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by panstromek 10mo ago
the game was not the motivation to make the language
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by panstromek 11mo ago
Feels like a lot of jumping to conclusion in the article. It just assumes the causation like it's been proven. It also assumes the finding is negative, which is more subtle but similarly problematic. Decline in memory might just mean t
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by panstromek 1y ago
I'm not exactly sure why "big" but it's slow because it has worse change tracking and rendering model, which requires you to do more work to figure out what needs to be updated, unless you manually opt-out when you know.
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by panstromek 1y ago
JS can be 100x or even 1000x times more expensive to process than images. JS also blocks the main thread, while images can be processed in the background (and on GPU).
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by panstromek 1y ago
Yes, it matters a lot, especially on mid/low end devices.
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by panstromek 1y ago
This is great write up. I especially appreciate the focus on mobile, because I find it's often overlooked, even though it's dominant device to access the web. The reality of phones is brutal and delivering a good experience for mo
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by panstromek 1y ago
Yea, companies are probably abusing this (as I have noted in the sibling comment), but I think marketers themselves truly don't get it. I've been on the implementation side of this and it's always frustrating debate. It'
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by panstromek 1y ago
I also think that many vendors in this space are abusing the fact that marketers are not technical people, so they just wave around some "we're GDPR ready", "anonymized data" slogans such that marketers feel that th
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by panstromek 1y ago
Yea, this is pretty annoying and not the only problem in this field. There's a bunch of theather or misunderstanding in the marketing space. I feel like marketing people just don't get it. They seem to be hopelessly incapable to a
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by panstromek 1y ago
I don't know, I run a social media platform for learning and bots are almost never a problem apart from occasional bandwidth spike. Most abuse comes from people, and we've definitely applied the principles from the article, becaus
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by panstromek 1y ago
It is very different. I develop and app that has iOS, Android and web version and iOS is by far the most problematic platform in this regard. Takes a few minutes to deploy a fresh web app. It takes a few weeks of being bullied by Apple to s
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by panstromek 1y ago
I partially agree that the authority has its use and that restricting the freedom to publish apps in some way is reasonable to prevent problems. The problem with Apple (and to a lesser extent Google) is that it goes way further than that. I
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by panstromek 1y ago
This is not the ONLY problem, it's just the first problem.
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by panstromek 1y ago
Yea, dismiss a whole argument based on your specific experience with your specific reader and your specific taste. Not to mention your argument proves the point - you already got their attention even when you didn't read the post and e
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by panstromek 1y ago
I meant quality as in a sense of quality-vs-quantity dillema, not objective quality. In other words, posters will start optimizing individual posts instead of optimizing their amount. [edit] and indeed, this only solves the problem of exces
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by panstromek 1y ago
> As Facebook would push for more engagement, some bands would flood their pages with multiple posts per day The causation is opposite, and it's the whole problem with chronological feeds, including RSS - chronological feeds incenti
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by panstromek 1y ago
Honestly, I think this is quite naive view of the problem. The negative properties are emergent and emerge from even the simplest rules you can think of. Sort something by likes and you create feedback loop that incentivises attention seeki
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by panstromek 1y ago
I don't understand the point of that first nitpick, this is an algorithm, at least in the normie sense of the word as a ranking system for list of posts. > A small amount of early activity (upvotes, flags, comments) tends to have an
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by panstromek 1y ago
> 1 or 2 upvotes makes me feel like maybe it doesn't belong. This is more or less artifact of HN algorithm, it's common to get single digit votes for majority of your posts. Whether something blows up feel almost random, you ha
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by panstromek 1y ago
That didn't really clear anything to me. These things are already connected. "The likelihood" is just handwavy concern but it doesn't tell me anything about why is this a concern for this system specifically. I still don
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by panstromek 1y ago
I don't understand the problem. How is this different from all other identifiers, physical or digital, that most goverments already have?
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by panstromek 1y ago
It's interesting idea, I just wouldn't consider slow or no response as likely target, I think that's actually a good defense strategy for spam like this.
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by panstromek 1y ago
> Thanks for the quick review. You’re right — my attached PoC does not exercise libcurl and therefore does not demonstrate a cURL bug. I don't even... You just have to laugh at this I guess.
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by panstromek 1y ago
From what I've read so far it seems people have really looked and we have some estimates (not yet proven reserves). The highest estimates I found are around 10-20 years of current consumption rate. That doesn't seem like a lot, an
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by panstromek 1y ago
Sorry, you won't get any reasonable response for that condescending tone, especially since you clearly didn't even do a basic google search for that estimate to see how low it is, so your "I'm gonna teach you how the wor
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by panstromek 1y ago
Yea, the world works by imagining shale gas into existence.
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by panstromek 1y ago
That's 5% of Europe's yearly consumption.
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by panstromek 1y ago
I don't think this is true, Europe just doesn't have these reserves. If Europe had oil and gas reserves, they would not even build gas pipelines from Russia in the first place.
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by panstromek 1y ago
I love the term "semantic sludge"
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by panstromek 1y ago
I wrote a blog post about this a while ago if you're interested: https://yoyo-code.com/how-to-build-better-social-media/ I think it's difficult but very interesting problem. There are some interesting attempt

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