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by loudmax 4y ago
A faster network is going to have a marginal effect on software getting slower. There are a lot of factors at play: network speed, cpu power, local caches, etc. The speed of the network driver is one factor among many and I'd be surp
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by loudmax 4y ago
It's not about game consoles, it's about cell phones. According to some estimates, 83% of the world's population has a smartphone. TSMC makes a significant portion of the chips powering those phones. Currently TSMC has a s
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by loudmax 4y ago
This matches my children's experience. I have blue eyes and my wife is Taiwanese. When our kids were newborn, their eyes were green. In some early photos, almost blue. They also had very light colored hair. By the time they were t
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by loudmax 4y ago
This is entirely a failure of management rather than engineering. The kind of single player AAA titles they were promoting are always going to look better and be more responsive on local hardware. They should have leaned into Stadia as a ba
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by loudmax 4y ago
The bottom line is that Electron is portable. Unless native apps become as portable as Electron there will be a need for this layer. The optimistic scenario is that WASM becomes the single target that everyone settles on, and that the perf
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by loudmax 4y ago
In Microsoft's case, there is an entire world of software that only runs on Windows. There are a lot of circumstances where businesses and users simply don't have a choice to run an operating system other than Windows because so
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by loudmax 4y ago
> WireGuard is a great demonstration of why the total complexity of the implementation ends up affecting the UX of the product. This is absolutely true! Probably everything you could do with WireGuard you could accomplish with OpenSSL&#
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by loudmax 4y ago
Actually, I was thinking I'd like to see a Framework laptop with an ARM CPU. There are ARM based Chromebooks after all. Other than Apple's M1/M2 chips, there aren't any ARM CPUs that can match the raw power of x86, but
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by loudmax 4y ago
So, these decisions ought to be entrusted to an entity whose responsibilities are to its shareholders rather than elected representatives of the general population?
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by loudmax 4y ago
ꙮ> === The James Webb Space Telescope.
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by loudmax 4y ago
It's bad policy, not tyranny. It's populist, inefficient, unfair and counter productive. None of this is tyranny, just bad economics. When you throw terms like "tyranny" around it obfuscates just how bad living under a
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by loudmax 4y ago
> ARM licensing allows USA to enforce their "rule of law" or whatever BS on the rest of the world, "sanctions" is a nice word that gets thrown around a bit.... > Tomorrow USA can force ARM to not sell products to c
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by loudmax 4y ago
I'd be reluctant to attribute Gnome development to malice when it can quite easily be explained by incompetence. Fortunately, Linux has desktop alternatives that are better than Gnome. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find an al
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by loudmax 4y ago
University students should be learning the craft, not the tool.
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by loudmax 4y ago
People do what they can to prop up the value of the properties into which they've invested their capital. The last thing they want is competition in the property market, hence their support for local government rules to hinder develop
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by loudmax 4y ago
If the goal is to compete with Chrome/Edge/Safari directly then yeah some spunky team of ragtag volunteers isn't going to be able to match what the megacorps can bring to the table. Even Firefox struggles here. If the goal i
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by loudmax 4y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but I'm going to nitpick one thing: > Coal can stay where it is, or be used for industrial applications I presume you're referring to the energy situation in the UK specifically, in which case I don
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by loudmax 4y ago
No we don't need to throw democracy and regulations overboard, but we do need policies that reflect the urgency of the situation. Europe needs be entirely off of Russian gas for the foreseeable future. And unfortunately in the short
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by loudmax 4y ago
Pretty amazing that some people still believe that choice exists rather than submitting to the monopoly. That's a petabyte of files locked into a proprietary format. The smart thing to do is bow down to the monopoly. Only an idiot w
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by loudmax 4y ago
I interpret a major version number release as a commitment that the API won't make breaking changes. So releasing a 1.0 version of a library is kind of like promising that you'll make some attempt not to drastically alter the beh
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by loudmax 4y ago
Zig is much lower level than Python or Go. This means that you can write programs that use very little memory and run really fast. If minimizing memory use and maximizing speed are your primary objectives, Zig could be a better fit than G
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by loudmax 4y ago
There's no desktop standard. Desktop operating systems are either proprietary or niche. Any application you write needs to be ported again to each operating system separately. The web is the closest thing there is to a ubiquitous ope
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by loudmax 4y ago
In my experience, Duplo blocks are worse than any Lego brick. They're not as sharp, but they're pretty solid. They're basically caltrops and they hurt . When the kids are at that age, better to buy from brands that use sof
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by loudmax 4y ago
I wouldn't paint with such a broad brush. I'm in favor regulating access to firearms just as we regulate access to driving, but it depends a lot on your circumstances. A lot of people who buy a gun to protect their family are pr
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by loudmax 4y ago
I imagine it has a lot to do with the type of pain. I don't think I'd want canniboids for a sharp pain, and certainly not for anything intense. But for a chronic pain or some kind of ache where you're taking medication over
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by loudmax 4y ago
Media companies are not the government, and they do not have a legal responsibility to promulgate all views. In the case where a majority of the medical community perceives that misinformation and disinformation is directly leading to peop
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by loudmax 4y ago
I think I largely agree with you about getting the government involved. But the nature of that involvement is important here. As I see it the fundamental problem is not that Google isn't behaving as a responsible steward of free speec
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by loudmax 4y ago
Arguably NIMBYism is a bigger factor to the lack of housing than the cost of building the houses.
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by loudmax 4y ago
Over the next five? Probably not. But over ten or fifteen years? Very possibly. And if not porting apps directly to RISC-V, then porting them to WASM and letting browser vendors optimize WASM performance on RISC-V.
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by loudmax 4y ago
I think I agree with your point that antitrust laws should focus on preventing monopolies rather than on limiting size per se. Ideally, a company should be able to grow to any size so long as it doesn't prevent competition. In practic

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