_5ygc

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by _5ygc 3y ago
Genuine question, from someone that won’t upgrade from their M1 Air: what difference does it make for most users? Where would that extra 50GB/s be felt?
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by _5ygc 3y ago
I’m not sure about these specific platforms, but we consume a lot of APIs at work for which we must agree to specific conditions of these APIs. That seems reasonable, otherwise the TOS cannot be enforced (because they can be ignored).
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by _5ygc 3y ago
I’m not a fan of Stallman by any measure — his posture has often put people off some licenses and made GPL a bit problematic —, but even I think you’re engaging in unreasonable doublespeak. The web is full of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript you
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by _5ygc 3y ago
I think the problem is that they aren’t mind-blowing, but an improvement. I resent some LLM implementations on principle, but decided to give these code helpers a try. What I found was they’re reasonably bad, and I kept telling them the sol
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by _5ygc 3y ago
I agree, but first we’d need vanilla Linux working very well on laptops. If we can’t fix that, I don’t see how phones will fare better, what with their crazy amount of components and non-OSS compatible vendors.
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by _5ygc 3y ago
Technically speaking (I enforce GDPR on a technical level, not legal), you’re right on both counts. The interstitial isn’t forcing anyone to accept the cookies, and isn’t preventing the experience. But… in real-life UX, we all know the user
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by _5ygc 3y ago
It’s also a remarkably stupid implementation. If you follow the rules [1] in a strict way, the website should be usable if the user denied consent to non-essential cookie usage. You don’t need consent for strictly necessary cookies. So a bu
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by _5ygc 3y ago
‘Developer Hegemony’ — which should be called ‘Information Worker Hegemony’ — makes the case for engineers being involved in planning and strategy. Most developers I’ve worked with were amazing self-starters that can get tons of stuff done
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by _5ygc 4y ago
That doesn’t seem very logical. Why would they buy the stupidly expensive power from the market instead of running their own and selling to neighboring countries? It’s also high time the anti-nuclear crowd goes back to school to learn about