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Re:Flow browser passes the Acid tests on Saturday June 13, 2020 @09:37AM (#23509259)
From the article:

> Acid3 dates back to 2008 and the web platform specs have changed over time so a perfect score, using the version hosted on acidtests.org, is now only 97/100. The version hosted on the web platform tests site has been updated to match the specs and so, using that, browsers should score 100/100

Re:Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor on Saturday May 09, 2020 @05:57PM (#23128620)
5.4 hasn't officially released (it's in the RC stage) so 5.3 is still the latest stable/supported version.
Re:Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor on Saturday May 09, 2020 @05:50PM (#23128584)
Re:NextDNS is my new favourite DNS service on Monday April 13, 2020 @10:14PM (#22862136)
There are multiple blocklists you can enable.
Re:MoonScript: Dynamic scripting language that compiles into Lua on Saturday February 01, 2020 @10:06AM (#22210836)
https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel

> Fennel is a lisp that compiles to Lua. It aims to be easy to use, expressive, and has almost zero overhead compared to handwritten Lua.

Re:Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @12:41PM (#19200938)
Re:Golua – A Lua 5.3 engine implemented in Go on Friday November 16, 2018 @04:36PM (#18472168)
https://github.com/google/starlark-go

> Starlark is a dialect of Python intended for use as a configuration language

Re:UK scientists build world’s first quantum compass on Saturday November 10, 2018 @10:25PM (#18424858)
Compass, not computer, for those that misread the title.
Re:Log driven programming (2013) on Monday October 08, 2018 @05:11AM (#18165617)
https://orgmode.org/manual/Capture-_002d-Refile-_002d-Archiv...

> An important part of any organization system is the ability to quickly capture new ideas and tasks, and to associate reference material with them. Org does this using a process called capture.

Re:GNU nano 3.0 released on Sunday September 09, 2018 @12:18PM (#17946551)
> But it is not adopted by all distributions yet.

Is it adopted by any distro as a default text editor?

Re:On the Road to Pure Go X11 GUIs on Friday September 07, 2018 @03:51PM (#17937158)
he mentions that in the previous paragraph:

> First, people have naturally written bindings for Qt, GTK+, ui, ...

Anyone know what the 'undiscovered mechanic' is?

> At least one previously undiscovered game mechanic, which allows players to recharge a certain weapon quickly by staying out of range of the enemy, has been discovered by the bots and passed on to humans

I assume they're talking about blink dagger, and something more advanced than "don't take damage"?

Re:OpenAI Five at Dota 2 – The International [video] on Thursday August 23, 2018 @09:52AM (#17827219)
They can beat the cram out of 6-7k players (99.95th percentile), beating Team Human - https://blog.openai.com/openai-five-benchmark-results/
It might be interesting to do exactly that - rerun the OP example in a Minecraft server, attempting to prove that it is a simulation.

Proving the simulation hypothesis true in Minecraft could give ideas on how to prove it in our universe.

They acknowledge that:

> Without additional technology, we are unable to tell which soft errors were external and which were internal.

...

> Perhaps this paper’s most interesting conclusion is just that a non-contrived simulation hypothesis is falsifiable in a concrete way.

Re:Void Linux project leader has disappeared on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @02:57PM (#16970232)
"Don't develop free software; if you ever decide to abandon a project, no one will ever hire you again."
Re:From Bootstrap to CSS Grid on Friday December 29, 2017 @11:04PM (#16033793)
It's possible to generate svgs from images, see https://jmperezperez.com/svg-placeholders/
Re:Always Free Usage Limits on Friday March 10, 2017 @10:53AM (#13839502)
You can trivially bypass that with an infinite loop:

    while true; do sleep 1; done
Re:Always Free Usage Limits on Friday March 10, 2017 @06:03AM (#13837740)
Heroku does.
Re:Adventures in /usr/bin and the likes on Sunday February 19, 2017 @11:05PM (#13684208)
Not covered in the article, but `rename` is a multi-file renamer. I wrote a script which used an `echo $f | sed | mv` loop before I learned about this.
Re:Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8 on Thursday February 09, 2017 @04:34PM (#13611218)
I've been using `vis` for a while now, and I agree that it used to be overly minimal, but I've submitted enough issues that it now fits my workflow. Once you get past the friction of it not being vim, you can enjoy multiple cursors, a sane scripting language (Lua), sam's structural regex....
Re:Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8 on Thursday February 09, 2017 @02:37PM (#13610118)
my take: the main strength and weakness is that kakoune is visual mode by default, so you see the effect of your text object commands without guessing (c3fx? c4fx?). having something always highlighted can be annoying.
> I have to say, the only thing that annoys me about it occasionally is its marriage to the JVM.

Clojurescript can be hosted entirely in js; here's a repl: https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo/

these are curated lists, here's one for nosql: https://github.com/showcases/nosql-databases

edit: big list of lists: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

Re:JavaScript frameworks and topics to learn in 2017 on Sunday December 18, 2016 @12:37AM (#13204526)
Is anyone using Tern as an annotations-free type checker?
Re:Closure Compiler in JavaScript on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @01:12PM (#13116865)
you like lisp
Re:Escape key alternatives in Vim on Monday December 05, 2016 @11:33AM (#13106586)
There is a vim-vue plugin: https://github.com/posva/vim-vue

I'm getting by with the stock html syntax:

    au BufNewFile,BufRead *.vue set filetype=html
> Latest commit 95f255a on Mar 26, 2015
Re:Unambiguous JavaScript Grammar on Saturday June 18, 2016 @10:20PM (#11931558)
That requires modification to every file using ES modules, and new syntax. The proposed solution only requires modifying files which do not have an import or export statement, and does not need new syntax.
Is the performance/simplicity that much better than setting up Cloudflare yourself?

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