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by josefx 4y ago
But does AB testing provide the only or even best metric for that? It probably is the cheapest way requiring the least engagement with the lab mice.
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by josefx 4y ago
TuV results from mandatory safety checks in Germany seem to indicate that Tesla has significant issues with its suspension and some of the lights. It competes with Dacia for last place of all cars tested.
813.
by josefx 4y ago
Company doing its own thing: Installing a standards conformant web browser forces us to sign over all our IP to Google.
814.
by josefx 4y ago
> on a scale not dissimilar to what we've seen with Python 3. If only people had asked for it before the Python 3 migration so it could have been done with all the other breaking and performance harming changes. But no, people only
815.
by josefx 4y ago
Meanwhile I have to deal with Google maps prompting me to enable GPS to get my current position and then leaving it on permanently. Apparently no amount of analytics by the company with the most widely used analytics package can make a conn
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by josefx 4y ago
The language used is positive. For example instead of "good business decision" one could say more neutrally "maximally lazy, standard breaking and anti competitive". In the context of mega corps it means the same but doe
817.
by josefx 4y ago
> I’ve worked at companies that did the same thing The companies you worked for published their own browsers?
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by josefx 4y ago
> I bet that around 99% of C code in the real world assumes that NULL == 0. That is the correct assumption as 0 is interpreted as a null pointer constant when interpreted as a pointer. As far as I understand you have to do something like
819.
by josefx 4y ago
> WASM is not designed to work around the shortcomings of C. Memory access protection on modern systems is not about C segfaults. But if WASM embraces MS DOS era memory access management then then that is certainly a choice, might even s
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by josefx 4y ago
I had to deal with a senior dev. that gave me a talk about seniority after I ran valgrind over our software. Guy was so deep into the whole senior dev. power trip that he blamed third party libraries for his bugs, dev. tools for "incor
821.
by josefx 4y ago
I thought we are talking about Rust? Full official Tier 1 support for aarch64 and x86, why would you even want more? That is two, and let me say it again TWO fully supported CPU architectures, that is twice as many as your average computer
822.
by josefx 4y ago
The last release is from 2022 not 2014.
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by josefx 4y ago
> Its last major release was version 4.1, from 2014! Oh we are playing major version minor version! Let me try: Libreoffice is only at version 7.3 ! That makes it hundreds of versions behind office365! Proof once again that free softwar
824.
by josefx 4y ago
>ETH Which ETH? As far as I understand the currency keeps forking and rewinding every now and then because whatever safety features it provides to "smart" contracts are widely insufficient and the resulting buggy mess falls ove
825.
by josefx 4y ago
> With C++, if you have char*'s (because you don't need to own the memory) If you are using C strings in C++ you are either doing something incredibly low level or don't care about performance at all. C strings require str
826.
by josefx 4y ago
Did it? Or did it just reply to a question that already implied that it was a conscious being? Will it respond the same to a query implying otherwise? As far as I understand we cannot even trust the published chat since it was "cleaned
827.
by josefx 4y ago
If the government wants to go after you in specific? You might be screwed. If the government wants to identify "criminals/degenerates" by checking against sexualPreference="gay", semitic="yes", numAbortion
828.
by josefx 4y ago
If I remember correctly they also had to disable shared array buffers because a thread just incrementing a shared value can be used as timer.
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by josefx 4y ago
> I just assume this is a natural tendency for human beings at this point. You have 10 well behaved dog pups running around and a single bloody mouth foaming pit bull on a leash. You decide that leashes are evil and cut the pit bull loo
830.
by josefx 4y ago
Doesn't help that many AI companies fuel the hype with both unrealistic performance metrics and bad scify.
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by josefx 4y ago
> I also really wonder where all these "go makes concurrency a first-class concept" claims come from, Given that some of the main architects behind Go had K&R C as background I wouldn't be surprised if "first-clas
832.
by josefx 4y ago
There are many groups dedicated to the translation and typesetting of manga that have no official english release. This also counts as piracy and the amount of effort that goes into it dwarfs copying pages one by one significantly. Impracti
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by josefx 4y ago
Anyone with a scanner and a day of time can produce infinite digital copies of a book. You don't have to throw money at it like Google and do some crazy AI driven OCR, a boring afternoon in front of a scanner, flipping through pages is
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by josefx 4y ago
> But backwards compatibility always wins, because it fits what the world was already designed around. Early Itanium included a x86 unit. Intel tried everything it could to push it. > and I'm sure Esperanto is lightyears ahead
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by josefx 4y ago
The targeted normally implies that you have a specific incident and a specific person suspected of a misdeed. Building an AI for blanked surveillance is the opposite of that, you aren't looking for a specific incident, have no specific
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by josefx 4y ago
The problem that it __acts__ like a for profit privately owned company.
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by josefx 4y ago
The problem is probably more the EU directive that caused the privatization, because it requires that all European rail services compete commercially. Which means they are all required to make a profit even if it is a net negative to societ
838.
by josefx 4y ago
If I remember correctly they spend a lot of money on marketing campaigns against any law that could hurt their business model. So slashing marketing might actually hurt them even more.
839.
by josefx 4y ago
Is it even a hard break? It seems to be more of a short lived regression while patches for filesystem drivers are still coming in to restore support and I don't think Linux ever guaranteed a stable driver API.
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by josefx 4y ago
The basic Problem is that if some CCP goon turns up at your Chinese branch and requests all data on your US/EU users and your local branch is able to do that you failed. Same if some goon from the US government wants to access all dat

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