mort96

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by mort96 7mo ago
There was soooo much intentional disinformation around 5G. Everyone who wanted to sell anything intentionally confused the >1Gbps millimeter wave line-of-sight kind of 5G with the "4G but with some changes to handle more devices con
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by mort96 7mo ago
There seems to be a pretty wide gulf between "segregate consumers and content creators" and "please let me make it so that I can remove/disable the huge central button I never use that takes up a lot of space and is supe
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by mort96 7mo ago
YouTube in general is such a good example. A while ago, they introduced the Home page with algorithmic recommendations; okay, it sucks that you can't choose whether Home or Subscriptions is the default, but at least you can choose betw
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by mort96 7mo ago
I can do neither, actually. I can merely observe reality as it is and look at which forces affect the direction of the world. And right now, I observe a reality where one of the most significant forces which counteract a completely Chromium
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by mort96 7mo ago
I can't say anything other than "I disagree"; I think it does help the open web. You already admitted that you in your day job has been forced to make your site work in non-Chromium browsers thanks to Apple's authoritari
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by mort96 7mo ago
Minecraft is, and always has been, handling vast amounts of data at pretty good performance. It's not an impossibly difficult task, many other people have made voxel game engines which are better, but it's something you can't
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by mort96 7mo ago
> Let Google dominate the web No thanks
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by mort96 7mo ago
You're shadow boxing. I never said Apple isn't engaging in abusive business tactics. They clearly are. I just think the result benefits the open web by taking power away from Google.
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by mort96 7mo ago
I think Minecraft's lighting system is a good example: there are 16 different brightness levels, from 0 to 15. This allows the game to store light levels in 4 bytes per block. Similarly, redstone has 16 power levels: 0 to 15. This allo
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by mort96 7mo ago
From the perspective of avoiding a web that's wholly controlled by Google? Yeah, absolutely.
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by mort96 7mo ago
> And even if they wouldn't want to compete: fine. Let them give up. Again, this leads to Chromium out-competing everything else and getting as entrenched in mobile as it already is in desktop. This is a bad outcome. > I work at
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by mort96 7mo ago
> Hmm. I believe that Apple can compete with Google if they want to. I don't think that would happen. I don't have much faith in Apple's abilities in this area, and their incentives are structured such that the less viable
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by mort96 7mo ago
You seem to be conflating my opinion of "iOS's lack of browser choice has the consequence of preventing Chromium from achieving total dominance" with some imaginary other person's opinion of "iOS's lack of brow
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by mort96 7mo ago
The argument which has been provided so far about why Safari is crippled is that it does not implement non-standard Chromium-only features. There are other problems with Safari, but they are not found in the page we are discussing.
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by mort96 7mo ago
You may wish to re-read the comment you respond to. To quote: > Which browser engine are you getting on iOS when you install Firefox? Emphasis mine.
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by mort96 7mo ago
Mobile safari is arguably the only thing standing between Google and total browser dominance. It's the reason why Google "only" has roughly 75% of the mobile browser market even though it has a 90% market share in desktop. I&
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by mort96 7mo ago
Even so, conflating "Safari is holding the web platform back by not implementing standardized web features" with "Safari is holding the Google platform back by not implementing non-standard Google features" is kind of di
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by mort96 7mo ago
I didn't say it's a crazy salary for an important executive position, I said it's wild to call it a "mid-high engineering salary"
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by mort96 7mo ago
These GPUs are still big SIMD devices at their core though, no?
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by mort96 7mo ago
That's kind of two sides of the same coin, isn't it? The cost of living is so high in part because so many have ridiculously high salaries, isn't it?
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by mort96 7mo ago
To build an emergency fund, you just need an income that's a bit higher than your expenses. If you earn $60,000 after tax per year, and spend $50,000 per year, you have a decent $10,000 emergency fund after one year and a massive $100,
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by mort96 7mo ago
Gah hopefully the meaning was clear from context, but I just realized I said "latter" when I meant "former". Inconsistent human documentation is better than miles upon miles of AI-slop documentation.
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by mort96 7mo ago
I guess I don't understand why programmers somehow deserve a better life than other people. Janitors deserve to start families too, don't they?
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by mort96 7mo ago
Does cities like San Francisco not have janitors? Waiters? Food delivery drivers? Or do those jobs command a six-figure salary too? If they can live comfortably in the city on a five-figure salary, maybe the argument that "cost of livi
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by mort96 7mo ago
I responded to the idea that $300,000/year is a "mid-to-high engineering salary". CEO salaries are absurdly high everywhere.
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by mort96 7mo ago
According to swissdevjobs.ch[1], the top 10% salary for a senior software developer in Switzerland is 135,000 swiss franc; that's roughly $170,000 per year. So if this is correct, then even in Switzerland, it seems like $300,000 per ye
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by mort96 7mo ago
Is your argument really that "OpenAI was an independent nonprofit corporation and it worked out great, Arxiv will remain just as non-profit as OpenAI"?
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by mort96 7mo ago
Salaries in the US are so bonkers. Everywhere else outside of the US, $300,000 is an outlandish high salary. To call it "mid to high" is insane.
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by mort96 7mo ago
Couldn't it just be a Bluetooth audio device? That way you could play anything you want, be it from YouTube, Spotify or your own music collection.
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by mort96 7mo ago
Driver support is pretty hard when nothing is documented and security features limit reverse engineering. Hardware companies either document their hardware properly, or they write drivers for third party operating systems, or both.

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