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Sardtok··on Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages
Click on one to go to a page and see only that animation. The framerate is super low on my phone on the front page.
Sardtok··on Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side
Yes, but he calls the enter key return and the return key enter.
Sardtok··on Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side
Aaaah, he's got carriage return and enter mixed up. The whole reason for the symbol being an arrow returning to the beginning of the line, is because it's the return key. I love the Canadian enter symbol, an arrow pointing into a box.
Sardtok··on Don't paste the AI, please
Ignoring them is more passive aggressive than the answer he gave.
Sardtok··on Every Fucking Website
It's important to have the accept cookies button pop up on top of something you are almost guaranteed to click at just the right moment.
Sardtok··on Making holograms with a pen plotter
He did it on plastic CD cases, not oil. The oil in the beginning of the article was just for explaining the refraction that happens with the ridges in the structure.
Sardtok··on Your code is fast if you're lucky
Look at the source, Luke!

It's just rand() in test.c

Sardtok··on Matrix URIs, a URL syntax from Tim Berners-Lee that never shipped (1996)
& as an escape character only applies to text nodes. Of course, if you want to display the URL on a page, you have to escape it, but not in the href.
Sardtok··on I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
Sorry, Dave. I can't do that.
Sardtok··on The Burning Man MOOP Map
Read it again, it says right there in square metres.
Sardtok··on Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery
Yummy pink pig liver. So livery.
Sardtok··on Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
The biggest difference, is Uber has vehicles around the world. So there's more data from countries with different rules from the US. Signage is definitely different between the US and Europe.
Sardtok··on Zugzwang
That nuke they are apparently working has been just around the corner for over 30 years according to Israeli propaganda.
Sardtok··on Ti-84 Evo
What a shit teacher: "No, don't be creative and learn. Do only as you're told."
Sardtok··on How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences
I think you are mixing up asocial and anti-social. Anti-social basically means you don't care how others feel, their rights and social norms. Asocial means you don't want to engage socially.

And I'm pretty sure you are describing yourself as someone with an inferiority complex and social anxiety.

Sardtok··on Costasiella kuroshimae – Solar Powered animals, that do indirect photosynthesis
An apartment inside an apartment complex is still inside the same building. Earth is in the Universe. There's a difference between "in the Universe" and "outside of Earth".

A superset also includes everything in all its subsets.

Sardtok··on The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety
Hennes & Mauritz is a Swedish clothing retailer.

On a serious note, I think they meant TN, as in Torment Nexus, but I could be wrong.

Sardtok··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
That sounds like you have your desk too low. You're going to get some major repetitive strain injuries in 10-20 years.

If you have your arms at your sides, elbows should bend 90 degrees. Then just move your arms slightly forward and you'll end up somewhere around 95 degrees. Now you can rest your forearms on the desk. This won't save you from all kinds of RSI, but it might help your wrists, elbows and shoulder joints last a bit longer.

Sardtok··on Expanding Swift's IDE Support
I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead.
Sardtok··on LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua
The project predates Github, although the first official release came out about a month prior. So, yeah, not a lot of AI slop 20 years ago.
Sardtok··on LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua
The project was started by Norwegians. So I feel like you should apply juuuust the right amount of cheesiness and sort of push that Ø-vowel looong. Not sure if Ruud would agree, though.
Sardtok··on LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua
Well, it's kind of a machine code for a self-modifying compiler, so there's that.
Sardtok··on Antimatter has been transported for the first time
Sounds like the start of research ending in antimatter bombs.
Sardtok··on PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
8 MB for an article about setting up an RSS reader is still ridiculous. Should be <1MB, the text itself is probably a few K, so all the rest is graphics and bullshit JS bundles.
Sardtok··on Malus – Clean Room as a Service
Before I visited the site, I was really confused. First, the name means bad, as in evil. Second, I couldn't understand what CRaaS was supposed to be.

But I love it! The perfect response to the "clean room" AI re-implementation and re-licensing of whatever that library is called.

Sardtok··on Terminals should generate the 256-color palette
Interesting. You could build a LUT from the 16 color palette to map the 24 bit color space to something 24 bits or less. A bit like mapping 10 bit HDR to 24 bit sRGB.

Perhaps instead of the application overriding the setting, it could be done with an environment var, so the user can easily override it if the mapping messes with the look/usability of the program.

Sardtok··on Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space
Always... Except for the decades before this became common. Never a bloated C: root directory. Microsoft even had games store stuff in My Documents\Games at one point. My Documents was a user dir that saw a lot of abuse over the years.
Sardtok··on “Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders
The PAL, JP and US versions are soooo different. Here's the PAL cover: https://i.redd.it/1sra7fk3bsgb1.jpg

That was the first video game I bought myself.

Sardtok··on enclose.horse
If the data gathered is only on gameplay, and not something that can be used as PII like IP addresses or device information, then it should be fine. Gathering things like the score and time spent completing the level, isn't a problem. This could be used to rank the levels, without gathering any user information.
Sardtok··on FracturedJson
Have you heard of EDN? It's mostly used in Clojure and ClojureScript, as it is to Clojure what JSON is to JS.

If you need custom data types, you can use tagged elements, but that requires you to have functions registered to convert the data type to/from representable values (often strings).

It natively supports quite a bit more than JSON does, without writing custom data readers/writers.

https://github.com/edn-format/edn

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