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by senfiaj 7mo ago
You describe physical objects which are manufactured. And BTW, yes, I don't like most modern cars' designs which are partly due to stricter safety / emission regulations, partly due to trends and and partly due to internaliz
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OS-Level Age Verification(waspdev.com)
2 points by senfiaj 7mo ago|2 comments
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by senfiaj 7mo ago
This can seriously harm open source software (overall it's a toll on software developers). This law is really poorly thought out without even resorting to conspiracy theories: https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-03-0
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
What if 1/3 of US states and some EU countries joins them? Will they block so many users? Also blocking is easier for smaller distros, not so much for Valve, Red Hat and Ubuntu.
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
But if they see a weird distribution of birth dates, won't they come up with even more insane regulations?
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
This might be plausible to an extend (probably for much younger children). If the child can manage to install an OS (which is not that difficult nowadays), or is some kind of power user, then it will not work well. Also the laws are about o
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
But why not force age verification / content restriction on Facebook / Instagram / alikes instead? There aren't really that many big players, isn't it? Also, if what the OS does, is requiring to pick some number fro
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
I agree this is bullshit. But at least you can lie to the OS about your age. Technically it's almost the same as OS asking you "Pick a date and a number from 1 to 100 and I'll report it to the software / websites. But do
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
I guess California will release California OS with age verification.
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
Interesting idea. This will be useful only when the CSS communicates with a server. Maybe it can make requests indirectly by setting background image URLs or something and send data piece by piece for each byte. Not sure.
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, it's impressive, but on the other, it's concerning that CSS is turning into "JavaScript 2".
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
Totally. ORMs are not evil. They help to reduce the boilerplate and improve the code maintainability. We have a complex project with a custom back-end framework that also includes a custom ORM. The ORM covers about 95% of the use cases jus
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
I don't belong to both "AI has replaced engineers" and "AI will never replace engineers" camps. But for now, AI is far from replacing SWEs and development processes, especially for complex software (that has many co
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
Yeah, but not very maintainable (mildly saying). Now, someone asked you to change a color somewhere... or whatever. After changing that color the code doesn't run because the author also reused the portion of the code (you changed) as
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MongoDB vs. SQL in 2026(thedecipherist.com)
5 points by senfiaj 8mo ago|0 comments
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
My top list of recent CSS improvements: 1) Nested selectors. 2) :has(...). 3) :is(...), before you had to write :not(:not(...)). 4) :where(...), similar to :is(...), but the selector weight inside :where becomes 0. Useful when you need deep
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
Min-max + alpha-beta pruning is the backbone of the chess engines. I think 2KiB or even 1KiB might be enough (I guess the last one would be a very challenging squeeze). But what separates the best engines from average ones, is the heuristic
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
I'm a millennial, but I share some feelings. I also think modern programming careers often feel like factory jobs where most of the time you must be compliant with some BS. You often find the true joy only in personal projects.
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
I get black screen on chrome. Works only on firefox.
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
For me LLMs feel closer to IDE with steroids. Unless LLMs produce the same output from the same input, I can't view them as compilers.
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by senfiaj 8mo ago
There is even smaller C compiler that fits within the 512 bytes https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
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by senfiaj 9mo ago
> "The author clearly hasn't a clue about hardware, how memory is implemented." I'm the author. Actually I'm quite familiar how memory addressing works, including concepts related to virtual memory / memory
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by senfiaj 9mo ago
"byte" doesn't even remotely resemble any decimal prefix, so it's okay. The problem is that prefixes "kilo", "mega", etc. are supposed to be decimal prefixes, but are used as binary. And what's w
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by senfiaj 9mo ago
That's why I said "usually acceptable depending on the context". In spoken language I also don't like the awkward and unusual pronunciation of "kibi". But I'll still prefer to write in KiB, especially if I
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by senfiaj 9mo ago
This is crazy, the post is getting a lot of upvotes: https://www.moltbook.com/post/3ba97527-6d9e-4385-964c-1baa22... When I refreshed the page the upvotes doubled.
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by senfiaj 9mo ago
> It's an incredibly convoluted mess that requires an enormous amount of effort for little benefit. I'd say C++ as a whole is a complete mess. While it's powerful (including OOP), it's complicated and inconsistent lan
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by senfiaj 9mo ago
> Lots of closed source commercial libraries provide some .h files and a .so file. I'm mostly talking about modules for internal implementation, which is likely to be the bulk of the exports. Yes, it's understandable that for d
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by senfiaj 9mo ago
I still hope that modules become mature and safe for production code. Initially I coded in C/C++ and this header #include/#ifndef approach seemed OK at that time. But after using other programming languages, this approach started
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by senfiaj 9mo ago
I'm not against someone's preferences, but this looks like an anecdotal story. Windows, as much as it's hated here, still works fine for the vast majority of people. What's more, you have higher risk of having problems w
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by senfiaj 9mo ago
Could use quad trees, or similar bucketing. But I think he already stated that he tried to avoid the processing of long distance pairs. So probably he does some localized bucketing. Personally, I don't even fully understand what his si

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