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Deebster

@ Deebster @programming.dev

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New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

  • Pebble OS is already running on new hardware following source code drop

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  • I disagree, they have it working on the nRF52840 (which is new and supports new things like NFC and Thread/Zigbee). This means people can start developing features against that chipset.

    Hardware doesn't mean "production-ready model".

  • A Hashing Game Inspired By xkcd

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  • This isn't a million miles from what bitcoin mining does, although in that case they're trying to find hashes that start with a lot of zeroes.

  • How to find project names?

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  • DFRA

    That doesn't work, though.

    For a recursive acronym, you want something like ADFRA Didn't Forget Recursive Acronyms.

  • I tested an ink pen that digitizes your handwriting, but the app makes it truly useful

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  • the neater and more consistent your handwriting, the easier time the Nuwa pen will have captur[ing] it

    That's me out then

  • A Better Federated Search

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  • This might even be an appropriate use for AI (maybe even running in-browser for privacy). I imagine something that reads your prompt and auto-populates a few rings to search. You review and edit the suggested rings, then click search.

  • I think he caught it from Worf

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  • I don't think that's the opposite of plot armour, though - O'Brien was too much a main character (and too popular) to be killed off, so we knew he'd survive the episode/danger/trauma.

    He definitely broke his arm more than the rest of the cast combined, but was spared any serious injury until the plot required it.

  • TWISTED: The dramatic history of twisted-pair Ethernet

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  • I watched this the other day. Overly dramatic in parts (which I just found funny), but it's clearly well-researched and has interviews with some of the original players.

    Definitely worth the 30 minutes.

  • DMARCbis is around the corner: what's changing

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  • The ”indirect email flows” issue, i.e. forwarding and mailing lists breaking DMARC alignment, remains unsolved

    Perhaps they should keep working on it, then. Easier said than done, I know...

  • Self-hosted Content-Security-Policy report, etc, collector/displayer?

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  • I just went to look for answers this, since report-uri.com is killing its free tier, and the lowest paid is way higher than my usage justifies. What did you settle on?

  • Puppet is getting forked

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  • I like the take that they have in that thread: Perforce is forking Puppet into a non-Open Source version (but they're keeping the name).

  • Sweet Raspberry taste of success masks a missed opportunity

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  • But I said how they work, not, say, how to use a computer to get onto a website. I'm thinking of future generation's makers and tinkerers, which seemed to be the gist of the article you posted.

    The surface of computing is quite polished nowadays, but that's not entirely helpful when you can't access anything under the surface to learn what makes it tick.

  • Sweet Raspberry taste of success masks a missed opportunity

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  • I feel this article is looking at a bit of silver as if it's the lining and writing an article about the cloud.

    Definitely there's less knowledge about how computers work nowadays: e.g. universities now have to teach Computer Science students how file systems and directories work, because kids are used to saving everything in the default folder and just searching for what they want (and we're talking to those geeky enough to be doing CS).

    But there's more complexity now, and a lot of that stuff is just irrelevant busy work. I remember juggling IRQ lines when installing hardware but luckily that's auto-configured now. I used to create boot discs and eke out enough memory by skipping the better graphics, mouse driver, etc when not needed but did that teach me much?

    On the other hand, we used to have LAN parties as teenagers and would rebuild the networking stack for each game, including some performance tweaks (“Red Alert needs NetBIOS over IPX, right?” “Yeah, but disable the turbo encabulator”) and ¾ of us went on to do CS at uni. We certainly never thought of a web browser as “the internet” and we're confident to explore knowing we could fix what we broke (and did, often).

  • Deno v. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark

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  • That's the first argument they make in their petition.

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  • Not funny, but interesting!

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  • Their spelling was moulded by the US

  • The most prestigious award of them all

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  • Yes Google, 2/3 is TOTALLY the same as 1/2

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  • I thought we were finally agreeing fully! My understanding of the question is "what is the difference between a third (of a pizza, say) and a half?"

    1/2 - 1/3 = 1/61/2 = 1/3 + 1/6a half is one sixth more than a third.

    btw, I fixed my Kagi screenshot since I'd missed a word from the question (reading comprehension's clearly not my strong point today)

  • Yes Google, 2/3 is TOTALLY the same as 1/2

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  • Ah, you're right - I misunderstood jbrain's point to just be about the "relative to the original" understanding. Guess I'm no smarter than Google's AI.

  • xkcd #3011: Europa Clipper

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  • The ExplainXKCD is great:

    In truth, no such spoon is present on the probe, and Europa's icy crust is too thick to be penetrated by a spoon of such size.

    The author is either being very tongue-in-cheek or very literal and humourless and I'm enjoying it both ways.