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by fouric 6y ago
Picking up my copy of Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary and looking up "racism", I see "1. a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inh
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by fouric 6y ago
I feel like the named reasons, aside from being invalid (it should be really really easy to make a popup that tells you the function parameter names and/or types, like SLIME has been doing for...decades? with Common Lisp), are really b
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by fouric 6y ago
Very, very few of those users had a choice in the first place. Few apps have both ad-supported and premium versions in the first place (especially not the big ones - you literally can't pay for a Facebook subscription), and extremely f
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by fouric 6y ago
This isn't universally true - Dan Luu's computer latency page[1] lists three Kindles, all below 900 ms of latency. And, since some devices have latency as low as 570 ms, it makes sense that they would use this optimization. [1]
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by fouric 6y ago
> Is there a reason why that text needs to be sent before the user clicks the "translate" button? Yes - UX latency. I would expect this kind of thing to take a few thousand milliseconds, and shaving off a few hundred millisecon
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by fouric 6y ago
False and irrelevant. False, because there's way more than one kind of sugar - glucose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, and more, not to mention cane sugar vs. HFCS. Irrelevant, because there are other non-sugar things in commercial food p
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by fouric 6y ago
Do people actually have trouble with this repeatedly, or just when they first learn about it? I started using this implementation of clamp a few years ago, and while it gave me some trouble when I first implemented it, the pattern is very s
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by fouric 6y ago
A homemade pastry has fewer preservatives and additives, you have greater control over the contents, requires a time and effort investment, and is not heavily marketed with prominent placement in grocery stores and appealing, colorful packa
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by fouric 6y ago
The article is worded such that it implies that the given scenario is a false conspiracy theory, while in fact the scenario did happen. Conflating the two scenarios both implicitly discredits the Epstein case and also makes no compelling ar
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by fouric 6y ago
> retaining the central belief that a cabal of powerful elites control the world, using their power to covertly abuse children They're going to need to be more precise about the Pizzagate conspiracy, because the above wording very c
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by fouric 6y ago
Is the NetSurf rendering engine multi-core/multi-thread? It's not clear from the homepage, which makes me think that it's single-core only.
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by fouric 6y ago
Counterexample acknowledged! This is indeed very fast.
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by fouric 6y ago
> can provide almost the same experience. Please, show me a complex web application that performs well (little perceptible UI latency) on a mid-range phone. Edit: Or a fast SPA - I've never seen one.
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by fouric 6y ago
> I think users have a performance budget and once you are inside that budget, there are rapidly diminishing returns for faster speed. "Budget" is kind of a strong word. For non-hard-real-time systems, there are various points
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by fouric 6y ago
I don't think that the mods deny the astroturfing happening. They're actively looking out for and removing it. I think it's more that they don't want arguments to become polluted with accusations of astroturfing against
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by fouric 6y ago
> I love that I know that my client will do nothing I do not tell it to do. By this line of reasoning, you would have to manually approve every init process that your computer would want to start every time you boot it up. "images&q
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by fouric 6y ago
This reads exactly like something from Our Incredible Journey[1]. It's amazing how similar the scripts that these startups follow is. Actually, even the titles of these posts give you an idea of what's happening. [1] https:&#x2
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by fouric 6y ago
I feel like the hardest part of modern software engineering is systems architecture. I've pretty easily picked up everything on this list that I've touched, but I still don't know how to organize systems . Is this just me? (
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by fouric 6y ago
This article would have been significantly better without the pervasive virtue signaling. > this helpful writeup from the IETF This isn't correct. The linked document is a draft submitted to the IETF, and as far as I know, there i
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by fouric 6y ago
Is there any research done on either (1) the net productivity difference between extreme polysleep (e.g. Uberman) or (2) the long-term health effects of sustained extreme polysleep? Also, it seems like Uberman gives you an increase in avail
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by fouric 6y ago
> I think three monitors is distracting Could you elaborate on this? Specifically, do you feel that having three/multiple monitors is necessarily distracting (no matter what you do with them) or just encourages distraction? My e
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by fouric 6y ago
Twitter and Reddit are both known to be poorly-engineered and ridiculously heavy applications. They're very slow on Firefox, too, and probably any browser you care to use.
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by fouric 6y ago
> And using Tree-Style Tabs, this makes them all "children" of the listing tab, which would be lost information if I bookmarked them instead. Bookmarks can be categorized with folders and tags - which, together, are much more f
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by fouric 6y ago
I guess I'm making two claims here: (1) you should only open tabs for the task you're currently working on and (2) that very few tasks require large numbers of tabs. Fine, maybe it's more then a dozen, but the graph of &quo
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by fouric 6y ago
That's not an actual example, though. That's an action you took. I was asking for a concrete example of a task (e.g. doing your online banking) that reasonably requires more than a dozen tabs (metaphorically - change that to fit
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by fouric 6y ago
> By "browsers we have now" you clearly mean "Chrome, the only browser I care about". False. I use Firefox for all of my browsing, hate Chrome, and only use Chrome as a whole-browser sandbox for Google products. >
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by fouric 6y ago
> from what i observe in others, it seems that tabs get created when a new task needs to be done in the same site (that is already open) but dont want to loose context of the previous ones... Could you give a few examples of this? I stil
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by fouric 6y ago
I'm specifically referring to applications (like Chrome) that you use interactively in the foreground. When using one of these applications, your device is not off or in sleep mode - it is on, you are interacting with it, and it is eit
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by fouric 6y ago
I specifically said that I was talking about an engineering tradeoff , however - that is, when you have to choose between one or the other. Excluded from that is the possibility of improving both memory and CPU consumption at the same time
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by fouric 6y ago
> The reason for Chrome's massive memory requirements is that they make memory vs. CPU/performance/security tradeoffs on a regular basis, and usually make them against memory. This is generally a good trade. Memory is not

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