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by diogenes4 3y ago
> You might as well do a regular check for if the gyroscope is spinning, and if not return an error. I mean yea, it'd be great if programs propagated every possible error state or violated invariant possible up the stack. I don&#x2
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by diogenes4 3y ago
According to https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/bay-area-earthquak... vs https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big... you're looking at two order
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> The ones on game consoles are /way/ more proprietary and unportable than Metal. Right, but the console proprietary graphics frameworks have clear market demand. Macs are not a platform with which people buy to game, and metal
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Rotating the art while not actively producing light is a pretty big draw. The power seems like a red herring.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
I'm much more concerned about my access being tied to physical hardware than I am about "malware".
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by diogenes4 3y ago
That doesn't change anything. Security was simply never what chrome (or webkit to be fair) was built around compared to speed of the insanely inefficient browser stack.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> They need to fail at compile time as much as possible not at runtime. Wouldn't that be nice! Seems like you're conflating two different classes of failures, though. There's no way to bypass runtime constraints entirely,
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> Apple is pushing hard to make a gaming comeback on Mac We hear this every few years; it's never been true. I'd be shocked if this new effort were any more successful.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> the problem is most likely that steam deck hardware is not sufficient to play counter strike 2 Seems nuts for a game whose entire draw is being able to be played on commodity hardware at high speeds.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
...isn't that just evidence that windows is actively being replaced?
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by diogenes4 3y ago
The entire point of failing fast is to fail fast.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> effort writing assertions in production code Presumably the assert is used because it doesn't consume resources (ie effort) to write. Testing takes a lot of effort.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
So long as this is equally applied to a domestic hostile government I'm fine with that.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> There's a reason Chrome is mostly written in C++ Yea, security is not a concern. Apparently.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> There's a high amount of impedance mismatch trying to write GUIs in a non-GC language like Rust Sorry, what does the idea of a user interface have to do with garbage collection? They seem entirely unrelated at first blush, and it&
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Sorry, what does swift have to do with this?
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Surely this would mostly apply to non-chinese companies, no? This would wipe the market out.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Sorry, is there any reason to expect money to revert to behaving like gold any time soon? Sounds suspiciously like crypto tripe. Why would that be beneficial anyway? The relative purchasing power of poor countries won't change without
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> Financial anxiety: Media - the primary instigator In my experience it's "how will i pay for rent and food the next two months".
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> They're two tines of the same pitchfork. If we're discussing the market, there's several billion other tines you missed.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> But they're well within their rights to just roll a dice. Who said anything about rights? What does it even mean for a company to have rights?
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Hard to imagine you can do worse than private industry.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
They actually aren't in the constitution at all. You have a right to bear arms. You do not have a right to purchase, wield, and use a handgun (which, by the way, would be hilariously ineffective in an uprising against the government an
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by diogenes4 3y ago
Owning handguns ain't either. Anyway, the constitution was written to specifically enable slavery, so your point is moot.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> Owning slaves is just a part of our culture regardless of whether we want it to be or not. This was true for the confederate south.... Denying this doesn't seem to get us anywhere. Anyway, my point was not that this can't be
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> And culture is driven by marketing. Sure but you haven't shown how advertising drives specifically gun culture. Someone's eighteenth gun? Sure, but that's a rounding error in terms of gun ownership. > if gun culture w
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> Based on what are you expecting bug fixes for free from Mozilla? Because they want people to use the browser? Seems pretty straightforward. Anyway they're not a charity; stop treating them like one. Mozilla is a company with a pro
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> use of language and concepts are tied to doing objective things Well, except for floating signifiers, which make up an increasing part of our vocabulary.
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by diogenes4 3y ago
> And why American gun control laws have never matured despite all the evidence that proves the status quo isn’t viable. Tbh I don't think this has anything to do with marketing. Guns are just a part of our culture regardless of whe
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by diogenes4 3y ago
You could've said this every year for the last two hundred years. Maybe longer.

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