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aallaall
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aallaall
1y ago
Perhaps Elmo can move his toxic, illegal, cancer inducing, gas generators there, instead of doing it in Memphis. https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/07/07/a-billionaire-an-ai-...
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aallaall
1y ago
It’s better than having your DC confiscated (by Putin, in Russia), or bombed (in Ukraine, by Russia). As some hyperscalers realized.
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aallaall
1y ago
No, E-bikes doesn’t make this much less of an issue.
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aallaall
1y ago
Do you think it’s a coincidence that the top two countries are completely flat?
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aallaall
1y ago
Of course it helps if the city, and country in general, is completely flat. Cities in Norway or Nepal have mother nature against all form of manual locomotion.
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aallaall
1y ago
Always interesting to see the privacy fear of americans. The rest of the world isn’t afraid of non-sexual intimacy with friend/family.
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aallaall
1y ago
So async enable concurrent outstanding requests.
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aallaall
1y ago
There’s syntax that is objectively easier to both read and write, and there’s syntax that is both harder to read and write. For a majority. In general, using english words consisting of a-z is easier to read. Using regex-like mojibake is ha
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aallaall
1y ago
For a while the brain dead utf32 encoding was popular in the Unix/Linux world.
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aallaall
1y ago
Custom word widgets in that zoom dialog, the scroll wheel doesn’t even work in the spinner box.
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aallaall
1y ago
1% is closer to 100%, than 0% is, yes.
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1y ago
Companies typically move more and more functionality to closed firmware, so they can ”open source” a thin wrapper, like a driver, that is often completely useless, and often encumbered with cryptography restrictions, strict trademarks and s
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1y ago
Closed verilog I can accept. But in general firmware is also software, for example it has become quite popular in the recent years to execute firmware on an embedded riscv cpu. And move more and more functionality to that kind of firmware.
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1y ago
Isn’t minix open source?
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1y ago
Enshittification. Open source is a valuable guarantee against that.
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aallaall
1y ago
Apple provide even less documentation than Qualcomm. Let that sink in.
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1y ago
Linux on arm is probably the most popular computing device platform in the world.
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1y ago
All made in Taiwan!
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1y ago
Gons.
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1y ago
Some regulation should double the costs, to prevent evil people from doing bad things. Also, under-regulation might triple the costs for society.
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1y ago
Only took 18 years for apple and google, good work! See you in 2043 for next common feature.
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1y ago
Windows95 also doubled the dos limit of a cmdline from 128 to 256 in… 1995.
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1y ago
A congestion algorithm using a machine learning model would of course be better than a generic approach, and the browser could then also be promoted with ”AI”. Come on google!
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aallaall
1y ago
Perhaps their grand children are still around?
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1y ago
Most operating systems mounts things dynamically. You can never trust that a path for you exists for another user.
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1y ago
That’s the hard part to answer, that Mozilla leaves to you!
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1y ago
Modern cpus are optimized for calling functions. Spaghetti code with gotos is actually slower.
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aallaall
1y ago
Just put all code on one line then. Statements (or tokens) is what matters.