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by fouric 5y ago
> Basic pages, like Messenger, Facebook, and Gmail. You belay your ignorance of webdev. Those three sites are all extremely heavy web applications - barely even "sites" - and I'm willing to bet you they still are faster
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by fouric 5y ago
Can someone explain why the async keyword and the whole "red/blue functions" thing is necessary at all in the source code ? Why can't the language implementation see that "await" is used in the body of a funct
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by fouric 5y ago
I think you've identified one of the essential parts of the design of Forth: it makes it very easy to implement simple systems, and very difficult to implement complex systems. In other words, polynomial O(n^a) complexity, where "
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by fouric 5y ago
> You're repeating pretty much what I said, so I really am not receptive to this "repeat after me" statement you're making towards me. My apologies, that was poor form, and unnecessarily hostile. And, you're righ
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by fouric 5y ago
Every time you hear someone making false assumptions about internet connections, don't forget to mention Dan Luu's excellent page on this! https://danluu.com/web-bloat/
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by fouric 5y ago
> size is irrelevant these days Objectively false - this matters for people with limited cellular data, in countries like Africa, on crowded wifi/cellular/satellite connections, with limited storage, and many other cases[1]. [1
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by fouric 5y ago
> For instance, I am currently running at least 6 browser engine instances as I type this, probably more than that, and I just am not experiencing a meaningful performance hit Repeat after me: your computer is not the same as everyone el
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by fouric 5y ago
> Honestly, is 140 MB really a problem anymore? Yes. I have a 1 GiB/month cellular data plan. If I'm on the go, or my home internet is down (like it is now), that 140 MB is a seventh of my internet for the entire month. If you
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by fouric 5y ago
The problem is that Electron applications don't just eat lots of RAM and CPU - they also have significantly larger installer sizes - usually in the hundreds of megabytes, it seems. (Balena's seems to be 140 MB, compared with 12M
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by fouric 5y ago
How does that have anything to do with my point? I said that Safari has an advantage over Chrome on Apple hardware only because it has an integration advantage. Chrome is still faster on most other platforms... including non-Google ones, li
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by fouric 5y ago
I don't see where the GP poster wrote anything like "I guess its ok. Might as well pack it up and let them carry on with manipulation, lying and profiting." - could you quote the relevant passage? Did they edit their comment?
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by fouric 5y ago
I'd be interested in reading these articles - would you comment or email them to me? (there's no alt contact info in your HN profile!)
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by fouric 5y ago
Right, I'm not saying (nor do I believe) that the spike-protein can self-replicate - but that's not the way that an alien substance can damage the body. Again, it's all fine and dandy to say what cannot happen, but you stil
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by fouric 5y ago
> the vaccine literally only contains code for the spike protein Then does that mean that the spike protein RNA is itself capable of causing adverse reactions? The J&J vaccine is associated with an increased risk of TTS. If that vacc
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by fouric 5y ago
It's not the Pine organization's fault that you have a different definition of "toy" and "phone" than they do - and it's definitely your fault that you didn't read the numerous prominent disclaimer
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by fouric 5y ago
"Some skeptics said that this other, completely unrelated kind of project couldn't be funded using this model several decades ago, and they were wrong." isn't a compelling argument. The GP post actually pointed out sever
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by fouric 5y ago
> You're bending over backwards to excuse what is quite clearly racial discrimination. Blatantly false. I used actual logic to show how the other posters' points were not racism, and then challenged you to cite the exact word
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by fouric 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that cheating in online multiplayer games is such a problem that if you gave players the option of playing in a anticheat-only pool vs. a no-anticheat pool, after a few weeks/months almost everyone would be in the
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by fouric 5y ago
My apologies, I was being a little bit tongue-in-cheek (which didn't come through as clearly as I hoped) while also genuinely soliciting more items for my list.
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by fouric 5y ago
I can think of the WHO, John Cena's Twitter apology, Blizzard, the NBA, and Apple, but what else is there?
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by fouric 5y ago
I don't think that that makes it any better. Actually, it seems worse that the CCP would act to obstruct an organization (ostensibly) devoted to the dissemination of knowledge simply because they recognize Taiwan as a country than if
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by fouric 5y ago
It sure would be nice if we could even "just" get them for error-handling... I didn't know that that's what their real name was. Is there a place that I can read an easy-to-understand explanation of them without a lot of
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by fouric 5y ago
That distinction of "flatly obvious" versus "obvious on a decade-only mid-range PC" seems to be pedantry. The parent comment doesn't say "flatly", for instance. In fact, it says "I find" which su
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by fouric 5y ago
Not OP, but: I think that there's a pretty strong case to be made that conditions, implemented in Common Lisp, are the best implementation of "exceptions"...by not actually being exceptions. Conditions (plus restarts) have tw
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by fouric 5y ago
Two counter-points: First, the point of a study is to be generalizeable - that is, to apply to as many people as possible, usually other than oneself. If a particular technique applies to you, that's great! However, most people are
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by fouric 5y ago
It might not be obvious if you have a high-powered dev computer. It's very obvious if you have decade-old mid-range hardware (like me) or five-year-old low-end hardware (like millions of users). "I don't know what you're
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by fouric 5y ago
I think that multitasking between multiple tasks has been somewhat-generally known to not be possible (for most people) for a while now. However, this part of the article was novel: > Other studies suggest that people who frequently “m
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by fouric 5y ago
> while it's inherently a super-subjective metric, I would say that 10x programmers do exist Even worse than super-subjective, it seems like people don't agree on the definition of "10x programmer". Is that 10x value
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by fouric 5y ago
I'm pretty sure because Apple is doing full-stack optimization. I'm willing to bet you that Safari has a worse trade-off than Chromium or Firefox on non-Apple platforms.
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by fouric 5y ago
It's not just memory efficiency - webtech applications are significantly more CPU-hungry than desktop applications. > It makes it much easier to develop software I've never seen compelling evidence that this is the case. Every

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