Aleksandr

Are the two economists OpenAI and NVIDIA?

From the TheStrokes community on Reddit: Zohran Mamdani on the strokes Explore this post and more from the TheStrokes community

I now like Mamdani 20% more than I already did

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Kirby, a charming pink blob with a big smile, rosy cheeks, and red feet, from the namesake video game franchise

I drew Kirby with CSS! codepen.io/AleksandrHov...

YouTube video by Holywatr - Topic loose ends

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YouTube video by Holywatr Holywatr - nail polish (Official Video)

Been going down an emo rock/shoegaze rabbit hole www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmlU...

in your head

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Emergence

Rick Beato put me onto this band in his latest video, man the drops go so hard open.spotify.com/track/2OMjHc...

these Eleventy psyops are out of control

YouTube video by MEpearl Trick or Treat Possum Style

wtf did i just watch

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Now, of course the people controlling the server could be compromised or bad actors, but with that level of mistrust you shouldn't access the internet at all, ever. It's just not practical to live that way.

Not really, unless you visit sites or use apps that don't implement TLS encryption (Signal does). With TLS, not even your internet service provider can read packets traveling between your network and a server. It only knows that you connected to that server.

Now that I've gotten better at barre chords, I can finally play one of my favorite songs, Fade Into You. Hoping to record a cover soon! Just gotta buy a slide so I can do the solo.

That's not what you originally said, though. You said privacy is gone the moment you use the internet, which is not necessarily true. Mobile keyboard telemetry is a different issue.

Privacy and anonymity aren't the same thing: I can know *who* is communicating in an end-to-end-encrypted channel, but I won't know *what* they're saying thanks to TLS and Diffie-Hellman.

Not me spending more time writing an article intro than the article itself

I never played the old Halo games, only Reach. Might give it a try too

YouTube video by Muse Muse - Knights Of Cydonia: Live At Wembley Stadium 2007

Behold, greatness in 240p

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Do it!

I would really love it if VS Code would stop changing my global search query every time I have text highlighted in a file and I re-open the view. No, I don't want to search for that selected text! If I did I'd copy it and paste it in myself!

An Introduction to Unicode | Aleksandr Hovhannisyan In this deep dive, you'll learn about the Unicode character set and how it's encoded and decoded with UTF.

And for anyone wondering what a grapheme cluster is, I have an explainer on it here in this article I wrote www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/introdu...

This is a bug in VS Code too (lots of text editors, actually), so it's not even just a web issue. I think a lot of software just doesn't handle backspacing grapheme clusters correctly.

Intl.Segmenter() constructor - JavaScript | MDN The Intl.Segmenter() constructor creates Intl.Segmenter objects.

Same as what @wesbos.com suggested, use Intl.Segmenter. The default granularity is "grapheme" (visible character)

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An Introduction to Unicode | Aleksandr Hovhannisyan In this deep dive, you'll learn about the Unicode character set and how it's encoded and decoded with UTF.

Bonus fun fact: This is a "problem" in general, not just in JavaScript. I included a C example here: www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/introdu...

*code units

Along the same lines, don't rely on String.prototype.length to count the number of visible characters; it also counts the number of code points. (Fun fact: To this day Twitter still doesn't count by grapheme, so certain emoji contribute more than 1 to the character limit.)

YouTube video by Aleksandr Wild Time by Weyes Blood - Guitar Cover

Here's my latest guitar cover. This is "Wild Time" by @weyesblood.com , from one of my favorite albums.

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Damn, that's so sad. I loved his videos back when I was into chess.

sometimes I learn a guitar riff that scratches this weird ADHD itch in my brain and I will just sit there and mindlessly play it over and over again for an hour, not even exaggerating

Odd Sea Adventures, starring man who's really good at making wooden horsies

Collargate public playlist on Spotify. 9 songs: Everything in its right place, shock me, she's my collar (feat kali uchis), too tight by the rolling stones, who let the dogs out, sit down stand up, angel, dog days are over, and if you only knew how bad things really are

for my fellow terminally online friends