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by NavinF 3y ago
That's how most linux distros work, but it also leads to nasty diamond dependency problems
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by NavinF 3y ago
All modern image editors support webp
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by NavinF 3y ago
You've almost certainly downloaded WebP images, but you didn't realize it because many websites serve multiple formats at the same URL. This is often done with a HTTP reverse proxy that automatically converts between formats so if
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by NavinF 3y ago
> "lossless" WebP comes with mandatory chroma subsampling Source? I've roundtripped bitmap->WebP->bitmap and got the same bits out
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by NavinF 3y ago
Yes, that's why it's very common to send length-prefixed messages over TCP. (The TCP checksum is very weak at only 16 bits, but there's usually another layer like TLS that gives you integrity for free so nobody cares)
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by NavinF 3y ago
I don't see the point. As soon as you bump the version number, old versions of the software will refuse to read newer files. So you might as well use a new format and file extension for the newer files. Of course the new software will
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by NavinF 3y ago
> didn’t find any standard for separating protobuf messages The fact that protobufs are not self-delimiting is an endless source of frustration, but I know of 2 standards for doing this: - SerializeDelimited* is part of the protobuf libr
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by NavinF 3y ago
Spotting weak points in your home's insulation is one of the obvious use cases. Moving some heavy stuff to the right areas can really cut down on HVAC losses. A more industrial use case is figuring out what parts of a machine are runni
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by NavinF 3y ago
People who work in the industry never talk about specific patents because patents are very vague and if you admit to being aware of something that potentially overlaps your work you're painting a target on your back. If you lose a laws
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by NavinF 3y ago
That would be even more expensive with every company needing its own C suite
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by NavinF 3y ago
> I do not want to get into another type of bs with this CEO assistant job What's the context here? Tbh this post seems kinda bizarre without context. Aren't company names like this really common?
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by NavinF 3y ago
Do the official docs even have tutorials? I'd send beginners to Khan Academy instead.
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by NavinF 3y ago
SLAAC doesn't delegate address space. That's why ISPs use DHCPv6. You can get a /60 from Comcast and a /48 from many other ISPs.
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by NavinF 3y ago
Where has he talked about this multiple times? The article cites "internal conversations". According to internal conversations, I'm the lizard king.
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by NavinF 3y ago
Article text does not support the title. Elon was clearly talking about moving from ad revenue to subscription revenue which already happened. Nothing about charging all users a fee
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Deprecate the Windows 32-bit x86 JDK for Removal(openjdk.org)
2 points by NavinF 3y ago|0 comments
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by NavinF 3y ago
Probably because ancient corporate networks are more likely to lack IPv6 and people are spending more time on mobile data on weekends
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by NavinF 3y ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37555172
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by NavinF 3y ago
2015 discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9028738
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RMS regrets not accepting LLVM into GCC in 2005(lists.gnu.org)
2 points by NavinF 3y ago|1 comments
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by NavinF 3y ago
Long term, IPv4 allocation won't matter and it's too late to fix that problem Port numbers are kinda obsolete on the internet since everyone uses port 443 to bypass middleboxes that block all the other ports in the name of "s
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by NavinF 3y ago
There is no licensing for internet providers and that's a good thing. Most ISPs in the US already provide IPv6. 45% of users access Google over IPv6 and this has been increasing linearly for the last decade: https://www.goog
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by NavinF 3y ago
We don't have children starving in schools
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by NavinF 3y ago
Yes, but in polite company you can pretend it means "The Freaking Article"
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by NavinF 3y ago
Modern apps like gdocs have a toggle for switching between read-only, suggest changes, and editing. If you forgot to toggle, you can just open version history and revert. MS Office also had version history for nearly a decade.
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by NavinF 3y ago
> Linux, the OS says it is atomic nitpick: At least on some filesystems if you rename a.txt to overwrite b.txt and the machine crashes, you might end up both a.txt and b.txt hardlinked so they contain the same data. Of course this is no
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by NavinF 3y ago
Not to mention that predictive text on mobile keyboards is also AI. SwiftKey used a neural network to suggest the next top-k words a decade ago and now all mobile keyboards do it
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by NavinF 3y ago
I think we both agree that people who learn new skills only once per generation are not gonna make it. That's what I meant by "skill issue"
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by NavinF 3y ago
They can with training. That's exactly what happened when horses became less common
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Why clueless people hate Uber's surge pricing (2014)(lironshapira.blogspot.com)
1 points by NavinF 3y ago|2 comments

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