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by coddle-hark 6y ago
Surely bit flips are invisible to application layer protocols?
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
Even so, profitable self driving is binary; either there’s a human driver in the car or there isn’t. Uber is ”bold” but not bold enough to put thousands of self-driving cars on the road illegally.
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
I dunno, that sounds like a trade war to me. If it were this easy there’d be no need for international diplomacy.
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
Just a few months ago there was a leaked email from Google execs talking about how Google Cloud needed to start making more money or it would be shuttered within a few years. It’s pretty simple really. Google acts like a VC — place lots of
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
I guess if you don’t have direct internet access then sniffing wifi traffic at the local coffee shop might be the only way to get weather updates.
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
Easy access to a huge library of books is one of the main selling points of the Kindle. DRM is good for Amazon.
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
With this logic there should be no new programming languages ever until there’s a paradigm shift in computing.
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
The company I work for runs networks on trains. We pay at least 10x for all our components (switches, APs, cables etc.) for exactly this reason; everything needs to be certified a bunch of times. And since there’s so few people buying these
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
I think this answers the OP’s question: Conversations like this are really expensive to have.
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
Which other free email provider are you considering?
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
This can be generalised to “having a deep understanding about your tech stack is good and profitable”. Spotify did the opposite and went from a complex peer to peer design to a “throw everything in an s3 bucket” design because the underlyin
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
Electron (WebKit) is much more than a rendering engine though. Sure, you could use Servo in a desktop app, but you’d have to also bundle all the other browser components (a JS engine, for example) individually. You’re basically building a b
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
Oh no, the terrorists use iPhones so now we can only get access to their location, iMessages, photos, browsing history, credit cards and all purchases made through Apple Pay. Might as well not bother sending a request at all.
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
If there was a bug that let websites read from unrelated iframes then they could just open the iframes themselves.
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
I’d guess it’s because Apple customers also use Google products.
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
Isn’t Slack on iOS just a webview?
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
No, it’s saying that you can do clever memory optimizations that the Rust compiler won’t let you do.
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
> 1. If you subscribe to a list then please please please take the time to locate the very clearly marked unsubscribe link, or use the one that gmail or your other email client shows. Teaching people to click unsubscribe links in spam em
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
> The rot set in with printers when the technology got good enough for there not to be any easy improvements and the mindset changed from building a tool to help people create, to seeing customers as a resource to be exploited. Sounds ex
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
I think this is a great point; it’s much more important that ideas survive than that the posts themselves do. Even if Reddit gets turned off tomorrow, hundreds of thousands of people will know that the Tiananmen Square massacre happened.
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
Japanese is interesting because one “letter” in the alphabet represents a complex sound (e.g. か = “ka”) and one kanji can describe an entire word (e.g. 花 = “hana” = flower). So a column of Japanese characters is actually more information de
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
That’s really interesting, thanks! > Seenig the shape of the wrods, not redaing them in detial. (how many typos did you see here?). In Chinese, you don't look at each stroke or radical, you just get the entire character at once. &gt
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
Yes, of course, but I think it’s an interesting idea to have one format for writing code and another much denser format for viewing code.
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Ask HN: View Source Like in the Matrix?
5 points by coddle-hark 6y ago|8 comments
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
I prefer desktop apps. I have a nice desktop environment with windows and a tray and split screen support and so on. There’s a chance that the desktop app isn’t just a chromium wrapper so I might get better performance and/or battery l
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
I mean, sure, I can technically code on my PS4 too using the web-based Digital Ocean console. I didn’t make the distinction between writing code and writing software but I guess it’s an important one.
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
It’s not though. Sure, it’s pretty easy to self host videos but YouTube is much more than that. It’s the only open access video platform with a good (existing?) monetisation strategy, for example.
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
Yes, long-form text is down and photo/video based content has exploded — things are different but I’d hesitate to say that they’re worse overall. I used to share a computer with 5 other family members growing up in the 90’s, nowadays e
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
> Most people are not content creators, they are consumers. I don’t think this is true at all, everybody that has a Twitter / Facebook / Instagram / YouTube / TikTok account is a content creator. There’s a reason the
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by coddle-hark 6y ago
> We don't even own the things we write ourselves This has been a big point of contention on YouTube. Entire channels being taken down because the licensed music they used contained samples that weren’t properly licensed themselves.

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