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by gkbrk 3y ago
It's a free alternative to a relatively expensive and clunky-to-install tool. It's popular, the first result when searching "online photoshop". And it has ads. With a non-technical demographic, ad-blocker percentage is l
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by gkbrk 3y ago
And to the surprise of nobody, they do the opposite. Google Chrome selectively sends more data when vising Google domains compared to regular domains.
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Either you charge shipping or you provide "free shipping" and make the products more expensive. Usually the second option is more lucrative because it feels more attractive to customers, and if someone buys from a cheaper-to-ship
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> a system which allows me to interact with TSV files with SQL ClickHouse and DuckDB can both do this. Pretty sure AWS has some built-in stuff for this too.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
In what way is what ChatGPT outputs when asked about this code relevant? There are more than 20 LLMs, do we expect to see a comment from each LLM about code submissions?
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by gkbrk 3y ago
If the ISPs do their job and handle abuse emails, less people would be blocking IP ranges like this. There's a reason in IP abuse or spam databases, certain countries light up like a christmas tree and others are not used for these pur
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Nope, you're viewing it from a Webkit wrapper made by Google that shares same name. Chrome is a web browser using the Blink engine, and it doesn't run on iOS devices.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> Windows has gone to extreme lengths to not only maintain API compatibility, but ABI compatibility as well. Linux has a stable ABI as well. For a given architecture, like x86_64, syscall numbers and their arguments and their arguments&#
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Arch uses tmpfs for /tmp.
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Apple isn't known for inter-operating well with anything.
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> If they wanted, they could remove the App Store from iOS in EU Are they going to provide full refunds for anyone wanting to return their iPhone, along with any apps they have purchased on the App Store? I doubt Apple wants to scam all
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> giving people the ability to install other browsers and app stores is increasing their risk But it is increasing _their_ risk. That's the massive difference from your example. Installing other browsers and app stores is increasing
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Isn't the paid version on https://gemini.google.com Gemini 1.0 Ultra?
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> An airliner already has all the controls required for being piloted. Why am I not allowed to pilot my next commercial flight? Flying a plane badly risks the lives of your passengers, the lives of people on other planes, and people in t
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Why wouldn't it be possible? You can generate machine code with Python and call into it with ctypes. All your deep learning code is still in Python, but in the runtime it gets JIT compiled into something faster.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Who presses 24 thousand keys a minute?
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Kagi's Universal Summarizer produced this summary. I wonder why a relatively smaller player can get it working but the "big boys" cannot. The video analyzes whether more expensive eggs are worth it by testing the claims that
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Literally reciting too. To the point of copy-pasting the same tweets.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
That's not Python syntax. It's a Jupyter extension.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
GPU, Wifi and Bluetooth commonly work with open source drivers
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by gkbrk 3y ago
It's pretty much out-of-the-box. I remember Emacs validating XML automatically as well, and knowing the schemas somehow.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Yep, and the graph looks like the HTTP 3 adoption spikes are taking from HTTP 2. It's basically one Google protocol replacing the previous one. And the original and simpler "real" HTTP 1.1 is still going strong.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
That's fine, I'm sure they weren't targeting only you when they developed it. So it will still have utility for the developers of the project and other users.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
At least PyPy sees real production use.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
How many days can Google resist the urge to charge 30% for payments on Chrome after Chrome gets all the marketshare and the last drops of Mozilla are milked by the CEO? It's both good PR and a hedge against an (unlikely) bad scenario i
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> So, no motivation why not port Servo/WebKit, but write from scratch. One could at least use HTML/CSS layout manager or JavaScript engine. I mean, I am very pro competition and open web, but writing everything from scratch see
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Compared to a lot of other new browser engines, this one actually renders a lot of web content decently. And if you follow their update videos, they improve their coverage really quickly. Ladybird also comes with their LibJS runtime, which
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Nostr is not a payment network. You probably used Lightning instead.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> What is a static filter list other than a list of filters that does not change? A request is being made. At the time of the request, you go through a list of rules and decide if you're going to block or allow it. Once the request
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Not just because of the filter list cap. It also reduces ad blockers to static filter lists instead of powerful dynamic filters. MV3 makes it impossible for ad-blockers to inspect requests with code and then allow/deny dynamically.

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