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by creshal 3y ago
Why should VCs back oss infrastructure directly? It doesn't help the VCs and only creates perverse incentives for the oss projects. The SaaS/cloud/etc. companies themselves should fund the projects they depend on. They actual
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by creshal 3y ago
> Meanwhile google tiptoes around teams adopting kotlin because "oh no, what if other teams touching the code might not be able to read it". That is highly ironic, seeing how often Google tries randomly shoving Dart down people
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by creshal 3y ago
It adds to the workload of everyone, including the Apple users. The latter ones are just in denial about it.
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by creshal 3y ago
> On the other hand you're unhappy about macOS sending NFD. Because MacOS always uses it, regardless of the user's intention, so it decomposes umlauts into diaereses (despite them having different meanings and pronunciations)
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by creshal 3y ago
MacOS creates so many normalization problems in mixed environments that it's not even funny any more. No common server-side CMS etc. can deal with it, so the more Macs you add to an organization, the more problems you get with incons
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by creshal 3y ago
It's unusual, but IMO makes sense, as it encapsulates complexity better than LOC do, because the latter are more sensitive to formatting preferences etc. Books are also measured in words too (also for category thresholds, e.g. between
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by creshal 3y ago
>by not going to the cloud ...in the worst way imaginable Doing a direct lift and shift with 1:1 replacement of instances is, intentionally, prohibitibely expensive, so you stop and think .
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by creshal 3y ago
There's still plenty of people who don't want or can't pay for the official service... but these days, >90% use illegal streaming portals instead of p2p services, because the service quality is so much higher. No need fo
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by creshal 3y ago
People used them because they worked better than alternatives, not because they were p2p. Indeed, most people used them like centralized services by going to The Big Site We All Know and downloading things from there. That they weren&#x27
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by creshal 3y ago
It's nice for small hacks, but for anything longer than a couple dozen characters you're probably still better off making jinja2 (or similar) templates as painless as possible.
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by creshal 3y ago
PDF support is reasonably widespread these days.
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by creshal 3y ago
It's good for everyone on the software side, but it's not so good for the hardware side, because it means that whatever you're designing now for tapeout in 6 months and release in 12 is going to be obsolete in 2 weeks.
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by creshal 3y ago
It doesn't imply a full 25x reduction in power consumption though, that might "only" go down by 10x.
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by creshal 3y ago
Half the reason why they move back up to 8/16 bit is that current hardware doesn't properly support 4 bit floats, and you get better performance from the conversion. I think once this hardware hits, most of the computation will sh
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by creshal 3y ago
Indeed. Politicians point back at economists, and economists usually answer "oh, it's fine, just deregulate everything and manna will trickle down from the heavens eventually". It would do them good to be a bit less full of t
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by creshal 3y ago
> Anyone that settles a claim asserted by a non-attorney is nuts. Going by how many people fall for the most stupid of spam mails, that's gotta be a billion-dollar industry too, then.
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by creshal 3y ago
Ibis is a bird.
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by creshal 3y ago
Taxes are genuinely quite complicated in many countries (Germany's patchwork of feudal church obligations, diffuse taxing authority spread over multiple layers of government, and "temporary" taxes lasting over a century has s
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by creshal 3y ago
Germany is a federation and US tax filing is still a mess in comparison. As often with US oddities, the explanation boils down to "the US is big enough to make corruption really attractive and wealthy enough to be able to just ignore i
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by creshal 3y ago
Again?
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by creshal 3y ago
But contrast that to Microsoft's absolutely hilariously inept attempts at bringing Windows to ARM. The amount of cumulative money spent over the last 15 or so years versus the actual market penetration is insane.
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by creshal 3y ago
I get a feeling whatever deal they had with Amazon over their app store fell through. Nothing else I can think of really makes sense to end support so suddenly.
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by creshal 3y ago
> As in, the thing that tried to implement Linux syscall interfaces on top of the Windows kernel? It's really funny, NT was supposed to be great at three things: - be easily ported to different hardware architectures, which then nev
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by creshal 3y ago
If you have a home built out of proper materials, it'll need a wifi AP in every other room for coverage, and those still need uplinks.
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by creshal 3y ago
Yes, it's not difficult, but if you compare default settings it'll skew the results.
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by creshal 3y ago
Google regularly tries to break Firefox, Chromium probably works a lot better, if you can convince it to use GPU acceleration on Linux.
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by creshal 3y ago
Killing flash, activex and java applets was definitely worth prioritizing.
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by creshal 3y ago
> I wonder if today's AI hype will look the same in 27 years? If the AI hype from 37 years ago is any indication (fuzzy logic on lisp machines, anyone?): Yeah. 99% of the buzzwords will be dropped because they're empty, and the
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by creshal 3y ago
The article explicitly called for native networked apps (Java-based, or activex based, e.g.) to bury the browser, because browsers can't be offline-first and can't be dynamic enough. In the end, the opposite happened: After a brie
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by creshal 3y ago
ECS is a fairly "late" idea in game development history, "just stuff widgets in arrays" works just fine in small games. But when you have - commercial games getting too big for any one single person to keep track of all

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