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by bsdetector 3y ago
When your car crashes and it calls for help do you really want to sit through "this call may be recorded for quality assurance" and other disclaimers? If Mozilla really wanted to be helpful they could suggest legal terms to cover
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by bsdetector 3y ago
The text input spelling checker is really terrible; late 80s spell checks were better. Forgot which, but had a 12 letter word that I misspelled one letter of, Brave underlined it in red with no replacements in right-click menu, I fixed it
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by bsdetector 3y ago
A built-in parallel foreach can't guarantee better performance because the hardware isn't there. The parallel part is scheduled on normal threads by the kernel and this is too unpredictable. But if each OS-scheduled CPU was reall
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by bsdetector 3y ago
I suppose it would be like how the U.S has a history of using nuclear bombs, has a bunch more assembled and ready to be used, but claims to have no plans to actually use them.
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by bsdetector 3y ago
Seems like nobody has mentioned a huge reason Usenet failed: It needed a client program. Digg/slashdot didn't succeed because they were flashier or moderated or had less illegal content or privately developed or any of these other
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by bsdetector 3y ago
More likely not enough swap space. Windows doesn't overcommit and in GPU-accelerated apps these days the driver commits never-used main memory to back GPU memory. Result is some users will have tabs and apps crash from out of memory ev
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by bsdetector 3y ago
> if you're doing it over a contemporary local network, it's fast enough and in my obviously subjective experience a way better than any VNC I've used. Windows Remote Desktop configured to use h.264 hardware encoding is li
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by bsdetector 4y ago
> I just think the AA narrative that it is Blacks that took that Asian kid/s seat is misplaced -- it was more likely the White kid who took their seat. And at the schools that are very good the Asians that couldn't get into the
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by bsdetector 4y ago
> I still don’t see how it’s discrimination against White students. This actually looks more like discrimination against Asians, with Whites being the biggest beneficiary of the discrimination based on the numbers. Because you are lookin
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by bsdetector 4y ago
There's a run length for identical pixels but no run length for literal pixels. Some images barely compress which means there should be many runs of uncompressed pixels. Even if only a few pixels long, not having a byte of overhead fo
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by bsdetector 4y ago
This videos shows the perverse mindset of climate activists that you "have to change your lifestyle" and personally suffer to solve the problem. It's a common refrain and erroneous, but here particularly so as only carbon
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by bsdetector 4y ago
Contrary to your point, a deposit doesn't shift responsibility to the producers at all but rather to the consumers. Consumers pay the deposit and then get it refunded when they behave and suffer the consequences to their time or don&#
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by bsdetector 4y ago
You could apply the same argument to food products. You buy food and it produces potentially harmful waste that has to be dealt with, so the producer should be held responsible, right? A tax if their food is thrown out uneaten, charges fo
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by bsdetector 4y ago
It's just an example. With shell-friendly outputs you can recreate "ls -l" with any field order you want with just a few lines of readable shell script. Many of the unix tools only exist because it's so hard to parse t
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by bsdetector 4y ago
Of course there could be some tweaks like a scoped eval to prevent stomping on the script's variables, but it's really not very hard for a C program to escape shell variables correctly and safely. You could have an eval that only
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by bsdetector 4y ago
Having written a lot of shell scripts, the single greatest thing I've ever experienced is shell-friendly outputs. For example, consider if ls had a "--shell" option that output each entry as a single line of shell-quoted vari
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by bsdetector 4y ago
> I can't read Apple's mind. You can't either. ... Do you think the original article author was insulting herself? I asked what your understanding was, not what Apple actually was thinking, and you absolutely can say wha
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by bsdetector 4y ago
> 1) The criteria do not include "crappy". I said that was part of their intention, indicated by "follow current review guidelines". Go ahead now and try to put Apple's intention into your own words. What do yo
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by bsdetector 4y ago
What Apple actually stated is the policy is for "discoverability of apps" for "the majority of users". Clearly the intention stated is to remove old, unpopular, outdated, crappy apps from the App store. So when you ask
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by bsdetector 4y ago
The most basic, first step of maintenance is: does it still compile? Not in this case. So another way to look at it is Apple requires developers to once every 3 years do the absolute minimum amount of maintenance, and they get a 90 day win
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by bsdetector 4y ago
> My old code simply did not work anymore with the latest versions of Xcode. In other words if there was some actual reason to do an update, like a security flaw or serious bug, she wouldn't have been able to readily do so. This see
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by bsdetector 4y ago
Think of it as "weekends" as in the limits of the week not "weekend" as in the last part of the week. In SMWTTFS the Saturday and Sunday are at the ends as in limits of the week, and furthermore it makes sense for there
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by bsdetector 4y ago
I don't see anything particularly technically difficult in separating hosting from moderation or having users able to moderate for themselves. Most forums already do this in some capacity with showdead or personalized block lists per
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by bsdetector 4y ago
The government is not forcing you to carry or not carry content, they're forcing you to take responsibility for what you selectively publish ("allow" as you put it) and not for content you simply repeat without looking at. It
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by bsdetector 4y ago
Well according to this ruling there's a section 230 obligation to either structure your forum in a way like this or moderate and be responsible for all the content.
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by bsdetector 4y ago
Dang publishing a moderation list is clearly freedom of speech, dang moderating is clearly censorship (even if legal and you like the result). The speech/censorship dichotomy could be solved by users choosing what moderation they want.
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by bsdetector 4y ago
A $10 manual, high-volume bicycle pump works fine. It doesn't actually take very long even from nothing and since it's designed for high pressure it doesn't even take much effort to get up to normal car tire pressures.
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by bsdetector 4y ago
Customize, click on West Virginia preset and graph uses 560 gCO2/kWh to EPA's 860 for WV for Electricity (charging). Select Idaho and graph uses 310 gCo2/kWh compared to EPA's 96. https://www.epa.gov/egr
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by bsdetector 4y ago
There are many parts of the code that are functional in C and have side effects in the transpiled version. Look ultimately what we have is a C version and cgo version that are roughly the same speed and a transpiled version that is 1/6
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by bsdetector 4y ago
Yes, you can do this, but why didn't the code do this in the first place? Because you also want an API that's not annoying and difficult to use. It's a real drawback to this transpiler that it takes thread-safe, purely funct

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