mort96

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3001.
by mort96 3y ago
I literally moved away from Namecheap when they did a UI redesign many years ago. Their old control panel was ugly but functional. Their new one looked much more "modern", but was way less information dense, and they introduced ja
3002.
by mort96 3y ago
What language should they have used instead of C? And given that C's stdlib has a quicksort function, how would using a different language have helped?
3003.
by mort96 3y ago
Right, but you may not catch it before the OOM situation arises I guess?
3004.
by mort96 3y ago
To me, it seems like bubble sort is almost inherently easier to reason about. One iteration of bubble sort is: find two elements in the wrong order and swap them. One iteration of insertion sort is: find an element out of order, then find t
3005.
by mort96 3y ago
I would trust myself more to implement bubble sort than to implement insertion sort. Not that I couldn't implement insertion sort, I've done it before, but if I was in a context where I had to implement a quick and dirty ad-hoc so
3006.
by mort96 3y ago
How do we know that there are no non-Google patents which cover parts of WebP?
3007.
by mort96 3y ago
Does nobody care about cheating or griefing or toxicity anymore? That doesn't match my experience. I don't understand why you bring up profanity. I don't understand what you think is dystopian, or why you think it would stop
3008.
by mort96 3y ago
Dystopian how? And does it become non-dystopian once hate speech is treated harshly but slightly less harsh than non-speech actions? What exactly do you mean?
3009.
by mort96 3y ago
Yeah, so "JPEG XL might have patent issues" in itself is a statement which doesn't mean anything. So we either interpret it to mean, "JPEG XL is more likely to have patent issues than the alternatives (AVIF, WebP, whatev
3010.
by mort96 3y ago
No, it's absolutely a proof. Claim: There is no odd number in {2, 4, 6}. Proof: 2 is not an odd number, 4 is not an odd number, 6 is not an odd number, there are no other elements in {2, 4, 6}. Therefore, there is no odd number in {2,
3011.
by mort96 3y ago
I would definitely support regulation here, especially regulation forcing ISPs to provide v6. That would at least take care of one large part of the problem.
3012.
by mort96 3y ago
That's fair. So ISPs have a potential incentive to provide v6. I wonder why they're not then. Clearly it's not a very big incentive.
3013.
by mort96 3y ago
* Until the transition is complete, I and everyone else is gonna have to use an ISP which provides a v4 address, whether they're end users or a server operators. Fair enough though that ISPs may have some incentive to making more peopl
3014.
by mort96 3y ago
The larger address space is only an advantage if we don't need a v4 address. The situation "I need a v4 address" is not worse than the situation "I need a v4 address and a v6 address".
3015.
by mort96 3y ago
What even is the advantage for an ISP to offer v6? Consumers aren't demanding it. Everything works on v4. And even if consumers were demanding it, most of those consumers don't have a choice in ISP company.
3016.
by mort96 3y ago
In order to predict how bad the long tail will be though we should ideally look at the graphs broken down by network type. Does the increase just represent a switch from people using their residential ISP connection for everything to people
3017.
by mort96 3y ago
I'm worried about the long tail. IPv6 won't actually be useful until more or less everything supports v6; as long as there are enough clients which don't support v6 servers need v4, and as long as there are enough servers whi
3018.
by mort96 3y ago
Which will finally discover supersymmetric particles!
3019.
by mort96 3y ago
Not that easy when you have to use some vendor's SDK which includes some forked GCC 4.x...
3020.
by mort96 3y ago
Aha, so your solution is to just not do things which needs additional CLI tools or libraries. Got it. That's not gonna work for me, or most people who use a package manager on macOS.
3021.
by mort96 3y ago
/opt/homebrew isn't a folder provided by the operating the system, but it's still a "system folder" as in not a user folder. That's messed up. I have to imagine that this causes no end of issues on multi-u
3022.
by mort96 3y ago
What do you do when you need some library or command-line tool? Do you prefer to git clone and manually build from source? How do you keep up to date?
3023.
by mort96 3y ago
They could make a product and sell that product. That would keep the innovation in general out of the public's hands, only giving us access to some product built on it.
3024.
by mort96 3y ago
Oh if it was up to me, pharmaceutical companies wouldn't be able to keep affordable life saving treatments out of the public's hand through state enforced monopolies either. It's not like I'm all in favour of patents exc
3025.
by mort96 3y ago
I think keeping progress back in a vital field is bad. Sue me.
3026.
by mort96 3y ago
They'd be selling to humans of course? Humans who wouldn't be allowed to use the discovery of room temperature superconductors for anything other than whatever little gimmick the company found out they could sell.
3027.
by mort96 3y ago
I don't, sorry.
3028.
by mort96 3y ago
Yeah, which is also a monumental problem.
3029.
by mort96 3y ago
I have to admit I'm not very familiar with how patents work in this field in particular, but in general, patents seem to have a huge limiting effect on research. For example, in video coding, nobody wants to invest into making a new co
3030.
by mort96 3y ago
Keeping the benefits of possibly the most significant breakthrough in fundamental research this century out of the hands of humanity for 20 years. You find it hard to see that as something negative?

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