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by gary_0 2y ago
https://archive.ph/2024.08.07-052438/https://www.bloomberg.c...
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China Is Rapidly Building Nuclear Power Plants as the Rest of the World Stalls(bloomberg.com)
7 points by gary_0 2y ago|3 comments
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by gary_0 2y ago
Wouldn't multiple central banks (each with their own currency) be the best? Or is that what you mean? Then people can choose which currency (and thus which central bank) seems the most stable and legitimate (as long as it can also exch
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by gary_0 2y ago
I would argue that uBlock Origin is a far more impactful technology than HTTP/3 for increasing website responsiveness and reducing load time in real-world usage.
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by gary_0 2y ago
"Extremely cheap global telecommunications accessible to everyone" came with a lot of drawbacks we didn't consider at the time they started to become viable. Although all the spam in our inboxes should have been a clue.
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by gary_0 2y ago
I wasn't disagreeing, just continuing the conversation! I notice that for some reason it's hard to "yes, and" on HN. I need to look into ways of conveying a more positive tone without overshooting and sounding insincere,
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by gary_0 2y ago
> whether mainstream browsers by the big tech companies support or not If they did, I would be concerned Google was going to EEE (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) them. So I hope they don't.
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by gary_0 2y ago
According to that Wiki link, HTTP is "The Web" by definition. And I don't think many people would agree with the statement "Gopher is part of the Web".
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by gary_0 2y ago
Think of how rich the glaziers will be, replacing all those windows damaged in storms! That sector of the economy will surely be a source of infinite wealth!
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by gary_0 2y ago
I can see a future where I mainly use "hobbyist" protocols and have largely abandoned the Web. Or at least the 99% of it that requires JavaScript... although I don't know of any functioning non-Chromium/non-Firefox brows
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by gary_0 2y ago
https://archive.ph/8JmHY
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by gary_0 2y ago
Corrupt police are often motivated by money, so the scenario could be: "we overheard you talking about transferring money/cryptocurrency/whatever and we are confiscating it, gives us access or else". My point in starting
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by gary_0 2y ago
Yeah. If you've drawn the unfavorable attention of the police (which I'm aware isn't difficult in many cases), it's extremely unlikely any of them are thinking "let's painstakingly disassemble and reassemble th
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by gary_0 2y ago
I'm not sure, but things tend to get a bit messed up when articles get reposted multiple times and then the moderators (namely dang) merge the comment threads into one. So that might be the reason.
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by gary_0 2y ago
> If the police Not just the police: if your data or the data of the organization you work for is considered valuable enough[0], you also have to worry about thieves, foreign spies/saboteurs, corporate espionage, a wayward relative
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by gary_0 2y ago
That would make sense, but they said most used , and I find that very hard to believe. For starters, all the Windows users I know — even the most tech-unsavvy ones — avoid Edge and stick with Chrome (or Firefox). On Android, Google Play St
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by gary_0 2y ago
> Scraping old.reddit is quite easy, and getting rid of it altogether is not something that they are willing to do. Really? Unless there's an ironclad public statement to the contrary, the vibe I get from old.reddit is that it won&#
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by gary_0 2y ago
Me too. Nowadays if you die on the internet, you die in real life!
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by gary_0 2y ago
A lot of the things people used to do on the Internet for fun, they now do for money or "points" (or the subconscious desire to do for money if they become successful enough). In the past, things you posted online tended to get a
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by gary_0 2y ago
The thing people dislike, I think, is that actually implementing generics and handling all the syntactical and compilation edge cases is complicated and ugly. But generics as a high-level concept are wonderfully simple and useful ("let
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by gary_0 2y ago
> Most people know exactly what they are signing up for by joining Amazon. I didn't at first, but the interview "process" was hilariously informative. I didn't pass the interview, but by that point I knew it was for t
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by gary_0 2y ago
Yeah, that's it! And wow, that photo-real screenshot of Super Metroid briefly teleported me back in time 27 years. It was a painful experience! I don't recommend it.
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by gary_0 2y ago
Are there any emulators that accurately simulate the CRT appearance instead of just drawing the pixels straight to the window? This could be done performantly with a GPU shader. (I recall some emulators having an aesthetic scanline effect y
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by gary_0 2y ago
I wonder if instead of having SMT, processors could briefly power off the unused ALUs/FPUs while waiting for something further up the pipeline, and focus on reducing heat and power consumption rather than maximizing utilization.
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by gary_0 2y ago
What do you mean? I looked up the RP2040 datasheet[0], and it looks like it can be used as a plain USB device, and can be booted from USB. If that's how it's connected on this SBC, I'd imagine software support would be quite
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by gary_0 2y ago
I wonder how good the software/driver support is? That's a neat feature to have on an Intel-based SBC, but not if getting software to talk to it is next to impossible.
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by gary_0 2y ago
Here's a great explanation of branch prediction, starting from the earliest implementations: https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/
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by gary_0 2y ago
Not only does it assume a GUI for user input/output, on an API level there's the assumption of an HWND (window) and its message loop. Some Windows APIs aren't even available if you don't have that. Console-only applicati
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by gary_0 2y ago
Given the mundane title, I wasn't expecting that to go where it did.
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by gary_0 2y ago
> yeah the H100 and MI300 nearly 10x those numbers Don't they cost 10x as much, or more?

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