QwertyPi

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by QwertyPi 3y ago
Why is it limited/restricted to 32-bit bitvectors?
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
> Presumably that's a huge win for you if you started (or have equity in) the company - and if not, you can just... not accept the buyout offer? The issue is that this will not raise the working standards of the workers already wor
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
> You seem to be suggesting that unions magically understand the best way to organize each and every workplace Yes, it's called "representing the needs of the worker". > every employer should be required to organize its
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
> If remote work truly is equal to or superior to in office work then you should be able to out compete in the long term using this competitive advantage. Or they'll just buy you out. Competitive advantage doesn't work too well
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
> True write once run anywhere cross platform support, and one click zero install distribution with no gatekeepers. We had (have) that, and the apps were miserable to use for the same reasons enumerated above. The place where it has come
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
Python is of course a major boon to humanity, but the things that need funding are typically things that corporations aren't using. It's our reliance on private spokes of technology (think: app stores & sales platforms, op
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
> Sure, they could all be faking it, but at that point you have to question how much evidence it takes to believe in anything at all. This is worth questioning (and hopefully coming back around to believing in)! Most of the reason I reje
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
> Only a very small percentage of the world has a complete grasp on the evidence for natural selection, climate change, the big bang, etc... I'm guessing only a small number (1-2 digits of people) has a "complete grasp" on
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
> There isn't anything actually wrong with JavaScript in 2023, either. The semantics of the language can be quite complex and it took decades for browsers to agree on them for most use cases. WASM arose out of a failure of browser
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
> You are a member of the intellectual dark web, and care more about finding the truth than about social conformance Isn't this a declaration of what social conformance you prefer? After all, the "intellectual dark web" is
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
We've needed a search engine that excludes the work of corporate giants that dominate our modern internet for a while. It's just never been so clear and dire as today. Interestingly google used to have a per-user, user-controlle
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
> Why should a community limit their potential and ambition because another can’t seem to figure it out? I reject that interpretation of the the song completely—theoretically, a nation represents a single community. The issue is that the
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
That seems to remove the advantage of using the browser in the first place—leveraging native controls and integrations, giving the user control over how things are renderered, and accessibility concerns. Of course, I can see how this is mos
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
Whitey On The Moon is just as relevant now as it was in the 60s
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
> I remember listening to stories about a black preacher that converted a KKK leader and he did it through tolerance and compassion not by screaming hateful things back through a megaphone The fact is, nothing in society was won by polit
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
Sure, but that's just Popper's old paradox of tolerance: tolerating hateful people makes a hateful society. Anyone who is fine tolerating hate isn't working towards a tolerant society, they're working towards a hateful s
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
> I've been looking for books that explain the underlying structures and dynamics of "wokeness" for a while. Fear & fear of tolerance is a universal theme throughout history, there's not much to it. "Coddling
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
Gravity's Rainbow is just a shadow of Pynchon's best work by a large margin, Mason & Dixon . I can't recommend it highly enough. It's probably the best novel I've ever read.
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
Sure, but by that metric apple could charge literally any price through the inherent deficiencies of bluetooth. You're not exactly a rational consumer.
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
Ok, there are two issues here: 1. Amazon refuses to hold themselves accountable for the products they sell—they advertise one thing but sell you another, clearly indicating they have no idea what they're actually selling. 2. Apple reli
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
The vast majority of movies—let alone the ones worth watching—are not on streaming platforms, so I don't understand why you'd expect this to be the payoff route. Movies are still "sold" (i.e. leased) both directly to con
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by QwertyPi 3y ago
Presumably if you care about memory usage you're not gonna use chrome to begin with