stonewareslord

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Comment · 3 years ago

I found this watch because I could not find anything with more than 2 timers. I wanted a watch that has 5+ for cooking. This watch doesn't either, but I'm writing a face in rust to support this case

I also want sunrise/sunset time, random number generator, and hourly beep+30m beep like a ships clock

Comment · 3 years ago

I actually almost have a working version of a replacement for what3words/Xaddress/etc that solves every gripe I know of.

Format is: (1-1024) WORD WORD WORD with a relatively short wordlist (8k words). Maps to ~1 square meter and plurals/singular words represent the same value. Completely open source to everyone.

My gripe with pluscodes is memorizability. Number and 3 words from a short list should be pretty easy to remember and write down. Either way, my replacement can easily map to plus codes/lat lon/google maps/openstreetmap. I'm super excited about it.

I'll probably post here when it's closer to done.

Comment · 4 years ago

Thank you for this! I had a feeling it wasn't a security issue. I closed my ticket saying it might be one due to finding websites mentioning Dom clobbering

Comment · 4 years ago

You can't in bulk as far as I know, but can't you just go to about:addons in the URL bar? I don't use more than 5 anymore. How many do you have?

Comment · 4 years ago

Is it not this way in chrome too? I know imgur messes with the ui for no good reason.

Your other commentmentions i.imgur.com being the case? Maybe libredirext can help you never hit the i. Site?

Comment · 4 years ago

Yes quantum was rough... I still miss vimperator. Though the speed increase was nice. Thank you, I did forget about this actually

Comment · 4 years ago

What do you mean meme storm? Switching to Firefox makes you immune to annoying changes like this... I honestly don't understand why more people, especially on hn, haven't switched over still.

As a Firefox user, articles like this are just noise, not a possible attack on my personal privacy. When was the last technical scandal with Firefox? Adding an optional bookmarking service? How are people still defending chrome?

Comment · 4 years ago

Good catch. That would explain why it wasn't mentioned then

Comment · 4 years ago

I don't think this article is complete. It mentions no pollution, which is true of window and most HTML elements, but not always. Check this out, you can set an img name to getElementById and now document.getElementById is the image element!

Here's a minimal example (https://jsfiddle.net/wc5dn9x2/):

    <img id="asdf" name="getElementById" />
    <script>
        // The img object
        console.log(document.getElementById);

        // TypeError: document.getElementById is not a function :D
        console.log(document.getElementById('asdf'));
    </script>

I tried poking around for security vulnerabilities with this but couldn't find any :(

It seems that the names overwrite properties on document with themselves only for these elements: embed form iframe img object

Edit: Here's how I found this: https://jsfiddle.net/wc5dn9x2/1/

Comment · 4 years ago

Me too!

Comment · 4 years ago

What do you mean? Adding odds defeats the purpose of the prediction since you can't confirm it to be true or not.

If I predict with 99.99% odds something will happen and it doesn't, my prediction could still have been correct as that fits in the remaining .01%. Whereas if I predict something will or won't happen after some time, you can confirm if it did or didn't happen after that time.

Comment · 4 years ago

Why is this called sol (sun) when the logo is a black hole? Am I missing something?

Comment · 4 years ago

I agree with your assessment.

> a stack made for a single game is not a game engine.

For a concrete example: the newest Lego game, Star Wars the Complete Saga, had a complete engine rewrite ("NTT") and the new game is the only one that runs it. I wonder what term the author would use to describe NTT, which isn't designed to run a single game or have a community.

Comment · 4 years ago

How do you enforce the physical check with captive portal? Do you give everyone a shared password to go into the portal?

Comment · 4 years ago

What a tiring trope. I use a high resolution macbook for work and a 1366x768 13 inch laptop for personal use. Like OP, I greatly prefer the font blockiness the latter provides especially in terminals.

And yes, I've tried smooth fonts and FixedSys/Less Perfect DOS-VGA on both and prefer blocky ones every time. High res screens love to use smoothing and subpixel rendering and I very much prefer none of it.

Edit: point being if you switch to high res displays, you won't always like it more