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New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

  • A Hashing Game Inspired By xkcd

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  • This isn't a million miles from what bitcoin mining does, although in that case they're trying to find hashes that start with a lot of zeroes.

  • Bun is up to 20x slower than NodeJS in logic operations

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  • The uncropped version makes it a bit clearer:

    It's also clearer that it's from an AI.

  • Not forgotten

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  • I just saw the top two thirds, and had to scroll to see the punchline and the comm - what a pleasant surprise! For me, it's the 3DO but that's too niche for most.

  • How to find project names?

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  • DFRA

    That doesn't work, though.

    For a recursive acronym, you want something like ADFRA Didn't Forget Recursive Acronyms.

  • Fantasy Maps Should Be Weirder - Nakari Speardane on Youtube

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  • I was going to post this myself, but you beat me to it. Great video.

  • JavaScript Temporal is coming

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  • date-fns? It's third in my search results but doesn't ring any bells to me.

  • JavaScript Temporal is coming

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  • I'll be very happy to not have to use Date any more. Pop quiz, what's in whatnum?

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const vday = new Date('14 February 2025');
const whatnum = vday.getDay() - vday.getMonth();

    Err, it's 5... Ha, amazing; that's not even the gotcha I meant to demonstrate. getDay returns the day of the week, the day of the month is returned from getDate.

    Take two:

     js
        
const vday = new Date('14 February 2025');
const whatnum = vday.getDate() - vday.getMonth();

    So this is 14 - 2 = 12, right? Nope! The day (from getDate) is 1-based whereas month is 0-based, so 14 - 1 = 13.

  • Book Review: Off Midway Station by Marc Alan Edelheit

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  • Yeah, worth a read; it’s fun.

    Rating: 1.5/5

    That rating doesn't seem to match the rest of the review.

  • Object.freeze() Goes Hard 🥶❄️

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  • TypeScript's readonly is compile-time only and has zero runtime cost

    This point means that I'll probably never use the good ideas in this post: if I'm doing JS complicated enough to need Object.freeze(), I'll be doing it in Typescript.

  • I tested an ink pen that digitizes your handwriting, but the app makes it truly useful

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  • the neater and more consistent your handwriting, the easier time the Nuwa pen will have captur[ing] it

    That's me out then

  • A Better Federated Search

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  • This might even be an appropriate use for AI (maybe even running in-browser for privacy). I imagine something that reads your prompt and auto-populates a few rings to search. You review and edit the suggested rings, then click search.

  • Good British comedy

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  • Minus things already mentioned (and in no particular order):

    • The Thick of It (political comedy, has some amazing swearing)
    • The Cleaner (British version of a German comedy)
    • Ghosts (not the US remake, of course)
    • 8 out of Cats Does Countdown (comedy version of the long running quiz show)
    • Alan Davis's As Yet Untitled (talk show with comedians)
    • Gone Fishing (not a comedy show per se, a gentle fishing show featuring Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse)
    • Drunk History (British version of the American show/YouTube sensation from back in the day)
    • Mighty Boosh (surreal humour, still gets referenced frequently in my house)
    • Jeeves and Wooster
    • Phoenix Nights (Peter Kay show, definitely check this out)
    • Vicar of Dibley
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    Is there any option to configure #Navidrome for last.fm via docker compose secrets? Right now the compose file only seems to accept direct values via ND_LASTFM_SECRET but not pointers to a file (e.g.

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  • It doesn't look like it, but I suppose you could write it in the config file and put the whole file in a secret (not tested, may not work)

  • Self-hosted Content-Security-Policy report, etc, collector/displayer?

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  • I just went to look for answers this, since report-uri.com is killing its free tier, and the lowest paid is way higher than my usage justifies. What did you settle on?

  • The Batcave is suspiciously guano-free. Alfred has some really thankless jobs.

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  • Wayne Industries Organic Fertilizer

  • Puppet is getting forked

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  • I like the take that they have in that thread: Perforce is forking Puppet into a non-Open Source version (but they're keeping the name).

  • Sweet Raspberry taste of success masks a missed opportunity

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  • But I said how they work, not, say, how to use a computer to get onto a website. I'm thinking of future generation's makers and tinkerers, which seemed to be the gist of the article you posted.

    The surface of computing is quite polished nowadays, but that's not entirely helpful when you can't access anything under the surface to learn what makes it tick.

  • Sweet Raspberry taste of success masks a missed opportunity

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  • I feel this article is looking at a bit of silver as if it's the lining and writing an article about the cloud.

    Definitely there's less knowledge about how computers work nowadays: e.g. universities now have to teach Computer Science students how file systems and directories work, because kids are used to saving everything in the default folder and just searching for what they want (and we're talking to those geeky enough to be doing CS).

    But there's more complexity now, and a lot of that stuff is just irrelevant busy work. I remember juggling IRQ lines when installing hardware but luckily that's auto-configured now. I used to create boot discs and eke out enough memory by skipping the better graphics, mouse driver, etc when not needed but did that teach me much?

    On the other hand, we used to have LAN parties as teenagers and would rebuild the networking stack for each game, including some performance tweaks (“Red Alert needs NetBIOS over IPX, right?” “Yeah, but disable the turbo encabulator”) and ¾ of us went on to do CS at uni. We certainly never thought of a web browser as “the internet” and we're confident to explore knowing we could fix what we broke (and did, often).

  • Raft, by Stephen Baxter

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  • That's a six book series, if I remember rightly. I love Pratchett's stuff (Men at Arms is next on my Discworld reread) but I was thinking of his solo stuff. Normally I just start at the first published if I think I'll enjoy the whole lot.