xigoi

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1. 901.▲
   by xigoi 1y ago

   For such big data, you should definitely be using an efficient format, not JSON.
2. 902.▲
   by xigoi 1y ago

   > Edit: I was not aware of the FSF's definition. I was using a definition of free software being software that you can use without having to pay for it. That’s called freeware. Also, open-source software can be paid (with the caveat
3. 903.▲
   by xigoi 1y ago

   GPL is for when you want people to use it. MIT is for when you want megacorporations to turn it into enshittified proprietary software and profit off of it without giving back to you.
4. 904.▲
   by xigoi 1y ago

   Although they have made contributions, they do not control the project. By using Linux, I am not helping Microsoft get more money or exert more control over the tech world.
5. 905.▲
   by xigoi 1y ago

   Since when is Linux a Microsoft project?
6. 906.▲
   by xigoi 1y ago

   GitLab is just as bad. I personally use SourceHut, but Forgejo also seems fine.
7. 907.▲
   by xigoi 1y ago

   Problems I’ve encountered recently: • Pages often take tens of seconds to load, even on a stable internet connection. • Using the back/forward buttons takes a few seconds and if I click them several times, it results in the page shown
8. 908.▲
   by xigoi 1y ago

   > Over democracy: no danger for it to swing into fascism or autocracy. I hate to break it to you, but fascism is not the only form of autocracy.
9. 909.▲
   by xigoi 1y ago

   > Are those moving away from Github, also dropping Typescript, .NET, Electron, npm, VSCode,....? I don’t use any of these technologies for my projects.
10. 910.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    SourceHut builds are not free, but cheap if you’re an “amateur hacker” ($2/month).
11. 911.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    On technical grounds, the UI is broken and slow as fuck.
12. 912.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    What’s up with people thinking that the word “up” cannot have negative connotations?
13. 913.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    Following a convention is not prejudice. Conventions are generally a good thing.
14. 914.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    So you’d just need about 100 vapes. If you have a friend who uses them, should not take long to collect.
15. 915.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    Pretty sure 0b11000000 and 0b11000001 are also UTF-8’s fault. Good point with the others, I guess. And I agree about UTF-8 being the best, just found it funny.
16. 916.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    Thanks to UTF-8, there are 13 wasted 1-byte sequences in UTF-8 :P
17. 917.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    ŠDoes Šit Šstill Šrequire Šwriting Ša Šdollar Šbefore Ševery Švariable, Šmaking Šcode Šannoying Što Šread?
18. 918.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    > If you have a company/product/service, how would you attract customers? By offering a good product that people will happily recommend to others.
19. 919.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    > Do you mean for versioning requiring `vX.Y.Z` tags? That, and also it has to be specifically Semantic Versioning.
20. 920.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    > There are multiple open source AI models far beyond what SOTA was just 1 year ago. There are many models that call themselves open source, but the source is nowhere to be found, only the weights.
21. 921.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    Note that Mapy is built by a spyware company, just like Google Maps.
22. 922.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    I’m disappointed that it requires the plugins to have a specific scheme for naming branches, so it won’t be compatible with all plugins.
23. 923.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    I tried it a few months ago and it generally worked fine, although it had rough edges.
24. 924.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    You think Meta would pass up an opportunity to harvest data from users?
25. 925.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    > Online shopping just needs a credit card, no apps required. The app is required for two-factor authentication.
26. 926.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    This is not only “technically” wrong, but completely wrong. O-notation has absolutely nothing to do with algorithms.
27. 927.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    > Ask yourself why. The usual answer is that top experts either can't be bothered to create better content, or they actively gatekeep, believing that their field must remain hard to learn and the riff-raff must be kept out. Before a
28. 928.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    This is not about the programming language. Arbitrary-size integers make complexity analysis much more nuanced because arithmetic operations are no longer constant time.
29. 929.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    It turns out that if you use a fancy search engine to search instead of pretending that it’s intelligent, it will actually be good at its job. Who would have guessed?
30. 930.▲
    by xigoi 1y ago

    The separate namespaces mean that functions are considered as something fundamentally different from other values.