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by khiqxj 4y ago
aaand whenever someone IRL looks at a webapp that is up to date with the latest UX standards, they immediately see that it is also crap.
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by khiqxj 4y ago
wow that thomasnet is a useful website, ive been trying to find what kind of color filters exist and what characteristics they can have and it gets me some nice spectral output graphs https://abrisatechnologies.com/optical-c
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by khiqxj 4y ago
> You could probably answer all of these trivially with a quick query on your favorite search engine. But it hasn’t always been that way. In the old days... you can get an Amazon link with some counterfeit or fly by night product and a b
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by khiqxj 4y ago
ruby is a poor abstraction AND inefficient. text based manipulations and crap like IFS are terrible abstractions. languages like standard ML were made SPECIFICALLY for abstracting. they literally were meticulously designed to provide proper
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by khiqxj 4y ago
no duh. now lets get back to the real world where all the "abstractions" are poor abstractions AND inefficient.
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by khiqxj 4y ago
Imagine living in a village in the far past. Your neighbors with whom you will live with for 50 years form close relationships with you. They constantly judge you. They believe in nonsense superstitions, and further judge you by that. If yo
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by khiqxj 4y ago
And 99% of them go to the same cloud crap where a single entity can gain control of them all at once (I don't know if this is the current state, but you get the point, it's the inevitable state, be it one with 99% or maybe 5 group
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by khiqxj 4y ago
aaand episode #352381 of "woah all these people who i thought were sophisticated are actually just a bunch of lazy / ignorant sysadmins". wouldnt want one obscure CA you never heard of to get hacked, that would compromise eve
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by khiqxj 4y ago
you still on about copyright? what about the fact that it will just add vulns and bugs to your code? or is the industry so bad at this point that a gimmicky AI tool can do better
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by khiqxj 4y ago
I did this 10 years ago by installing Tor on the phone and using a hidden service. It didn't need to be hidden, but it's much more convenient to set up than this while offering superior security with no effort. Actually I2P or som
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by khiqxj 4y ago
I mean that there would be a big 4 such converters if people actually invested time into these "front ends" to CLIs.
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by khiqxj 4y ago
in a JPEG implementation, there is 10 lines of code that need to be in C, assembly, etc, the rest can be any language.
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by khiqxj 4y ago
> 1999 > CPUs are now 1GHz > C is obsoleted outside small sections of code such as image processing > 23 years later > "What if we just stopped using C?"
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by khiqxj 4y ago
im talking about making an (FOSS) alternative front end, to an ostensibly free service, that fixes the bugs for them. what the fuck are you on about?
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by khiqxj 4y ago
All of those are legal except for child porn. Not even your insane nanny state agrees with you.
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by khiqxj 4y ago
Whatever you're arguing becomes moot when you realize that Reddit had millions of users at whatever point it "had child porn". Murphy's law.
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by khiqxj 4y ago
Moderation on internet services is just to remove spam. People who think it's for something else are brain dead. Yes, 99% of internet services do think moderation is for whatever little idea they have, but 99% of internet services are
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by khiqxj 4y ago
There are at least 3 ways this can create bugs: - It has to parse output of commands which may or may not be intended to be parsed and may or may not have a predictable format. The only way to overcome this is if this program becomes on