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by acdha 1y ago
How often are you offline like that but on a network you can trust isn’t malicious? If I’m at home, my printer is more protected from eavesdropping by the WiFi password than a self-signed certificate. If I’m at the coffee shop, it’s insecur
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by acdha 1y ago
Not innately, no, but the kinds of optimizations they’re talking about batching operations and avoiding copies are certainly safer to make using a memory safe language.
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by acdha 1y ago
I read that as more of a tongue in cheek recognition that coffee shops need a certain revenue per seat per hour, which isn’t a fault as much as not being what a remote worker is looking for.
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by acdha 1y ago
I think Itanium would have had a better chance if Intel had made their compilers and optimized libraries free, but your larger point is really important: Intel’s performance numbers for the Itanium seem to have been broadly extrapolated fro
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by acdha 1y ago
That doesn’t sound to me as entitled, more like acknowledging that they’re not the market most coffee shop owners are targeting. I’ve known a few places with target laptop workers but commercial real estate pricing in many markets is brutal
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by acdha 1y ago
I said serious in the sense of something they seriously believe they can deliver. Those wild predictions on unrealistic timeframes are for the stock market. For an example: Sergei Brin, Sebastian Thrun, and Elon Musk were all interested in
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by acdha 1y ago
Are you saying that respecting other people and letting them live their own lives without affecting you is worthy of distrust? Because I have directly seen what’s taught in schools here and it’s basically the golden rule without the quiet e
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by acdha 1y ago
Let me clarify my point: I’m not saying every Republican is the same on every one of those issues, I’m saying that the people who disagree are not standing up to the people rejecting the idea that certain groups deserve full rights. I have
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by acdha 1y ago
I have friends who are gay, trans, non-Christian, or brown. Not all right-wingers say that they aren’t fully people but many do, and the more libertarian ones aren’t exactly rushing to shut that down. It is very hard to trust a group of peo
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by acdha 1y ago
Yes, my thought was that the lifecycle is different. The average JVM is probably running for days on average so a huge percentage of the total runtime is in code which had been aggressively optimized by the JIT whereas a lot of JavaScript i
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by acdha 1y ago
All you have to do is look at the non-serious initial claim of $2T savings. That is wildly high, and told you that the people running it had no interest in success. It’s like if we have a startup founder here saying they’re going to have AG
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by acdha 1y ago
I’d also add that there’s a powerful benefit to having something like Medicare as a right of citizenship: it builds social cohesion and avoids the stigma which is often attached to social programs. Some landlords go to great lengths to avoi
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by acdha 1y ago
I think the Java JITs are a better comparison because the workload is more similar: JavaScript is weird for how it’s expected to start in a fraction of a second and soak up a huge bolus of code which may substantially never be used whereas
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by acdha 1y ago
The problem was that they didn’t want the extra hassle of verifying that senders owned the numbers they were announcing. In the earlier SS7 era that was manageable because all of the parties were major phone companies but VoIP opened up a w
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by acdha 1y ago
Okay, I’ll grant that links and mountpoints were good but NTFS is still missing integrity checks, fast queries, etc. For most users nothing had changed since the Clinton administration.
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by acdha 1y ago
It’s true that they’ve made some progress but my work laptop running Windows 11 still has UI elements from Windows 95/NT 4. The file system hasn’t improved since then and the keyboard responsiveness is actually worse. BeOS on 90s hardw
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by acdha 1y ago
These are by and large the same companies who created the caller ID forgery problem to save money when deploying VoIP around the turn of the century. Everyone technical knew that was a bad design but the executives were thinking exactly how
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by acdha 1y ago
> Firefox, almost impossible to use the web due to non-stop bot checks by CF. For the same session, same site(s), I give up and use Chrome, with all the same browser extensions, and I sail right in. This is very much not my experience. I
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by acdha 1y ago
I guessed the topic from the page title and am glad to second your comment. Your third paragraph is I think is even more broadly true: I'm not _that_ old, I learned C in the 90s, have contributed to some widely-used C-based open source
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by acdha 1y ago
No, and they didn’t have a natural monopoly there either.
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by acdha 1y ago
Only if they’re bringing real users in sufficient numbers to affect site owners’ decisions. Right now, “the web” is what Chrome and Safari want it to be. Mozilla largely ceded their seat at that table but is probably the closest to being re
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by acdha 1y ago
They don’t penalize browsers for not being Chrome – Safari users almost never see those, because their devices support a protocol for attesting real hardware with a real user, in what is hopefully a privacy-preserving manner: https:/&
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by acdha 1y ago
I read that differently: we’re starting from the current world where anyone publishing online is seeing expensive traffic volumes from companies whose goal is not to send user traffic back. Cloudflare seem to be arguing that site owners sho
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by acdha 1y ago
How would that work short of them buying most of the fiber in the world? A natural monopoly is a big problem for ISPs but they don’t do last-mile and they don’t appear to be anywhere close to being able to manipulate thr transit market.
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by acdha 1y ago
Google’s monopoly is dangerous because they linked success in search to dominance in other areas, and especially the most popular web browser. I wouldn’t recommend trusting any large company but so far Cloudflare doesn’t appear to be pullin
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by acdha 1y ago
How is Cloudflare a monopoly as opposed to just being popular? The CDN, security, edge compute, etc. markets all have multiple popular competitors.
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by acdha 1y ago
It seems relevant that in the mid-90s the Israeli hard right reacted to the possibly of peaceful by engaging in some highly effective political assassinations which successfully restarted the cycle of violence, setting the stage for Netanya
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by acdha 1y ago
Trump does not share your view that they are an independent agency. Carr also does not appear share your extremely charitable interpretation of his actions. He has subsequently confirmed that he sees this in line with the administration&#x2
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by acdha 1y ago
I think they’re saying this isn’t debate club. When companies are being threatened, when universities are being told their research grants will be illegally withheld unless they punish students or faculty for exercising constitutional right
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by acdha 1y ago
Yes. He’s embraced a radical expansion of the “unitary executive” theory which focuses all of the power in the president, even in positions which by law or custom were independent. Think about last year: Biden didn’t call Garland into his o

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