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by kevincox 2y ago
This is partially true but for many things the price is different. In the US drugs are priced assuming that there are some number of rich people who can afford them. This often results in higher margin pricing which is more profitable even
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by kevincox 2y ago
My too. I tried opening a feature request on the Wayland tracker but it got closed as not wanted. I can think of various use cases such as screen-sharing a window and its audio together or remote access to a single window + audio.
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by kevincox 2y ago
Even if LLM-style token prediction is not going to lead to AGI (as it very likely won't) it is still important to work on safety. If we wait until we are at the technology that will for sure lead to AGI then it is very likely that we w
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by kevincox 2y ago
It is technically possible but the IPC will destroy you. You would need to transfer inputs and outputs as well as have JS shims to call it. Most of the code will be doing tons of memory accesses which will need to be transferred back and fo
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by kevincox 2y ago
YouTube has two things that I think make it hard to unseat: 1. It is very popular, people publishing there can pick up views for basically free. People go there to find videos. There are lots of eyeballs that you can pick up just by showing
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by kevincox 2y ago
It's amazing how little you can trust these people even though you would expect that the CEO of NVIDIA has a reputation to maintain.
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by kevincox 2y ago
Maybe they will have to work on the App Store to make it competitive, rather than just being a monopoly. It already has a very privileged position being installed by default and highly integrated. They should be able to keep it the most pop
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by kevincox 2y ago
I would love to see Nintendo throwing a fit if they had to allow homebrew to run on their consoles. And I think it would be good! Why don't they get a cut of every game sale and get to block other companies for producing software for t
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by kevincox 2y ago
Yup. I would highly recommend a helpful 404 page rather than "silently" redirecting the user to a different page that they didn't type. Just put a search box, a link to the homepage and "Did you mean these similar pages:
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by kevincox 2y ago
One major benefit of IPFS is that people seeding individual works and people seeding the large archive groups can share data. It seems that these torrents are blocks of data that aren't of direct use. That being said while the IPFS pro
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by kevincox 2y ago
But kids often have parents who aren't poor. IIRC children's toys are a pretty profitable and segment.
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by kevincox 2y ago
They've had a few good messaging apps that were then left to rot and slowly break before being killed. GTalk was pretty solid and Hangouts was amazing at launch. But they all got worse over time instead of better.
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by kevincox 2y ago
At some point they removed the future answer list. Now it just sends it from the server (depending on your time zone you may get "tomorrow's" word, but you no longer get a years long list).
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by kevincox 2y ago
Hard work and reverse engineering I would guess. The also make it sound like they also patch some non-windows software. I'm curious what the quality of these are. It seems fairly easy (if expensive) to binary patch most code most of th
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by kevincox 2y ago
This probably won't be an issue in Rust because there are very few situations where taking a reference can extend the lifetime of an object. It can really only happen for temporary objects where their lifetime can be extend to that of
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by kevincox 2y ago
Yup. They were clearly not "playing seriously". They had a few obvious opertunities to win that they didn't take to get an odd checkmate in the end.
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by kevincox 2y ago
The problem is that there must be hundreds of ways to describe "a move" from the complete board state before and after to the distance that the piece moved (moving moving a bishop and queen 2 diagonally is the same move). So while
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by kevincox 2y ago
I have my own set of flags that I recorded because I always forget them when I want to do this. Interesting to compare the differences. https://kevincox.ca/2022/12/21/wget-mirror/
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by kevincox 2y ago
At a very abstract level there isn't much difference between dropping a disk cache and writing anonymous memory to swap. Obviously the actual step of writing to swap is more expensive but once the data is out of memory they will both r
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by kevincox 2y ago
It is probably worth noting that while this may result in a database file that has no deleted content the raw storage medium very likely still has some of this data if you know where to look. It seems like this would fullfill a very niche u
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by kevincox 2y ago
Replacing tires already costs money. How much would an extra tax change behaviour? It is definitely something to consider but doesn't seem like a definite issue.
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by kevincox 2y ago
The needle doesn't pass at a constant "ground speed" everywhere on the record. On the outside the needle "travels faster" and in theory you have more detail. Near the middle the needle travels over the record surfac
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by kevincox 2y ago
Exactly, unless she expects every reader to configure the polling interval for her blog this isn't a good solution. I would highly recommend she sets `Cache-Control: max-age=3600` or something similar. That is at least a method that ca
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by kevincox 2y ago
It's "mostly static". I just tell my CDN to cache HTML for 10min. This makes the origin server load trivial but still makes updates go live fairly quickly.
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by kevincox 2y ago
I checked what my feed reader does. It seems that it typically gets 304s (I send both If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since) but still about half of the requests get 429s. So the request pattern basically looks like: 1. Get 304. 2. Wait 5min.
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by kevincox 2y ago
What do you mean cross-reference to them? You can link to any heading. Just place your cursor on the heading and the page URL will update. You can then link to that either from within the document or externally.
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by kevincox 2y ago
This comment seems to have far too much trust in Cloudflare. A more accurate statement is probably something like "They use Cloudflare to slightly increase the cost to spammers while only rejecting a small number of individual users.&q
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by kevincox 2y ago
> This is what our standard DOM elements in the browser should look like. I agree with this, but it would also be a nightmare for people trying to make their own styles. Even the current default styles are a bit annoying for this. I&#x27
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by kevincox 2y ago
It's complicated but typically yes. The simplest reason is that TCP+TLS handshakes require multiple round trips for a fresh connection. The CDN can maintain a persistent connection to the backend that is shared across users. It is also
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by kevincox 2y ago
Due to connection setup roundtrips, TCP slow start mechanics and quality of network connections it is usually better to terminate the client's TCP connection close to them. But I agree that moving the frontend rendering near the client

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