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by btrask 6y ago
Guys, I worked it out. It's the Heisenberg uncertainty principle/Fourier conjugate. Let's say you send a yo now, and then you're going to send another one in 5 minutes. Then you decide to send a third in between. How muc
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by btrask 6y ago
> Prove you wrong how? By learning things with it? The author of the article is specifically struggling with his evangelism. He says he thinks the world would be a better place if everyone used spaced repetition. I don't know (can&#
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by btrask 6y ago
I say this with all the kindness that I have... this article/guy is really sad. First of all, if you think you've found the world's ultimate fighting technique, don't try to show it to random people for approval. Use i
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by btrask 6y ago
If you are nothing more than fancy autocomplete, then why should we argue with you? GPT is not trying to make a point and is not capable of changing its mind. You, hopefully, are. Edit: I don't think you should be getting downvoted bec
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by btrask 6y ago
More detail in this article, "Modern Web Standards Are Leaving Niche Web Browsers Behind": https://linuxreviews.org/Modern_Web_Standards_Are_Leaving_Ni... Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2
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by btrask 6y ago
I'm not Indian so I can't comment on that aspect. But your English is good and you have internet access. There should be something you can do. I think your fear of dropping out might be misplaced. You know the classes are bad and
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by btrask 6y ago
Yeah but just look at Brave. Is that really what you would've wanted Firefox to become? This is just a sad story without any winners.
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by btrask 6y ago
If someone pretended to be a famous actor (etc) in public, I would say they probably weren't very happy with their own life. Somehow with influencers, this has actually become a "trend." I think it ties in with Instagram trav
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by btrask 6y ago
Yeah, really. I don't think young people are really doing this for free food, I think the main reason is that they want to feel appreciated and treated well for once in their lives. Edit to add: Walking into a store and asking for free
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by btrask 6y ago
> Perhaps it could be a good fit for serverless functions. I was thinking of that too. :) If you're interested in the technical mechanism, it's possible to load a core dump and resume execution. I found https://web.a
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by btrask 6y ago
It's not just getpid. It's everything that interacts with processes. fork(2), wait(2), kill(1/2)... Any external management tools (supervisors, debuggers, etc)... Imagine trying to administer such a program, where even tools
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by btrask 6y ago
Very interesting question! I don't think there is any language/environment that does that natively. What you seem to be asking for is an abstraction of processes. However the process itself is ultimately an abstraction that is mad
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by btrask 6y ago
It's known as the birthday paradox. There is a probability table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox#Probability_t...
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by btrask 6y ago
Isn't that still better than your nephew buying a brand new battery and then throwing it in the trash? Even if he only got a week's worth of use out of the old battery. Reusing things doesn't change the overall recycling rate
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by btrask 6y ago
> Believe it or not, if you tell customers you will recycle old products for them, you'd better not sell them instead. Legally, I'm sure you're right. But on a practical level, what do you think recycling is ? If you fish
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by btrask 6y ago
Good answer :)
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by btrask 6y ago
Hey Static, thanks for the thought-provoking dicussion the other day! Let me ask you this: let's say you're downstream of a very slow server that is outside of your control. You need to access it, and there's nothing you can
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by btrask 6y ago
Here is a recent HN discussion on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24519786 My current answer is... it's complicated.
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Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia (2001)(people.well.com)
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by btrask 6y ago
Actually, I thought about it some more. I think a server that spends 99% of its time blocked on IO is "IO bound" even if it's because no one is sending it requests. It's a very different condition than saturating the NIC
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by btrask 6y ago
You're right that most web apps aren't actually "IO bound" per se. They aren't making optimal or maximal use of either network or disk IO. However the important point is that they aren't CPU bound either. Most
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by btrask 6y ago
Thanks for that link! We might be arguing past each other. He says this: > Unfortunately a narrative kind of built up around all this stuff that Gecko developers were a bunch of bumbling idiots who were just maintaining a bunch of outdat
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by btrask 6y ago
Thanks for taking the time to reply! In your quote, they didn't want to create a full browser , but they did want to create a full engine . And it was designed to be "productizable." I think it supports what I'm saying
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by btrask 6y ago
Google is giving them so much money, for such a long time, that it is hard to replace. Golden handcuffs. Donations and $10/mo "Firefox subscriptions" aren't going to make up for it. There are ways they could make money a
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by btrask 6y ago
It was written in 2013... when Servo was announced. Servo was originally intended to replace Gecko. Anything else is a retcon. Saying "large parts of that work landed in Firefox" is misleading. A browser engine is a huge thing, an
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by btrask 6y ago
I still use and mostly like FF too, but just look at their marketshare (and their own developer confidence, with Servo and Brave). Chrome destroyed them and I think it was mostly on technical merit, from a general user's perspective. H
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by btrask 6y ago
> Would you say premature standardization is a part of the problem? More than that. It's a joke to try to standardize something that is still an open research problem. If something is going to be a standard, there should be at least
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by btrask 6y ago
One of the comments points out the site in question is purely built around this feature (the Web Speech API): https://twitter.com/hammerlockddt/status/1304658792467116033 However, I think the original complaint is
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by btrask 6y ago
Is "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" a bad brand for margarine? Imagine it getting flagged by the butter police.
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by btrask 6y ago
If someone made a version of Eliza for victim culture, "the bit about [message subject] is incredibly condescending" could be one of its stock phrases.

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