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by kg 1y ago
It's not a huge conspiracy, but it is worthwhile to consider what the incentives are for people from each browser vendor. In practice all the vendors probably have big backlogs of work they are struggling to keep up with. The backlogs
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by kg 1y ago
Yes. That is exactly how web standards work historically. If something will break 0.1% of the web it isn't done unless there are really really strong reasons to do it anyway. I personally watched lots of things get bounced due to their
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by kg 1y ago
Former Mozilla and Google (Chrome team specifically) dev here. The way I see what you're saying is: Representatives from Chrome/Blink, Safari/Webkit, and Firefox/Gecko are all supportive of removing XSLT from the web pla
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by kg 1y ago
They want to punt a half-baked polyfill over the wall and remove support from the browser so they don't have to do any maintenance work, making it someone else's problem.
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by kg 1y ago
At the time I ran across lots of real websites using it. I successfully used it myself at least once too. Off the top of my head, Blizzard was using it to format WoW player profiles for display in the browser.
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by kg 1y ago
If we really want to increase turnout, we can just make voting mandatory like other countries have. Requiring ID is a problem given that a lot of people don't have easy access (or access at all) to legal ID, for various reasons, some a
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by kg 1y ago
I checked the original tweet to try and understand this better and what appears to have happened is that Otter kept recording after he left and the VCs stayed on the call chatting (for hours, according to the tweet). This violates the assum
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by kg 1y ago
The sample screenshot of Expedition 33 is really impressive quality considering it appears to be encoding at around 1 bit per pixel and (according to the post) it took a fraction of a millisecond to encode it. This is an order of magnitude
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by kg 1y ago
Some more assorted interesting stuff by one of the authors of SCP-055: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo https://qntm.org/structure https://qntm.org/hatetris qntm is a fantastic writer & progr
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by kg 1y ago
The article doesn't make the best argument to support the claim but it's true that NVIDIA is now making claims like '4090 level performance' on the basis that if you turn on DLSS multi-frame generation you suddenly have
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by kg 1y ago
Sorry guys, we have to delay the release. The bug tracker and the build bot have unionized and are refusing to publish new binaries until we get our open issue count down to zero.
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by kg 1y ago
For those unfamiliar, Giant Bomb was one of the first video games press outlets to focus on premium video content. They offered monthly/yearly paid subscriptions for unlimited streaming/downloads: a mix of livestreams, review&#x2F
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by kg 1y ago
fwiw, WinDBG actually has support for time-travel debugging. I've used it before quite successfully, it's neat.
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by kg 2y ago
The jetbrains model is every new release fixes that one critical bug that's killing you, and adds 2 new critical bugs that will drive you mad. I eventually got fed up and jumped off that train.
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by kg 2y ago
If you're syncing a bookmark that is somehow illegal content, it would come to rest on their servers and they'd potentially be liable for it. (IIRC they encrypt everything at rest, so this is a speculative risk)
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by kg 2y ago
This is largely the work of Lina Khan and the people reporting to her. She's fairly new to the FTC still (Biden appointee) and has been intentionally pushing on all of this. Protecting it is difficult since the house/senate and sc
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by kg 2y ago
No fediverse instance I've run across provides high-fidelity posting like Cohost and Tumblr. Out of the two, the Cohost experience was generally much nicer. I have accounts on Mastodon, Twitter and Bluesky along with the other two and
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by kg 2y ago
The core contributors of the SDL3 GPU project have experience with two cross-platform (PC + consoles) GPU abstraction layers, FNA3D and Refresh, which provided a lot of knowledge and existing open source code to use as a springboard to asse
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by kg 2y ago
One obstacle is that at least one of the major console vendors prohibits using anything other than C++ plus their official compiler. So shipping on that platform using i.e. Rust, Swift, C# is currently against the rules. (Unity gets an ou
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by kg 3y ago
The UX if you're on the side of a block is really bad on Mastodon too. You can be following a bunch of people, and they're following you, and suddenly they can't see your posts because you're on the wrong side of a one-w
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In loving memory of square checkbox(tonsky.me)
1967 points by kg 3y ago|505 comments
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by kg 3y ago
I'm not sure how to explain this any clearer: Humans and machines are legally distinct. Machines don't have the rights that humans have.
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by kg 3y ago
Humans and AI are not the same thing, legally or physically. The law does not currently grant AI rights of any kind.
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by kg 3y ago
Google is not presently selling "we trained an AI on people's art without permission, and you can type their name in along with a prompt to generate a knockoff of their art, and we charge you money for this". So it's not
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by kg 3y ago
"The losses primarily stem from the millions the company pays game developers to ensure their newest titles are temporarily exclusive to the Epic Games Store"
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by kg 3y ago
If the market was actually open, people would compete on different cuts and the % would eventually drift towards whatever the right number is. Epic seems to do just fine charging 12% on their PC games store, vs Valve's variable (maximu
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by kg 3y ago
fork in the browser is functionally impossible unless you mean some sort of 'damaged fork' where only the native wasm heap is mirrored and not everything else, which would be effectively useless.
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by kg 3y ago
Considering their size (a few hundred people for the whole studio AFAIK), Remedy consistently punches above their weight when it comes to graphics. Off the top of my head only Remedy and CD Projekt Red are able to compete with the big dogs
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by kg 3y ago
Props for fairly accurately describing what Gary Bowser actually did. Everyone just calls him a pirate when he was basically a middle-man for circumvention hardware... AFAIK he's not even a hacker?
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by kg 4y ago
Frequently the software running inside WASM sandboxes has its own garbage collector anyway, and it's not going to perform as well as a native host collector in some cases. Especially if you start doing cross-language GC in order to tal

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