Jyaif

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by Jyaif 6y ago
Can you elaborate on the perverse incentives that spurred cryptocurrencies?
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by Jyaif 6y ago
If you want to go deep, then consider that using energy makes the heat death of the universe occur more quickly.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Meanwhile, on iOS you still can't create subprocesses :-(
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by Jyaif 6y ago
It's light on the facts, so there's little to fact check. There is however this gem highlighted in the article: "It is to humanity’s benefit to consume more energy, not less".
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by Jyaif 6y ago
He estimates that he's missing out on 10% to 40% of revenue due to ad blockers.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Ad technology is what enables products like Photopea to exist in the first place.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
"Screw it, I’ll host it myself", then proceeds to list half a dozen third party services.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
And with it, you can bet that Bing's market share significantly grew as well. This is billions in additional ad revenues for Microsoft.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
> Still, Ellison has boasted about its business with Google. During a 2019 meeting with analysts he said that when Google catalogs vast amounts of information, that data is “actually sitting in Oracle databases.” That's as misleadin
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by Jyaif 6y ago
I've actually made the same choice, but in the context of a game and user generated levels: people can like and dislike a level, but only the like count is shown. It's based on the user feedback (they don't want to be demotiv
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Exactly. If a second canal was made through Israel, the price to pass through would fall to just above the maintenance cost.
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HMM Rotterdam appears to be diverting to avoid congestion at Suez(twitter.com)
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by Jyaif 6y ago
According to your data, lockdown even increases the number of deaths! The truth is that while this data is interesting, it's not enough to tell us how effective lockdowns are.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
That brings back memories! I kept accidentally playing/pausing music with this stupid Touch Bar. I worked around the problem by removing most buttons and keeping the right side of the Touch Bar empty. The physical keyboard eventually b
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by Jyaif 6y ago
> The driver of the Tesla [...] was ticketed for failing to move over and driving with a suspended license. It could be argued that technically he wasn't driving.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Reminder that Wikimedia receives north of 100 million of USD per year, with the servers themselves costing 2 millions. The immense majority of the money is (in my opinion) wasted on bureaucracy.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Do you think that you spending 0% of your time managing iOS devices has something to do with apps not being able to use their own payment system?
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by Jyaif 6y ago
If software does not work after an OS upgrade, maybe the OS is the problem?
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by Jyaif 6y ago
FWIW Jancovici explained the fact that eco "friendly" people dislike nuclear power the following way: The people that are comfortable with progress/technology/industries are usually also comfortable with the idea of nucl
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by Jyaif 6y ago
The Chinese landed a rover on the moon, which is as far as the Russians got. And they did so with up-to-date tech. Regarding Space exploration, the Chinese are not going to learn anything from the Russians.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
> No other enterprise can burn so many billions of dollars for so many years to corner the market. No other enterprise, besides Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and all the streaming companies (Netflix, Disney, ...).
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Thank you!
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by Jyaif 6y ago
60 fps on a 2016 macbook. Maybe you don't have GPU acceleration enabled?
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Can you point me towards some source code where a human can't find the algorithmic complexity?
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by Jyaif 6y ago
You don't need to live in China to be affected by China. There are many ways a country can use information on foreigners to advance the country's goals, affecting said foreigners.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
> is trying to downplay the importance of the performance advantages by claiming games with many objects are rare. Which games in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_video_games have thousands of live objects?
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by Jyaif 6y ago
Thanks. Don't know how I missed the reference to Ars Technica in the article.
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by Jyaif 6y ago
This "Infil" dude just stole the entirety of the article from Ars Technica ( https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/explaining-how-fighti... )
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by Jyaif 6y ago
No. I'm in favor of features that enable new uses cases, either by providing a new API (e.g. WebBluetooth) or by massively increasing performance (e.g. WebGL, WebAssembly). Features that can be built on top of those foundations should
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by Jyaif 6y ago
I don't believe that MathML should be integrated in a browser: MathML does not requires a lot of CPU, so you can get away with JS+canvas that implements the MathML spec. By having it in the browser you are making the browser more bloat

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