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by ahbyb 7y ago
Do you have plans to rewrite Sourcehut in a language that doesn't take 250 ms to generate each page? I'm afraid of what performance will look like when you get some serious traffic, and how your costs will scale. You may end up li
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by ahbyb 7y ago
>If your workloads are limited by single thread performance you need better software. Most of the time we don't get to choose which software we run. Hell, most core components of Windows get stuck in a single core still. I'll t
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by ahbyb 7y ago
>I don't know why the hype train is such a thing for the AMD crowd Because AMD doesn't deliver constant good results. They just drop a bombshell every 10 years and call it a day.
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by ahbyb 7y ago
"carrying heroin in a sock" vs. acting as a courier of heroin and hydromorphone pills, after having been convicted before of forgery for having used fraudulent checks and stolen credit cards.
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by ahbyb 7y ago
I was talking about defaults. Of course you can also change them on Chrome too. But defaults matter because most people stick to them. And the default of Firefox will send navigation history to Cloudflare.
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by ahbyb 7y ago
>The first claim is that Google is going to redirect user DNS traffic to Google's own DNS or another DoH-compliant DNS provider. That is incorrect. Because we believe in user choice and user control, we have no plans to force users
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by ahbyb 7y ago
Interesting... one does not expect the timestamp to be there!
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by ahbyb 7y ago
I suppose these articles aren't timestamped on purpose, but that is really annoying.
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by ahbyb 7y ago
Which would make sense since 99% of apps probably have fewer than 100 downloads each. (Yes I know this is not your point, just a little joke)
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by ahbyb 7y ago
In my experience the best information is always in websites with no ads. Like personal blogs, old pages, you name it. Seeing ads in a newspaper website? Why would I want to watch ads in exchange for being fed manipulating, half-true informa
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by ahbyb 7y ago
It doesn't seem unavailable. It's online, innit?
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by ahbyb 7y ago
That might not be the worst thing that could happen to Pakistan, though.
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by ahbyb 7y ago
Wayback Machine is always very very very very slow, it's usually not offline just very slow.
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by ahbyb 7y ago
I'm not sure what colour your "friends of colour" are, but if we assume black, I'm sure a properly dressed black person (which is what I'd expect from a Facebook employee) won't receive as much scrutiny as one
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by ahbyb 7y ago
I see. I was suspecting something like this. I hope the government can resist this and democracy is preserved.
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by ahbyb 7y ago
"over the past decade"... don't they have elections to solve these issues instead of acting like monkeys? Or is this the usual case of a minority making a mess because they don't like what the majority of the country has
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by ahbyb 7y ago
Probably nothing you can't do with regular expressions.
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by ahbyb 7y ago
I am not a very new user, in fact by looking at your profile I have been here for much longer than you. Older/active users are predominantly left-wing and use their flag power to flag right-wing points of view, because they deem them a
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by ahbyb 7y ago
Forgive me but I don't feel like writing too much about this subject, which is getting pretty old and tiring. So I'll type it here even if I get flagged. The political compass can be separated in economical and social issues. Econ
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by ahbyb 7y ago
I don't know how/why it happened, but most users here are left-wing now. This means that, if you post a right-wing point of view, you are likely to attract lots of responses. Posts that attract lots of responses are always seen as
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by ahbyb 7y ago
Is this a parody or something?
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by ahbyb 7y ago
>The question is, do you want to live in a society where prices are set based on one's genes. I sure don't. Those genes do clearly make us behave in different ways, so why not? I'm not a feminist, but it would be fairer fo
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by ahbyb 7y ago
Political propaganda on the front page. Oof.
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by ahbyb 7y ago
Is it supported at all by safari?
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by ahbyb 7y ago
>And now a major browser's UI is built with web components! Proud that you need to use your HTML/JS engine to render your UI instead of using faster native code? I mean you have the opportunity of getting rid of XUL and instead
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by ahbyb 7y ago
What if I create a PDF with this content... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3 and so on, until 10,000,000?
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by ahbyb 7y ago
That's assuming Microsoft didn't do things properly. Who's to say the amount of connections that could be opened, the bandwidth, or the max traffic that could be recv/sent wasn't limited? Thinking that you can make
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by ahbyb 7y ago
"abusive language" is such a generic term. I was thinking that if I wanted every critic of mine to shut up I could say I identify as a female and then get them all banned for misgendering me if they ever referred to me as he/
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by ahbyb 7y ago
I remember something like this was possible back in the day with Google Sheets. You could embed a URL as if it was an image in each cell of a sheet and it would make thousands of requests. I don't remember the details.
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by ahbyb 7y ago
Most people don't care about this because mobiles for them are, indeed, throwaways. So, according to some, this should be written into law so we all are forced to care.

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