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How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s 1 month ago

Next: skip Chromium startup This is complex, as a running browser has open devices, timers, graphics state, network state, and fingerprint state.

Hmm, can't you just keep a set of browsers already running, like a warm pool, ready to assign to an incoming request? The latency would be close to zero for the user. You'd need some prediction logic to expand / contract the warm pool based on traffic patterns, but that seems like the easiest solution to me.

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When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it 9 months ago

Fun Fact: This same sort of thing also happened on the Classic Macintosh Quadra 840AV, when running in 8-bit (256 color) mode. Playback of realtime video capture reserved color index #243 (a very dark green in the system palette), and ANYWHERE that color was used, it would be replaced with the live video. I created some cool effects using this back in the 90s.

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Starting Hospice 2 years ago

Talk to your doctor, and ask to be screened for all common cancers. A colonoscopy is in your future (I just had one). Also ask for a Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Test. Also look into the HPV vaccine.

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A simple procedural animation technique [video] 2 years ago

I hope the author sees this. Dude, your video is so awesome, thank you! But your microphone is "popping" every time you say a 'P' or a 'T' sound. This is because you are speaking directly into it. Try talking "past" it instead. Your vocal sound goes out in all directions, but the "wind" from your mouth that creates the pops only goes in one direction -- straight forward -- so if you slide your microphone to the side, you will still have good sounding audio with no pops.

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Missile Game 2 years ago

Why does it start on level 9 by default? Also, this really could use an "invert Y-axis" setting.

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