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aeosynth | 5 years ago | on: Flow browser passes the Acid tests

From the article:

> Acid3 dates back to 2008 and the web platform specs have changed over time so a perfect score, using the version hosted on acidtests.org, is now only 97/100. The version hosted on the web platform tests site has been updated to match the specs and so, using that, browsers should score 100/100

aeosynth | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

5.4 hasn't officially released (it's in the RC stage) so 5.3 is still the latest stable/supported version.

aeosynth | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

Similar in rust: https://github.com/ilai-deutel/kibi

aeosynth | 5 years ago | on: NextDNS is my new favourite DNS service

There are multiple blocklists you can enable.

aeosynth | 6 years ago | on: MoonScript: Dynamic scripting language that compiles into Lua

https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel

> Fennel is a lisp that compiles to Lua. It aims to be easy to use, expressive, and has almost zero overhead compared to handwritten Lua.

aeosynth | 7 years ago | on: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

Polarized doesn't support epub - https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf/issues/135

aeosynth | 7 years ago | on: Golua – A Lua 5.3 engine implemented in Go

https://github.com/google/starlark-go

> Starlark is a dialect of Python intended for use as a configuration language

aeosynth | 7 years ago | on: UK scientists build world’s first quantum compass

Compass, not computer, for those that misread the title.

aeosynth | 7 years ago | on: Log driven programming (2013)

https://orgmode.org/manual/Capture-_002d-Refile-_002d-Archiv...

> An important part of any organization system is the ability to quickly capture new ideas and tasks, and to associate reference material with them. Org does this using a process called capture.

aeosynth | 7 years ago | on: GNU nano 3.0 released

> But it is not adopted by all distributions yet.

Is it adopted by any distro as a default text editor?

aeosynth | 7 years ago | on: On the Road to Pure Go X11 GUIs

he mentions that in the previous paragraph:

> First, people have naturally written bindings for Qt, GTK+, ui, ...

aeosynth | 7 years ago | on: OpenAI’s Dota 2 defeat is still a win for artificial intelligence

Anyone know what the 'undiscovered mechanic' is?

> At least one previously undiscovered game mechanic, which allows players to recharge a certain weapon quickly by staying out of range of the enemy, has been discovered by the bots and passed on to humans

I assume they're talking about blink dagger, and something more advanced than "don't take damage"?

aeosynth | 7 years ago | on: OpenAI Five at Dota 2 – The International [video]

They can beat the cram out of 6-7k players (99.95th percentile), beating Team Human - https://blog.openai.com/openai-five-benchmark-results/

aeosynth | 7 years ago | on: A Type of Simulation Which Some Experimental Evidence Suggests We Don't Live In [pdf]

It might be interesting to do exactly that - rerun the OP example in a Minecraft server, attempting to prove that it is a simulation.

Proving the simulation hypothesis true in Minecraft could give ideas on how to prove it in our universe.

aeosynth | 7 years ago | on: A Type of Simulation Which Some Experimental Evidence Suggests We Don't Live In [pdf]

They acknowledge that:

> Without additional technology, we are unable to tell which soft errors were external and which were internal.

...

> Perhaps this paper’s most interesting conclusion is just that a non-contrived simulation hypothesis is falsifiable in a concrete way.

aeosynth | 7 years ago | on: Void Linux project leader has disappeared

"Don't develop free software; if you ever decide to abandon a project, no one will ever hire you again."

aeosynth | 8 years ago | on: From Bootstrap to CSS Grid

It's possible to generate svgs from images, see https://jmperezperez.com/svg-placeholders/

aeosynth | 9 years ago | on: Always Free Usage Limits

You can trivially bypass that with an infinite loop:

    while true; do sleep 1; done

aeosynth | 9 years ago | on: Always Free Usage Limits

Heroku does.

aeosynth | 9 years ago | on: Adventures in /usr/bin and the likes

Not covered in the article, but `rename` is a multi-file renamer. I wrote a script which used an `echo $f | sed | mv` loop before I learned about this.