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by plerpin 6y ago
With strange failures like that, I'm surprised the system even booted at all.
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by plerpin 6y ago
I knew a wannabe geek in high school who loved to brag about bullshit for nerd cred. My favorite lie was his boast about his dual core "transmeata crusoe" and how he morphed one of the processors into a 3D accelerator which made a
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by plerpin 6y ago
The CBC article doesn't go into enough details about Cotten's death, but it was almost certainly a fake too. The Indian state which wrote his death certificate is apparently infamous for faking deaths in exchange for bribe money,
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by plerpin 6y ago
I think the amount of discarded plastic from water bottles dwarfs 3D printed filament by many, many orders of magnitude. There aren't that many 3D printers out there and each printer can only extrude so much filament per second.
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by plerpin 6y ago
Master/slave, OK, let's revisit those terms. But this is a totally different context. Should we rename a master's degree now? How about achieving mastery, is that now a loaded term?
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by plerpin 6y ago
I've read the Rust book, maintained someone else's Rust code once, and written a few of my toy programs. But I find that idiomatic Rust is difficult to grok. All the constructs required for safety seem to obfuscate the control flo
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by plerpin 6y ago
He plays those conservative wedge issues masterfully, though. It works.
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by plerpin 6y ago
Yikessssssssssssssssssssssssssss
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by plerpin 6y ago
I hope you are aware of Opera's corporate parentage.
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by plerpin 6y ago
Just use Ungoogled Chromium. Why suffer rent seeking crypto shenanigans?
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by plerpin 6y ago
Brave and Binance have a preexisting business relationship. Brave uses its own crypto funny-money and I think they even integrated a Binance-monitoring widget into the browser.
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by plerpin 6y ago
The commit creates a new class "SuggestedSitesProvider" which looks like a generic system for detecting pageloads and automatically inserting affiliate IDs. So perhaps this is a nascent revenue stream for Brave that will be applie
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by plerpin 6y ago
I'm getting a kick out of these performance numbers. It's a common refrain on HN condemning $BIG_COMPANY for not using homomorphic encryption for $CLOUD_SERVICE. With these performance numbers in hand, I'm finding those posts
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by plerpin 6y ago
If you really like having app-like websites, you can do that in Chrome by clicking "Create Shortcut" then click the box that says "Open In Window". Voila. It behaves like a native app, and you can embed it in your Window
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by plerpin 6y ago
Am I reading this right? 1.29 megajoules for one kilo captured? Uh, this doesn't seem feasible at scale.
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by plerpin 6y ago
If you're looking for discussion between empathetic folks, this ain't the place. Discussions like that tend to be flagged for being too political, or they get ratholed in reinventing the wheel from idealistic first principles.
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by plerpin 6y ago
A lot of sites even download new content continuously even after the page has been fully rendered! They swap out silent media ads one after another, in hopes that you minimized and ignored the page.
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by plerpin 6y ago
Enjoy your college life. Socialize. Revel in the extracurriculars, don't treat them as an obligation to be endured. Join some clubs. Don't just hole up in the lab. Being well-rounded from your college experience will improve your
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by plerpin 6y ago
I wouldn't take him at his word. Musk says a lot of shit in his tweets.
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by plerpin 6y ago
Professional applications, e.g. video nonlinear editing, have a huge number of shortcut keys. You can buy entire keyboards with colored key caps that are labeled with shortcuts for a single application like Final Cut Pro. Would be great for
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by plerpin 6y ago
I taught myself programming. * Lots of grit. You needed it, to stay in the game when your shit didn't work. * Type-in programs from books, magazines (3-2-1 Contact). * Later on, buying big reference books. * Trial and error, lots of it
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by plerpin 6y ago
The name felt like a nod to Iain Banks' Culture series, whose AI-piloted spaceships had pretty funny names. https://concord.fandom.com/wiki/Iain_M._Banks_Culture_Univer... (ctrl-f for Windward)
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by plerpin 6y ago
"Easily"? Some things can only be shipped as binary blobs. For example, you won't get open source audio drivers that support patent-encumbered codecs like Dolby Atmos. Windows has a stable binary ABI which means that my drive
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by plerpin 6y ago
I'm pretty sure Qualcomm not giving a shit about supporting their SoC is why my Android watches were practically EOL'd within months.
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by plerpin 6y ago
Uh, that's how the BSD and Apache licenses work.
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by plerpin 6y ago
Ah, the HN hivemind Markov chain is mired in another infinite cycle. https://hncynic.leod.org/
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by plerpin 6y ago
You mean Mach?
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by plerpin 6y ago
Put a FooHelper on it!
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by plerpin 6y ago
It played DRM'd video very well. Silverlight had a robust DRM stack.
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by plerpin 6y ago
I swear you could generate a 100% realistic comment thread from a Markov chain of those broad topics.

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