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by dietr1ch 1y ago
It's so bad that I used to have a DS-160.txt file with most of my responses so I could speed run a copy-paste session before something went wrong. The 5yr travel section was awful to fill.
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The problem is that often these quick or maybe not reusable are written in such a haste that there's no breadcrumbs left to do the right thing whenever you are done getting that urgent thing out (most likely never because "everyth
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by dietr1ch 1y ago
I think that here is where things are lacking. There's not enough information that can be conveyed to the OS with just a number, and the number seems fixed and not tied to user input (active application, user just clicked, action block
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by dietr1ch 1y ago
Oh, I thought that was going to die shortly after Jeremy moved to System76, but it didn't, - https://www.redox-os.org/news/
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by dietr1ch 1y ago
There's an old and famous quote around computers not having morals, and thus computers requiring people on top of them that can steward systems and be hold accountable. Besides morals, you'll always need people in the interface be
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Yeah, it's outstandingly smooth for a web video.
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> Ditto `nix-ld` being necessary, it's a great piece of work but the dynamic linker should be in the normal place and know about all the libraries on the system by default. Isn't that part of the point of having NixOS? Dynamic
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I'm guessing that they ran out of leeway with small tweaks and found that breaking inactive links was probably a better way out. We don't know the hit rates of what they call inactive nor the real cost it takes to keep them around
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by dietr1ch 1y ago
> Roughly 111 GB of RAM. Which is like nothing to a search giant. You are forgetting job replication. A global service can easily have 100s of jobs on 10-20 datacenters. Saving 111TiB of RAM can probably pay your salary forever. I think
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More than disk space I think they care about having short links, higher cache hit rates and saving RAM on their fleet.
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Every layer underneath tries really hard to cheat and keep things usable/fast. This includes libraries, kernels, CPUs, devices, drivers and controllers. The higher level at which you cheat, the higher the benefits.
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by dietr1ch 1y ago
Idk, if you are starting from prerender/prefetch `where href_matches "/*"` maybe you are wasting resources like you are swinging at a piñata in a different room. This approach will just force the pre-loader/renderer
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by dietr1ch 1y ago
Google's 2023 layoffs was pure for stock market as Google was pressured to do what everyone else was doing (like, no one got fired for buying IBM). After the layoffs the stock went up, and I remember people compiled data to try figure
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I think it just abuses on how reading a few contiguous cache lines at random isn't a whole lot more expensive than reading a single random byte. I found myself never wanting to use binary heaps, and instead use a wider one with an arit
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I don't see the biggest difference being about freedom, but what to maximise, individual or society as a group. Individuals excel when there's absolutely no rule stopping them, but enough to not make others a threat, and groups ex
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by dietr1ch 1y ago
Oh, I forgot about this, yeah, you can use the links that webpages post to workaround it. Quite annoying though, I think I only used it once. Here's an example link, https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=5551112233
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That's nice for the careless user, but without any system request or notification it's impossible for the user to tell whether the app used a workaround or the system just cooperated.
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It always freaked me out that WhatsApp found the SMS code sent to verify the phone number without requiring any action from me. Also, WhatsApp refuses to be usable without giving it Contacts access. I had to use the app, login to the web cl
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by dietr1ch 1y ago
Well, I guess emacs might qualify as an IDE. Magit is great, but my point about discoverability in practice still stands. I won't be looking for logs from all files, and logs only show recent changes, so long foretold issues like scali
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It's even worse when under a work visa. You can't even defend yourself when figuring out the legal course takes longer than you can stay in the country.
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No, I knew there's some trickery to avoid part of the noise in git, but it's not enough as I won't be looking at that log or blame everytime I read a file. Using a TODO comment still seems better to me. A TODO surfaces detail
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I'd rather see a TODO in the source file than in the commit message because of discoverability issues with commit messages. Maybe that can be fixed? If I need to git blame the right line, and while ignoring miscellaneous commits like f
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> I do think we here in the US passed some kind of inflection point where the damage done by H1B labor finally killed the tech career path in the sense that all of a sudden, entry level jobs simply vanished, never to return. I'm sur
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> whether a disproportionate fraction of new jobs are being given to immigrants vs eligible Americans I don't see how this is useful. This is bound to happen as you run out of people in the US. I don't think it's useful to
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I'm not sure if they refer to how large the language's reach is, but more about how advanced Java is once you stop looking at syntax bloat. The JVM can do stuff that's not easy to do in other environments. I recall things lik
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I still feel that the isolation is backwards. Instead of having me to split containers, ask me to merge things like google.com and youtube.com, but by default keep every domain isolated.
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> Prohibiting certain kinds of investors from investing in housing would be an example of interfering. Note that I did not propose forbidding investment, just having rules to help make sure final ownership ends in people (who ideally liv
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In the Bay Area Comcast offered (2017-2023 at least) internet with a default 1-1.2TiB/mo data cap that you can lift for the month for an extra 10-20usd (I don't recall, my roommate who played CoD was the one paying for this by him
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If it's so important, then my take is that the government should step in and make sure it happens and in some orderly way. Cost cutting in my town for profits that go away just drains the local's pockets. If you want free market r
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Private equity shouldn't be able to own housing. It should be like new highways and tolls, you get to charge until you make up for your investment, but then people who live there or the government should own it. Want to keep your toll

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