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I have created uBlock Origin filters to remove unnecessary distractions from certain websites. My main goal is to optimize these filters to allow for specific tasks while disabling anything that might distract me. You are welcome to use the filters directly from my repository or fork them for your own use. If you notice anything […]
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In this post, the author presents 11 interactive illustrations of a menu design concept shared on Twitter by Janum Trivedi. The post includes demonstrations of various features of the menu, such as mouse tracking, zoom and cursor effects, decayed movement, spring animations, and stretch effects. The author explains the technical details of how these effects […]
Western Australia’s Argyle Mine, known for its rare pink diamonds, may have formed around 1.3 billion years ago as a result of a tectonic collision followed by the breakup of a supercontinent, according to new research. The mine, which produced more colored diamonds than any other place on Earth, has fascinated scientists for decades. The […]
Software is an abstract concept with little connection to the real world, yet it can control hardware and perform physical actions. Some code models real-world concepts, while other code solves abstract problems in the realm of computers. Code doesn’t necessarily have to resemble the problem it’s solving, but being able to communicate this correlation makes […]
The FAA has given Zipline International, Inc. the green light to use drones for commercial package delivery in Salt Lake City and Bentonville, Arkansas. This approval allows Zipline to operate the drones beyond the operator’s visual line of sight, marking a significant development in drone delivery technology. Zipline, a Part 135 operator, will utilize its […]
Cuban Apple technicians, faced with the challenge of obtaining and maintaining Apple products due to importation difficulties, have developed a thriving repair business in the absence of official Apple stores in the country. With limited access to replacement parts and blocked IP addresses, these technicians have become skilled at finding workarounds and creative solutions to […]
Go 1.21 includes a preview of a change to for loop scoping that will be implemented in Go 1.22, aimed at addressing a common mistake in Go programming. The mistake involves keeping a reference to a loop variable beyond its iteration, resulting in unexpected values. The problem can occur with or without goroutines. This mistake […]
Q-Transformer is a scalable offline reinforcement learning method that can train multi-task policies using both human demonstrations and autonomously collected data. It uses a Transformer to represent Q-functions, allowing for effective sequence modeling techniques. By discretizing each action dimension and representing Q-values as separate tokens, Q-Transformer outperforms previous offline RL algorithms and imitation learning techniques […]
This web content introduces a simple webserver written in GNU awk that showcases the capabilities of the awk language. The server allows for directory listing and the download of files from the directory where it is launched. To use the script, it needs to be executed through a TCP wrapper, such as the provided shell […]
In my experience with using protocol buffers for various projects, I encountered a strange issue when a friend attempted to implement it in another language. We were faced with perplexing errors that seemed to be related to the encoding of the “envelope” component. It turned out that there was an extra byte (1f) in his […]