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werdnapk··on How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari
I fired up DK in mame after the King of Kong documentary came out and ended up playing quite a lot as I recalled as a kid having a very difficult time getting anywhere in the game. It was fairly satisfying getting through all the main stages for the first time.
werdnapk··on Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC
I have been using Firefox for years (decades) and I rarely encounter a page or site that doesn't work... a handful perhaps, but it's a complete non-issue for me. If anything, my ad-blocker can sometimes cause issues and I'll disable that and everything is good again.
werdnapk··on Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines
If you spent decades doing selective breeding to obtain a more desirable product, you'd probably be a bit annoyed if others just stole the product from you and made money off of your hard work.

If the products are being bred from tax funded programs, then yes, anybody should have access to the new breeds, but if it's privately funded, then why should it be available for everyone? Without the protection, there isn't much incentive to invest time into developing better foods.

werdnapk··on Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications
They're all looking the same now. The AI version of bootstrap.
werdnapk··on Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler
Most gems in Ruby/Rails projects come from rubygems, so if they were published long ago, any exploits should have already been found hopefully. Any old gems that would attempt to release a new compromised version would now get a created_at timestamp and the cooldown applies.

Unless you can compromise the gem server to overwrite created_at fields, I don't see any exploits here.

Private gem servers are either already trusted (if they're your own) or already under some scrutiny and extra care already being taken (ideally), but this last case applies to very few projects I'm sure.

werdnapk··on CSS-Native Parallax Effect
It's been behind a flag for ages. Maybe because of performance issues?
werdnapk··on Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers
Where did they say they used AI for this?
werdnapk··on I want to live like Costco people
I will not buy coffee at Costco. I've had Costco coffee beans and it's terrible. I only buy premium beans at specialty shops and always will. The masses can drink their subpar coffee from Costco if they wish.
werdnapk··on BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
Canada reduced theirs to 6.1% from 100% about a month ago.
werdnapk··on Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster
It's mentioned explicitly in the article:

"Elections Alberta salts the electors’ lists with the names of fake voters, so if one copy of a list is leaked, the agency can trace its origins. An analysis determined the list came from the Republican Party of Alberta, headed by Cam Davies, who, like Parker, has a well-documented history in Alberta as a political operative who pushes boundaries."

werdnapk··on I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
You could have bought bored apes (and any of the other scammy NFTs) and ended up losing your shirt in the end. Overall, who cares if you miss the boat on something, it's not good for the mind to dwell on it.
werdnapk··on CSS as a Query Language
document.evaluate is also widespread client-side.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/ev...

werdnapk··on I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
You simply can't get hung up on what could have been. Same applies to trying to time the stock market... should have bought, should have sold. Best thing is to know there's nothing that can be done about the past and move along and deal with what you can do now instead.
werdnapk··on Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games
Almost anybody who grew up with video games in the 80s played Sokoban and knows exactly what that refers to. It was THE puzzle game in the early days of video games... that and maybe millipede.
werdnapk··on Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
I'm in Canada and have been a Deezer subscriber for almost 2 decades now. Their premium subscription is well worth the money - I pay less than $90 for the year. They also have one of the highest track counts available compared to other streaming services (according to google).
werdnapk··on GitHub's Fake Star Economy
And sometimes the maintainer simply doesn't respond to a perfectly acceptable issue due to either the maintainer abandoning the project, not enough maintainers or simple neglect.
werdnapk··on It's OK to compare floating-points for equality
The use of epsilon is correct here. It's exactly what I was taught in comp sci over 20 years ago. You can call it's use here an "epsilon-delta".
werdnapk··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
insert "AI is just if statements" meme
werdnapk··on If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
I've been using gitosis to manage private repos for almost 2 decades now. It's extremely easy to host your own repositories.

I just looked up gitosis on github though and it was last updated 12 years ago.... still works for me though.

Overall, hosting your own repos is very easy.

werdnapk··on French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?
I'm a native English speaker who's very exposed to French, but doesn't speak it, I find the use of accents in French very welcome to getting the pronunciation right when exposed to a new word. English is just a mess in comparison and I wish it had made use of accents as well to avoid a lot of the ambiguities in pronunciation. Perhaps some of the old English letters that are no longer in use helped a bit, but I'm not familiar enough with those to know if it used to be better.
werdnapk··on The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'
I have stacks of them still saved in boxes from the 80's.
werdnapk··on Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
When I was in CS, we were taught theory. If you wanted to be caught up with the current tech, you'd teach yourself.
werdnapk··on Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude
CSS on the <a> tags:

word-break: break-all;

werdnapk··on Compact disc story (1998)
For a thorough breakdown of everything CDs, here's Technology Connections playlist on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jwu7G_DFWBEyCKt4tK...

werdnapk··on Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model
A designer knows things from experience and would be aware of small details that if not designed correctly, become very apparent when built in reality.
werdnapk··on A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
I've been waiting years for my word to be my first guess and still nothing... it's been my opener for years. I know my word hasn't been used as I've checked the list of used words.

So for me, reusing words is not what I want to hear.

werdnapk··on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
Gold and silver were up the most they'd ever been the previous 1-2 days... followed by them going back down. So don't mention the fall without the literal massive rise that happened hours before.
werdnapk··on 40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video]
No need to read text, AI can talk in a voice of your choosing.
werdnapk··on 40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video]
You can "talk" to AI, so I assume this is what they'd be referring to. No need to write prompts or read responses.
werdnapk··on 40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video]
From the summary of video:

"40% of fourth graders can't read. Kids are asking their teachers why they need to learn to read when AI can do it for them. Social media has destroyed their attention spans and now teachers aren't teaching, instead they're managing withdrawal symptoms."

Why are fourth graders on social media and using AI already? My fourth grade kid has no social media presence and definitely isn't familiar with AI tools. This sounds like a parent problem.

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