Bytewave81

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/bytewave; my proof: https://keybase.io/bytewave/sigs/di1SvowPhBBJWWekRAtjDfE84MabD2vIchcJ9Yegz_o ]
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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Possession is a victimless crime (well, the victim is yourself).

Distribution is the crime.

Comment · 2 years ago
The children yearn for the mines.
Comment · 2 years ago
We settled on Chakra (https://chakra-ui.com/). Although we also abandoned our ambitions of a Next.js migration, so... I guess it didn't really end up mattering all that much anyway.
Comment · 2 years ago
Not just that, but it basically makes the library incompatible with serverside rendering a la Next.js. We actually explored using Shoelace for a project but ended up having to choose something else instead because of this.
Comment · 2 years ago
The idea is that you encode and decode database IDs with this. You wouldn't save them separately unless you were using it for a purpose other than shareable "identifiers" which don't leak significant amounts of database state. Imagine something like a link shortener where you want to provide a short link to users, but don't want it to just be a number.
Comment · 3 years ago
To perhaps stir the "what do words really mean" argument, "lying" would generally imply some sort of conscious intent to bend or break the truth. A language model is not consciously making decisions about what to say, it is statistically choosing words which probabilistically sound "good" together.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
It's really not "clear cut." By the definition which you agree with, an HTML file containing JavaScript is served to the client without modification, and is viewable in any modern browser with a functioning JavaScript engine. The "web application" in reference is a server-sided application which controls and renders the content, as can be assumed based on context from the rest of that page. Namely:

> Any personalization or interactivity has to run client-side, which is restricting.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Flashback functionality without a functional CPU generally is accomplished using a separate microcontroller on the board which runs its own code separate from the BIOS. It shouldn't need any of the original BIOS code in-tact, since there's nothing to execute it anyway if there's no CPU installed. :)
Comment · 4 years ago
At some point, "one" company becomes a set of loosely-related "companies" all tied together by a single name and a chain of bureaucracy.
Comment · 4 years ago
Probably just by mapping the accelerometer to a virtual joystick. Steam Input is a fairly powerful framework for mapping new controls onto existing control schemes.
Comment · 4 years ago
So... it's America's Interac?

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