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Posted on 19-05-19, 00:51 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Post: #301 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
Posted by Screwtape Could be. He's right about C++ anyhow. But I wouldn't think so, based on the context of the overall conversation and his stated location. He retweeted a far more serious tweet arguing essentially the same point. He doesn't seem to be one of the webdev people though, just one of the Rust people, who are usually decent folks, so I suppose that undermines my point a bit. No idea about the woman, she seems to have changed judging by her recent tweets. I'd have nothing against people writing their websites in Rust anyhow, although it does tend to attract webdev people and I personally think it looks butt-ugly, but that's neither here nor there. That's the old "we'll work on both systems in parallel until the new system can replace the old system" trap, which generally results in both systems running in parallel until somebody notices the new system is guzzling money and nobody's using it, so it gets canned. Yeah, which would make sense, but does Facebook really add features at such a high rate that it'd be infeasible? They already maintain one version in parallel for the third world (not making this up) because the real one got too bloated. It'd be a new codebase, so I don't think it'd take them those three-four years to start working on it, assuming they're not hiring them fresh out of college. It should be a warning bell that their app has ballooned out of control, anyway. They didn't pay their way out of it, they expended developer effort on creating some kind of hack to postpone it. IE6+XP were products of exactly the same mindset that brings you Facebook Messenger today; if Facebook Messenger spends half its computrons on functionality and loses half through inefficiencies like "modularity" and "debuggability", IE6+XP did exactly the same thing, but they had less computrons to start with, so they were less inefficient on an absolute scale. Absolutely. But after a few iterations of Moore's law, IE6 and XP have become paragons of bleeding-edge optimization. If Microsoft had just never tried to force Vista (which of course it would always have done since it was inevitable and had to happen), then computers would have gotten cheaper and bloat would have forcefully been kept down. So logically, if the Chinese force us to go back to IE6+XP, that should likewise be a step forward for technology. It would also solve that whole Spectre issue, since people would have far bigger problems to worry about. I see no downsides. https://xkcd.com/1200/ There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-05-19, 12:00 in Something about cheese!
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Post: #302 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
Posted by Screwtape I know, I was talking about the article's poorly hidden praise for grades over SAT: A movement to establish test-optional admissions among colleges has gained steam as critics have asked why grades are not a good enough indicator of academic potential. As always, when a newspaper article contains phrases like "critics say," "according to observers," or "has been widely questioned," but without actually telling who these critics/observers/questioners are, it's just a thinly veiled attempt to put your own views in someone else's mouth. Short of cheating (which is feasible to prevent), SAT is 100% fair. If somebody's not academically inclined, college probably isn't for them. If somebody's poor but smart, well, scholarships are a thing, but even without a scholarship college is a good excuse for someone to get out of the environment that's holding them back. Yeah, but the claim seems to be that poor but smart people somehow score poorly (no pun intended) on the SAT and that's why it has to be abolished. How do you mean America's student loan system makes tertiary education far less effective? Perverse incentives, like? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-05-20, 01:24 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Post: #303 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
Posted by https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-tech-alphabet-exclusive/exclusive-google-suspends-some-business-with-huawei-after-trump-blacklist-source-idUSKCN1SP0NB What next? Huawei's business is 51.6% China, with EMEA (presumably mostly Europe) and Americas (presumably mostly USA) clocking in at 6.6% and 28.4% respectively. And the brand damage could be quite bad, if people become unsure as to whether their phones will keep getting updates or not. The US could fuck them up real good (FCC hard blacklist of phones from 4G network) if they felt like it, but probably they won't do that. And Huawei could also undertake drastic measures as long as the Chinese government backs them. Could Huawei rely solely on Chinese/allied technology? How far will the Americans go in trying to stop them? What will Huawei do in response to this? [politics] Are they going to trigger the recession as they allow him to do this so they can blame it on protectionism and attempt a rerun of 2008? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-05-20, 09:41 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Post: #304 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
What tablet do you have? Usually they're most known as "Allwinner ___ tablet" instead of by the actual model name, which is just made up on the spot. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-05-20, 12:59 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Post: #305 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
So what should be done then? Ads are invasive, and nobody wants to donate. Sponsorship isn't feasible for small/controversial/broad websites. This leaves crypto mining, which would be almost flawless provided it could be done with the GPU, but browsers block it because it threatens the ad industry. All the other options are far, far more immoral than tracking ads. Sure, most websites you could probably just run for free by optimizing the software, but some websites do have legitimate editorial expenses they can't get around. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-05-20, 15:51 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Post: #306 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
Posted by tomman Are you familiar with the concept of social Darwinism? (in other words: why there are hardly any such websites online) Ads are not invasive if done right. Nor are they profitable. Buttcoin mining is blocked out of PERFORMANCE reasons - it's MY computer, and you have no right to murder my battery life, turn it into a furnace, or simply deadlocking my browser because I dared visiting your minefield of a "website". Which is understandable. But for the browser to block it (while not blocking ads) is incomprehensible. I can't see slower websites being intrinsically inferior to ad-filled websites. And this is clearly a matter of taste, yet Mozilla forces theirs down my throat. The only logical explanation for this is that Google forced them to do it. Posted by tomman It's not their money, so that's not it. It's the demands from the web developers (who are too incompetent to write good anything, which is why they're webdevs in the first place) that someone else optimize their shitty code driving it. And to this Mozilla/Google gives in because it nets a short-term performance improvement in benchmarks, which in theory puts them ahead of the competition, which the webdevs can then sacrifice for a short-term development velocity improvement (alt: lower level of skill required = larger candidate pool = lower wages = more profit). And this cycle is overseen by Google and their subsidiary Mozilla, who both stand to gain from browsers getting more complex. Also remember that Mozilla is more concerned about politics than they are about browsers, and spend a large chunk of their incomes on random projects in Africa/India. In other words, they welcome anything which gives them more money for these, even if it lead to the death of the web in the long term, which is why they accept their current status. I agree with you that it's regrettable, but it's too late to do anything about it and worse things are coming anyway. The point of no return was passed several years ago. Unless you're aiming to become one of the few (in which case, good luck), there is not much of a point in complaining about things outside of your control. Posted by wareya There's a threshold effect. But yeah, for small places Patreon might be better. Provided they're not small and controversial, but then they can only take crypto donations/JS mining anyway. If you're too "controversial" to find sponsors, then you're "controversial" in a very bad way. Not really. If you're a political party with 5% of the vote, that's hardly fringe (or, well, it could be, but e.g. ALDE are both small and non-fringe), but you've more or less limited your advertiser pool to 0.05*(share of advertisers who want to make their political views an integral part of their brand) + 0.95*(share of advertisers who want to pretend they agree with you for some reason). For the really controversial places, not even stuff like Google ads or even HOT XXX WEBCAM MODELS/PDF DRIVER FREE DOWNLOAD will have you. And who decides if they're "controversial" in a very bad way? Zuckerberg the benevolent? I don't see this being a problem. Surely you could sponsor specific publications if you're big enough, like big youtubers do. How do you mean? If you're running a website about cars, then obviously car companies or whatever might be interested in sponsoring you. If you run a website about computer hardware, well you get the picture. But if you run something like imgur or twitter, then who'll advertise there? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-05-20, 19:58 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 1)
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Post: #307 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
No point in screaming. It's like the weather. Sure, you can complain all you want, but it doesn't make it stop raining. The only reason things ever got this far was because the masses were willing to subsidize the development of, say, CPUs, because they needed them for business and play. Now that is done with smartphones instead, so that's where the development will be. The days of public opposition against DRM, rampant piracy, and 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B (amazing that I could still type it out from memory) are long gone. Likewise, the masses aren't particularly bothered about their giant Facebook apps because it's easier to just spend $X on a new phone (realistically, they'd just ask their carrier to add a few dollars on to the subscription and send them a new one) with more storage, problem solved. So that's what'll happen, too. All you can hope for is that the future turns out closer to Psycho-Pass than Brave New World, although there's not really anything you can do to change it either way. An optimistic perspective could be that things will get far worse, so you should better enjoy things while they last. Although I suppose, for you, if things are shit now but maybe going to get better, it kind of cancels out. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-05-21, 00:04 in Blackouts
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Post: #308 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
Posted by tomman What, they can't just [expletive deleted]-rig it? Go back to magstripe cards, then do MITM on the modems to get their servers to do the verification. Super cheap to make the cards/readers, and reasonably secure if you use biometric ID cards. No changeover costs, since the system would treat it identically to regular forged cards. I mean, if they're banned by Visa/MasterCard anyway, why bother getting certified when all you need is Glorious Venezuela Certification? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-05-21, 00:35 in PSA: The kilogram has been redefined
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Post: #309 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
Are the ratios so awkward and clumsy, though? If you want to get riled up about units, the 1954 redefinition of the degree Celsius is far more disgusting. I always think of it like having several definitions, one for each level of precision. So the meter's 'common sense' definition is the length of a seconds pendulum. Then for basic scientific measurements, you'd use the meridian definition, and for serious ones the one with the speed of light. And from that, you get the liter, and from that the kilogram. This allows me to pretend that the metric system is perfectly logical, while disregarding all evidence to the contrary, or treating as a "neat approximation trick". Everybody's happy. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-05-21, 00:42 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Post: #310 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
Phone but no food. It's like something out of a bad movie or something. Maybe you can use it as a NAS? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-05-21, 13:59 in Blackouts
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Post: #311 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
Posted by tomman Wait, what? Just how scarce on resources are you? Magstripe cards do not exactly have strict tolerances. You could probably achieve something barely passing with VHS tape and cardboard, or just re-use old cards - I assume the banks at least have their embossing machines left. Completely unironically, why can't they just use phones? It works even in Africa. Not that we're going to need banks for the next year anyway... in the country where food sellers at the streets ("bachaqueros") not only no longer take anything but hard currency, they even REJECT anything under $10 banknotes! ONLY IN VENEZUELA™, people: the only country where not every greenback is welcome! Huh, what's the story on this? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-05-21, 15:16 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Post: #312 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
Posted by https://web.archive.org/web/20190521090836/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/21/us-eases-restrictions-on-chinas-huawei-to-keep-networks-operating.html Posted by me two days ago Apparently, they won't go anywhere at all, because of course it's a major American policy goal that China take over the technology market. Not satirical about that last one. They're giving China aid, even today. Well, I suppose they'll have whatever happens coming, so it doesn't really matter what that is. Still sad though. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-05-21, 22:10 in Blackouts
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Post: #313 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
Wait, what? That's over $6/SIM according to dolartoday (are they trustworthy?). I don't think they cost as much here in the first world, even after factoring in all the certifications and stuff. Bulk price from China is $0.10 a piece, for reference. Anecdote: my cell provider had to send me a few of them because I fat-fingered their website, and didn't charge for it. It seems like they at least would have some kind of "confirm" dialog if it costs them that much. I would ask what the hell is going on in your country, but I have a feeling I already know your answer to that question. But how can you have smartphones without affording SIM cards? What? --- Even over shitty 2G GSM, you could key in a few numbers and hang up. Without internet, a locally computed QR code on your end and a camera on theirs would work fine. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-05-22, 13:24 in SNES Hardware Revisions, continued
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Post: #314 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
Isn't this a job for neural networks? I'm not one of the "smart AI contracts on the blockchain" people, but it seems like a perfect fit. Brute-force image processing that can be split up into multiple steps, validated, and doesn't require human-specific intuition like e.g. store front detection does. 1. from die shot to colored lines 2. from colored lines to gates 3. from gates to netlist You could validate steps 2 and 3 with a simulator, and you could generate training data for step 1 by passing semi-randomly generated VHDL into OrCAD or similar, then apply data augmentation to get stuff resembling die shots. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-05-22, 13:25 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Post: #315 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
Maybe a good ol' fashioned mount with shadowing? * Make directories a and b somewhere * Bind-mount /system into a * Bind-mount b into /system * Put in whatever you want to add to /system in b * Hard link whatever you want to keep from old /system from a to b Still wastes storage though. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-05-24, 21:55 in Something about cheese!
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Post: #316 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
SAT isn't the same as standardized testing for specific subjects, which is what the video is about. The SAT is a well-recognized psychometric test used for entry into university run by a non-profit, standardized testing for specific subjects (in common parlance, "standardized testing") is a uniquely American type of fraud run by private companies. Many European countries do have tests which happen to be standardized, and they don't have these problems. Likewise, the SAT is a standardized test ("test which is standardized"), but it's not a Standardized Test as referred to in the video. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-05-25, 20:30 in GNOME: "Please don't theme our apps"
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Post: #317 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
"Please sign in to view" What the fuck, GitHub? It's one thing to hide it, another entirely to require me to make an account (with your "secure" e-mails) to view it. I suppose it's part of their "diversity and inclusion" initiative - of course we have to enable developers to hide all criticism because this is a fundamental human right. (no, I'm not making this up, they did actually do the censorship stuff because of the so-called women developers) But I digress. That's for Politics!. Anyway, the comments are still there in the source. .unminimized-comment {display: block;}. Or for the lazy:
GaugeK commented 20 hours ago
I... I don't get why these comments are 'disruptive'. They're not even rude. They have constructive and calm feedback. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-05-25, 21:05 in GNOME: "Please don't theme our apps"
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Post: #318 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
None of these comments were very fierce though. oyvinds expresses some minor dislike for the GNOME project and implies their developers are incompetent, GaugeK suggests using irrelevant icons is abnormal, edwinfoss describes the standard theme as "horrible", and dilworks (tomman) implies their API isn't sane. And they were all removed for being off-topic, except for tomman's. GaugeK's is literally a direct response to article, for crying out loud! How on earth ccould it possibly be off-topic? I get that you might want to hide oyvinds' if you're running an extremely formal issue tracker (the kind where you get permabanned for using contractions or the word 'you'), but the rest I can find absolutely nothing wrong or irrelevant with. "Sane" has a very specific meaning within software development, the "horrible" gets substantiated in the same sentence, and "normal icons" are what the developers are suggesting people use. As always, The Onion predicted this. Posted by https://www.theonion.com/college-encourages-lively-exchange-of-idea-1819577755 There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-05-25, 22:19 in Dear modern UXtards...
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Post: #319 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
Man, I hate discourse. Today, I wanted to do a fairly simple action: find all posts by user in this thread. On a reasonable forum, how would it be done? CTRL-F "username", done. However, with the "new technology" of treating the browser as an obstacle you want to get rid of and using JavaScript+XHR+JSON to build the page this flies out of the window. To "fix" this, discourse graciously pops up the "search in forum" box instead. Which might work fine if you were looking for what they wrote, but not for their usernames. You might try opening the regular CTRL-F box. Which you can do. But you can only search in the tiny fraction of the page that's currently visible, for some reason. Why would anyone possibly want to do this? Just keep the page loaded when you scroll somewhere else, it would both be better and less development work. They have all the UI primitives right there, but they choose to discard them and then re-implement them as poor hacks, breaking any niche functionalities and introducing whole new classes of issues that weren't there before, like loading times WHILE SCROLLING, or how about LAG becomes an issue for a bloody forum software. Man, I hate discourse. /rant There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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Posted on 19-05-25, 22:21 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Post: #320 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1548 days Last view: 1546 days |
What happens if you just try to mount /system as RW in the terminal? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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