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Waterfox is the best browser I have ever used. Native tree style tabs, minimalist UI, built in ad blocking, Firefox extensions.
I was just coming to ask about word frequency. I get that cadence being jumpy might be less enjoyable, but having a look ahead that validates if a “likely to be hard to one-shot” word is coming up and slightly ramps down the pace, might make this an even better tool! Love it!
What is it bringing from those languages? The FAQ reads like it is just altered syntax for C#, no difference in semantics or function.
Ding. Ding. Ding. "Provided value to the content author". AI scrapping negatively impacts the content author with zero compensation. There is no mutual benefit.
Re:A few interesting modern pixel fonts on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @07:04PM (#48287234)
I am very fond of Gohu font. I have used it on a recent static blog formatting adventure <http://dntbl.ink>, converted to woff2. I couldn't be happier with how it renders and gives that VAX feel.
Re:I Built My Own Hair Electrolysis Machine on Sunday May 03, 2026 @10:29PM (#48003973)
This is so interesting, thanks for sharing!
Re:Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad on Monday April 27, 2026 @04:21PM (#47926817)
I enjoyed your post - PCB routing is often an act of 'zen and the art of..' for me and I recently did a similar exercise for an esp32.
Re:Is anyone actually using OpenClaw? on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @04:29PM (#47784813)
Why not use Claude one single time to create a service that does this? I have this same question with 90% of the 'simple' use cases I see for these task runners, it always seems more efficient (not to mention consistent) to have it generate the service.
No the shortage goes back to Regan when their justified strike was busted. It ended the PATCO “union” and was a negative turning point for labour unions in general.
They didn't tweak their prompt styling request enough... The ChatGPT world is depressing.
>> Even if it only catches one small, it could save thousand of dollars down the line.

Or it could send a design team down thousands of dollars in false positives/false negatives. With zero benchmarks provided, it is very fair to question a product that could have material negative impacts on a hardware team.

Re:It's Hard to Build an Oscillator on Friday November 21, 2025 @11:52AM (#46006182)
This is really great, both from a specific application perspective, but also the approach. Really enjoyed looking through the repo and was inspired by your work.
Re:.NET 10 on Thursday November 13, 2025 @09:08AM (#45915038)
C#/dotNet has Ahead of Time compilation that works very well with containerization. Obviously there are still overheads for the AoT runtime, but it is pruned.
I had an Abloy Protec2 malfunction while locked (PSA don't use them for key-only sashlocks) and the locksmith drilled it out in ~10 seconds. That is the last time I spend that kind of money on a lock!
My assumption is that there could be higher dimensional 'token' representations that can be used instead of vision tokens (though obviously not human interpretable). I wonder if there is an optimisation for compression that takes the vector space at a specific level in the network to provide the most context for minimal memory space.
Well said, I would buy them in a heartbeat if it was from a moral company.
This was build originally with WPF and C#, but with an in-house MVVM framework. I have been slowly moving it to Avalonia, which I highly recommend.
This is my own software, but – as a project engineering data exploration tool – high information and functional density was a key goal:

https://engdata.com/

Re:Piranesi's Perspective Trick on Thursday March 27, 2025 @09:06AM (#43493202)
This is really interesting, I'd love to see this perspective incorporated into mapping software like google maps/streetview.
Re:Piranesi's Perspective Trick on Thursday March 27, 2025 @09:05AM (#43493185)
They mean distorted, not squished for both.
Re:A love letter to the CSV format on Thursday March 27, 2025 @08:08AM (#43492743)
It’s all a pros and cons.. the benefit of those characters are they are not used anywhere else, hence you never have to worry about escaping/quoting strings. But obviously most of my csv usage is automated in/out.
Re:A love letter to the CSV format on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @09:40PM (#43489572)
Using ascii 'US' Unit Separator and 'RS' Record Separator characters would be a far better implementation of a CSV file.
Re:De-smarting the Marshall Uxbridge Bluetooth speaker on Saturday January 11, 2025 @09:29PM (#42670751)
I bought one of these Marshall speakers to use as a practice amp, only to find that the dsp latency is unusably bad. Maybe this is an option…
Re:Async Await Is the Worst Thing to Happen to Programming on Thursday November 14, 2024 @06:56AM (#42135355)
The only real landmine for c# is the default thread synchronization. If it was inverted, the language would be much better off. I think they also made a mistake in removing the OOTB method for throwing away the sync context, but I guess there are many third party libs that provide it.
Re:Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful on Sunday June 30, 2024 @05:07PM (#40840390)
A second recommendation for Avalonia. It deserves the acclaim.
Re:The Hearts of the Super Nintendo on Monday April 01, 2024 @01:47PM (#39896881)
Later SNES games also used a timing check for region locking to identify PAL vs NTSC clock frequencies. The mod I did, nearly three decades ago, was to add a toggle switch with a second crystal that would change the clock frequency and allow the PAL game to be played on an NTSC system. Wait a few seconds while the game booted up and then switch back and enjoy the unreleased in North America "Terranigma".
Re:SQL is syntactic sugar for relational algebra on Saturday March 23, 2024 @11:47AM (#39800754)
You should look at LINQ in C#/.net . The SQL-like syntax always has a function-first equivalent, that gets across this point fairly eloquently.
Try kagi.com and never look back.
Re:Sora: Creating video from text on Thursday February 15, 2024 @04:13PM (#39388945)
Almost certainly troves of stock footage. The type of exaggerated motion seen in these examples is very reminiscent of stock footage. And it is heavily textually annotated for search.
Re:AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET on Sunday February 04, 2024 @11:37AM (#39251710)
What is the ‘accepted’ view / model separation paradigm for Flutter? I do like the majority of Dart’s language choices.

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