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by pen2l 4y ago
I've seen folks say that they can't find a suitable Twitter alternative (Mastodon doesn't quite do it just yet). With TikTok being expected to be banned, I guess Meta really has been given a new lifeline, let's see if th
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Carnegie never ordered deaths of striking workers nor do I think you can make a defensible case that in general steel magnates do. Mining business is difficult and laborers in that industry sure do go through a lot; ore smelting laborers re
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by pen2l 4y ago
> and just because you know 10% of the language doesn't mean you're ready to write it professionally I don't see why not. Plenty of folks learn on the job, including new languages, and the way things work out you might end
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by pen2l 4y ago
It's not so much that he was cozying up with them as it is that they were one of them. I think the reason SBF ultimately succeeded and disarmed investors' critical eyes is two-fold: he had a pedigree of Stanford/MIT and thus
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I think it's also true that different pianos bode well for different repertoire sets. I think Chopin is played well on Steinways because Steinways have heavy keys, meaning that exercising the full freedom of dynamics works out better f
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> It's worth keeping in mind that despite the brave face, Musk didn't want to buy Twitter. In fact: he desperately didn't want to buy Twitter. He's been forced to do so by the Delaware courts. I haven't had a lot
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Apple's App Store introduce advertising tax (30%) in iOS apps(developer.apple.com)
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by pen2l 4y ago
I'm pleased to see cumulative layout shift (re self-hosted fonts) advertised as a feature, this is the right kind of user-centric development, indeed the small details like these go a long way in improving user experience.
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by pen2l 4y ago
Maybe Google can by traversing the virtual DOM and other trickery but it's not as simple for other small players. Moreover, in a healthy web I should be able to easily deeplink to something I'm thinking about without jumping throu
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by pen2l 4y ago
The obvious argument, tried and cliché as it may sound, would be that SPA are anti-web. A healthy web must be indexable and searchable. It almost seems like the rulebook now for some newcomers is to start out with SSR, make use of the auspi
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Petabit-per-second data transmission using a microcomb ring resonator source(nature.com)
1 points by pen2l 4y ago|0 comments
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by pen2l 4y ago
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/european-nationals-and-en... specifically mentions a high-resolution jig. I wouldn't be surprised if in some cases just the tooling bits are around $5000, leaving aside th
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by pen2l 4y ago
One reason I prefer doing React is that retrofitting existing React stuff for React Native is better/easier than embarking on React Native from scratch.
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by pen2l 4y ago
Do folks going through law school grasp how proliferation of libelous and defamatory statements happens now, without friction and at the speed of light? And the outsized impact it can have as compared to times ago? I would posit that libel
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by pen2l 4y ago
Curious: when are you guys listening to these podcasts? While driving? While out for a run or something? Certainly not when on the computer right - cause god knows I couldn’t do that kind of multitasking. I’d love to go through the archive
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by pen2l 4y ago
I think if I was in law school and I was being told about these defamation laws and the potential for someone to be sued out of virtually their entire wealth, that would not have sat well with me. But here we are, and Alex Jones' antic
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by pen2l 4y ago
(Pedantic nitpicking) You mean anti -SLAPP laws. For others' curiosity: A SLAPP is Strategic lawsuit against public participation , a strategy for plaintiffs to silence opponents by way of burdening them with an onslaught of lawsuits
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by pen2l 4y ago
This always confused me, if someone is wiped out in this way how are they able to survive in the aftermath? Isn't this effectively sentencing them to homelessness forever, or is there a floor value in these wins that's always resp
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by pen2l 4y ago
Satoshi would have been content with the current state of crypto, being a de facto vehicle for ransomware, serving as a tool for pushing society down the toilet drain? Consider his unease when Wikileaks started soliciting funds in BTC. If h
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by pen2l 4y ago
Satoshi and Le Roux both coded C++ but the code they wrote is very different, stylistically and otherwise (tabs vs. spaces, commenting style, approach to things like RNG). Linguistics tics are different in writings. Satoshi has an academic
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by pen2l 4y ago
Which he obviously isn't; Le Roux was nothing more than a crime boss, thought to be more technically adept than what a sober look at things would suggest (E4M's source code was stolen from his earlier employer).
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by pen2l 4y ago
Reading Satoshi's writings and comments I often got the impression that his intentions were pure. But it is and should be painfully obvious that the only things crypto has principally enabled or made efficient are sophisticated scam wo
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by pen2l 4y ago
Knuth is the poster child for the school of thought that just doing a _lot_ of math problems, especially calculus, is great mental weightlifting and we should make our young students do a lot of math homework. See this interview: https:&#x
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by pen2l 4y ago
Yes! But a part of the Jitsi ecosystem enables recordings and whisper is a good candidate to use for these recorded sessions. On that topic — they record sessions in an interesting way, basically an instance of chrome is started and capture
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If I have time I'll try to help you guys out. I'm a big fan of what you're doing. :)
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Oh no you're absolutely right, my general frustration was ill-placed for this thread. Wasm is no doubt the right and only way to have done this.
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If you have any involvement with Jigasi or might be in the know -- are there plans to use whisper, for instance, instead of Google's API for transcription? If I recall correctly jigasi is using google's API, local transcription al
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by pen2l 4y ago
You probably have a point but I'm thinking unuglified js code ( http://www.nice2predict.org/ ) is not as impenetrable as code from reverse engineered wasm binaries? The element of plausible deniability is more potent tho
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by pen2l 4y ago
Created a few years ago by Jean-Marc Valin of xiph/mozilla (who by the way is also the author of Opus codec among other things): https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/rnnoise/ Overview of RNNoise from the horse's
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by pen2l 4y ago
At least webtech has some excuse for being a gargantuan tarantula and having its legs everywhere, PDF software is supposed to be basic document software but overreaches.

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