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by GuB-42 1y ago
Windows 8+ UI is just plain incompetence. You may like or may not like the new settings panels, but making them incomplete and redirecting you to the old ones for the missing features is just wrong. Even worse, they have been gradually addi
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Yes, people are upset with every UI redesign that is not an incremental change. So stop redesigning your damn UIs! I know why they do it. That's because if you don't change the UI, it is like you didn't change anything, and p
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Elon Musk personal brand is incredibly valuable, justified or not. I don't think that he really runs the company, and kicking him out will most likely not change anything technical, but it will affect the company image among shareholde
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by GuB-42 1y ago
How about stellar mass black holes? They are much lighter than 1 million solar masses and we know a few of them, with a variety of ways to detect them, including companion stars orbiting around them and gravitational waves during mergers. B
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by GuB-42 1y ago
"Fully specified" is the important part here, and the work that went into making the idea fully specified is where the value lies. For this, we could look at intellectual property laws. Ideas are not protected. Neither by patents,
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I think there is a shortcut being taken here. We are surrounded by dark objects, a rock is a dark object, exoplanets are dark objects, and so are black holes. Pretty much everything but stars are dark objects. They are all dark because they
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Yes, but ideas are (mostly) worthless. I mean, they are necessary, but that's the easy part, building the technical foundation that make it possible is the hard part. The internet needs wires and routers, distributed computing need a g
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I have a more cynical view of the reason. It is to protect commercial interests, I don't think that Google cares about the NSA looking at your personal data. Google cares a lot about protecting the personal data they get from you, so t
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by GuB-42 1y ago
QUIC is actually a level 4 protocol, on the same level as UDP and TCP, it could work on IP directly, making it QUIC/IP. They chose to keep the UDP layer because of its minimal overhead over raw IP and for better adoption and anti-ossif
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I have some of these tools, they are not "objectively superior". A lot of them make things prettier with colors, bargraphs, etc... It is nice on a well-configured terminal, not so much in a pipeline. Some of them are full TUIs, es
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Obligatory quote: "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - Donald Knuth Source: https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/p.vanemdeboas/knuthnote.pdf From a quick look at it, it seem
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Performance was way better than what we have now with modern web stacks, we just have more powerful computers. I agree on security and bugs, but bugs can be fixed. It just shows neglect by Adobe, which was, I think, the real problem. I thin
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by GuB-42 1y ago
If you can track "anything else", I guess you can track your drinking streak, your days without exercising, how long you spent without calling your mom, or whatever "good habit" you want to quit. I don't think that&
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I think it is a good idea, and that's actually how Japanese word processors have been working since the late 70s! The way to input Japanese is to type the word phonetically using a regular qwerty keyboard. The computer then finds all w
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by GuB-42 1y ago
The advantage of traditional auto-complete over AI is that it will typically list everything that fits: all methods, all variables and constants in scope, etc... It can even fetch the documentation if available. It is great for learning bec
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I wonder why it hadn't been a built-in feature on some laptops. No software, just a built-in hardware kvm exposing the screen, keyboard and pointing device to an external port. A niche thing, but it shouldn't be expensive to imple
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Some of my diverging opinions are: - I can't do zero-bag travel, bags are just too convenient. I have at least a little foldable backpack. For example, if I have a jacket, I like the ability to put the jacket inside the bag if the weat
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It hurts a lot more if you are unprepared. When you are at home, you expect to have running water, on a hike, you expect not to and plan around it. But there are things you expect while on a hike that are unlike your daily life at home. Thi
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Starlink has to continue existing. That's how SpaceX justifies its launch capabilities. Their strategy of using assembly line techniques to build reusable rockets make no sense unless there is a lot of stuff to launch. Satellites are c
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by GuB-42 1y ago
We may get some surprises but I don't think so: - Trump doesn't project a peaceful image, that's not his style, unlike Obama. No matter the result of his actions, he is at a disadvantage. - The September peace proposal for th
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by GuB-42 1y ago
The problem here is that the far left (LFI) and far right (RN) are both strong, but neither make a majority by far. In the middle is Macron's party, that everyone hates, but against any other party, he wins, as the majority doesn'
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by GuB-42 1y ago
You can game on H100 GPUs, it is terrible though. Someone has tested it and it is on the level of a Radeon 680M, that is the performance of a typical business laptop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nb_DZAH-TM
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Global illumination is the hard part. The math isn't that hard, but even the best render farms don't have enough computing power to support a straightforward implementation. So what follow is an endless series of tricks. Path-trac
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Starting from a white background, what other color can it be? It has to be a dark color, and blue is the darkest of the primary and secondary colors. With 16 color displays typical at the time, you can use one of the 8 remaining "half
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by GuB-42 1y ago
"No politics" is politics. It may even be the worst kind. Companies are all about making money, and politics is one way to achieve that. Saying "no politics" is like asking employees to not care about money, it is not go
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I don't remember any advanced computer user, including developers saying that the CLI is dead. The CLI has been dead for end-users since computers became powerful enough for GUIs, but the CLI has always been there behind the scenes.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> I keep telling people to make backups of "cloud" services The usual rule when making backups is that you need 3 copies, one of them offsite. A cloud storage service counts as an offsite copy, but you still need two more, typi
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I don't really understand all the fuss about Amazon Prime. I found it really easy to cancel. They even refunded me when I canceled my subscription after the free trial expired (forgot to cancel before that despite being notified). Clic
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Valgrind can tell you what is still in use when the program exits, along with useful information, like where it comes from. You can then assess to situation and see if it is normal or not. In addition, Valgrind is actually a complete toolsu
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by GuB-42 1y ago
A GC only deallocates unreferenced memory, if you keep unused references, that's a leak the GC won't catch, as it has no way to know that you won't need it later. It can happen when your variables have too long a lifespan, or

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