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by kspp 7y ago
A lot of people I know are using free VPNs to circumvent the state censorship. It has nothing to do with privacy, only with the fact that when you search for something, about 20-80% of links end with "connection timed out" (depend
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by kspp 7y ago
That's the best way to learn — post a stupid thing on the internet and let the internet prove you wrong. Thanks to everyone who replied!
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by kspp 7y ago
>we saw books and papers on the dash, the dome lights on, you know, deep study
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by kspp 7y ago
If it's the "too complicated to bother" sort of "impossible" as opposed to "denied by the company security policies", you can always use linuxbrew or nix. https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-L
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by kspp 7y ago
It seems to be fast enough for SQL JIT-compiler in PostgreSQL 11+ and shader compilation in the *nix OpenGL stack (mesa), both of which are sort-of-realtime systems.
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by kspp 7y ago
Clickable link: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-13/brilliant-jerks.... Saves one second per person, that's like a whole man-day across all the readers.
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by kspp 7y ago
> Maybe the project should have implemented more from scratch instead of cobbling together some Frankenstein data structure (and Firefox wouldn't be such a massive memory hog with poor performance)? Sorry, but what is that supposed
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by kspp 7y ago
Is there any way to financially support the project? I have only been able to find a couple of Patreon pages of people working on specific libraries I haven't been using personally.
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by kspp 7y ago
Honestly, if that's all that took you to give up on programming, it would not have gone on much longer anyway, especially with something like C++.
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by kspp 7y ago
How is all of this possible when the network is barely able to support half dozen transactions a second? It's not even enough to cover one shopping mall, let alone some "countries" or the whole planet.
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by kspp 7y ago
Some people just need to find additional validation to prove to themselves they're doing the right thing. Don't worry about it. I have no idea what they're talking about though. Installing qBittorrent takes about a minute, ad