caslon

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by caslon 5y ago
Oh don't worry, the F-35 is already a twisted vanity project of the military industrial complex largely created to siphon off as many percentage points of the US budget as possible. The goal is not nines, it's getting more executi
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by caslon 5y ago
Using about:performance for Firefox 88.0.1 on GNU/Linux. As far as I know, this is the most accurate way of measuring single-tab performance on Firefox.
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by caslon 5y ago
I personally like having battery life and the ability to multitask. I don't think it's something that only non-technical users want, or even something particularly rare. Surely most users like their phones lasting longer on a si
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by caslon 5y ago
Just want to point out for appreciation: Using in fine in an English sentence is fantastic and not done enough.
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by caslon 5y ago
I used about:performance; I'm not stupid. Is there no expectation of good faith here?
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by caslon 5y ago
Link to a post in this thread that I wrote partially as a response to yours but don't want to duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27601802 On a whim, I also opened the front page of reddit (again, in my web
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by caslon 5y ago
Here's a good example! Open up this page in your web browser; not the site the thread is linking to, just the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27576937 Opening it up, fresh, it's taking 49.9MB of memor
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by caslon 5y ago
That is kind of the exact opposite of the point I was making. Games would be fine as PWAs in theory: nobody expects video games to use few resources or to be power-efficient. Anything else isn't a good fit, because PWAs are ridiculous
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by caslon 5y ago
No, it's not because of the iPhone ecosystem that PWAs are bad. It's not because of the iPhone ecosystem that web technologies are ridiculously bloated with no intention of actually fixing the problem. It's not because of the
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by caslon 5y ago
I mean, in what world aren't "PWAs, web apps and other web technologies" inferior to real apps? I have complex real-time 3D video games that do things like fluid simulation and have dynamic maps that take fewer system resou
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by caslon 5y ago
Are any of those "strongly leftist" ideas in reality? When I think of the most famous book burnings and censorship, I think of this ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings ), or this ( https:/&#
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by caslon 5y ago
Has the MPAA ever been particularly prone to acting ethically? Throwing in some slurs to throw people off their trail seems very much like something they would do. The MPAA itself has been accused of copyright infringement on multiple occa
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by caslon 5y ago
Is there a prediction market going for whether the MPAA is eventually found to be behind this?
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by caslon 5y ago
Does pg get automatically recommended to all twitter users or something? The replies to his post are pretty low-quality; I'm guessing few people in it have read any of his books (technical or the essay compilation). Why'd he get c
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by caslon 5y ago
Active users have been exponentially climbing. The redesign is awful in comparison to what once was, but it's been incredibly successful as a vessel to make reddit into a Facebook replacement. Facebook users are a lot easier to profit
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by caslon 5y ago
Seems like the free market at work to me.
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by caslon 5y ago
If you use a looser circle you can get movement to stop entirely, making replacement unnecessary.
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by caslon 5y ago
Absolutely! That's...pretty much exactly what I said.
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by caslon 5y ago
I'm not defending the anti-democratic party, I'm simply explaining why increasing voting access is so controversial in the US: because a party with outsized power does not want to lose their power. Fully for democracy over here.
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by caslon 5y ago
It's largely because increased voting overwhelmingly (and almost exclusively) benefits one side in the US. While it's obviously good to have increased participation in democracy, the side that's going to more or less cease
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by caslon 5y ago
Do you feel in doing this that you're making the web worse? As a business, you certainly have no obligation to be ethical, but doesn't it feel a bit strange as a person who presumably grew up with the web to be playing such a big
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by caslon 5y ago
This comment immediately brought to mind the underwater Blitzball opening cinematic from Final Fantasy X. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOmsorZ1Y1U
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by caslon 5y ago
Why wouldn't it be able to do both? youtube-dl has solved that exact use-case for years.
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by caslon 5y ago
Icecat is a fork of Firefox to rid it of proprietary services and DRM. It's got a different name because Mozilla forbids (or used to forbid) redistribution with patches. Debian also used to do this until Mozilla changed their tune on a
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by caslon 5y ago
It's worth noting that this is a very old distribution of it; Arc now runs on Racket.
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by caslon 5y ago
No, it wasn't: "where a family member was told" That's second-hand. Accusing me of bad faith is a bit off-base.
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by caslon 5y ago
UNIX has all of the tools, and unlike IDEs, it allows you to seamlessly add them on. UNIX is more "cybernetic enhancement" to the IDE's "prosthetic limb." ed is actually really useful if you're wanting to r
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by caslon 5y ago
I have, actually! Given that your cited example wasn't first-hand, I don't see how the question is relevant, though.
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by caslon 5y ago
"You have a perverveted view of "forcing" if you think sharing information is, as it sounds like you seem to be saying, the equivalent of rape." Something doesn't have to be rape to be non-consensually forced upon s
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by caslon 5y ago
Sourcehut, as a recent example.

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