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by whstl 11mo ago
People wanted more direct control over the GPU and memory, instead of having the drivers do that hard work. To fix this AMD developed Mantle in 2013. This inspired others: Apple released Metal in 2014, Microsoft released DX12 in 2015, and K
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by whstl 11mo ago
His wife is in a coma
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by whstl 11mo ago
I'm always suspicious of people who go "this is easy" as a way to put others down. ...especially when it's about problems that are universally accepted as not being trivial, and often require entire teams and ecosystems
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by whstl 11mo ago
Most of this reply has nothing to do with mine. Your post that I replied to was about fingerprinting caused by DNT. This has nothing to do with ePrivacy. Websites don't get to "follow one regulation but not another", so if yo
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by whstl 11mo ago
It definitely is. My experience with GDPR lawyers is that they treat every "cookie" as requiring consent purely because of lack of information and difficulty in fully assessing the full picture. In every other field, lawyers have
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by whstl 11mo ago
This is such a tired HN cliche response and it comes up as a negative whenever people mention things that actually improve users privacy, even ad blockers. It honestly boils down to this: If some website is breaking GDPR regulations, sure,
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by whstl 11mo ago
It's not complicated because "bosses" accomplish this by saying "let's reduce the cost of doing business" to someone who actually does whatever is needed. The value of a boss/manager when there's no e
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by whstl 11mo ago
I worked in the tech side of education until 15 years ago or so, and it was already clear how problematic it was getting. Distance learning was basically a dimly-lit grainy video, recorded 5 years prior, all acquired from the same provider
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by whstl 11mo ago
I get finance scam ads all day on Instagram and Youtube, so it seems like a wash to me. If anything I have more sympathy for that mafia.
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by whstl 11mo ago
You don't find the environment to be fragile because millions of human hours have been spent fixing those problems or working around them. Which is significantly more than was needed for different technologies to achieve similar result
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by whstl 11mo ago
Bingo. The founders have no maturity, responsibility and believe they "made it" because they got somewhere AI. Now they're pushing back against AI because they can't understand the app anymore.
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by whstl 11mo ago
I don't think bosses are smart enough to pull this off.
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by whstl 11mo ago
I recently had a very interesting interaction in a few small startups I freelanced for recently. In a 1-year company, the only tech person that's been there for more than 3-4 months (the CTO), only really understands a tiny fraction of
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by whstl 11mo ago
Most will fail, but I don't say this because I'm a pessimist: it's just that for every AI business idea, there's always at least 10 different competitors.
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by whstl 11mo ago
Nah, it carried over to scripting languages. Most of them still require a very specific, very special, very fragile environment to run, and require multiple tools and carefully ran steps just so it does same you can do with a compiled execu
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by whstl 11mo ago
Most websites in the EU also aren't following the law.
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by whstl 11mo ago
A lot of people at HN work in industries that track, or are the ones choosing to use the banners in the first place.
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by whstl 11mo ago
uBlock blocks most of those for me lately.
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by whstl 11mo ago
As long as there is Do-Not-Track as well, and companies must follow BOTH, this would be ok by me. But this one alone opens the door to behavior similar to tracking cookies, where accepting all was easy and not accepting was hard af.
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by whstl 11mo ago
I guess that's totally fair. People are hard wired to pattern-match faces, and someone who deviates from the norm will attract attention. I was more talking about judgement of people who did just to still look normal but better, simila
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by whstl 11mo ago
Plenty of people trying to hurl racial slurs here, but they're mostly all shadow banned and not really truly participating in the discussions.
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by whstl 11mo ago
Don't forget there's 2 or 3 of each in YC2026.
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by whstl 11mo ago
Most of VSCode (yes, most) is a mishmash of other OSS products, including Google Chromium! By that logic VSCode itself shouldn't exist.
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by whstl 11mo ago
It is also how a lot of people behave professionally and in their dating life, even later in life.
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by whstl 11mo ago
I'm criticizing being an asshole to people who are not naturally the way society expects and had to work their way through. But to be fair I'm mostly criticizing useless HN post-hoc rationalization. > Refusing to be an asshole
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by whstl 11mo ago
I'm not saying anywhere that those behaviors don't exist. I'm just saying that there is no game anywhere, except in the head of people who are pretending to play a game.
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by whstl 11mo ago
I'm not saying the word is just anywhere in my message. I'm just saying I can call a spade a spade. If anything, it's the rationalizations around certain behaviors that are claiming the world is perfect and just as is.
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by whstl 11mo ago
Nope. I'm using it correctly. You might be in denial, though ;)
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And there is nothing positive or productive about the kind of judgement I'm talking about.
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Calling it "ulterior motive" is already a judgement call. Being better at socialization is virtually demanded by society. "Not looking good" is also punished. There is nothing ulterior about anything. The fact that a cer

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