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by deaddodo 2y ago
As someone with 14+ years in the California tech scene, they're both fairly terrible for large pushes unless you have a stellar product team that can pull all of the small scoped work together into a larger effort. Generally, there is
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by deaddodo 2y ago
This was also the solution in Terminator to make the machines pass as human.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> It is possible that no DRM in Mozilla would have resulted in the same outcome we arrived at - Mozilla gave in, so we'll never know. But what does Mozilla even exist for if it's unwilling to stick to its principles? If DRM wer
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Despite JWZ's animosity towards HN, his contributions towards open source and his influence on modern web browsers can't be overstated. In a thread about the history of Mozilla, it's worth reviewing his documentary on the ope
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by deaddodo 2y ago
I'm actually 100% fine with this business model, if it's cost acceptable. I use YouTube for an hour+ a day and YouTube music for hours, having access to both of those services ad-free is fine by me. Their service is 6-13usd/m
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> I have been told (in Britain) I can come across as rude because I am usually direct with disagreement rather than making a lot of ceremony about it. I am a native Italian speaker, and I find the English apologetic fear of confrontation
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by deaddodo 2y ago
I mean, all of the Germanic languages are fairly direct. English has very little ambiguity in general discourse: Other person: Could you help me move this weekend? You: No, I have other things to do. / I'd rather not. / I can
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> If you want to read a foreign publication, it's on you to deal with their local norms.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> There's only 1 Fahrenheit-based nation, and that's the US. And when that nation's people write for their own people, that don't need to care about what the other nation's use. Period. You're missing the ma
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by deaddodo 2y ago
I wasn't arguing any other experiences. The person I responded to offered a perspective on the US computer scene that was inaccurate. I was simply correcting that perspective.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Le Monde should realize that French-speaking Americans/Canadians are reading their articles and make sure everything is written from that context. Oh no they shouldn't, because that's idiotic; as it is for any national public
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Please point to where in this article they mention this is written from/for France: https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/06/22/legislat... Explicitly, not in the form of contextual clu
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> 95% of the world population uses Celsius scale, all scientists and military use it too, and ignoring units when having bombastic claims is either negligence or more probably on purpose. The article is written for an American layman aud
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> But yes, the author is likely taking for granted that non-US residents would read the article. Why should they need to? Should French journalists account for French-speaking Americans? What about German, Nigerian and Chinese ones? The
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> How come specifically American, and how'd you reach that conclusion from glancing at the site? It's a very popular publication in the United States and is a US company. > A huge number of people speak English as a second l
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by deaddodo 2y ago
The article was written for an American audience. I feel like if you went to a French article and it said "12 degrees" you would know to convert that to Fahrenheit, if you needed. And that's an even less common situation than
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> that's funny to read being from outside the usa. Idk where outside the USA you are, but the IBM PC easily had the easiest time taking over the USA. Amiga and Atari were considered hobbyist computers while Macintosh constantly batt
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> If Star Trek Replicators were invented today, we're so stupid we'd outlaw them. You're so optimistic to think the law would even be this fair. More like limit access to corporations as "the only custodians responsib
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by deaddodo 2y ago
It's a flaw for performant client-specific/standalone graphical use, yes. Literally one that the Linux community fought with with multiple hacks (DRI, AIGLX, etc) through the years. It's not a flaw if you want to run a thin-c
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by deaddodo 2y ago
You're just outlining a major flaw in the X Server protocol, not SDL. That's a unique situation to that specific system due to it's intrinsic network-oriented design and specifically the issue Wayland was designed to handle,
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by deaddodo 2y ago
I will say, while this is interesting and fun to see, using a trivial library like SDL adds almost nothing to the overhead and expands support to non *nix OSes. There is definitely something to be said of bloat but probably not in this case
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by deaddodo 2y ago
What makes you think Lua is worse than JavaScript? Hell, what metric are you even using to determine that? LuaJIT is one of the more performant bytecode inplementations and you can easily integrate it into most systems languages via it&#x27
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Yup, this coming from deaddodo, Nick Peterson.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Yes, but you can break EU law outside of the EU, especially digital crimes. Foreign national hackers are arrested all over the western world for offenses in other countries, for instance.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> If/when American law mirrors it or we sign a treaty, it applies to me. Until then, it doesn’t. The penalty could be “shoot on sight” and it doesn’t matter as long as I’m outside their jurisdiction. Except the part where the CANZUK
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by deaddodo 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that it's an idiomatic phrase in any language for that.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
What do you mean that you "cannot draw" them? This is a digital medium and both (well one, the other is half supported) variants are valid Unicode glyphs: ꙗ / Ѧ Or do you mean you literally can't draw them?
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by deaddodo 2y ago
ARM is simply the ISA the industry is pivoting to and where most forward investment is going. I don't know where I implied it was special.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> With E cores like this, who needs P cores? Because, presumably, the P-cores are even beefier. Intel and AMD are still trying to gain time on the slow march to ARM (particularly Apple) catching up. Both of their long term strategies see
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> So unless AMD has some secret ARM or RISC-V research division close to launch a product I don't see how it is going to survive long term. AMD has already built ARM chips and uses a modified ARM core for their Platform Security

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