miav

6 ms·

31.
by miav 4y ago
Yes, absolutely. Having a single person do what they want with a component involves risks but I think they can be managed. Say the dev in charge of an important component of a service is struck by a bus and dies. The optimistic scenario is
32.
by miav 4y ago
As the top comment points out, the author comes off as arrogant and their view is unbalanced, but they do have a point. I find the saying "What a programmer can do in a month, two programmers can do in two months" is quite true. I
33.
by miav 4y ago
I'm surprised that seemingly there are no other major FOSS OCRs than Tesseract and Tesseract is quite frankly horrible. I once tried to use it on a high-resolution screenshot of a Discord message containing only the characters "0&
34.
by miav 4y ago
Yeet is only a placeholder for avoiding bikeshedding ( https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3058-try-trait-v2.html#poss... ), but I do wonder if having it as the final keyword would in fact be a net negative. Sure, some peop
35.
by miav 4y ago
I’m surprised by the bad response this article received. All media I’m aware of speak of nuclear war in very vague terms and suggest an outcome similar to that which we see in entertainment science fiction. Long before the war in Ukraine I
36.
by miav 5y ago
> It costs $10,000 USD to build one of these > The ten thousandth one costs $15 As a software engineer, I'm used to being able to build essentially whatever I want, with the only cost being my time. I'm often unpleasantly re
37.
by miav 5y ago
The linked tweets imply that this decline in search results was Google's choice, led by desire for further monetization or exec incompetence, but I think Google is simply facing an impossible task. Receiving an arbitrary question and f
38.
by miav 5y ago
I wonder what the methodology was. The vast majority of people use tiktok on mobile, so surely it can't be actual website visits. If it's requests, then that's a fairly arbitrary metric as it depends mostly on the service&#x2
39.
by miav 5y ago
> 97% of UK companies surveyed use open source and 89% are running open source software. Is it at all possible that this first number is accurate? I would assume every company at least uses a web browser, which would mean using open sour
40.
by miav 5y ago
I doubt it, as puns like this are generally not Lem's style in my opinion. "Tichy Ijon" kinda sounds like tachion, which is polish for tachyon, but I would chalk it up to coincidence.
41.
by miav 5y ago
Truly, being able to read Lem's works untranslated is my favourite thing about being a native polish speaker. There are some fantastic translations out there, but somehow, when it comes to sci-fi, I find works written in polish or othe
42.
by miav 5y ago
It's very surprising to me that progressive loading techniques have been around for decades, but have barely been used on the web. Images often make for most of a websites content, size wise, and are frequently far larger than they nee
43.
by miav 5y ago
> Most notable for large-scale deployments is yescrypt's optional initialization and reuse of a large lookup table, typically occupying at least tens of gigabytes of RAM and essentially forming a site-specific ROM. This limits attac
44.
by miav 5y ago
While Brave does turn many away with its built in cryptocurrency and its questionable userbase, it's a damn good browser. I switched from FF after the layoffs and in short it has better privacy, UX and feature set and all BAT functiona
45.
by miav 5y ago
There have been multiple attacks like this and it seems the stolen code is usually made public in the end. I presume people will look at it and reuse some concepts and I wonder if this could lead to the technical state of the industry becom
46.
by miav 5y ago
This and the fact that uBlock detects 9 trackers on the site is quite puzzling given that its basically an ad/pr stunt by protonmail which itself generally doesn't have any trackers/cookie pop-ups