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Re:The Framework Laptop 16 on Friday March 24, 2023 @08:23AM (#35288081)
Middle mouse button plus moving the trackpoint works well for me.
Re:Flux Keyboard on Thursday March 09, 2023 @01:06PM (#35084456)
I even went and got myself a Tex Yoda II. I like it, but sometimes I wish it had real arrow keys. Maybe I'd go for a Shinobi next time.
Re:“Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @09:07AM (#33719235)
Not necessarily. You can design the sign up process by way of always ending with a message that says you will be notified.
Re:Framework Laptop (2022) review: the repairability dream on Thursday July 21, 2022 @11:39AM (#32180694)
Middle click and moving the trackpoint up and down works for me.
Re:Node.js packages don't deserve trust on Monday April 11, 2022 @10:24AM (#30989165)
This may not be the whole story, but one of the reasons is that JavaScript does not have a standard library. Corollaries are: several different module systems, application frameworks and bundlers exist.
Re:SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:04PM (#30860752)
Of course it depends on your system but it's more a matter of minutes than of hours. It's a really enjoyable experience to hack on the system and being able to rebuild in seconds. Just have a look at some SerenityOS hacking videos, they are truly inspiring.
Re:Deno Is Webby on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @06:27PM (#30704929)
[] is truthy in Ruby but there is #empty? on collection types. Rails also has #blank? which additionally works on false and nil.
Re:Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @08:04AM (#28366823)
> well by that point it just becomes a chore and I suspect there's good logging services that do this better than you'd spend your time doing yourself.

Which is why the OP suggested using tools like goaccess.

Re:Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @05:11AM (#28365545)
> By nature it won't filter out bots, however.

I have two questions about this:

- Since you know they are bots, why couldn't you filter them?

- On the other hand, couldn't there be bots that run JavaScript which would be tracked client-side?

It might come in handy when building no-code tools, not as a no-code tool per se.
> Depending on what country I travel to, Ill be using a different app like Grab or Didi or a local taxi app that were all made possible by Uber's initial disruption.

Local Taxi hailing apps were first. Uber adopted this and their disruption of many local markets happened only after offering cheaper alternatives by burning money.

Re:Sublime Text 4 on Friday May 21, 2021 @05:49AM (#27232117)
Would you mind talking a bit about your setup, what plugins you use and wrote yourself?
These kinds of discussions are common with articles about deep fake video and audio. While I do not disagree with your point, here are two quick thoughts:

- We have had perfect image manipulation capabilities for quite some time now. We have had written text manipulation capabilities for hundreds of years.

- People will continue to believe what they believe, whether there is deep fake video and audio or not.

Re:Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac on Monday August 03, 2020 @06:02AM (#24035886)
This sounds interesting. Would you mind to elaborate on your workflow and what you do with it specifically? I'd love to see some screen shots.
Re:The web as a GUI toolkit on Thursday February 13, 2020 @03:13PM (#22321033)
As I understand it, the author isn't even talking about web based GUI toolkits like Electron but more about the web itself (i.e. CTRL-F, back button, etc).
Re:Machine Unlearning on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @03:31AM (#22178544)
Two quick thoughts: Some data is inherently non-anonymous, like face images. Data that is now anonymous may be de-anonymized in the future.
Re:PHP 7.4 on Thursday November 28, 2019 @10:26AM (#21657920)
> I wonder why they added the "fn()" thing on the left of the array functions.

There would be ambiguity without it: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/arrow_functions_v2#syntax

As you are saying, B misses a column to be square. That column is filled with v_n. B and v_n are simply concatenated.
Re:Plotty Bird: flappy bird on the HP7440A pen plotter on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:01AM (#20122268)
https://github.com/WesleyAC/plotty-bird

> It works by streaming HP-GL commands to the plotter in real time - the game gets around 20 "frames" per second.

According to the GitHub page, yes.

Re:JSMpeg – Decode It Like It's 1999 on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @06:20AM (#19848028)
It'll use shaders if WebGL is supported and enabled: https://github.com/phoboslab/jsmpeg/blob/master/src/webgl.js

There is also a site to test features and their impact on performance: https://jsmpeg.com/perf.html