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by ric2b 3y ago
The Friendly Article
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by ric2b 3y ago
I think it's more of a "since we've been paying so much for the MIC for decades, now is the time to actually put that money to use"
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by ric2b 3y ago
On Android you can install PWA's from the App Store, no reason why Apple couldn't also support it.
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by ric2b 3y ago
I think those people overestimate how useful it is to get a bunch of random code snippets from some company, that may or may not even reach production unchanged.
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by ric2b 3y ago
Yeah, I suppose this is very language dependent. In Ruby I actually quite enjoy writing tests, whereas in Java it was boilerplate pain.
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by ric2b 3y ago
The poster is against oligopolies but is using the term "economy of scale" instead, which is incorrect and causes confusion.
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by ric2b 3y ago
You're not using the common definition of "economy of scale" and that is leading to confusion. Maybe use "mega-corporations" or something like that? Your mention of 9 companies vs 2 also tells me you're trying
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by ric2b 3y ago
Still a privacy victory, and if they want to annoy me I'll just go somewhere else, that's fine.
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by ric2b 3y ago
No, but Boeing seems to have adopted fragile.
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by ric2b 3y ago
And yet I see tons of stuff requiring CUDA.
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by ric2b 3y ago
Those engineering fields have exams and certifications. Software Engineering is still too immature for that, I think.
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by ric2b 3y ago
The downside is that you're now wasting interview time on the river crossing problem instead of actually relevant questions for the job you're hiring for.
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by ric2b 3y ago
You can just use the internet archive if you think some stuff has been deleted or modified. All the claims I remember of a possible twitter collapse were about users abandoning it, not about some technical issue that would be unsolvable.
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by ric2b 3y ago
That would just result in earlier resignations so that both players could get back to a more interesting game.
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by ric2b 3y ago
Can you back that up with an example, perhaps the Android Play Store? Is there significantly more malware on recent (last ~5 years) versions of Android than similarly recent versions of iOS?
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by ric2b 3y ago
What does similar quality mean, it they're different in multiple axes? Maybe one is easier to use but the other is faster, or one is better tested but the other is written in a more modular way that won't require big refactors to
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by ric2b 3y ago
Regarding the startup time, it has been massively improved since the initial Firefox snap release. It'll always have non-zero overhead for the reasons you mentioned, but it's already fast enough that it no longer bothers me.
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by ric2b 3y ago
The snap package actually doesn't have this issue at all, it just waits for you to close the browser to switch to new version but you can keep using it for however long you want without Firefox complaining like it does if a package man
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by ric2b 3y ago
It's quite obvious... "If you don’t call free, memory usage will increase over time, but technically, it’s not a leak."
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by ric2b 3y ago
The argument was "[it] takes so much money and know how buildup that only nations and maybe the top 5 or so companies could pull it off. ", so the funding was the question, not who runs it.
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by ric2b 3y ago
But WSL2 abandoned that and is a Linux VM.
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by ric2b 3y ago
That never happened on Android, why would it be different on iPhone?
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by ric2b 3y ago
As I said, it might be a terrible financial decision to finance a phone, but a lot of people still make that decision. You don't need to be rich to have a payment plan of $40 a month for 3 years.
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by ric2b 3y ago
Yes, those are all results of war economies. It looks really good on paper but such generic numbers like GDP aren't that useful when comparing very different types of economies. Russia has lost a significant portion of their export cus
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by ric2b 3y ago
Cost centers is a nonsense definition, if they didn't help the company make profit they'd be closed down.
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by ric2b 3y ago
Copies in haskell are not explicit at all, though?
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by ric2b 3y ago
Their economy is not growing, they're just dragging people out of unemployment because they're in a war economy. That makes GDP numbers look good but in reality they're getting their citizens killed and using a bunch of produ
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by ric2b 3y ago
Their economy is not growing, that's just GDP being boosted on paper by a war economy, as usual. Dragging a bunch of people out of unemployment to go die in trenches or to build IFV's that get blown up 2 weeks later makes your GDP
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by ric2b 3y ago
"third-party vendors" on Amazon includes a galaxy of drop shippers that do little more than create product pages and let Amazon and the actual manufacturer sort out everything else between them, such as logistics, delivery, return
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by ric2b 3y ago
They haven't rolled out the ability for third party stores.

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