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Re:Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:42PM (#49995284)
Click on one to go to a page and see only that animation. The framerate is super low on my phone on the front page.
Re:Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side on Sunday September 20, 2026 @02:29PM (#49778523)
Yes, but he calls the enter key return and the return key enter.
Re:Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side on Sunday September 20, 2026 @11:45AM (#49776983)
Aaaah, he's got carriage return and enter mixed up. The whole reason for the symbol being an arrow returning to the beginning of the line, is because it's the return key. I love the Canadian enter symbol, an arrow pointing into a box.
Re:Don't Paste the AI, please on Thursday August 20, 2026 @01:22PM (#49377527)
Ignoring them is more passive aggressive than the answer he gave.
Re:Every Fucking Website (2020) on Friday August 14, 2026 @11:39AM (#49300244)
It's important to have the accept cookies button pop up on top of something you are almost guaranteed to click at just the right moment.
Re:Making holograms with a pen plotter on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:35PM (#49265430)
He did it on plastic CD cases, not oil. The oil in the beginning of the article was just for explaining the refraction that happens with the ridges in the structure.
Re:Your code is fast – if you're lucky on Saturday July 11, 2026 @11:11AM (#48872732)
Look at the source, Luke!

It's just rand() in test.c

& as an escape character only applies to text nodes. Of course, if you want to display the URL on a page, you have to escape it, but not in the href.
Sorry, Dave. I can't do that.
Re:The map that keeps Burning Man honest on Thursday May 07, 2026 @11:19AM (#48050508)
Read it again, it says right there in square metres.
Yummy pink pig liver. So livery.
The biggest difference, is Uber has vehicles around the world. So there's more data from countries with different rules from the US. Signage is definitely different between the US and Europe.
Re:Zugzwang on Saturday May 02, 2026 @01:36PM (#47988545)
That nuke they are apparently working has been just around the corner for over 30 years according to Israeli propaganda.
Re:Ti-84 Evo on Saturday May 02, 2026 @06:34AM (#47985157)
What a shit teacher: "No, don't be creative and learn. Do only as you're told."
I think you are mixing up asocial and anti-social. Anti-social basically means you don't care how others feel, their rights and social norms. Asocial means you don't want to engage socially.

And I'm pretty sure you are describing yourself as someone with an inferiority complex and social anxiety.

An apartment inside an apartment complex is still inside the same building. Earth is in the Universe. There's a difference between "in the Universe" and "outside of Earth".

A superset also includes everything in all its subsets.

Re:The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:45PM (#47755496)
Hennes & Mauritz is a Swedish clothing retailer.

On a serious note, I think they meant TN, as in Torment Nexus, but I could be wrong.

Re:Filing the Corners Off MacBooks on Saturday April 11, 2026 @10:27AM (#47730934)
That sounds like you have your desk too low. You're going to get some major repetitive strain injuries in 10-20 years.

If you have your arms at your sides, elbows should bend 90 degrees. Then just move your arms slightly forward and you'll end up somewhere around 95 degrees. Now you can rest your forearms on the desk. This won't save you from all kinds of RSI, but it might help your wrists, elbows and shoulder joints last a bit longer.

Re:Expanding Swift's IDE Support on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @06:46PM (#47697216)
I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead.
Re:LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua on Sunday April 05, 2026 @07:29PM (#47655019)
The project predates Github, although the first official release came out about a month prior. So, yeah, not a lot of AI slop 20 years ago.
Re:LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua on Sunday April 05, 2026 @07:04PM (#47654848)
The project was started by Norwegians. So I feel like you should apply juuuust the right amount of cheesiness and sort of push that Ø-vowel looong. Not sure if Ruud would agree, though.
Re:LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua on Sunday April 05, 2026 @06:49PM (#47654736)
Well, it's kind of a machine code for a self-modifying compiler, so there's that.
Re:Antimatter has been transported for the first time on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @12:38PM (#47519720)
Sounds like the start of research ending in antimatter bombs.
8 MB for an article about setting up an RSS reader is still ridiculous. Should be <1MB, the text itself is probably a few K, so all the rest is graphics and bullshit JS bundles.
Re:Malus – Clean Room as a Service on Thursday March 12, 2026 @02:00PM (#47354768)
Before I visited the site, I was really confused. First, the name means bad, as in evil. Second, I couldn't understand what CRaaS was supposed to be.

But I love it! The perfect response to the "clean room" AI re-implementation and re-licensing of whatever that library is called.

Re:Terminals should generate the 256-color palette on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @03:23AM (#47058620)
Interesting. You could build a LUT from the 16 color palette to map the 24 bit color space to something 24 bits or less. A bit like mapping 10 bit HDR to 24 bit sRGB.

Perhaps instead of the application overriding the setting, it could be done with an environment var, so the user can easily override it if the mapping messes with the look/usability of the program.

Re:Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space on Saturday January 24, 2026 @01:16PM (#46746020)
Always... Except for the decades before this became common. Never a bloated C: root directory. Microsoft even had games store stuff in My Documents\Games at one point. My Documents was a user dir that saw a lot of abuse over the years.
Re:"Food JPEGs" in Super Smash Bros. & Kirby Air Riders on Sunday January 11, 2026 @03:35PM (#46579720)
The PAL, JP and US versions are soooo different. Here's the PAL cover: https://i.redd.it/1sra7fk3bsgb1.jpg

That was the first video game I bought myself.

Re:enclose.horse on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @02:15PM (#46517089)
If the data gathered is only on gameplay, and not something that can be used as PII like IP addresses or device information, then it should be fine. Gathering things like the score and time spent completing the level, isn't a problem. This could be used to rank the levels, without gathering any user information.
Re:FracturedJson on Friday January 02, 2026 @03:25PM (#46468973)
Have you heard of EDN? It's mostly used in Clojure and ClojureScript, as it is to Clojure what JSON is to JS.

If you need custom data types, you can use tagged elements, but that requires you to have functions registered to convert the data type to/from representable values (often strings).

It natively supports quite a bit more than JSON does, without writing custom data readers/writers.

https://github.com/edn-format/edn

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