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abejfehr··on Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick
There’s a lot of debate about whether this reduces model accuracy, but this is basically Chinese grammar and Chinese vibe coding seems to work fine while (supposedly) using 30-40% less tokens
abejfehr··on Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs
It’s commonly “they”

For example: “Meta released a new product, they (Meta) are calling it …”

abejfehr··on Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
Both sports betting and prediction markets are effectively the same as reading tea leaves anyway. You can determine the real odds in roulette or blackjack because those are closed games that have simple probabilities, but any odds given in sports betting or prediction markets are just fancy guesses
abejfehr··on Dutch Defence Secretary Boldly Claims F-35 Software Could Be 'Jailbroken'
Let me know when it runs DOOM
abejfehr··on NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry
A valid use case I can think of is if npmjs.com is blackholed by your company to prevent supply chain attacks
abejfehr··on Why Ontario Digital Service couldn't procure '98% safe' LLMs (15M Canadians)
> The blocker wasn't capability—it was liability.

Yikes (regarding the AI patterns in the comment)

abejfehr··on HTML-only conditional lazy loading (via preload and media)
Isn’t that why you should like it then? It saves your time because you’d get the page earlier
abejfehr··on The Performance Revolution in JavaScript Tooling
Or Rspack (https://rspack.rs/) which is intended to be a drop-in Webpack replacement
abejfehr··on Go.sum is not a lockfile
how is this possible? isn't everyone using the same node version?

and checking in lockfile changes

abejfehr··on A spider web unlike any seen before
I think they're referring to the spiders that are deep in the web, since the midges presumably don't make it that deep
abejfehr··on Lessons from 14 years at Google
That code from your post is fairly standard image load handling, but the notable part is this line:

self.apng_supported = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, 1, 1).data[3] === 0;

Unless I'm misunderstanding, it's basically a "neat trick", like using ~~ for rounding or a fast inverse square root.

Is the intent that everyone who makes use of that trick is supposed to link back to your blog?

abejfehr··on A small collection of text-only websites
I feel like the article should've been called "plaintext-only websites" or something, because if you had asked me I would've also defined "text-only" as image/video-less websites
abejfehr··on I want a good parallel language [video]
Bend comes to mind as an attempt at this: https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/Bend

Disclaimer: I did not watch the video yet

abejfehr··on 'Do not trust your eyes': AI generates surge in expense fraud
Not very much when there are products like this: https://floatfinancial.com/blog/virtual-credit-cards-canada/
abejfehr··on ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon
I might be silly but I don’t get the point being made there.

I believe due process is important in every case, and I want to believe that having a mixed system eventually results in due process being skipped more and more, but the example from the end of the article goes against that: England and France diverged, so it’s possible for a mixed system to go either way?

abejfehr··on Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall
It seems to me that they (Valve) are complicit. Don't they provide the API that those sites use?

I don't think they tried very hard to shut them down, they could be doing a lot more.

Edit: based on what I recall from this Coffeezilla video (https://youtu.be/13eiDhuvM6Y?si=GJ_kXOJyXFTogy40&t=476)

abejfehr··on Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
I don't think that's what this is saying, isn't it that 100 - ~82 = 17.7% ?
abejfehr··on Show HN: Tips to stay safe from NPM supply chain attacks
These tips are great, but they don’t address some of the core ways that these supply chain attacks may happen: global modules and npm modules installed with editor extensions.

So `yarn global add nx` will still install the latest version by default, unless you specifically have a `~/.yarnrc` disallowing lifecycle scripts they will still be executed. Using a package manager that doesn’t allow lifecycle scripts by default is the solution here I guess.

I don’t know what the solution is for stuff like [this](https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/blob/d2fa56509679fc942bbc...) where the editor plugin automatically uses the latest version, or where in general you have little control over what version is used. Any eslint, typescript, nx, prettier, etc plugin will presumably depend on their corresponding package from npm, and if any of those gets compromised then just installing an editor extension could be enough to get you in trouble.

abejfehr··on Behind the scenes of Bun Install
Why wouldn’t it? The end result of a npm install or a bun install is that the node_modules folder is structured in the way it needs to be, and I think it can run node-gyp for the packages that need it.
abejfehr··on Chimpfluencers Stick Grass in Their Ears and Butts in Latest Viral Trend
gracias
abejfehr··on Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?
This site has a collection of them: https://500mile.email/
abejfehr··on VisionOS 26 keeps pushing Apple's newest platform toward the future
I know the screen is an arbitrary size, but in general if you need more screens you could be walking around with an iPad to use with your laptop instead of a Vision Pro
abejfehr··on Everything Is Down
AWS is up for me, where do you see they're a part of the outage?
abejfehr··on Show HN: Photoshop Clone Built in React
I'm not actually sure that you can do anything besides draw right now
abejfehr··on Show HN: Photoshop Clone Built in React
Photopea isn't made using WASM, it's just vanilla HTML/JS/CSS

Edit: well besides (as of 3 years ago) 2 modules apparently: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/s2elpv/comment/hsfwn9...

abejfehr··on Find the oldest line in your repo
doesn't seem to work on macOS, I get:

  find: illegal option -- t
  usage: find [-H | -L | -P] [-EXdsx] [-f path] path ... [expression]
         find [-H | -L | -P] [-EXdsx] -f path [path ...] [expression]
abejfehr··on The tragedy of running an old Node project
Not for running the project locally
abejfehr··on Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data
Why will giving someone a cash reward mean you have a better chance of getting your wallet back in the future?
abejfehr··on Flesh-Eating Bacteria That Can Kill in Two Days Spreads in Japan
That is true, but I still can't reconcile how faeces get on their hands in the first place when it's overwhelmingly common to use bidets
abejfehr··on Identical twins both grew up with autism, but took different paths
it’s almost certainly not identical now, it just used to be at conception
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