glandium

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511.
by glandium 4y ago
Wait, are you putting pistachios with the shell in your mouth?
512.
by glandium 4y ago
That stands out because when you look at the clock and it's something uninteresting, you just forget about it.
513.
by glandium 4y ago
I've seen Youtube shorts featuring deepfakes of Elon promoting some cryptocurrency scam a few weeks ago.
514.
by glandium 4y ago
Japan is on 100V mains, and electric kettles are everywhere.
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by glandium 4y ago
Thankfully, Japanese GenZs seem not to accept this BS anymore. Even more so since Corona.
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by glandium 4y ago
The only thing I can think of off the top of my head that would require a fork is spaghetti.
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by glandium 4y ago
"No one" is a bit hyperbolic. It's not super common, but some people do. I think the most common place where it happens is high-end sushi restaurants.
518.
by glandium 4y ago
In Japan chopsticks are not made of metal. They are in Korea, though (AIUI).
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by glandium 4y ago
When I bought 2 different TVs 10 years ago, both were 3d TV, not because I wanted it, but because there was essentially no other choice. All makers were on board. I never used the feature, not even to try it. Call that a bubble if you want.
520.
by glandium 4y ago
> everybody jumping from the bridge should be a strong indicator of what to do. Technologically speaking, though, everybody jumped on the 3d TV bandwagon. Where is it today?
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by glandium 4y ago
No, it has always used vendored crates. Well, technically, it wasn't using vendored crates until https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1298422 , but before that, there were only a limited number of crates in use
522.
by glandium 4y ago
> Additionally they don’t have a system like Rosetta 2 to help with translation They do. I'm not sure it covers x86-64 yet, but it does x86.
523.
by glandium 4y ago
No, Firefox vendors everything it uses. Debian has no patches wrt vendoring of Rust code in Firefox. Source: I work for Mozilla and maintain the Debian Firefox package.
524.
by glandium 4y ago
Ironically, everything on SA is in a version of CC-BY-SA https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing and compatibility with most licenses is doubtful, but I don't think most people care when they copy/paste from
525.
by glandium 4y ago
Correction: naruhodo instead of naruhudo. Beware that it's not exactly polite, it has a condescending tone, so it's better to avoid using it with superiors.
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by glandium 4y ago
AFAIK, that PPA is not maintained by Mozilla. Source: I work for Mozilla.
527.
by glandium 4y ago
John Oliver did something like that. https://youtu.be/wqn3gR1WTcA (from about 21 minutes in)
528.
by glandium 4y ago
Elon Musk and Charlize Theron are African Americans too.
529.
by glandium 4y ago
On the other hand, the sad reality is that even when you have a plethora of string types to accommodate with reality like Rust, people will just not care out of convenience. See how Rust build scripts communicate paths to cargo via stdout,
530.
by glandium 4y ago
The inconvenient truth about strings is that strings are hard, and even Rust doesn't have enough string types.
531.
by glandium 4y ago
Oliver Stone showed Dr Strangelove to Putin in 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdxls8uC4DA
532.
by glandium 4y ago
Recent GNU tar versions have a --zstd flag, FWIW.
533.
by glandium 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29477375
534.
by glandium 4y ago
Not GP, but: Building Firefox on a macbook air or pro M1: half an hour. Fastest M1 max is around 15 minutes. Building Firefox on my Threadripper workstation: 5 minutes.
535.
by glandium 4y ago
Exactly.
536.
by glandium 4y ago
Remember that LLVM almost became a FSF or GNU project. The only thing that prevented it from happening was RMS missing an email in his inbox. Imagine where LLVM would be today if he hadn't missed that email.
537.
by glandium 4y ago
> you want to use Pulseaudio, alsa has no usecase on a desktop You'd be surprised how many people still swear by alsa-only. Other people prefer jack, and now you can add pipewire to the mix... plus the few people who like OSS4. At l
538.
by glandium 4y ago
Self-fulfilling prophecy.
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by glandium 4y ago
It was 30,000 hours of new content an hour on average a few months ago. That's 720,000 hours a day. The average video is reportedly 11.7 minutes, which makes it about 4M new videos per day. You're off by about an order of magnitud
540.
by glandium 4y ago
I find it fascinating when I see "[Company I haven't heard of for so long that it might as well have died] acquired for [surprisingly large amount of money]"

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