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by immibis 11mo ago
It's completely possible to write a parser that outputs every possible parse of "time flies like an arrow", and then try interpreting each one and discard ones that don't make sense according to some downstream rules (un
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by immibis 11mo ago
IMO the take-away from LMAX is not ring buffers - it's the knowledge of how much useful work a single CPU core can do. It's a story of playing to hardware's strengths instead of wrapping yourself up in bullshit excuses. They
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by immibis 11mo ago
I believe the argument is not about value itself, but about gaming certain ways to estimate value. For example a certain bank might have a policy that value is a certain multiple of rent.
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by immibis 11mo ago
By "devalue" you mean "lower the price of" which... seems fine? Useful assets being cheaper is a good thing.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Try Zen Browser - it's reskinned Firefox.
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by immibis 11mo ago
They say everyone has a price. Wouldn't you for ten million? A hundred million? A billion dollars? It would be extremely irrational not to. You could always donate 70% of it to Ladybird, and still come out ahead. You could always secre
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by immibis 11mo ago
Go to about:processes and kill whichever website's subprocess is using the most memory. Sometimes it's the main process but more commonly it's a specific site. Looking at You, Tube.
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by immibis 11mo ago
NoScript, but you can only control it per domain.
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by immibis 11mo ago
I don't understand people who use Instagram. I installed it for one specific person, and from opening the app to closing it, there's nothing but a nonstop torrent of pure garbage. I don't talk to that person much any more.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Google wouldn't spend $150m to block adblockers if nobody was using adblockers.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Most adblocker developers throughout history have routinely taken millions of dollars to weaken their adblockers, though. That's why we're all using uBO instead of uB.
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by immibis 11mo ago
It really seems like all large tech corporations are trying their hardest to kill themselves, and failing because the market is so rigged. Remember when Kodak ignored digital cameras and became irrelevant? That was bad because it decreased
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by immibis 11mo ago
Downvoted by rent-seeking useless middlemen, presumably
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by immibis 11mo ago
"We can wait for our enemy to blow us up with nukes, or we can choose to blow ourselves up with nukes first"
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by immibis 11mo ago
What?
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by immibis 11mo ago
I believe musicians and users are two different groups. "You say you want to bring power to the user, but you recommend free software which takes away power from corporate programmers. What hypocrisy!"
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by immibis 11mo ago
This is sadly a ubiquitous problem with FOSS phone software. Google's and Apple's notification systems are anti-FOSS. You can use your own on Google phones, but then your app will have to wake up periodically to check it, and the
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by immibis 11mo ago
You can write your own dynamic loader, or port the one from libc, or attempt to statically link it (against its wishes). Nothing stops you opening a .so file and mmapping the appropriate sections - that's what the dynamic loader does,
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by immibis 11mo ago
Yeah, so why is all of that? It comes down to the capital owners owning the money printer. And nothing else. I'm aware of a few attempts to create a labour-owned money printer (using the ideas of cryptocurrency) but none that are getti
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by immibis 11mo ago
You're making the assumption that widescale violation of our constitutional rights can't lead to order and peace.
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by immibis 11mo ago
It's 1938. When nazis kill jews that is bad. When jews kill nazis that is good (arguably (it used to be obvious but now it is only arguable)). Symmetric situations are not equivalent.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Zero-crime means zero things that are banned ever becoming allowed. Things usually become allowed after they are illegal first, but people do them anyway, and then people wonder why we bother punishing them. Think of marijuana legalization.
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by immibis 11mo ago
How do you see it having value? Merely being a counter-narrative to some other narrative is not valuable in itself, otherwise all sorts of nonsense would be valuable. Proof that counter-narratives are not automatically valuable: "the m
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by immibis 11mo ago
> Well then I guess we should just tear down the planet, the environment and society, burn, sell and grind to a pulp everything that isn't nailed to the ground for profit, and give everyone a cut, future consequences be damned. Yes.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Reliability doesn't matter any more, there's no liability for being wrong any more.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Yeah we could. Just not to the extremely wasteful American standards of living. Even America can only support them because it controls the whole world's money printer.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Why should I only grow 1.8% while you grow 2%, when it would be much fairer if we both grew 0%?
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by immibis 11mo ago
Same reason anyone removes outliers from any analysis. The average person eats zero spiders per year, if we don't count Spiders Georg. He is not an average person. We count him separately from the average people. The USA is sick. It&#x
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by immibis 11mo ago
The capital-owning class is society. Don't you have a 401(k)?
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by immibis 11mo ago
Hitler's crimes were all speech crimes. If your opinion is that speech can never be a crime, then in your opinion what were Hitler's actual crimes?

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