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by zamalek 2y ago
I wonder how many of this angry crowd donate. Mozilla do accept donations. Or maybe the idea is that employees/developers don't need to eat, which is incredibly ironic given who HN users typically are. There isn't a single li
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by zamalek 2y ago
He also mentioned doing a line-for-line port. Assuming you could somehow manage that, you'd probably end up with something slower than JS (not entirely a joke). I'm a rust fanboy, but have to concede that Go was the be t choice he
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by zamalek 2y ago
Depending on how long ago that was, it might be worth checking back in with it. It had a complete rewrite a few years back and it's now just as good as chrome mobile - I use IronFox, but there are also a few other forks. Still doesn&#x
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by zamalek 2y ago
FF mobile has mv2 support, as does its many forks.
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by zamalek 2y ago
The difference is negligible: https://nitter.net/gorhill/status/1792648742752981086 (uBOL appears as adblox).
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After the enterprise grace period the code will be deleted from the project. You can expect a fork to appear that patches it back in (I doubt ungoogled chromium would be where that is done), but eventually that will become a nontrivial proc
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by zamalek 2y ago
Get it in while they still can, I guess?
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by zamalek 2y ago
This is coming from an Apple antagonist, but don't the Apple OSs have adblocking at a system level (implying Safari)? This does vindicate Apple (but doesn't help in the other legitimate scenarios that this API is needed, which I h
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by zamalek 2y ago
Furthermore > a panic!() or an abort() are much more annoying to catch and handle. By design. If you're hoping to catch a panic, then you're doing it woefully wrong. Catching panics is correct only in extremely niche scenario
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by zamalek 2y ago
As an [diagnosed] HF autistic person, this is unironically something I would go for in an earpiece. How many parameters is the model?
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by zamalek 2y ago
no_std seems somewhat novel, which might have been another motivating factor?
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by zamalek 2y ago
I am working on a pet project, using tactile "premium" 4/5-way switches in super-ergonomic form-factor keyboard (initially like the logitech vertical mouse, but that turned out awful). The only model to not get hung up on Che
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by zamalek 2y ago
Don't forget IRC. My previous employer [very reasonably] blocked Discord with their MITM. This meant that the numerous developer/package discords were inaccessible to me. Gitter exists, and they use Element. As well as many other
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by zamalek 2y ago
39gb if you use a fp8 quantized model.[1] Remember that your OS might be using some of that itself. As far as I recall, Ollama/llama.cpp recently added a feature to page-in parameters - so you'll be able to go arbitrarily large so
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by zamalek 2y ago
I forgot about Micron, absolutely. TSMC is the supplier for all of these, so you're covering both memory and compute if that's your strategy (the risk is that US TSMC is over provisioning manufacturing based on the pandemic hardwa
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by zamalek 2y ago
I don't think there's a huge use-case locally, if you're happy with the subscription cost and privacy. That is, yet. Give it maybe 2 years and someone will probably invent something which local inference would seriously bene
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by zamalek 2y ago
Jerking print heads for laser? That's not how laser printers work. Either way, I'm using 3rd party toner in mine (6515) just fine. It looks like people who have issues purchased metered printers.
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by zamalek 2y ago
I had a really shitty customer support interaction for a $60 Brother scanner: they included the wrong calibration sheet, and proceeded to attempt gas lighting me about user error despite photos showing it didn't fit in the scanner unde
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by zamalek 2y ago
> I hope enough people can distinguish between one administration and "the people" "The people" voted for this administration precisely because of its xenophobic stance. Nearly half of us didn't want this, but
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by zamalek 2y ago
I think the GP might have been referring to voters, I frequently hear from them how Republican economics are better because, allegedly, there is less spending ("allegedly" is doing a lot of work there - we all know how the nationa
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by zamalek 2y ago
I haven't seen anything on memory vulnerability issues. The project originated within a larger project to implement an operating system from scratch - including all dependencies (e.g. font parsing/shaping, image parsing, libc, you
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by zamalek 2y ago
AWS pages are built by different teams, and it shows. We're all supposed to use IAC though, right? In all seriousness, even in the face of IAC, the one thing Azure can do that AWS can't [at the time this happened to me], is have a
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by zamalek 2y ago
Experimentation. I have heard that LÖVE is a great engine for prototyping game mechanics. You know; have some colored circles and some boxes and see if your game mechanics pan out (if you're doing artwork then you're doing prototy
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by zamalek 2y ago
I helped a friend install Linux last year; they had an NVIDIA card, aaaand they had problems. Both in X and Wayland. I'm was on a 6000 series at the time and it worked great, as you know. I am on a 7000 series now, and it's as smo
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> “When you place data centers in environments that are already very, very cold...the performance actually also improves significantly,” Verma says. “Because when you go down in temperature, things like electrical resistance also go down
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One major benefit of publishers is a salary while the game is being developed. The other major benefit is marketing, the linked Steam page is titled: > 200K Ballionaires! > Where do you all keep coming from?! A good portion of those c
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by zamalek 2y ago
I think people struggle with the fact that it's not a legally so. However, per the article, Bezos is exerting power over WP because Amazon lost contracts to Microsoft (due to WP being critical of Trump). Their balance sheets may not be
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by zamalek 2y ago
If you can handle the consumer load in the region without local plants, maybe? That would still only be a 90% test because you can't completely blackout a region for testing purposes, consumers would get angry.
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Complete blackstarts are scary stuff. We have all this infrastructure to assist with pulling one off, but it's not the kind of thing you can test. As they saying goes "your backups are only as good as the last time you tried to re
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by zamalek 2y ago
> She can also help you search, find or buy virtually any item online, and make useful suggestions based on your interests. The Alexa team have been struggling to make this a reality since day one according to some contacts I had there,

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