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Re:Function Arguments Are Not Function Colors on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @07:36PM (#49618691)
Is `const`-ness (in the rust function keyword sense) a function color?
It could just be the particular type of my colour-blindness or my monitor settings, but the red and amber colours look so similar that I couldn't tell that I had even clicked the button.
Re:The <Usermedia> HTML Element on Thursday July 02, 2026 @07:13AM (#48759594)
Just make the button transparent over the whole site and make it so you have to accept before it will let you do anything.
Or really bright break lights
It used to be that you did the ID check when you bought the SIM, but now you have to do the ID check when you activate it.
Re:HTML Lists on Saturday May 16, 2026 @07:25PM (#48164680)
In HTML 4. HTML 5 redefined it.
I don't see any cars racing in the Melbourne Cup.
Re:Don't push AI down our throats on Sunday November 30, 2025 @07:27PM (#46101991)
What product should I buy if I need a smartphone to e.g. pay for parking but I don't want a smartphone that tracks me?
Re:The $1k AWS Mistake on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @04:15PM (#45985310)
Turn off S3 requests, but keep the data.
Re:The $1k AWS Mistake on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @04:11PM (#45985256)
2 caps: 1 for things that are charged for existing (e.g. S3 storage, RDS, EBS, EC2 instances) and 1 for things that are charged when you use them (e.g. bandwidth, lambda, S3 requests). Fail to create new things (e.g. S3 uploads) when the first cap is met.
Why does it use version 4 instead of version 8? Version 4 implies that it's random bits, but it's actually not random. Version 8 doesn't imply anything about what the bits mean.
I'm thinking something like a switch on the side to switch between slow, fast, and using the app.
Re:Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @09:48PM (#43552999)
Some way to simulate a slow CPU
Re:MS Paint IDE on Thursday March 06, 2025 @02:10AM (#43277308)
It automatically resizes so even though I have a tall screen, I didn't think to scroll down because it looked like a basic landing page and had links at the top.
Re:Is the World Really Running Out of Sand? on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @06:04PM (#41714751)
You don't need to construct sand by induction. Just notice that snow has the right particle size to be considered sand.
Re:How to Make HTTPS Verifiable on Monday September 16, 2024 @06:27PM (#41561784)
Their email server likely signs their emails using DKIM.
Re:MeTube: Self-Hosted YouTube Downloader on Monday July 29, 2024 @09:20PM (#41105282)
The problem is if one channel only uploads once a month and another channel uploads twice a day, I will see many videos from the frequent upload channels and might miss the infrequent uploads. If it was just a list of channels with their most recent video I'd see a new thumbnail and know to check that channel for any new videos.
Re:8cc.vim: Pure Vim script C Compiler on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @11:16PM (#40862442)
Can you use the ELVM backend to compile Emacs into Vim script?
Iterate through /proc/<pid>/fd and check for the pipe id in the symlink target.
Re:Anonymous public voicemail inbox on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @07:09PM (#39911847)
Whisper can transcribe/translate non-english speech to english text
Re:YouTube will show labels on videos that use AI on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:50PM (#38284991)
Point a camera at a monitor showing AI generated video and you now have signed video of AI content.
Re:When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @06:46PM (#37502684)
> Not to mention if your threat model includes attacker has hacked the server and added javascript, why doesn't the attacker just take over the server directly?

If the attacker can only hack the server that hosts your SPA, but not your API server, they can inject javascript to it, but can't do a lot beyond that

Re:File Attachments: Databases can now store files and images on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @06:41PM (#37330094)
"S3" is often used to refer to any S3 compatible object storage system. You can even self-host it with something like MinIO.
Re:What happened in this GPT-3 conversation? on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @06:50PM (#37056534)
I weighed 4 sunflower seeds and got 170mg.
Re:Surpassing 10Gb/S over Tailscale on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:21PM (#35562922)
I have no idea what a gigabit per siemens is supposed to mean.
Re:PostgREST – Serve a RESTful API from Any Postgres Database on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:19PM (#34178823)
You can use SET ROLE to become another user you have permission to become (I think you need to be in the same group or something) and RESET ROLE to go back to your original user. If the initial connection was made with a superuser or whatever, you could change to the user in the connection manager and reset when the connection goes back in the pool.
It would have to hash to the same value as app A
Re:The Problem with Speed Cubing [video] on Sunday July 24, 2022 @08:54PM (#32219409)
> When we race for 100m stride, everyone has the same initial conditions. Same starting line.

Altitude can affect world records for running (less air resistance, but also less air to breathe)

Re:Schroedinger's streaming service just died on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:28AM (#31857814)
The terms of service might not let you sell it, but I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to change the email address and password on the account and give the login details to someone else in exchange for some money.
Can you disable an alias (i.e. drop all incoming mail to a particular address)?

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