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by gkbrk 1y ago
But that's essentially the whole protocol. You can implement a client or a server reading only NIP-01 and it will be able to interoperate with the rest of Nostr. Reading and implementing NIP-01 can be done in an afternoon (or a weekend
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by gkbrk 1y ago
If youtube.com doesn't end up on the Safe Browsing blacklist because of phishing videos, but your own website can easily end up there, it's a pretty clear case of Google abusing their power.
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by gkbrk 1y ago
> Rubygems has had no commits in the last 10 days and that's not a good sign. I honestly can't tell if this is satire. You think no commits for 10 days for a piece of software that has existed for around 20 years is a sign that
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by gkbrk 1y ago
LibJS from Ladybird has more spec-compliance than V8 (Chrome) and JavaScriptCore (Safari) in many categories. https://test262.fyi/
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by gkbrk 1y ago
And paying money to software vendors to bundle Chrome with "Set Chrome as default browser" ticked by default. This is exactly the same thing all the malware browsers and toolbars did in the time period too.
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by gkbrk 1y ago
This is only meaningful if Rust compiler devs give any guarantees about never breaking the spec and always being able to compile code that adheres to this spec.
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by gkbrk 1y ago
Hmm, would be a shame if a major mobile operating system provider also ran a website-blocking service used by the largest web browser (Chrome) and the largest open-source web browser (Firefox). They could even call it something like Google
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Understanding Optimization in Deep Learning with Central Flows(centralflows.github.io)
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by gkbrk 1y ago
> a product that isn't remotely usable without 3rd-party plugins That's not even remotely true. Obsidian out-of-the-box is very usable, covers pretty much all use cases for a note-taking software. I've been using it for ag
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by gkbrk 1y ago
> YouTube can track what you watch anyway. If YouTube could track what you watch anyway, they would have no trouble incrementing their view counter. But apparently that's an unsolved problem of computer science, so they were using s
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by gkbrk 1y ago
If you're looking for a tutorial, and one video has 5000 views and 4000 likes, the other has 5000 views and 2 likes, that really doesn't help inform you about which video might solve your problem better?
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by gkbrk 1y ago
Apparently if you did that, your views didn't count so creators didn't get anything from your money.
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by gkbrk 1y ago
You also don't have to tip a taxi driver. They get paid for giving rides, it's not an extra service.
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by gkbrk 1y ago
You can run arbitrary PHP code for free in Oracle's free tier. https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
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by gkbrk 1y ago
Surely a state-of-the-art tech company would know how to disable seeding.
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by gkbrk 1y ago
Using the system allocator is also a developer decision. They can use any custom allocator they want. A lot of programs use Jemalloc regardless of what the system allocator is.
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by gkbrk 1y ago
I mean no one's forcing you to use Amazon's coding assistant if you hate Amazon. There are plenty of alternatives, both hosted and local, that you can use instead. Not to mention coding without an AI assistant, which is always ava
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by gkbrk 1y ago
With a proper sandbox, a password manager won't have internet access.
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by gkbrk 1y ago
With sideloading being disabled, it takes a single decision from a Google employee to completely get rid of all browser engines and apps that use JIT.
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by gkbrk 1y ago
If CloudFlare blocks or tries to extort Googlebot, 99% of their customers would leave the next day because no one can find them on the web any more.
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by gkbrk 1y ago
Chrome didn't get its marketshare out of thin air either. It paid other software to be bundled just like malware apps, and automatically configured itself to be the default browser. It also prominently advertised itself on the Google h
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by gkbrk 1y ago
BearBlog built on top of the work of others. Now you can't build on top of the work of BearBlog.
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by gkbrk 1y ago
Google spends something around 30 billion dollars a year to be the default search engine across many platforms. You can spend the same amount and tomorrow your search engine will have 88.9% of searches. It's not a charity, if people tr
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by gkbrk 1y ago
> Now, no LLM is currently anywhere near doing that for ElasticSearch. You could probably feed all of ElasticSearch into an LLM and ask it to "reimplement it" successfully. But why would you even bother? There's already an
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by gkbrk 1y ago
Sure you can. If you're not going to have a business entity in Europe, or travel there. Worst thing they can do is block your website in Europe.
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by gkbrk 1y ago
Nope, for closed models too. Claude for example has multiple providers they work with. Google Vertex, Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic themselves all provide inference for Claude. The vast majority of models on OpenRouter (both closed and open)
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by gkbrk 1y ago
How am I supposed to use C++ strings and string_views in C?
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by gkbrk 1y ago
How will you install Linux when all the hardware manufacturers are forced to enforce Secure Boot? All for security, of course.
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by gkbrk 1y ago
Why would I want to deal with downloading and handling multiple files when I can just use a single file? Turning a header-only library into file.h and file.c is easy if I want to do it. Turning a multi-file project into a single header file
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by gkbrk 1y ago
If Python actually incremented the major version every time they broke backwards compatibility, we'd be on something like Python 36 by now. Almost every version they break existing code. This is why it's common for apps written in

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