TheCoelacanth

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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
Not sell it. Split it into a separate business. Every share of Google turns into one share of Google and one share of Chrome.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
Yeah, they should be forced to split Chrome into a separate business and stay out of the browser business permanently. Anything short of that either won't help or will further strengthen their monopoly.
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by TheCoelacanth 1mo ago
I don't think software in general is flat, but video streaming is a mature technology and it's pretty easy to get good enough video streaming that customers don't care about it as a differentiating factor. If 8k TVs or VR sud
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulates (checks notes) trading of commodities futures. It's a pretty wild interpretation to claim that the Knicks winning is a commodity.
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
I don't see the relevance. If they don't want to follow New York law, they should move somewhere else.
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
Citizens can theoretically use long-distance microphones too. The criteria is whether they commonly do, not whether it's possible.
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
I'm not disagreeing that there are cases where it makes sense to implement a b-tree; I don't think there are any cases where it makes sense to implement a b-tree (in production) as a person who needs beginner-level advice about co
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
Kobo is already by far the best e-reader brand and things like this just cement it further. It is the only mainstream e-reader I'm aware of where you can simply change a single line of configuration and make it sync with your own serve
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
That seems like a pretty niche problem. There are already numerous high quality browsers, databases, llm inference engines and 3d game engines and only a tiny portion of devs are working on that type of thing. The vast majority of applicati
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
The only context where the overhead of a virtual function call matters is in tight inner loops. That's by far the easiest place to apply the "write something simple and readable and then measure and see if you need to change it&qu
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
Google needs to be forced to divest Android and Chrome. It's the only solution to this problem.
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
Choosing the right data structure isn't in opposition to making simple, readable code; it's part of it. Nothing over-complicates code more than a bad choice of data structure. If you pick the data structure that simplifies your co
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
Yes, but there's not a chance that there's a material difference in performance between those options because of virtual functions. Unless you're doing something really stupid, nothing other than the DB access is going to be
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
No, it's a false dichotomy. When working on large applications, by far the single most important factor in performance is having simple and understandable code. Understandable but slow code can be fixed. Incomprehensible code can'
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
There's a two-hundred year gap been it bring composed to capturing it in written form. It was in oral form and didn't written down (outside of some short fragements) for the ~200 year. When the The Odyssey was composed, widespread
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
It's absurd to claim that there wasn't a enormous Arabic influence on European science. There's a reason that algebra, alchemy, algorithm, alcohol and alkaline all start with "al" because "al" is Arabic fo
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
To an extent, but insurance also serves a vital economic function of allowing people to spread out risk. The counter-parties in insurance are also sophisticated businesses who are highly motivated and capable of tracking down a significant
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
The problem is that it completely eliminates the consumer surplus from the transaction and converts it to producer surplus. It basically erases all benefits of capitalism for the average person. If it becomes the norm to charge the maximum
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
Yeah, surveillance pricing might sometimes result in poor people paying less because they care more about low prices, but it can just as easily result in them paying more because they have less economic power. If we want to subsidize poor p
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
Where are you getting this information? Everything I can see puts that development well after the poems' composition around 800-700 BCE, though perhaps before they had been fully written down. If I understand correctly, it's a min
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
Every translation has to make tradeoffs. There's no way to perfectly translate a 2500 year old poem whose audience had an almost unfathomably different world view than a modern audience. Wilson chose to prioritize making the translatio
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
I don't think Homeric Greek was archaic at the time it was composed. It would have been by the time it was finally written down instead of being passed down orally. There is a lot of archaism in the content, though much of it is fake a
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
As the least "flowery" translation, I suspect Wilson would do a lot better if the test was repeated with longer passages. What seems good for a few lines can get very tedious after hundreds of pages.
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
That's nonsense because it's trivial to move data internationally without ever crossing a physical border. There is no reason for anyone to ever try to smuggle digital data through a border crossing and so zero justification for e
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
Because preventing crime is drastically more important to having a functioning society than being able to target advertising slightly more accurately.
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
We will never remove all evolutionary pressures short of a totalitarian society that makes sure every single person has exactly the same probability of reproducing. We have changed evolutionary pressures, but certainly not removed them.
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
"Cookie banner" is a colloquial name; not a technically accurate description of what the banners are for. GDPR is not about cookies; it is about tracking. Whether the tracking is done through cookies or through other means makes a
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
No, you don't need consent for that. It falls under the legitimate interest exception. You need to disclose it in your privacy policy, you need to delete it after a reasonable retention period and you can't use those logs for othe
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
Most aspects of 18th century coal mining probably sound like really bad ideas. It's a notoriously dangerous job. The engine would also typically be at the top of the mine, not deep inside it.
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by TheCoelacanth 2mo ago
Transparently corrupt maybe.

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