Etheryte

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by Etheryte 8mo ago
That's financialization at play. When you render and syntax highlight the diff on the server, Github pays the cost, if you do it on the client side, the cost is paid by the client. At Github's scale it's probably a large enou
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by Etheryte 8mo ago
Literally everyone who has used Github to look at a pull request in say the last year has experienced the ridiculous performance issues. It's a constant laughing point on HN at this point. There is no way you don't know this. Invi
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by Etheryte 8mo ago
No privacy is simpler and the simpler solution is cheaper. If there's no real incentive to go with another option, companies will go with the cheaper option.
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
This is honestly a very silly take. You could make the same counterargument about any tax of any kind, or really any law of any kind. Like it or not, we do need both taxes and laws to function as a society.
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
You could make the same argument about sugary beverages, that you can't legislate intelligence, yet every country that has imposed a considerable sugar tax has seen benefits across the board. This of course omits a lot of nuance, but t
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
As no small feat, this release is on the HN front page at the same time as Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex. Big day, big names, congrats!
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
There is space to suspend your belief/disbelief before you look it up and entertain an idea as plausible to consider what it might say about the discussion at hand. This doesn't mean blindly believing make believe, rather it means
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
ChatGPT is providing a ridiculous amount of free service to gain/keep traction. Others also have free tiers, but to a much lesser extent. It's similar to Uber selling rides at a loss to win markets. It will get you traction, yes,
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
If you take anxiety to include everything from stress to a bunch of disorders, I'd believe it. Our bodies were not made to handle the permanent stress we see in modern life. The first place I imagine goes to cardiovascular issues?
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
Because most of Microsoft's revenue is not generated by end-users. It's large government agencies and big corporations where the end-user is ten steps detached from the actual decision to buy or not to buy something.
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
This is discussed in the article, was there a specific part that was ambiguous?
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
Something working after a spike doesn't tell you much anything about how it did during the spike. At best, it's a hint that maybe the server did not physically burn to the ground, but even that is not for certain.
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
We used to run this back in the day which, granted, was quite a long time ago now. I don't think we ever went longer than a few months without a serious outage of sorts, and that certainly wasn't for a lack of resources or manpowe
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
It's all about efficiency. You can store heat in anything, but the question is for how long and how much energy can you get back out later. The first part is easy and how we got ovens and stoves, the second part can be pretty tricky de
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
Yes. Also not to be confused with being Unlicense-d [0], because heaven forbid we use reasonable names for anything. [0] https://opensource.org/license/unlicense
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
I think this quote snipe without the context doesn't really do the article justice. The post is interesting both intellectually and in that it's already clearly controversial. This quote standing by itself is mostly just confusing
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
None of this should be happening without the user's knowledge and consent. Swap out your phone carrier for Facebook and it should be plainly obvious why the current state of affairs is undesirable.
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
But discussing cars is great, just like the Porsche 964 Carrera 4 Jubilee.
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
I know that's not what you really meant, but as an unrelated tangent, modern cars are safer exactly because they're not built like tanks. The car crumpling up even at the smallest of crashes is good, because the more the car crump
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
Nearly every democratic country in the world is a counter example to this, what do you mean exactly?
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
That's one possible way to look at it. The other, perhaps more positive way to look at it, is that similar to autocomplete, AI-assisted tools have made the boring parts less boring and left more space for the interesting bits. I use th
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
Even Apple conceded that building it from scratch is prohibitively expensive. Mozilla would do better to use that money for the browser, but then again, Mozilla has never known how to operate. It's a mere miracle fluke that they'r
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
This approach is worse. Use red and green like everyone else and the user can choose their terminal color palette to differentiate in a way that works for them. Then it works the same across all commands. If you're the odd one out, you
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
None of this changes the actual real amount of data you have at the end of the day though after all is said and done, that's what I mean, so long as you don't botch it and capture too little. In computing terms, the amount of real
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
This makes no sense though? Given the Nyquist theorem, simply increasing sampling frequency past a certain step doesn't change the outcome.
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
enclose.horse is fun, I wish they removed all the clearly fake high-scores though. It would be a lot more interesting to see the actual score distribution rather than thousands of points on a level where the perfect score is 50.
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
It's a radio telescope, how would you imagine translating that to bytes?
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
The article is already posted without the paywall in the submission description itself.
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
While this is true, it has nothing to do with the tech sovereignty of the site itself.
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by Etheryte 9mo ago
You could say the same about cryptographic signatures where each party only knows a part of the key, yet those all work fine. You could probably piece together the formula by a sum of some employees and some external suppliers if everyone b

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