MBCook

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by MBCook 7mo ago
The title buried the lede. > In the five minutes since I started writing this post the website has downloaded almost half a gigabyte of new ads. I’m guessing this is due to autoplaying videos. *500 MB* in 5 minutes. 37 MB is petite compa
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by MBCook 7mo ago
Yeah. As an American I would’ve absolutely never guessed it was that popular.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
And making each click trigger a 20 second DB query doesn’t? How much you want to bet that’s why it was 20 seconds?
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by MBCook 7mo ago
No, I didn’t mean it that way. I meant they wouldn’t even know the name. Not that they actually know about him past the tough guy persona of the jokes.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
Oh good point.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
And he would be known by those people. I remember him being famous in the 90s. Would the people who grew up in the early 2000s, or especially 2010s, know much of anything about him? I mean how much do younger people know about Scott Baio or
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by MBCook 7mo ago
Nah. The part where his name was relevant again because of the jokes and he started the eating and suing people over it.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
It was so funny how that whole thing happened. For the first time in over a decade he was suddenly relevant in a way. People remembered he existed, and they were playing off his tough guy image. And what did he do? Try and shut it down and
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by MBCook 7mo ago
> Also there's nothing about Linux or hacking culture that would be necessarily left or right wing I agree. But if you pretend there is there’s a big audience on one side ready to lap it up and give you ad views.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
I don’t blame the developers. I do wonder what the BSDs will do. The Wayland developers were the X developers. The problems with X all still exist. How big a share of the desktop market do the BSDs have compared to Linux? I imagine it’s q
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by MBCook 7mo ago
If all the developers behind X can’t do it in a decade, what makes you think anyone else can? Even if someone made something, are they really going to get buy in from all the major players? It’s Wayland. It’s over.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
There seem to be a lot of people in other places in these comments saying things work for them with Nvidia just fine. But it also sounds like whether things work is heavily dependent on how up-to-date the distribution is. I’m not sure if th
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by MBCook 7mo ago
No. Perl 6 was renamed Raku (?) so people wouldn’t be confused that the 5 line was continuing development. Basically, to the degree I understand, the language was effectively forked into two.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
So it’s a conspiracy because they’ve infiltrated the seats of power? It’s not that developers of those projects think this is the better path forward?
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by MBCook 7mo ago
They were in a better position than anyone else to be able to make those calls. To whatever degree the choices didn’t work out, which I think is likely overstated, they learned something. But if they just threw everything away again, people
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by MBCook 7mo ago
Have you USED macOS 26?
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by MBCook 7mo ago
The amount of time it’s taken to get here I think is THE fair criticism. They had an absolute ton of work to do to design it and get it all running. It was never going to be fast. And it’s not like they could order any of the desktop enviro
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by MBCook 7mo ago
Does HDR work anywhere other than Mac? I’ve heard reports of issues on Windows were you often have to switch between HDR and non-HDR modes to get the colors or brightness to appear correctly. Something about tone mapping I think? I don’t kn
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by MBCook 7mo ago
Which is exactly what they did, as I understand it. For example Wayland supports far more than just “generic computer screen”. I’ve heard it was designed to be able to handle systems either multiple very different displays. Like maybe a nor
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by MBCook 7mo ago
I give up. I’m not even going to try to read “fade in” pages anymore. We had an article about that just the other day. It’s horrible and makes reading harder. I wanted to see this, but I give up.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
The major comitters and maintainers of X decided it was a lost cause and unfixable. Were they just supposed to keep working on the massive pile of hacks they felt needed abandoning? They did what they thought was best. You hate it. Fine. Do
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Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps(arstechnica.com)
17 points by MBCook 7mo ago|3 comments
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Tiny Fish Passed an Intelligence Test That Once Distinguished Great Apes(sciencealert.com)
2 points by MBCook 7mo ago|0 comments
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by MBCook 7mo ago
Right. Thanks.
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Apple can delist apps "with or without cause," judge says in loss for Musi app(arstechnica.com)
21 points by MBCook 7mo ago|4 comments
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by MBCook 7mo ago
I remember reading this many years ago, it was great. In the last week Raymond Chen on his The Old New Thing mentioned the concept of delay slots on some CPUs. It sounds like a similar thing, just formalized so it’s not a bug. Knowing that
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by MBCook 7mo ago
It’s insane to me that node works how it does. Zip files make so much more sense, I really liked that about Yarn.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
It’s still quite corporate-y, but other than the way of writing I agree it’s generally quite clear.
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by MBCook 7mo ago
It’s not just that. They didn’t spend untold oodles of money on AI that didn’t work out just to have big losses. Playing it more cool and just buying from someone else has paid off quite a lot for them in that way. Was that why they did it?
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by MBCook 7mo ago
People can lose that much of their life just waiting for trials sometimes, I think. The system has a lot of problems for the number of “criminals” we arrest.

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