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New comment by Bytewave81 in "DEC PDP-1 emulator running "Spacewar", the earliest known digital video game"

Bytewave81 — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:17:03 +0000

Alternatively, Draughts.

https://youtu.be/uHQ4WCU1WQc

New comment by Bytewave81 in "House Votes to Extend–and Expand–A Major US Spy Program"

Bytewave81 — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:15:25 +0000

Possession is a victimless crime (well, the victim is yourself).

Distribution is the crime.

New comment by Bytewave81 in "The underground world of hobby tunneling"

Bytewave81 — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:46:11 +0000

The children yearn for the mines.

New comment by Bytewave81 in "Shoelace: A library of web components"

Bytewave81 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 02:01:52 +0000

We settled on Chakra (https://chakra-ui.com/). Although we also abandoned our ambitions of a Next.js migration, so... I guess it didn't really end up mattering all that much anyway.

New comment by Bytewave81 in "Shoelace: A library of web components"

Bytewave81 — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 23:48:33 +0000

Not just that, but it basically makes the library incompatible with serverside rendering a la Next.js. We actually explored using Shoelace for a project but ended up having to choose something else instead because of this.

New comment by Bytewave81 in "Sqids – Generate short unique IDs from numbers"

Bytewave81 — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 20:44:54 +0000

The idea is that you encode and decode database IDs with this. You wouldn't save them separately unless you were using it for a purpose other than shareable "identifiers" which don't leak significant amounts of database state. Imagine something like a link shortener where you want to provide a short link to users, but don't want it to just be a number.

New comment by Bytewave81 in "Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused"

Bytewave81 — Sat, 27 May 2023 21:23:16 +0000

To perhaps stir the "what do words really mean" argument, "lying" would generally imply some sort of conscious intent to bend or break the truth. A language model is not consciously making decisions about what to say, it is statistically choosing words which probabilistically sound "good" together.

New comment by Bytewave81 in "Why do prime numbers make these spirals? (2019)"

Bytewave81 — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 01:00:38 +0000

It's referencing the Math Stack Exchange question which asked the same question: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/885879/meaning-of-r...

A weapon to surpass Metal Gear

Bytewave81 — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:33:03 +0000

Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/blog/a-weapon-to-surpass-metal-gear

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35096655

Points: 6

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New comment by Bytewave81 in "Password protect a static HTML page"

Bytewave81 — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:20:03 +0000

It's really not "clear cut." By the definition which you agree with, an HTML file containing JavaScript is served to the client without modification, and is viewable in any modern browser with a functioning JavaScript engine. The "web application" in reference is a server-sided application which controls and renders the content, as can be assumed based on context from the rest of that page. Namely:

> Any personalization or interactivity has to run client-side, which is restricting.

New comment by Bytewave81 in "Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectual society"

Bytewave81 — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:26:40 +0000

A true classic. RIP Trevor Moore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg3_kUaYFJA

New comment by Bytewave81 in "Unbricking a BIOS-Bricked Motherboard"

Bytewave81 — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 23:51:38 +0000

Flashback functionality without a functional CPU generally is accomplished using a separate microcontroller on the board which runs its own code separate from the BIOS. It shouldn't need any of the original BIOS code in-tact, since there's nothing to execute it anyway if there's no CPU installed. :)

New comment by Bytewave81 in "WebKit Quirks.cpp"

Bytewave81 — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 22:40:26 +0000

At some point, "one" company becomes a set of loosely-related "companies" all tied together by a single name and a chain of bureaucracy.

New comment by Bytewave81 in "Trombone Champ turns all songs into tooting works of genius"

Bytewave81 — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 17:12:26 +0000

Probably just by mapping the accelerometer to a virtual joystick. Steam Input is a fairly powerful framework for mapping new controls onto existing control schemes.

New comment by Bytewave81 in "FedNow FAQ"

Bytewave81 — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 19:25:38 +0000

So... it's America's Interac?

New comment by Bytewave81 in "Hijacking Email with Cloudflare Email Routing"

Bytewave81 — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 15:34:47 +0000

A "private" beta enforced solely by a clientside check, notably.

New comment by Bytewave81 in "VRchat bans mods, embraces EAC"

Bytewave81 — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 03:17:38 +0000

Udon is not a modding API and was never intended to be one. It is purely a world-centric scripting system, which is great for building minigames inside VRchat, but not for extending the client's features on a global basis.

New comment by Bytewave81 in "Show HN: C3 – A C alternative that looks like C"

Bytewave81 — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 21:52:05 +0000

Not the type of namespace being referred to. In this case, it's referring to the requirement to refer to all types of a certain category with a keyword, as in `struct Foo`. In Rust, you can refer to a struct named Foo as just `Foo`.

New comment by Bytewave81 in "15.ai"

Bytewave81 — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 18:49:18 +0000

They knew.

New comment by Bytewave81 in "Dangerous Gift"

Bytewave81 — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 16:21:44 +0000

That's to the public whois system, sure. But LEAs could still obtain court orders to get the actual contact information for the domain owner; registrars are legally mandated to maintain that information, and customers are expected to keep that up to date.