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miniBillon Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language

Very cool language. The standard library looks mostly sane, although it does have `def get(i: Int32, a: Array[a, r]): a \ r` which means that it must have some kind of runtime exception system. Not my cup of tea, but an understandable tradeoff

miniBillon Asterinas: A new Linux-compatible kernel project

The have the rationale for why they picked MPL in their documentation. I don't love the choice, but I can see the reasons behind it.

miniBillon Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

... how?

miniBillon Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

Access to Bluetooth devices is a good reason to have an app. I definitely do not want a Bluetooth API in my browser (although Chrome does have something in that direction, I think it's a bad idea)

miniBillon Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design

It's very useful but it's sloooow

miniBillon Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view

mtr is also pretty great!

miniBillon I tasted Honda's spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)

> This is the Haterade promise: I will only ever use your money irresponsibly.

Amazing :D

miniBillon The LA Fires Burned Homes. The Data Show Insurers Saw the Risks

I mean, if your house costs a million and gets destroyed by fire every year I can insure you for 100k per month, so it is insurable just. Not usefully.

miniBillon Fidget

Oh wow. This would have been incredibly useful to have found when I was writing my own implicit-surface drawer. My approach is similar in some ways (interval arithmetic), and different in others (not as optimized, I directly produce GLSL for a fragment shader).

Honestly I'm tempted to just toss everything away and replace it with (a reimplementation of) this. Dunno if I should be happy or sad about that.

miniBillon Show HN: Performant intracontinental public transport routing in Rust

Where do you get your feeds from? In my experience finding good feeds is the hardest part of working on these projects

miniBillon Nanowar of Steel – HelloWorld.java

This code is me(n)tal!

miniBillon A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)

How funny it is to hear foreigners try to pronounce it?

miniBillon The best darn grid shader yet (2023)

> At least until Mr. Quilez writes a shader that beats this one.

Made me chuckle. He truly is in a class of his own.

miniBillon Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store

My apps will be gone because Google wants to publish my home address for the world to see. What the hell, I'm an individual, not a company.

miniBillon Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients

The main issue with "Cancel Adobe" is that it's very naïve to assume that a nontrivial percentage of people using it can realistically switch to something else.

miniBillon Show HN: Render audio waveforms to HTML canvas using WebGPU

This is how I do it using WebGL: https://github.com/miniBill/audio-editor/blob/main/src/View/...

miniBillon Coffee-Making Myths That Might Be Holding You Back

No I'm just... not getting anything at all.

    $ curl -vv -sSL https://archive.ph/TO9Rr
    *   Trying 89.253.237.26:443...
    * Connected to archive.ph (89.253.237.26) port 443
    * ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1
    * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
    * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
    * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
    * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):
    * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
    * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
    * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
    * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
    * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
    * SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
    * ALPN: server accepted h2
    * Server certificate:
    *  subject: CN=archive.ph
    *  start date: Feb  4 02:37:14 2024 GMT
    *  expire date: May  4 02:37:13 2024 GMT
    *  subjectAltName: host "archive.ph" matched cert's "archive.ph"
    *  issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R3
    *  SSL certificate verify ok.
    * using HTTP/2
    * [HTTP/2] [1] OPENED stream for https://archive.ph/TO9Rr
    * [HTTP/2] [1] [:method: GET]
    * [HTTP/2] [1] [:scheme: https]
    * [HTTP/2] [1] [:authority: archive.ph]
    * [HTTP/2] [1] [:path: /TO9Rr]
    * [HTTP/2] [1] [user-agent: curl/8.4.0]
    * [HTTP/2] [1] [accept: */*]
    > GET /TO9Rr HTTP/2
    > Host: archive.ph
    > User-Agent: curl/8.4.0
    > Accept: */*
    >

And then it just hangs forever

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It's a different article in the same set

miniBillon Coffee-Making Myths That Might Be Holding You Back

Not working for me?

miniBillon The Top of the DNS Hierarchy

How do you avoid squatting?

miniBillon Scientists succeed in growing dolomite in the lab

Thank you! Honestly "monti pallidi" is... such a worse name :D

miniBillon The British Mosquito once carried Niels Bohr in its bomb bay

Aaaah, nice!

miniBillon EU plan to scan private messages for child abuse meets fresh scandal

I'm in love with the idea of the EU, that doesn't mean that I think any of this is remotely acceptable.

And I think that "it can't be allowed to continue" is a dumb idea

miniBillon Halfsies

Yupp, worked for me

miniBillon Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts

I really don't like Nota, but you get my upvote because: 1. Typst is amazing and 2. you are open to criticism and are looking to redesign it, and I am hopeful you'll create something good

miniBillon The British Mosquito once carried Niels Bohr in its bomb bay

That website is refusing me entry, could you share more about why it is relevant?

miniBillon macOS Sonoma is available today

Nix does not require you to be an administrator to install a package though!

miniBillon Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship

You... do regular GC, right?

I have 45G, and this computer is more than two years old

miniBillon Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

No, unfortunately

miniBillon IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer’s 70 mm release

Docker