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by nananana9 9mo ago
Naming confusion is a pretty good predictor that it's not worth understanding what the product is.
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by nananana9 9mo ago
That's a pretty dismissive attitude for ~100 million professional drivers worldwide, making a living doing actual useful work on a forum where the vast majority of users do not do any useful work.
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by nananana9 10mo ago
> The reality is that we need everyone to agree that open source software is valuable and worth supporting monetarily The reality is that you need to figure out is that if you want people to pay when they make a ton of money from your co
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by nananana9 10mo ago
You will need to provide stronger justification how "medicine being delivered" hinges upon me watching a 60 second unskippable ad before a YouTube video.
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by nananana9 10mo ago
> If not, how do you think they should make money? Figure it out or go bankrupt, for all I care. They're the ones who chose a business model directly adversarial to their users. Plenty of games, mail and other services work without
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by nananana9 10mo ago
Multi-billion dollar companies have GDPR-violating cookie banners, and nobody cares. In the case of blogs like this, they don't really care about compliance, it's just LARPing. "Serious websites have cookie banners, so I&#x27
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by nananana9 11mo ago
On my very rasonably spec'd laptop it often takes 20 seconds for the snipping tool selection to pop up. Video recording is very nice though, definitely my favorite feature. New Notepad had a broken typematic that took them 2 years to f
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by nananana9 11mo ago
"Free" software resulting in your data being sold is the software working as intended, it's orthogonal to the question of software robustness. Software isn't uniquely high stakes relative to other industries. Sure, if th
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by nananana9 11mo ago
Definitely not. I was a bit shocked when my mother called me for IT help and sent me a screenshot of a Cloudflare error page with Cloudflare being the broken link and not the server. I assumed it's a bug in the error page and told her
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by nananana9 11mo ago
They made the new refund policy worldwide, which they absolutely did not have to.
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by nananana9 11mo ago
Oh, they're still botnets. We just look the other way because they're useful. And they're pretty tame as far as computer fraud goes - if my device gets compromised I'd much rather deal with it being used for fake YouTube
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by nananana9 1y ago
You don't need a fat runtime to do fibers/stackful coroutines. You don't need any language support for that matter, just 50 lines of assembly to save registers on the stack and switch stack pointers. Minicoro [1] is a C libra
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by nananana9 1y ago
Async/await feels very misguided to me. It's an extremely complex language feature for something that can be done way better, completely in userspace. You can implement stackful coroutines yourself in C/C++, you need like 30
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by nananana9 1y ago
I would throw some money each month at Tor if all the project did was provide a way to access the Internet anonymously, but I find it very difficult to support it, given that .onions are a thing and we all know what gets hosted there. I&#x2
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by nananana9 1y ago
If you showed me the current state of YouTube 8 years ago - multiple unskippable ads before each video, 5 midrolls for a 10 minute video, comments overran with bots, video dislikes hidden, the shorts hell, the dysfunctional algorithm, ....
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by nananana9 1y ago
On the bright side, that opens an opportunity for 10,000 companies whose only activity is scraping 10MB worth of garbage and providing a sane API for it. Luckily all that is becoming a non-issue, as most content on these websites isn't
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by nananana9 1y ago
I don't know why so many comments are discussing "if it's intentional troll or hypocrisy", when it takes 10 seconds to check one of the other blog posts and see if the text there is selectable :(
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by nananana9 1y ago
> paying someone to work on a port of XMonad to Wayland, since none of us is up to the task This is such a crazy mentality to me, coming from game development, where you can just go to a random 22yo kid's desk, ask them "do you
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by nananana9 1y ago
> the int/Integer primitive/object issue and boxing. That's a deal-breaker. If you can't tie together a few values in a record/struct without being forced to box them/heap allocate them, the language will ne
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by nananana9 1y ago
I completely agree, but just as the company couldn't care less about the employee's benefits from WFH, I couldn't care less about the company's benefits from WFO. Most organizations are so inefficient, that all of this i
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by nananana9 1y ago
But you have to 1. stop the program 2. edit it to add the new log 3. rebuild the program 4. run it 5. get the program to the same state to trigger the log 3. can take quite a while on some projects, and 5. can take quite a wh
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by nananana9 1y ago
With native languages you'll almost always be using a compiler that can output debug symbols, and you can use the output of any compiler with (mostly) any debugger you want. For JS in the browser, there's a often chain of transfor
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by nananana9 1y ago
I use the same setup, on Windows Linux and Android. It will break when they decide to roll out their aggressive anti-adblock measures more widely, currently they seem to be A/B testing and turning it on and off at random. I'm surp
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by nananana9 1y ago
They often release new "features" in a A/B fashion to a small percentage of users. It's most obvious with UI changes, where a portion of users will get a disfigured version of the site for a month, but it's probably
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by nananana9 1y ago
I mostly share GP's sentiment, although they didn't argue their point very well. > As in, things were fine before we had commonplace tooling to fetch third party software? Yes. The languages without a dominant package manager (
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by nananana9 1y ago
The complexity of C# and C++ should be a warning, not something to strive towards. C++ has 3 reasonable implementations, C has hundreds, for all sorts of platforms, where you don't get anything else. Most C developers don't want a
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by nananana9 1y ago
Most people don't use the internet at a whole - if you just stick to the 10 biggest apps/websites, the experience is acceptable without an adblocker. As for YouTube, blocking their ads is basically a part-time job at this point. O