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hoten commented on Rethinking DOM from first principles acko.net/blog/html-is-dea... · Posted by u/puzzlingcaptcha

joquarky · 21 days ago

Extension not necessary:

In Chrome, open DevTools, Shift+Ctrl+P > Disable JavaScript

hoten · 21 days ago

CSS can prevent selection.

hoten commented on Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization theconversation.com/yosem... · Posted by u/rntn

hdgvhicv · 25 days ago

They’ll pave paradise and put up a parking lot?

hoten · 25 days ago

A sad eventuality, but perhaps at least an interesting game.

Just saw an trailer for an unreleased game: rollercoaster tycoon, but for parking lots.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/Car_Park_Capital/

hoten commented on Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved blog.google/technology/de... · Posted by u/shuuji3

rsync · a month ago

"I'll never use a URL shortener again."

I don't know if anyone should use a URL shortener or not ... but if you do ...

"Oh By"[1] will be around in thirty years.

Links will not be "purged". Users won't be tracked. Ads won't be served.

[1] https://0x.co

hoten · a month ago

I'm not sure how to ask this without being rude, so I'll just shoot. Is this example satire? https://0x.co/examples.html

What normal person would find this glove and result in it being returned to its owner? Even if "0x.co" was written too, I think most people wouldn't understand it to be a URL.

hoten commented on IRS Direct File on GitHub chrisgiven.com/2025/05/di... · Posted by u/nickthegreek

BrandoElFollito · 3 months ago

What is the core reason for the government in the US to not provide a simple online tax filing portal like we generally have in Europe.

It is pre-filled with the known incomes so for the best majority of people filling their taxes is a 1 minute exercise.

This also helps, I guess, to have the taxes flow in.

hoten · 3 months ago

lobbying on behalf of the tax filing industry

additionally, the US has (one of?) the most complex tax systems in the world. In part b/c most of it is carve outs...on behalf of various lobbyist groups / catering to specific voting blocks.

hoten commented on Writing your own C++ standard library part 2 nibblestew.blogspot.com/2... · Posted by u/signa11

jandrewrogers · 3 months ago

Not even close, and I am a fan of abseil. The design of abseil has legacy constraints that don’t need to apply to a C++20 clean room implementation. I have better re-implementations of abseil components in my own “standard” library simply because I didn’t have those constraints.

There are many good libraries out there, or fragments of libraries, but I’ve never found one that really scratches this itch.

hoten · 3 months ago

Could you give a couple examples?

hoten commented on Show HN: Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly velzie.rip/blog/celeste-w... · Posted by u/coolelectronics

coolelectronics · 3 months ago

My bad! Switched over to the github pages fallback. Cloudflare pages isn't suitable because the wasm files (100mb+) exceed the 25mb limit. (i could bypass this with service worker jank but that tends to be fragile). Github Pages also isn't suitable because it doesn't have a native way of sending the coi/coep headers that are required for SharedArrayBuffer to be available. Can also bypass that with service worker jank but I would prefer not to

hoten · 3 months ago

btw: this results in a white page on the first load until you manually reload, since the SW has not been loaded yet. May want to force a page reload on the SW install event to fix.

also: this is incredibly cool. thanks for writing this up and sharing!

hoten commented on A leap year check in three instructions hueffner.de/falk/blog/a-l... · Posted by u/gnabgib

kragen · 3 months ago

True: https://godbolt.org/#g:!((g:!((g:!((h:codeEditor,i:(filename... but I understood hoten to be saying that compilers would generally produce that version from the short-circuiting version, and they don't.

hoten · 3 months ago

Yeah I was wrong.

Do we know why the compiler doesn't do it? Surely the output is the same and avoiding branches is clearly faster.

Maybe short circuiting requires such an optimization not be made?

hoten commented on A leap year check in three instructions hueffner.de/falk/blog/a-l... · Posted by u/gnabgib

andrepd · 3 months ago

This impl is mentioned in TFA.. It's much slower and includes branches.

hoten · 3 months ago

I'd expect even without optimizations on, there wouldn't be branches in the output for that code.

hoten commented on How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers techcrunch.com/2025/05/03... · Posted by u/badmonster

rcxdude · 4 months ago

This attitude is a bit alien to me. At the level I play games (which is in the range of like 90% of gamers), my opponents are basically anonymous, and someone obviously cheating and someone smurfing has about the same effect of ruining the fun. The points mean nothing except maybe to measure my own improvement at the game. If someone's cheating and I can't tell them from the other players, I don't care.

hoten · 4 months ago

If you can't fully connect your results in the game to your skill (because you can't trust if the others cheated), then you can't trust you are improving (or how to adapt to maybe improve).

On an evolutionary level, the purpose of play is to improve your skill in something in a tight, enjoyable feedback loop. Cheating messes with that.

Though your approach is preferable, I do think cheating (or more broadly, not trusting that you can learn how to improve with further play) kneecaps the whole point of playing.

(I'm badly presenting an idea I learned from Jonathan Blow re: how some game design ideas, such as opaque adaptive difficulty like rubberbanding found in racing games, destroys the purpose of playing)

hoten commented on Home washing machines fail to remove important pathogens from textiles medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/bookmtn

LadyCailin · 4 months ago

I have worked at sit down dining and fast food, and neither places did my laundry for me. Aprons, sure, but not the rest of the clothes. The clothes which I had to buy in the first place.

hoten · 4 months ago

Lucky! Chilis had me washing my own aprons.