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New comment by sebsebmc in "Servo is now available on crates.io"

sebsebmc — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:47:31 +0000

There's a lot of work between the WPT team and web-features/web-features-mapping that should allow this to work automatically based on WPT results.

New comment by sebsebmc in "Servo v0.0.1"

sebsebmc — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:44:34 +0000

If you have a basic site that doesn't work you can open an issue on the repo. If you have some relatively simple site, its useful for the team to know what features that people are using are broken.

New comment by sebsebmc in "Servo v0.0.1"

sebsebmc — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:35:23 +0000

That's roughly correct. The other side of this is figuring out a release process and thinking about versioning.

New comment by sebsebmc in "This month in Servo: variable fonts, network tools, SVG"

sebsebmc — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:14:07 +0000

Only a few components of Servo that got split out are used in Firefox. A number of them are shared between the 2 (and servo having the smaller team usually follows the Mozilla upstream)

New comment by sebsebmc in "This month in Servo: variable fonts, network tools, SVG"

sebsebmc — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:10:18 +0000

Speaking only for myself, I think a big part of this is that to be comfortable recommending any browser to be used as a typical browser would require a pretty substantial base set of security features/layers. Servo has a few pieces in place but some of those features are only available on some platforms. It is much easier to recommend it to be used as an embedding solution where the embedder is usually choosing to only render specific pages as an app.

New comment by sebsebmc in "This month in Servo: variable fonts, network tools, SVG"

sebsebmc — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:55:41 +0000

It is pretty exciting, there's lots of big projects constantly being undertaken in the codebase. In terms of being "greenfield" I will say that the layout engine got rewritten starting in 2020, became the default in 2023, and the legacy one got fully removed in early 2025. There's a lot of reorganization and re-architecting going on in the net and storage components as we speak. There's opportunities to redesign systems to align with newer versions of the various RFCs/WHATWG specs. Basically lots of work to do to stay modern.

New comment by sebsebmc in "Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration"

sebsebmc — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:56:47 +0000

The location they have that's "well into construction" is SPARC, which is not intended to be a net power production facility. It will host their net gain demonstrator that they intend to have first plasma in next year and target a net gain demonstration in 2027.

ARC which they announced siting for and is intended to be their first grid-attached net power provider only just had the location selected so I don't believe its got much construction going on yet. The goal for that plant to be producing power is "early 2030s".

Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering

sebsebmc — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 06:03:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqGaIMVuLs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42837910

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by sebsebmc in "Electrified thermochemical systems with high-frequency metamaterial reactors"

sebsebmc — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 20:48:56 +0000

According to the IEA "Heat accounted for almost half of total final energy consumption and 38% of energy-related CO2 emissions in 2022" so finding ways to create process heat that can reach hot enough temperatures efficiently from electricity is a big deal for industry.

New comment by sebsebmc in "Observable Framework 1.9"

sebsebmc — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 02:04:40 +0000

Im still hoping that Typescript support comes soon!

New comment by sebsebmc in "Regular expression functions in Excel"

sebsebmc — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:07:35 +0000

> All regular expressions for this function, as well as REGEXEXTRACT and REGEXREPLACE use the PCRE2 'flavor' of regex.

New comment by sebsebmc in "A word game I built to understand semantic distance"

sebsebmc — Sat, 18 May 2024 17:02:02 +0000

Another semantic distance guessing game is https://semantle.com/

This month in Servo: gamepad support, font fallback, Space Jam

sebsebmc — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:32:42 +0000

Article URL: https://servo.org/blog/2024/02/28/gamepads-font-fallback-space-jam/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39540249

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by sebsebmc in "Starship will attempt a launch this Friday"

sebsebmc — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 03:19:34 +0000

SpaceX themselves[1] seem to corroborate what you're saying. "The second flight test of a fully integrated Starship could launch as early as Friday, November 17, pending final regulatory approval." and the FAA page[2] for the approval still doesn't have any updates.

[1]: https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...

[2]: https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholder_engagement/spacex_star...

New comment by sebsebmc in "Nucor and Helion to Develop 500 MW Fusion Power Plant by 2030"

sebsebmc — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 16:17:30 +0000

For a skeptic's response I recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vUPhsFoniw

New comment by sebsebmc in "Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom"

sebsebmc — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:06:00 +0000

The Path of Exile wiki made a similar move a few years ago. Fandom was such a limitation for the community and the ads and page speed were awful. Now the Minecraft wiki will have to spend effort beating the Fandom site on SEO so that people get directed to the actually updated wiki. For Path of Exile there was a browser extension that would hide the Fandom from search results and redirect you to the new community wiki.

New comment by sebsebmc in "Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (2016)"

sebsebmc — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:07:00 +0000

For those of you that use VS Code, there is a plugin[1] that follow a lot of the Kakoune grammar but doesn't try to emulate fully, opting instead for better integration with vscode. I have been using it for a few years after using Kakoune for a few and then trying and failing to make my own Kakoune emulation mode for vscode.

[1]: https://github.com/71/dance

New comment by sebsebmc in "SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas"

sebsebmc — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:48:12 +0000

It actually was expected to do a flip and perform stage separation. It was a problem when it kept trying to flip and Starship didn't separate.

The explosion at the end was the Flight Termination System. In case of uncontrolled flight you detonate the rocket to keep it from flying somewhere dangerous.

New comment by sebsebmc in "Amazon starts flagging frequently returned products that you maybe shouldn’t buy"

sebsebmc — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:07:31 +0000

I had this come up recently, the issue is that it seems that products with multiple "styles" will show the same alert across all "styles". The problem is that often times the "styles" may be significantly different products, in my case they were monitors with extremely different specs all from the same manufacturer.

New comment by sebsebmc in "NIST selects ‘lightweight cryptography’ algorithms to protect small devices"

sebsebmc — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 22:53:15 +0000

Right-click open in incognito works, but definitely annoying