TheMaskedCoder

I defeated the Power Warp Core and feel genuinely proud of myself. Great job! Love the animations too.

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Here's an old article: https://css-tricks.com/the-difference-between-minification-a...

In the example given:

Original - 147 KB

Minified - 123 KB (83%)

Gzipped - 22 KB (15%)

Both - 20KB (14%)

Compression is waaay more effective, so if you have to pick one, go with compressing. Is having readable source code worth the other 2KB? That's up to you. Source maps can do the same thing with less, though. Also, modern devtools have ways of de-minification (if you don't mind all the mangled variable names).

Looks like it's from a talk the MythBusters guys did at NVISION 08: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3OGgBkRiQ

Those are scare quotes around the word. It's not quoting the parent comment.

I'm disappointed that it doesn't mirror the list from Logan Lucky

It makes me worry about the invisible minions that are pushing the blocks into place. They only have a second, blocks are falling, how can the get it to the right numbers in time? But as soon as the numbers are legible, the blocks for the next number are already falling, and the invisible minions must jump straight to working on those blocks without a moments rest, second after second, nonstop for eternity.

I for one wouldn't try to develop AGI if John Wick didn't want me to...

The sports side of college is bizarre. I think it is descended from British upper class amateur athletics, but it makes no sense in modern times. Athletics has nothing to do with education. Nothing at all. Star athletes are there only so they can get noticed by scouts. Universities keep teams around for the money. They ought to stop pretending there's any connection to education and replace it all with minor leagues and farm teams. But since there's a hundred years of tradition, I doubt anything will change.

Obviously next you switch up the game to do things besides lunar landing. Have it be a take off ascent simulator for example. After a few years we can have an entire space mission programmed by gamers...

I think it's like teddit, but worse

At least they can be honest about being evil...

I recommend Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay, which explores this concept by having a future archaeologist investigate a motel from the 20th century and arrive at extremely bizarre conclusions.

> The long term impact of the ease of generating low nutrition digital content using language models may be that people put down their devices

The problem is people don't always make the wise decision. Evidence: the junk food industry is alive and kicking.

Some people will disconnect from devices, but others may just say "this is the way things are now" and adjust themselves to the flavor of junk content.

I believe this is the original account. They produced several similar videos:

https://www.youtube.com/@AlgoRythmics

I thought that ChatGPT was incapable of anything like real humor, but I have been proven wrong.

Wingspan (2019) was my favorite new (to me) game. I like that you can strategize and compete without directly getting in each other's way. It's great if you're tired of making enemies during games.

Other long term favorites are Castles of Burgundy, Scythe, and Viticulture.

Suddenly, I am very curious about what problem could possibly inspire bringing back dinosaurs as a potential solution...

Agreed. OWASP now advises developers on how to avoid account enumeration, so this take no longer makes sense.

That would make things waaaay more difficult for users. "Okay, I'm logged in, let me do something.... Now it says I don't have permission?? Did my account get deactivated??? What am I doing wrong????"

Why wait for AI to take over when you can have people run the same calculations and come to the same conclusions?

Actually, this seems like a rather interesting defense of crypto. To use the metaphor, did the trough create the pigs? Or did it only draw a horde of pre-existing pigs to one place? Perhaps the amount of quasi-criminals that we are seeing in the crypto sector right now is just a sign that crypto was highly successful and not a condemnation of crypto in and of itself.

> you transmit 5 characters of the SHA1 hash of the email address

You don't use email addresses at all with Pwned Passwords. The documentation says "first 5 characters of a SHA-1 password hash", not email-address hash.

HIBP does not have a way to search for which password hashes are associated with a given email address, as this would be far more useful to attackers than to victims. The only data that Pwned Passwords exposes is a list of password hashes and the number of times that hash was used. The expectation is that even if that leaked password was actually for someone else's account, you still shouldn't be using it.

Vulnerability discovery and programming are different skill sets. I've seen terrible code written by talented security researchers.

I would liken the portrayal of computer science in Hackers to the portrayal of criminology in Batman Forever

This is false. Paul Irish still has the repository for w3fools on Github. You can verify[1] that Paul Irish himself revised the text. Paul Irish works for Google. There is no reason to think that w3schools paid him to revise the content. There is a closed issue that explains the reasoning[2]

1: https://github.com/paulirish/w3fools/commits/gh-pages

2: https://github.com/paulirish/w3fools/issues/50

Is it possible to automate detection of automation? If you can create an algorithm that detects the difference between AI art and human art, wouldn't that algorithm itself be able to create a new AI art algorithm that it itself could not detect?

In the future we'll hire blade runners to find and destroy AI art

But would you _want_ a GPU that had a former life as a cryptominer? Running all those computations 24/7 probably takes a bit out of the life expectancy.