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azatom··on Firefox 157
Firefox is the alternative. If that's not enough, you can write one, it is not that hard, you can use ... vibe coding

Or try carbonyl or browsh. You'll definitely have no problems with roundness and animations, although other problems might rise, they are terminal browsers. Note that one is chrome, other is firefox based.

azatom··on The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)
To consider, there are different docs:

in repo (can be wiki format):

- dev docs

- user manual

different repo:

- community usage wiki

azatom··on Spymarks, not Watermarks
Stop using link mutiliating tools!

What will be the next? I will be unable to see the domain of a link on hover/longtap and have to trust random links like on a search engine?

MUTINY against hn!

azatom··on Jev-Leftpad
i maintained a system where for .. reasons (like other systems) from early days have users with id: null "null" "" and some i do not even know how to write here

so probably early bird

azatom··on Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
No.

The site IS the one calculated score and calming marketing. I am not sure what you are referring:

- the studio photos are not provided

- those seemingly same images have slightly different angle what is actually a huge difference, AND only for 2-3 phones, not for all

PS: e.g. different clouds on the portrait example: huge dynamic difference

azatom··on RSA-896
rsa is prime factorization, bitcoin is elliptic curve ps: elliptic curve or breaking sha256 "bitmixing"
azatom··on Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
Where is a comparing site where the exact same subject and lightening used? Why https://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3 stopped it? I can only find these "trust me" reviews.
azatom··on Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip
In filesystem subject a proper critique is mentioning ssd vs hdd. I did not added value for karma increase, but karma lost? Who haven't I wished a happy birthday?
azatom··on Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip
clicked, ctrl+f ssd, hdd, not found, closed
azatom··on Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
https://xkcd.com/2946/

https://xkcd.com/3038/

azatom··on Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
it is like "my fridge is 2mkm (millikilometer) from my desk" m=0.001 h=3600 it should be just Ws or just J
azatom··on Java 27 Released
I never cared about those kind of syntax sugars. I was happy with IDE/static checkers, lombok, mapstruct, etc.

I missed generators like that virtual threading for example.

btw: i was referring a single point when oracle bought sun and "closed java".

azatom··on Java 27
It's on you bc it was (arguably but still) dead 17 years ago.

edit: don't get me wrong, i am not here to hate java, but bc i am also ... hm necrophil :)

azatom··on Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography
That signature contains time and optionally gps coords, and taking photo of a screen is not simple. So overall does solve some problem

ps:most important: cam/lens settings also in the digital sig, what for a screen is different

azatom··on Apple Unveils iPhone Duo
> Why do they insist on every new phone being bigger than the phones before them?

Others wrote complicated or bs jokes, here is my SIMPLE tip:

It has to change otherwise people would not buy new. Size can not change randomly so it has 2 ways: decreasing and later it becomes an iwatch, and tablet becomes a phone: this is stupid because harder to increase price.

So increase it is. If you do not like it, use a watch+earpiece as a phone.

azatom··on Audacity 4.0
After I change from "Program Files" to a user's folder it brings up the UAC.

Why? The "files association still needs it" is not an answer. It is plain unnecessary risk, does not matter that the original author is trusted, still can be hacked.

azatom··on Nebula Sans
define perfect!

- read? mostly coders

- sell? mostly marketing

- fraud? rn.com vs m.com mostly designers

azatom··on Nebula Sans
Pipe, capital i, small l are just line

Edit: WOW I did not know if that I write WHAT I don't like, then I will get downwoted here, like on other sites for pure hatred, ynews really goes down

azatom··on Success = (number of attempts) × (probability of success each time)
I didn't read the article, I don't think these kind has any value, but if you are here.. :)

i think it is rather binary, so

P_overall_success = 1 - (1 - P_success) ^ #attempts

and expected number of first success:

n = 1 / P_success

azatom··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
I dunno, that "at least" worries me, digital actually more easier to be lost if it is under copyright, they just got deleted if they can not produce enough money. Physical may have higher chance to survive.
azatom··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
just be aware of the exact prompt:

"memory usage is important": creates a 1TB binary

"take multiple steps": uses so much power, extreme global warming, it will just print "hot"

"think outside of the box": it will enslave you so you will not care about weather

azatom··on TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas
when will be xson invented, with support of xpathson and xsdson but strictly leaving out other xml features.. for future improvement?
azatom··on I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates
-1: build transistor from atoms

-2: ...

:)

(ofc the UI could be more simpler but I've found the wiring)

azatom··on I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates
you maybe not select accidental but others do:

user-select: none;

azatom··on OEIS: Number of stars on the US flag since 1775
I would love a DB full of this kind of random data, but not in OEIS
azatom··on Zen: A distraction-free code editor based on Zed
No and sorry. I mixed that with lite-xl, tried they at same time and both had a red flag (lite-xl has official exe and can't open windows text file). I do not remember what was my problem with zed. Maybe just the autoformat (if i turn off format-on-save then I can not format at all only if I install a plugin.)
azatom··on Zen: A distraction-free code editor based on Zed
Is Zed the text editor that can't open a Windows (UTF-16 LE, UCS2 encoded) text file?
azatom··on Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
Why is it so loud? On same machine Cyberpunk2077 goes with highest settings with same fan noise.
azatom··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
sleep?

strace shows that the sleep program uses clock_nanosleep, which is theoretically "passive." However, if the host suspends and then wakes up after the sleep period should have ended, it continues as if it were "active."

azatom··on [dead]
Genuine question: why reads it "1-100" as 1 .. -100? Google is (was) good at that even when I think it was taught by pure statistics. I never saw people would mean by that, only by bots. Does bots have too much influence?
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