Try an Online Browser! (For Free!)
TLDR: You can get instant access to an online browser at browserling.com/browse. It runs entirely in your own browser. No downloads, no installs.
What's An Online Browser?
It's a browser hosted elsewhere, streamed to you in real time. You use it like any regular browser, but it runs safely outside your device on a remote server.
Is It Safe For Sketchy Sites?
Absolutely. Any harmful scripts or shady behavior stay isolated on the remote machine. Your computer stays untouched and safe from viruse...
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July 05, 2025
Try a Virtual Browser! (For Free!)
TLDR: You can browse the Internet safely and anonymously using a virtual browser at browserling.com/browse. It runs in your browser, so there's nothing to download or install.
What Is a Virtual Browser?
It's a real browser running on a remote machine that you control through your browser. Everything you do happens on a secure server, so your device never touches the website directly.
Is It Safe to Visit Weird Websites With It?
Yes, because the risky stuff stays on the remote machine, not your ow...
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July 05, 2025
The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor
While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via this very informative comment from Sam Gross) new (to me) piece of performance trivia: Modern CPUs mostly no longer struggle to predict the bytecode-dispatch indirect jump inside a “conventional” bytecode interpreter loop. In steady-state, assuming the bytecode itself is reasonable stable, modern CPUs achieve very high accuracy predicting the dispatch, even for “vanilla” while / switch-style inter...
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July 04, 2025
Why doesn’t LVIF_INDENT work without an image list?
Its original client had an image list.
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July 04, 2025
Notes on even and odd functions
A function that satisfies f(-x)=f(x) for its entire domain is
called an even function (also sometimes referred to as symmetric).
Its graph is symmetric w.r.t. the y axis. Some examples of even
functions are f(x)=x^2 and f(x)=cos(x):
A function …...
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July 04, 2025
Error'd: Better Nate Than Lever
Happy Friday. For those of us in America, today is a political holiday. But let's avoid politics for the moment. Here's a few more wtfs.
"Error messages are hard," sums
Ben Holzman
, mock-replying
"Your new puzzle games are fun, LinkedIn, but your error messages need a little work…"
Orin S.
chooses wisely
"These should behave like radio buttons, so… No?" I get his point, but I think the correct answer is "Yes, they are checkboxes".
Mark W.
refreshes an occasionally seen issue.
"F...
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July 04, 2025