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by smaudet 2y ago
> Does it even reduce latency that much Absolutely: https://wondernetwork.com/pings/ Stockholm <-> Tokyo is at least 400ms here, anytime you have multi-national sites having a CDN is important. For your local
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by smaudet 2y ago
> have it checked by a vuln scanner This is kinda sad. For introducing new dependencies, a vuln scanner makes sense (don't download viruses just because they came from a source checkout!), but we could have kept CDNs if we'd us
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by smaudet 2y ago
> It’s definitely possible to have a nicer CLI where such relations are obvious/clear. But I haven’t found anything yet, unfortunately. As per my previous comment, I suggest you more fully leverage the concepts of bookmarks, and (sc
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by smaudet 2y ago
> I see all these pushes for regulation as red herrings that will likely result in cementing the current leaders in place. The unfortunate truth is that the large corporations were going to do this with or without the legislation - that&
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> Not everyone has the skill, or time and energy, to pick up a dead project. To expound on that, usually when I encounter a "dead" project, the biggest hurdle(s) are the build assumptions that weren't addressed - large com
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by smaudet 2y ago
> puts us back where we were pre-google era anyway... Google (search) is becoming increasingly less relevant. I know of DuckDuckGo / Kagi, a quick search (on DuckDuckGo) shows a lot of other search engines such as Mojeek, Ecosia, Qw
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by smaudet 2y ago
> It's been death by a thousand command lines for me on Linux so far unfortunately. That issue isn't solved by UIs, though. Things are constantly moving/changing colors/disappearing. That's why so many UI "r
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by smaudet 2y ago
> Speaking as a windows-familiar but nerdy/techy guy, command lines are nowhere as good. I mean, speaking as someone working on windows nearly every day, I hate GUI/its GUI. Every single "gui" app is some trash that I
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by smaudet 2y ago
> The point is that there's practically only disadvantages to ISOs Except burning to "legacy" optical media. That can't be altered once burnt. If I could write it on a stone tablet I would (more durable). Also the aut
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by smaudet 2y ago
I was a bit surprised by the macos/linux speed differential here: > The difference in macOS and Linux speed is actually the difference in clang and gcc speed. The LLVM clang compiler is doing better optimizations for x86 processors
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by smaudet 2y ago
I don't mind if people disagree with my viewpoint, but I'd appreciate the discussion.
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by smaudet 2y ago
> This is a bit disingenuous as any performant cpu worth it's salt will have operand bypassing. Right, but that's an operation optimization. Nobody disputes that particular instructions (combined add/multiply) can be optim
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by smaudet 2y ago
> The only thing holding it back is Apple not investing into making it happen. This seems to be a (bad) pattern with Apple, one that Google used to (and still does) get a lot of flack for, this habit of not investing in things and then t
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by smaudet 2y ago
> Our investors were especially excited about the innovativeness and uniqueness of Flow’s technology, its strong IP portfolio and the potential to enable a new era of superCPUs (CPU 2.0) for the AI revolution. This part makes me think pa
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by smaudet 2y ago
Eh? This app can be done in an afternoon. "that app and its earnings in their yearly priorities" If you mean, monetizing the day they spent on it, sure, but that's still just ridiculous.
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by smaudet 2y ago
Wrong. This is stupid, and you are stupid to entertain this idiotic notion. Let's take another example: "The mobility device can no longer operate. Your destination is no longer available." This tells me absolutely nothing. I
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by smaudet 2y ago
> The proper way of doing it is to use the API calls that have existed for decades A user doesn't want to do this though. I tried casually using a windows 11 machine for something the other day (I think I was fixing game folders for
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by smaudet 2y ago
Another big, big difference, anybody, not just some black-hat pro with a long kill chain of zero-days, has a fantastic source of data to exfiltrate. Perhaps you didn't note before, or are one yourself, but this includes e.g. abusive sp
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by smaudet 2y ago
> It's how it's always been, always. I don't know, I don't think sending in product registration cards could/would often result in your bank account being drained... > It's all much more pervasive and inv
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by smaudet 2y ago
> They shouldn't be allowed to do that and still prevent me from pirating the content This is the only part I partially disagree with - privacy is a thing, and privacy of personal information is (or should be) a thing as well. This
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by smaudet 2y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/07/arm-earnings-report-q3-2024-... https://www.techpowerup.com/322317/amd-hits-highest-ever-x86... Did a pretty simple search, but these appear to be the tre
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by smaudet 2y ago
Yeah...what I'd really like to do would be to give a character a "natural" background color, e.g. Then its simple for support to say "red is one, green is ell". But you can't just add a color to a character,
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by smaudet 2y ago
I wonder if Unicode could be used to alter the characters such that these mistakes would be less possible, e.g. using ⓪.
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by smaudet 2y ago
> Your database starts to look like git... No, your table archives start to look like git. Which is not a bad thing, version control on data in a database is very difficult, if not impractical to realize, I would take any history that I
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by smaudet 2y ago
> but you cannot get around the problem of having to trust someone. You still don't get it... At the end of the day, I don't have to trust anyone with an OS that I fully control, with hardware that I fully control, because I ca
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by smaudet 2y ago
Work computers are like this, a bit, but typically they don't exfiltrate their own data outside their own corporate borders. That's a big deal/difference. The other issue, the vendors tend not to leave glaring security holes
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by smaudet 2y ago
> My point is that there isn’t a technical reason that prevents Linus distros, or any other OS, from restarting your computer whenever it feels like it. Wrong, the point of the operating system is to manage local state, hardware, etc. Th
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by smaudet 2y ago
Yeah, the important 3rd wheel of the video space: 1) Hosting space/cpu/bandwidth. Video is one of the most intense data jobs out there, behind I suppose maybe AI and Big Data (if anyone is still doing that). You need Terabytes of
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by smaudet 2y ago
https://graphql.org/blog/2020-12-08-defer-stream/ This? Yeah, that seems neat, for command/batch queuing. I'd be curious how it compares to e.g. rest apis returning refs to e.g. webrtc streams or tcp&#x2
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by smaudet 2y ago
>You are bouncing back between it is ony for startups and it requires enterprise level maintenance. It can be used easily for both. No, I never said that. You are the one that brought FB into the equation. Just because it can be used f

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