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edvards··on Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
Great game! I would love a hint function though, as I honestly got stuck.
edvards··on Gitlab Explores Sale
Time for Gitea.
edvards··on ChatTTS-Best open source TTS Model
In voice assistants, robocalls, e-books, even singing, live voice interpretation/translation... a lot of stuff.
edvards··on Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
Is there a name for this visual style?
edvards··on What's New in Neovim 0.10
Am I the only one who doesn't like the new color scheme that much? It seems that it just plainly removes all the syntax highlighting more or less.
edvards··on Roblox players to start seeing video ads in its virtual realms
We have ads everywhere. Teaching kids on how to handle ads is rather reasonable.
edvards··on Over 2k shell companies have directors aged 123 years or older
GP?
edvards··on Stripe live dashboard
Same with Google Chrome stable on Linux (Ubuntu 22.04)

EDIT: Works well on Google Chrome stable on Windows 11 tho

edvards··on The Fallout from the Weirdness at OpenAI
because we will
edvards··on ALTEXXANET - 90s Internet Experience (2016)
For those also looking - it's Protoweb, not ProtoNet
edvards··on Brexit Could Be Reversed - Here's How
If the UK proves itself to be a partner that doesn't want special treatment like before, it sure can be welcomed back by the EU, and if anything it coming back will only strengthen the union by showing that leaving it was considered a mistake in the end.

But I still feel skeptical regarding Brits and British politicians actually being ready to accept the fact they're not special and that they will not have special treatment. I am pretty sure they'll want to pull a sneaky and try to sneak something in to calm down the Tories.

edvards··on How the great firewall of China detects and blocks fully encrypted traffic [pdf]
Pragmatism, I suppose. The country does well enough economically for people to accept it, not to mention they're used to it all already.
edvards··on Hashing
Amazingly well done article, thanks for sharing and making it!
edvards··on Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated
Wonder whether any of the new platforms will gain traction, or whether what happened to Twitter repeats and the users will just return from the alternatives.
edvards··on Bun v0.5
What's the most challenging thing you had while working on the project so far? It seems like the project has a pretty complex goal, so I wonder what things were the more difficult ones for you
edvards··on Slack is cutting 10% of its product and engineering org
cutting compensation

and compensation = salary

edvards··on Interactive text game of surgery in early 1800s
Had to use Firefox for the game to work, but overall really nice game, quite educational

Also just in case for everyone - yes, it is possible to have her survive the surgery, keep trying

edvards··on Issue dialing 911 on Google Pixel 6 cell phones
How often did they show up, and who paid the fine?
edvards··on NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation
Does this mean what Hubble sees is actually closer to what I'd see with my own eyes than Hubble, or Hubble's version is closer?
edvards··on Google Search Results Plagued with spam “.it” domains
Been having the same issue on my old email. a LOT of spam going past the filter.
edvards··on The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe
Can you tell about the two others?
edvards··on Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling
is it compatible with what webpack has
edvards··on What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?
Can you tell more about 1 and 2, maybe with some sources added? this is pretty big
edvards··on Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it
It never was a thing in Latvia, and neither was Lyft. I don't recall Bolt (ex Taxify) ever having another app competitor except Yandex Taxi
edvards··on Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it
Not really, it is sort of a monopoly. The only competitor app we had was Yandex Taxi, but ever since the war we don't have it here anymore.