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Franciscouzo··on Play snake in the URL address bar
I made a similar thing some time ago, but with the favicon.

https://franciscouzo.github.io/favisnake/

Franciscouzo··on Using fake reviews to find dangerous extensions
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-...
Franciscouzo··on Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
Antminers are for mining Bitcoin, GPUs are mostly used for Ethereum.
Franciscouzo··on JWT should not be your default for sessions
You can use a bloom filter to check if a token has been revoked, and then do the query for false positives.
Franciscouzo··on Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
.ar domains have been available to the public since last year.
Franciscouzo··on Icecream: Never use print() to debug again in Python
> Imagine how many times you need to click next

Once or twice? Any sane debugger has a way to disable the breakpoint.

Franciscouzo··on Python Switch Statement
It's not even thread safe.
Franciscouzo··on WhatsApp Down in Some Regions
That has nothing to do with punycode...
Franciscouzo··on Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
> If you didn't log in for a while, your account would disappear

That's still true for gmail, but the time is more reasonable at two years.

Franciscouzo··on Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely
How do you think people functioned before the invention of money?
Franciscouzo··on Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites
Is this sarcasm? RSS has been a thing for years.
Franciscouzo··on Bitcoin Is Time
That's by design, if you use a proof of work that's validated outside of the blockchain, the work could be valid for multiple forks, thus being a really bad proof of work system.
Franciscouzo··on Sputnik V vaccine peer reviewed with efficacy of 91.6%
If you take into account herd immunity the actual effectiveness should be >99%.
Franciscouzo··on Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia
And sunscreen is also a thing.
Franciscouzo··on Ask HN: How would you convince your friends and family to switch from WhatsApp?
No you can't, you can only hide your last seen status.
Franciscouzo··on Teaching the Unfortunate Parts
You can actually do it (I'm not saying it's a good idea), there's a way to differentiate between -0 and 0:

    > Object.is(0, -0)
    false
Franciscouzo··on Linux on iPad
I think you meant GNU/Linux instead of "real".
Franciscouzo··on 1% of people cause half of global aviation emissions
Not having to deal with the security theater is also a big plus.

When you take in account all the time it takes getting from your place to the airport and back to the hotel there's usually not much of a difference in time in taking the train anyway.

Franciscouzo··on Calla – spatial video conferencing software based on Jitsi Meet
It is until you read the terms and conditions and see that you have a 1TB data cap, or a more generic: we'll cut your access if you have "excessive" data usage.
Franciscouzo··on Actively speaking two languages protects against cognitive impairment
There's a lot of immigration from Latin America though.
Franciscouzo··on Researchers exploit HTTP/2, WPA3 protocols to stage ‘timeless timing’ attacks
It still helps though, let's assume they're using MD5 without salt, if the attacker has a rainbow table, this leads to a speed up, since the attacker only has guess bit-by-bit instead of trying every possibility.
Franciscouzo··on Mind Emulation Foundation
If you hit your head hard enough all those things will happen though.
Franciscouzo··on YouTube now have ADs that plays sound without an user interaction
Stop using chrome, they obviously whitelisted themselves to auto-play.
Franciscouzo··on Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees
Most driving is in limited circumstances, of course they're not going to offer self-driving rides when it's snowy or raining heavily.
Franciscouzo··on MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back the internet
Or you can just use EasyList Cookie list.
Franciscouzo··on I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower
I came to the same result three years ago by writing the exact same problem into x86-64 asm, I guess I didn't think of it as something worth of sharing.

https://github.com/franciscouzo/nbody-asm

Franciscouzo··on Bosch Smart glasses: A tiny laser array paints images directly onto your retina
It doesn't works with pixels, it looks like it uses a galvanometer to guide a laser, it also says here [0] that it has a 60Hz frame rate.

[0] https://www.bosch-sensortec.com/products/optical-microsystem...

Franciscouzo··on Anti-cheat kernel driver
Permalink: https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-null-anti-...

If you don't live in north america, you'll get redirected to a local subdomain and get a 404

Franciscouzo··on How to Corrupt a SQLite Database File
Could you? You would also have to take into account that the instruction that make the program could also be randomly flipped
Franciscouzo··on Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising and life satisfaction
Driving a newish car is a pretty good idea though, they are generally way safer.
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