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by account42 24d ago
GCC does with the infamous -ffast-math as well.
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by account42 24d ago
Floating point numbers are usually interpreted as sign * 1.mantissa * 2 ^ exponent where sign, mantissa and exponent are fixed bit width integers. The 1. before the number is normally implicit because it would be a waste of a bit t
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by account42 24d ago
The interesting part is that this seems to be Intel-specific.
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by account42 24d ago
Somewhat ironically, putting the message before eveything else also ensures that it mostly only reaches those who already agree with the message. Similar to how a "100% with us or you will be cancelled" mentalility to discourse on
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by account42 24d ago
You might also be fascinated if you inspect the layout of the website you're commenting on. If it works....
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by account42 24d ago
It was a dress rehearsal alright, but for techono-fascist control of the poulation.
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by account42 24d ago
Ah yes, lets throw in casual sexism in with your victim blaming.
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by account42 24d ago
The biggest damage from COVID will be that it serves as a dry-run for future techno-faschist governance. The way in which the masses were not only willing to give up their own liberties but also pressure their peers into following the outri
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by account42 24d ago
This is in fact not what he wrote. Perhaps you should read what the man wrote rather than what his detractors say he wrote before you condemn him.
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by account42 24d ago
Problematic for whom?
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by account42 24d ago
Because even with their effective monopoly they don't have the power to bully developers into doing whatever suits Valve. And it would be disastrous for the industry if they did.
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by account42 25d ago
That's already hectic and stressfull without the congress part, especially if any of the preparatinon for those meetups falls to you.
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by account42 25d ago
Unfortunately that's much less the case since COVID. Not looking forward to have more and more placed that only take panopticon-payments.
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by account42 26d ago
> The authors are sharing their creativity, and spending time Well no, they are exactly not doing that but pretending that they are.
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by account42 26d ago
First we're going to kill anonymity because that's the only way you can enforce any of these age bans, that as you show completely miss the point that these companies are bad for everyone.
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by account42 26d ago
It should just be false advertising to show a picture that is very different from what you actually get.
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by account42 26d ago
I don't get why they all have to use the same over-sharpened fake looking style on top of being slop.
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by account42 26d ago
It's not xenophobia to not want foreigners to outnumber you 4 to 1 in your hometown.
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by account42 26d ago
Everyone that thinks its reasonable for someone to set up an ad campaign for their 9 year old son's YouTube channel also has a very warped perspective and is well aligned with the companies you want to blame.
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by account42 26d ago
Yes and showing the kid how to spam others when he's unhappy with not having as many viewers ad professional streamers is also questionable.
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by account42 26d ago
The father also has to take at least some responsibility for adding the card to a device that the kid is using unsupervised. He also did set up the initial ad campaign instead of doing something more reasonable when the kid was unhappy abou
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by account42 26d ago
TFA is a post from an established developer and showing a screenshot for the submission of an update to a longstanding app (Conversations XMPP chat client).
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by account42 26d ago
Part of the value of F-Droid is the curated distribution model that hopefully catches the worst behaving developers that think they have a god given right to your data though.
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by account42 26d ago
> They're a free service. It's ultimately not their responsibility to service you either. They are a nonprofit with a mission and continue to solicitate donations based on that mission.
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by account42 26d ago
The other parts are even more trivial for someone who cares to work around.
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by account42 26d ago
I have had similar experiences just opening archived pages with a couple of embedded images. It's at a level where just using the site normally is painful.
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by account42 26d ago
Ironically, archive.is itself has a captcha that doesn't like my home FF install.
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by account42 26d ago
It's defensively, not maliciously. Malice would imply that the the site owner is morally obliged to serve the bots.
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by account42 26d ago
More like not culturally aligned enough.
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by account42 26d ago
> Then it's easy to reason that it'd be a net benefit for everyone to loosen the quality requirements a tiny bit, in order to satisfy the demand of more customers. No, that's not easy to reason. People are buying because

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