artists. Everynoise.
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by superjan 3mo ago
Not neccesarily: https://www.ifixit.com/News/113171/iphone-air-teardown
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by superjan 3mo ago
When telling a story through film, changing what depth is in focus is a great way to move the viewer’s attention, without the need for cutting to a different angle or camera movement.
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by superjan 4mo ago
A nice (short!) video on this topic is this one from Chalk Talk: https://youtu.be/QDdOoYdb748?is=vCFGroHUPwZP7Dqm
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by superjan 4mo ago
Off topic: The very first assignment in this game is called “oil tank holiday”: fly the chopper to unguarded oil tanks, shoot and watch them burn, and then fly home. No enemies. Just learn to fly and shoot. I apply this in testing code. Aft
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by superjan 4mo ago
How about the infamous iOS hack with a VM implemented in a JBIG2 PDF? https://projectzero.google/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero...
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by superjan 4mo ago
You know, if can change code without overhead to ends of the pipeline, using the language & library of my choice, I’d do this too. For many of us this isn’t always the case.
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by superjan 4mo ago
It’s faster for 3 digits and more. 3 digits is not galactic scale. Otoh, if over half of your numbers are single digits, it will lose to other implementations. I think that is more often the case that we’d like it to be.
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by superjan 4mo ago
What you can do in C# today is convert any unsafe pointer to Span whenever you get your hands on it, and pass around slices. You can still drop down to ‘fixed’ when it turns out you need it for performance.

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