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starburst··on Claude Code Cheat Sheet
Does it automatically after you enter the slash command
starburst··on Claude Code Cheat Sheet
Missing ctrl + s which stash your prompt so you can do slash command while being midway into writing a prompt
starburst··on Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks
Well the competition might be too fierce for any new life to develop
starburst··on Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
That says more about you than about the game.
starburst··on We should all be using dependency cooldowns
Upgrading to new version can also introduce new exploits, no amount of tests can find those.

Some of these can be short-lived, existing only on a minor patch and fixed on the next one promptly but you’ll get it if you upgrade constantly on the latest blindly.

There is always risks either way but latest version doesn’t mean the “best” version, mistakes, errors happens, performance degradation, etc.

starburst··on Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify
Well Hetzner's "VPS" [1] is more like the "Cloud" [2] from OVH rather than OVH's VPS [3]

(no /hours pricing, cannot instantly deploy, etc.)

Not that their pricing isn't really really good, but it depends on your use-case. DO / Linode / Upcloud / EC2 / etc. do have an insane pricing in comparison, yes.

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/

[2] https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ca/public-cloud/prices/

[3] https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ca/vps/

starburst··on 1Password CLI Vulnerability
I’m surprised the CLI doesn’t asked permission for each program trying to access it, when using their SSH agent I get a popup for any program (then it unlock that key for that program until session ends).

People dismissing this vulnerability miss the point of a password manager which is to protect in such scenario where code gets executed on a machine but at least the data is encrypted, of course in that scenario the attacker can get access to the plain text env variables anyway that the developers has on their machine but at least it is not ALL of your credentials like in this case.

Service Account can limit the blast radius BUT you’ll end up saving that API token in your env anyway giving access to anyone executing malicious code…

Using their CLI is dangerous if they haven’t done anything to protect in this scenario. Did they have any comments in that vulnerability and how they want to mitigate it?

Why not simply return the value of the requested items and that’s it? Why unlock everything in a CLI scenario, surely the most common case is simply grabbing a single item like a .env for a project and that’s it.

starburst··on Blurry rendering of games on Mac
Borderless window (fullscreen) is now the norm for over a decade, alt-tab is instant in this mode. You’re stuck at whatever resolution you have your desktop but most games now have a render scale option.
starburst··on Does showing seconds in the system tray actually use more power?
Incompetence
starburst··on Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect
> Now they just need to figure out a way to push RN apps towards true native.

Isn’t that impossible? If I call native code via binding or their official language, the same thing will happens.

starburst··on The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst
I feel like they could’ve innovated using novel technique, like 3D gaussian splatting (and upscaling the video or better yet record new videos). The vast majority of the time, you’re still pretty much locked unable to move when those CGI character show up, except for turning the camera around (from what I remembered). It could’ve been faked and still work and be much better as I felt it was the only downgrade to an otherwise fantastic remake that I really enjoyed.
starburst··on On Migraine Scintillating Scotomas
That is what I wondered too after it happened to me, if what I saw was a glimpse into the inner working of how the final image gets to our consciousness, like it was missing some steps / processing.
starburst··on On Migraine Scintillating Scotomas
I still remember when that happened to me, it was quite a bizarre experience. It started after coming back from a meeting where the room was all painted white and had some of the brightest light I had seen and then it started while I was coming back home in the car, it was a sunny winter day with bright white reflected snow.

I didn't feel the pain of a migraine like I usually do but the zigzag pattern started as a very small point in the middle of my vision, got home, lay down on the couch and the circle grew and grew. I'd say around two third of the outline of that circle was a zigzag and I vividly remember that there was a checkboard pattern around the part that wasn't zigzag.

It was hard to see at some point as it became bigger and bigger and I was beginning to panic. But there was an inner circle inside of it of clear vision and once the zigzag circle became so big that it was outside of my vision, I was back to normal vision.

I did some research back then to figure out what happened and saw all those medieval paintings and drawings that people with similar experience did. I would enjoy the experience much more today with that knowledge but it never happened again.

The experience last between 30-60 min.

starburst··on Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in C# because it's unethical
He is talking about the `unsafe` keyword in C# not "unsafe code", there is plenty of good reason to use it, especially as a game dev.
starburst··on Canadian internet bill S-210 is a step closer to becoming law
Isn't it obvious it won't? Unless they go full-on China firewall style there will always be website readily available that won't enforce that crap and kids will find them easily.
starburst··on Visualizing fighting game mechanics (2020)
I suggest you read again about rollback input based deterministic simulation, it is the superior option by far, especially for competitive, you have in practice “no lag”.

That you never got any complaints doesn’t means your solution doesn’t have plenty of issues, also 20hz is pretty low.

There is a reason why no multiplayer fighting will even be considered competitive if they don’t use rollback netcode in this day and age.

starburst··on E3 Is Officially Dead
The award part is worst part of the game award and personally one of the reason I watch it is especially to see a Kojima premiere and I wasn't disappointed when he announced he was going to collaborate with Jordan Peele.
starburst··on E3 Is Officially Dead
> mostly previews of upcoming games

It's the reason 99% of the viewers watch it

starburst··on Fntastic announces shutdown four days after releasing "The Day Before"
Assets Flip is when you replace the assets in a game with other assets and sell it under a different name. Usually from a demo project or even from a complete game that was "stole".

This game simply used a bunch of assets that were bought on the unreal asset store which is different and tbh completely fair especially with a small dev team.

starburst··on Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content
Technically speaking, even bluray degrade over time so those key might get unreadable, not sure of the average lifespan since there is conflicting info on it but it seems to be around 100 year (ideal condition).
starburst··on Classes vs. structs in .NET: how not to teach about performance
I actually love the syntax if only it didn't alloc, is your implementation open source?
starburst··on Classes vs. structs in .NET: how not to teach about performance
If what you want to measure is LINQ performance, sure, but in the context of measuring the language fundamental like class versus struct, it is an unnecessary overhead.

The article itself says it:

> However, the main reason why the benchmarks are not correct is because of LINQ and lazy evaluation.

starburst··on Classes vs. structs in .NET: how not to teach about performance
The article is fine, I was referencing the original article the article is referencing.
starburst··on Classes vs. structs in .NET: how not to teach about performance
It is certainly possible to write slow code without LINQ, all I'm saying is that I wouldn't blindly trust a blog post that talk about performance and use LINQ.
starburst··on Classes vs. structs in .NET: how not to teach about performance
LINQ is pretty much frowned upon when programming games in C#, also when doing performance comparison you want to get as close as possible to the actual code without the extra overhead.

I would very much verify anything and not take it at face value when a C# performance post use LINQ.

starburst··on Classes vs. structs in .NET: how not to teach about performance
The first giveaway was the use of LINQ in a performance post
starburst··on John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity
The biggest share of Unity is 2D mobile games, something Unreal is not particularly suited for and I very much doubted that segment of the market will switch to Unreal.
starburst··on John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity
Nah, people in position of picking the engine for the next project are not going to pick Unity.
starburst··on Poland may seek extradition of Ukrainian Nazi WW2 veteran Hunka from Canada
They did introduce him as fighting against the Russian in WWII... It's easy to put all the blame on a single scapegoat, this is the results of a lot of incompetent people. Shameful moment.
starburst··on AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’
When playing with a custom LoRA (dreambooth / SDXL) trained on my brother’s photos of himself something interesting happened, when we used the prompt “as a women” instead of “a man”, the result looked incredibly similar to one of our cousin, so much that my parents asked how come she was now in the pictures generated.
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