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Anduia··on Fallout style RPG made in Excel
Actually, we see similar concerns in Game Jams. Many people actually avoid downloading .exe files and often complain if there isn’t a web version available on itch.io
Anduia··on Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets
They reopened in Spain now that they can _"reach individual or group agreements with publishers"_, which makes sense if you believe that asking the publisher before summarizing their content is the right thing to do.
Anduia··on Continuous Social Media Scrolling Negatively Impacts Eye Movement
I can't add you as friend/contact or follow you here, so why do you think this is a social media platform and not a discussion board?
Anduia··on Continuous Social Media Scrolling Negatively Impacts Eye Movement
Do you have more information about that practice? the only thing showing up in google is your very comment...
Anduia··on Zoomable, translated version of the 15th century Mappa Mundi
I went to Venice in 2017 with a list of "must-sees," one of which was the Fra Mauro original map. I had previously seen a replica, and it was breathtaking. (That thing is eight feet tall, or 2.4 meters, with gold lettering and all)

The map was housed in the Marciana Library in Venice. Unfortunately, nowhere on the internet did it mention that the map had been removed for restoration. This prevented me from seeing it in person, and perhaps I never will.

Naively, I thought that the library's website would inform visitors about such changes. However, the reality is that website updates often lag behind changes in exhibits. Lesson learned: I now call the places I want to visit to confirm their hours and current offerings.

Anduia··on Private company landing on the moon today
It is the size of a Tardis
Anduia··on OpenAI – Application for US trademark “GPT” has failed
Many do so in order to maintain their integrity and reputation. For example, the name Wikipedia and the Wikipedia logo are registered trademarks.

In the case of fundrising and sponsorship, it assures to sponsors the legitimity of that campaign, because there is no conflict with other organisation or company using the same name.

I could go on, but I hope you get the point.

Anduia··on Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration
What does Pkl stand for?
Anduia··on Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip
They are very similar. The Iberian ones are smaller, with broader heads, and are sometimes more colorful. I'm pretty sure that a Catalan would call the Italian ones 'sargantana'.
Anduia··on How to draw software architecture diagrams (2022)
In case you didn't already, if your project is documented with markdown, add ```plantuml blocks to insert your diagrams instead of separate binaries.

In Gitlab they are rendered nicely when visiting the .md file with the web browser. Github doesn't have that functionality yet.

Anduia··on The Apple Macintosh Primer (1984) [pdf]
Look at that. How nice is that? Moving away from line numbers in the 80's while maintaining compatibility.

Applesoft BASIC with Line Numbers

10 HOME: M$ = "MESSAGE"

20 FOR X = 1 TO 20

30 GOSUB 200

40 NEXT X

...

210 HTAB 20 - LEN(M$)/2

210 PRINT M$

220 RETURN

Applesoft BASIC without Line Numbers

HOME: M$ = "MESSAGE"

FDR X = 1 TO 20

GOSUB CENTER

NEXT X

...

CENTER

HTAB 20 - LEN(M$)/2

PRINTM$

RETURN

Anduia··on Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users
When you get a duplicate of your SIM card you can then verify it is you with a SMS code. There are also security questions and alternate email you can configure just in case.
Anduia··on Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years
I hope that by then they'll have better solutions than an internet browser, and that their devices can interpret and render the data received in the best way possible without relying on code or style sheets from the publisher.
Anduia··on A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits
If you read the article, he knows this but choses not to burden charities with those fees.
Anduia··on CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specification
Their research group is called 'Prosecco', and another of their projects at Inria is 'Squirrel'... Another one is F* (pronounced F star).

I imagine that they find their naming choices amusing.

Anduia··on A study on robustness and reliability of large language model code generation
Hi, do you have a recommended read for those of us who might inadvertently create race conditions?
Anduia··on Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers
https://archive.ph/vuXrb
Anduia··on Flowers for Turing
There's a real possibility that he could have advanced fields like AI and cryptography, and knowing his insatiable curiosity, it's quite plausible that entirely new, groundbreaking areas of study could have sparked his obsession.
Anduia··on Space Elevator
Well I didn't see that. My apologies!
Anduia··on Space Elevator
Or perhaps a reason to update Windows https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35511713
Anduia··on AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'
This is more of a side effect of providing self-support solutions, and a trend in Customer Support departments. Amazon Support has been on top of the lists and awards for best support because they have proper KPIs that incentive customer retention/satisfaction over just number of contacts resolved.

So when you have good support/sales staff and most contacts are solved with self-service, what remains are contacts about complicated cases and inquiries.

I imagine that they always had a lot of contacts about optimizing spending, and policies to help and retain those customers accordingly, and now the percentage of time spent in those is higher, probably because the other types of contacts are now self-service.

Anduia··on Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey
Those are a lot of conclusions to draw from a 404 error
Anduia··on Web LLM – WebGPU Powered Inference of Large Language Models
Not all implementations of it use the same license. See for example lit-llama by Lightning AI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35344787

Anduia··on Show HN: WikiBinge – discover how all things are vaguely connected
I tried to go from "Bronze Age" to "Mail" and it took me in a long ride including the dog from Oz. Quite fun. https://www.wikibinge.com/#Bronze_Age/Mail
Anduia··on Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve your ways
It is not legal for webs to make rejecting cookies more complicated than accepting them.

In fact, the French data protection authority CNIL has issued orders to around sixty players that do not make refusing cookies as easily as accepting them. They have also fined companies such as Google and Facebook for making it harder to reject cookies than to accept them. The CNIL has ordered these companies to provide a means of refusing cookies as simple as the existing means of accepting them.

Also, under GDPR, it is not legal for websites to make rejecting cookies more complicated than accepting them. In May 2020, the EU updated its GDPR guidance to clarify that cookie walls do not offer users a genuine choice because if you reject cookies you’re blocked from accessing content. It confirms that cookie walls should not be used. Companies such as Google have introduced new options to reject tracking cookies in Europe after their existing dialog boxes were found to be in violation of EU data laws.

Now what I don't know is if users outside of EU get the evil-twin version of those popups when visiting websites. My experience browsing the www is just not as bad as many people describe because I usually get a "reject all" button or when "managing" the cookies, they are all disabled by default and I can simply save the options.

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