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cgijoe··on Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator
Click the "Load Example" drop-down menu in the bottom-right corner.
cgijoe··on How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
> Next: skip Chromium startup > This is complex, as a running browser has open devices, timers, graphics state, network state, and fingerprint state.

Hmm, can't you just keep a set of browsers already running, like a warm pool, ready to assign to an incoming request? The latency would be close to zero for the user. You'd need some prediction logic to expand / contract the warm pool based on traffic patterns, but that seems like the easiest solution to me.

cgijoe··on When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it
Fun Fact: This same sort of thing also happened on the Classic Macintosh Quadra 840AV, when running in 8-bit (256 color) mode. Playback of realtime video capture reserved color index #243 (a very dark green in the system palette), and ANYWHERE that color was used, it would be replaced with the live video. I created some cool effects using this back in the 90s.
cgijoe··on Show HN: Metorial (YC F25) – Vercel for MCP
Oh my lord, your timing is perfect. I need this so badly right now. Congrats on the launch, and wow, thank you for making your MCP containers available separately!
cgijoe··on NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
Sorry, I am unfamiliar with ripgrep. Is this simply scanning for the string `_0x112fa8`? Could we do the same thing with normal grep -r?
cgijoe··on Serverless Horrors
Title should really be "Cloud Hosting Horrors", not serverless per se.
cgijoe··on Bear is now source-available
The source is ajar.
cgijoe··on Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer
You sure about that? I see some clear diagonal lines at 431 cols: https://imgur.com/a/rNKjTtr
cgijoe··on Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient
Ooh, how about this as a live desktop wallpaper!
cgijoe··on HTML Kaleidoscope
If you like cool stuff like this, be sure to check out shadertoy: https://www.shadertoy.com/
cgijoe··on Starting Hospice
Talk to your doctor, and ask to be screened for all common cancers. A colonoscopy is in your future (I just had one). Also ask for a Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Test. Also look into the HPV vaccine.
cgijoe··on How WASD became the standard PC control scheme (2016)
Err, ASDF? What did the "F" key do? I think it used WASD, and was probably one of the very first games that did. Screenshot: https://www.mobygames.com/game/110/dark-castle/screenshots/a...
cgijoe··on I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment
Remember the point of an ad. It's to be memorable, and to get people talking about it. Google wants people talking about Gemini. Well, here we are. I think Google won in this instance. But yes, the ad content is very bad.
cgijoe··on A simple procedural animation technique [video]
I hope the author sees this. Dude, your video is so awesome, thank you! But your microphone is "popping" every time you say a 'P' or a 'T' sound. This is because you are speaking directly into it. Try talking "past" it instead. Your vocal sound goes out in all directions, but the "wind" from your mouth that creates the pops only goes in one direction -- straight forward -- so if you slide your microphone to the side, you will still have good sounding audio with no pops.
cgijoe··on Azure DevOps is down globally
Guessing this is related: Minecraft is down, and possibly other games that use XBox Live Login: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live-status

"You may not be able to sign-in to your Xbox profile, may be disconnected while signed in, or have other related problems. Features that require sign-in like most games, apps and social activity won't be available."

cgijoe··on Java 22 Released
So does this fix the crashing issue with macOS Sonoma 14.4? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/usb-hubs-printers-ja...
cgijoe··on GoPro Ride Through an Electron Beam Irradiator at Full Beam Power [video]
So... what would happen if you took a ride with it? Instant death? Painful death? Slow death over several days? I need details!
cgijoe··on Missile Game
Why does it start on level 9 by default? Also, this really could use an "invert Y-axis" setting.
cgijoe··on The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry
a.k.a. Black Mirror, series 2, episode 1: "Be Right Back"
cgijoe··on DreamCraft3D: Hierarchical 3D Generation with Bootstrapped Diffusion Prior
Yup, I had the same thought. Click through the gallery to the last page, and you can start to see artifacts in the examples. The chicken & waffles one particularly. Although I must say, I am still extremely impressed by this tech.
cgijoe··on root with a single command: sudo logrotate
Let me correct that title for you: "root with a single command: sudo"
cgijoe··on Never write a database, even if you want to, even if you think you should
... unless you're a developer. Then go right ahead -- you'll learn a lot doing it, and become a better developer in the process.
cgijoe··on Vscode.dev: Local Development with Cloud Tools
If you don't mind my asking, I am honestly curious about this. Is the QPro high enough resolution to do actual dev work inside it?
cgijoe··on ToneMatrix
Best I could come up with: https://www.maxlaumeister.com/tonematrix/?v=1&d=QoEgAEFEgABC...
cgijoe··on HDR QR Code
See also: https://kidi.ng/wanna-see-a-whiter-white/
cgijoe··on Lesser-known JavaScript APIs
> Intl API is great, but I feel it's somewhat hamstrung because Node doesn't have matching APIs.

Are you sure? It seems to be very well supported in Node.js: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

cgijoe··on Generating Children’s Stories Using GPT-3 and DALL·E
I'm imagining a time in the near future where DALL-E (or some future incarnation) can illustrate a story in real-time, as you are speaking it.
cgijoe··on WorkOS – Building blocks for quickly adding enterprise features to an app
Anyone know how this compares to Auth0? I like Auth0 because it's free for up to 7K active users. WorkOS seems much more expensive out of the gate ($49 per "connection"?).
cgijoe··on Simple.css – A classless CSS framework
Yo: https://github.com/kevquirk/simple.css/blob/main/simple.css#...

    img, video { opacity: 0.6; }
Do not like. Not even for dark mode.
cgijoe··on The ‘Zelle fraud’ scam: how it works, how to fight back
> The caller’s number will be spoofed so that it appears to be coming from the victim’s bank.

I feel like this is a solvable problem. Don't allow anyone to spoof the caller ID. Ever.

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