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by josephg 1y ago
I bought a bunch of games for console over the years that I can't play any more. I have about a dozen games on the switch. In another console generation, nintendo will make all my existing switch games unplayable again. I feel like you
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by josephg 1y ago
Yep. Chrome contains: - HTML rendering - which is insanely complex to do efficiently for arbitrary web apps. - Video conferencing software - A graphics engine. Used for rendering web content, canvas2d, webgl, webgpu and video encoding &
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by josephg 1y ago
The more time passes, the more impressed I am with mIRC. It was an incredibly fully featured chat client - with hundreds of features, and its own scripting language for more advanced use. All that in a 4mb download. It probably still works
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by josephg 1y ago
I don't know if it would work, but sometimes I consider a "moochers" rule wrt opensource code. Like, here's the deal: The work is proper, legit opensource. You can use it for free, with no obligations. But if your compan
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by josephg 1y ago
Maybe, it depends! Maybe the developer intends to some day change the internal implementation, such that that particular boolean flag wouldn't make sense any more. Or they're considering taking out the option entirely, and thus si
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by josephg 1y ago
Still more work than just running the same code everywhere.
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by josephg 1y ago
Dumb tvs exist today; they just sell for a premium to make up for the lost adtech sales revenue. I suspect this will continue. Ads and no privacy for poor people. The wealthy & well educated will have tvs that don’t spy on them.
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by josephg 1y ago
> Bans that don't make sense at an individual level do not suddenly make sense at a community level. Social media itself doesn’t make sense at an individual level. If you’re the only one on a discord server, it’s not much of a party
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by josephg 1y ago
You don’t need the government. Just some form of collective action. I know of plenty of alternative communities & schools in which all the parents agreed to keep their kids away from phones until they were 15 or something. Great! If you
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by josephg 1y ago
> you come to the conclusion that legislation is the worst way to solve these issues and is totally unnecessary. If you want to argue for that point of view, do so. Put forward actual arguments. Your comment reads as “if you were smart l
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by josephg 1y ago
> How can it hold that kids would be ignored in real life because they don't interact virtually? Easy. If half the conversation happens online, and your kid wasn’t part of that, they’d constantly need to be “filled in” when they got
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by josephg 1y ago
Would you want your kid to be ostracised from their community at school? Do you think that would be good for them? IMO it’s much better - for everyone - to ban this stuff at the community level. Then there’s no FOMO.
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by josephg 1y ago
If all the other kids are on social media all the time, it makes it much harder to keep your kids off it. Would you want to be the one kid in school who’s not online? Would you want that for your kids? Bans like this make much more sense at
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by josephg 1y ago
Why isn’t std::simd in stabile yet? Why do so many great features seem stuck in the same nightly-forever limbo land - like generators? I’m sure more people than ever are working on the compiler. What’s going on?
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by josephg 1y ago
> I don't need a crash course on C macros in the comments, thank you. This is an enduring great & terrible thing about sites like HN and reddit: As people become more senior & experienced, junior engineers come in to fill th
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by josephg 1y ago
I’ve been swapping back and forth between a MacBook Pro and a Linux workstation lately. The input latency difference is insane - macOS is sooo much worse than Linux. It’s gotten to the point that I’m porting code to Linux just so I don’t ha
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by josephg 1y ago
> javascript is only obviously better if you want to use the tradeoffs javascript offers: an implicit and unchangeable async runtime that doesn't offer parallelism and relies on a jit interpreter. Yes - I certainly wouldn’t use Java
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by josephg 1y ago
Yeah, generators have been available on nightly for 8 years or something. They're clearly stable enough that async is built on top of the generator infrastructure within the compiler. But I haven’t heard anything about them ever moving
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by josephg 1y ago
> I can't disagree more. They suffer from the same stuff rust async does: they mess with the stack trace and obscure the actual guarantees of the function you're calling (eg a function returning a promise can still block, or th
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by josephg 1y ago
> If you want a language where const is the default and mutable is a keyword, try F# for starters. I switched and never looked back. Rust is also like this (let x = 5; / let mut x = 5;). Or you can also use javascript, typescript an
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by josephg 1y ago
> It seems to me that async io struggles whenever people try it. Promises work great in javascript, either in the browser or in node/bun. They're easy to use, and easy to reason about (once you understand them). And the languag
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by josephg 1y ago
I'm serious. You would have to do it with the patient's consent of course. And of course anonymize any transcripts you use - changing names and whatnot. Honestly I suspect many people would be willing to have their therapy session
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by josephg 1y ago
I think a well trained LLM could be amazing at being a therapist. But general purpose LLMs like ChatGPT have a problem: They’re trained to be far too user led. They don’t challenge you enough. Or steer conversations appropriately. I think t
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by josephg 1y ago
> Most people who have worked with a professional therapist understand intuitively why the only helpful feedback from an LLM to someone who needs professional help is: get professional help. I'm not a therapist, but as I understand
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by josephg 1y ago
Presumably they maintain all those wifi access points regardless of whether or not anyone buys the wifi package. That lets the cruise app work. And the staff use wifi too. I’m sure servicing thousands of people via starlink is expensive. Bu
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by josephg 1y ago
Ah yeah that makes sense. They have messaging built into their app so you can message friends and family while onboard the ship. I didn't use it - but of course, if they block APNS, messages wouldn't be able to show up on the lock
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by josephg 1y ago
Hah! Well it worked for me! It kept me entertained for the better part of a day. I never figured out a way to route internet on my phone through my laptop. But it was probably for the best. It was lovely spending a few weeks with no interne
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by josephg 1y ago
> I have a friend who did similar tunneling a while ago. It also works on cruise ships. Hah I was just about to say the same thing! I just got home from a ~3 week cruise. Internet on the ship was absurdly expensive ($50/day). And it
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by josephg 1y ago
> maybe programs shouldn't be allowed to update themselves. Honestly I'd be all for this if the OS had a good autoupdate mechanism for 3rd party applications. But that's not the world we live in. Certainly not on windows -
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by josephg 1y ago
It needs device drivers for modern x86 hardware. And filesystems, and a TCP stack. All of that code can be done in "SeL4 userland", but yeah - I see your point. Are there any projects like that going on? It feels like an obvious t

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