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aeosynthon 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

aeosynthon 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.

aeosynthon Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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

aeosynthon NextDNS is my new favourite DNS service

There are multiple blocklists you can enable.

aeosynthon 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.

aeosynthon Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

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

aeosynthon 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

aeosynthon UK scientists build world’s first quantum compass

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

aeosynthon 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.

aeosynthon 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?

aeosynthon 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, ...

aeosynthon 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"?

aeosynthon 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/

aeosynthon 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.

aeosynthon 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.

aeosynthon 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."

aeosynthon From Bootstrap to CSS Grid

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

aeosynthon Always Free Usage Limits

You can trivially bypass that with an infinite loop:

    while true; do sleep 1; done

aeosynthon Always Free Usage Limits

Heroku does.

aeosynthon 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.

aeosynthon Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8

I've been using `vis` for a while now, and I agree that it used to be overly minimal, but I've submitted enough issues that it now fits my workflow. Once you get past the friction of it not being vim, you can enjoy multiple cursors, a sane scripting language (Lua), sam's structural regex....

aeosynthon Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8

my take: the main strength and weakness is that kakoune is visual mode by default, so you see the effect of your text object commands without guessing (c3fx? c4fx?). having something always highlighted can be annoying.

aeosynthon ClojureScript is the most-used functional language that compiles to JavaScript

> I have to say, the only thing that annoys me about it occasionally is its marriage to the JVM.

Clojurescript can be hosted entirely in js; here's a repl: https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo/

aeosynthon Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

these are curated lists, here's one for nosql: https://github.com/showcases/nosql-databases

edit: big list of lists: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

aeosynthon JavaScript frameworks and topics to learn in 2017

Is anyone using Tern as an annotations-free type checker?

aeosynthon Closure Compiler in JavaScript

you like lisp

aeosynthon Escape key alternatives in Vim

There is a vim-vue plugin: https://github.com/posva/vim-vue

I'm getting by with the stock html syntax:

    au BufNewFile,BufRead *.vue set filetype=html

aeosynthon A simple, fully featured command line note taking tool written in Rust

> Latest commit 95f255a on Mar 26, 2015

aeosynthon Unambiguous JavaScript Grammar

That requires modification to every file using ES modules, and new syntax. The proposed solution only requires modifying files which do not have an import or export statement, and does not need new syntax.

aeosynthon Surge – Static Web Publishing for Front-End Developers

Is the performance/simplicity that much better than setting up Cloudflare yourself?