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No need to play games and intentionally be obtuse all across the thread. "They" are the developers. A website has far less access to a device than an app and ads are easier to block. So they wrap anything into an app to gain tha
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The reason infinite scroll is bad has nothing to do with the technicalities of the HTML behind it. You could always implement a technical solution for these technical issues but that wouldn't fix the real problem. It's addictive.
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Constant tracking isn't necessary for advertising, it's a choice. So is hiding the extent of this tracking from the user. If the user doesn't understand the full scope and impact of the "payment" then the business m
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I'm sure someone in the ad industry will tell you that the internet is powered by ad revenue, it's what keeps it free and open, what makes services better.
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> Do we really need infosec companies now that a skid with claude can find decades-old kernel privesc over a weekend? Why are you not making easy money hand over fist from these rewards? A couple of weekends of work and you can retire ea
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You do that because your goal s “optimized code” not just “code”. Your constraints are a tool that helps you achieve your goal. For most others the constraints are limitations from achieving their goal. For me wearing a parachute is a const
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I think you're missing the context of what started this thread: > I was a kid/teenager with a really slow computer [...] b) I think I was a way better programmer. Constraints make you better, you have to be smarter. The goal is
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> Who cares how/why they're there The people who face them. The constraints are making the goal harder to reach. The goal is on the other side of the constraints and it takes power of will to refuse to remove them and keep push
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The pages [1] have a mix of "Images/Graphics by", "Compiled/Written/Created/Contributed By", and "(Fractal) Attributed to" going back to 1990. So I think that attribution refers to the conte
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> nothing is easier then adding constraints What's easier is removing the constraints you just added artificially. Constraints you can remove with a flick of a finger are not constraints. > so why don't you add them back The
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> a handful of remotely meaningful repos If there's a trend to leave a platform it won't start with the most entrenched users (largest repos). They acknowledge your concern in the article and their analysis does apply to thos
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The self hosting will still be there and working as expected no matter what GH does (fails... again, DMCAs the repo, bans the account, etc.). Self hosting isn't only about being the only one with the data, it's also for the inde
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It just hit me, in 2026, that MeshCommander [1] (the Intel AMT remote management tool) is probably a homage naming after MechCommander. Came here excited that MeshCommander is maintained again. [1] https://github.com/Ylianst
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> You're on Hacker News and you can't think of silicon fabrication? Ugh... past performance doesn't predict future performance. Why do you think that SpaceX's or ASML's advantages cannot be overcome by competit
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> which is not the same thing as “in 10 years they will catch up." This is reasonable, unless SpaceX is stagnating for a decade there will still be some gap in 10 years too. > The gap is getting larger year by year, not smaller T
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> causing fewer dollars to leave the country Might cause fewer dollars to enter the country too. Closed doors block both directions. Other countries are watching and responding in kind. Maybe not that much at first out of fear of retalia
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That's reductive. It's not your daily comic or meme, it's an interactive game, could be called a physics simulator to a degree. All the submissions get linked together into a giant interconnected board. It's very much li
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> This is my industry I know it well How far ahead is SpaceX compared to the competition, a decade? More? Less? Is the gap closing or growing? > Their actual profit margin for launch of F9 is 62% - 80% depending on configuration. That
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The OS already does this for a living. A set of identifiers requested sporadically by an app can’t be what breaks its back. Isn’t iOS already doing something similar?
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> Unless anonymization is provided by your browser, there is nothing you can do to prevent such identification technology The OS could treat certain apps as untrusted and spoof or limit the access to these unique identifiers.
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> In 1920, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) completed its first wind-tunnel facility, a copy of an existing British tunnel . This is a reminder that nobody starts at the top. They usually start by copying a lot of
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That connecting "spine" is there to improve the interlocking of the tetrapods. They can "hook" better to each other. That's the theory at least, I don't know the if it's better in practice.
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> give people tools that let them achieve an outcome, without necessarily giving them the judgement or expertise to know whether the outcome is any good This could be fine if all you're looking is to get the quick and dirty result a
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> I hope they never get hold of the code of MS Office or almost any other piece of real-world business software. Except he's not building Office, a software with decades of legacy, used by hundreds of millions of users. He's co
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< No speed is the most important factor Bullets (Or rockets. Or shells with proximity fuses) go much faster so obviously speed isn't the most important factor. These are anti-aircraft interceptors , intercepting sound like a crit
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But it can’t be the thing that mattered first and foremost because then a 20c bullet would win against any drone. But a bullet is not great at intercepting small moving targets. Which is why I asked how good are they at intercepting at th
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That’s fine, you’ll just need to walk 10min extra to the specialty/ethnic/Deli store which stocks that. Supply is proportional to the demand so you can’t expect every niche item to be sold right next to you. How many types of milk
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Speed is only part of the story, but probably the part that can sell the capability of drones today. How good are they at intercepting another maneuverable aircraft either autonomously or FPV? At what speed is the drone starting to be limit
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2000 years ago the person who was capable enough to think of and build a lathe didn’t go to order the pieces. They modeled the raw materials (wood, metal, stone) into what they needed. But let me give you a less debatable example. Watch mak

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