Carpetsmoker

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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
Perhaps this is a cultural difference, but the entire thing just seems strange from my own (European) perspective. Only in the US do people seem to take pride in their measurement system as some sort of patriotic symbol, which is why I orig
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
I guess ... but "God Bless America!" seems like a statement to me.
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
I can't tell if this is intended to be serious or a parody? "All units set in inches" makes it sound like a parody, but the "God bless America" footer makes it sound serious? Hmmm
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
Would it matter? I can release all the source I want, but what guarantees this is also what's running on the actual endpoint?
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
What advantage does this give you? DDG just gave you a list of URLs, so how can it be "tracking" the results it just presented to you? The issue, as I understand it, is that the Android app loads the favicon service for search res
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
> Fair question, you shouldn't be getting downvoted for it imo. Well, the question is pretty much answered in the actual article. From the looks of it, this seems to be responding to just the title without having actually read the p
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
Yeah, maybe. I don't really know much of the Windows internals, so I try not to assume too much (hence my question in the top comment[1], which was very much a "curiosity"-question, and not a "omg, wtf"-question). [
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
The device was released in Oct 2018 though, so at the time it was the newest Android version (9 was just released, probably too late in the Palm dev cycle). The $280 price tag is a biggest show-stopper IMO (and according to the Palm website
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
I think that might actually be harder than it sounds though, since Windows is such an integrated system.
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but if you're going to do forced updates then you might as well spend some time making the entire user experience nicer. I don't know what the technical challenges are exac
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
So what is the latency on seL4 then for a similar program? And how well is the performance under real-world desktop conditions compared to Linux, macOS, Windows, etc? I read through that PDF and it doesn't really contain concrete answe
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
But there are also a lot of drawbacks of RTOS systems, no? Just searching "Real-time operating system downsides" shows a lot of drawbacks that makes it seem like a poor fit for a general-purpose OS: multi-tasking is limited, it&#x
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
I'm sorry, but this is such a non-answer. What am I supposed to do with this? Clearly things aren't that simple to achieve negligible latency, otherwise we would have it. I bet there are a lot of trade-offs involved here (there us
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
What would a "non-pathetic" latency look like? What improvements in "the stack" would be needed? The 130ms is "the time from light hitting the camera to when it appears on-screen on the other side". The article
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
BitCoin has fluctuated much more than 10% in the last year though: https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=XBT&to=USD&view=1Y Certainly much more than USD/EUR: https://www.xe.com/currencych
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
Discounting an entire tool just because you don't like their recommended installation method (which you're hardly forced to use) sounds rather strange to me.
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
Sponsored search results are marked as such in the Google results, it's nothing like the automagic redirect Safari is showing here.
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
You don't need anything, but it's a useful way to do it without any significant drawbacks. In many cases, it's more or less the only option.
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
IMO it's pretty much useless (and possibly even harmful) and a failed experiment. GoatCounter intentionally ignores it. Context: https://www.arp242.net/dnt.html
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
> I was surprised matomo wasn't listed here. Does anyone know if that was intentional? Seems like it fits the criteria of the post and the goals of open source. Yes, this was intentional as this article was focused on "light-we
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
Counting how many people come in to your store and how many of them actually but something is not "spying".
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
GA alternatives are a fairly new thing. When I looked at this in May last year there was essentially only one alternative: Matomo. It seems some sort of "critical mass" has been reached, and in the last year quite a few people hav
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
Note that Fanthom had a change of ownership, and that the original author doesn't seem entirely happy with the change of direction either.
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
SimpleAnalytics does this.
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
There may actually quite a lot of PII in the HTTP headers: IP address, Accept-Language, and User-Agent being the most obvious (especially mobile browsers often send a ridiculous amount of PII in the User-Agent header). There's also s
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
GoatCounter author here: yeah, that's not perfect; this also came up in the HN discussion for the article a while ago[1]. I've been in touch with one of the authors of the EUPL since and the short of it is that they don't rea
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
You can set up a proxy, which isn't too hard (and operating a proxy is a lot simpler than operating an analytics service)
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
> And I disagree with another commenter here saying Analytics is just for vanity. That's not true — even for a personal blog analytics are useful to see which articles are still being visited and thus need to be kept up to date, or
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
I did a write-up of solutions that I'm aware of here: https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter/blob/master/docs/sessio... – happy to add more if anyone knows of any.
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by Carpetsmoker 6y ago
The Go authors acknowledged the usefulness of generics as far back as 2009, shortly after its public release: https://research.swtch.com/generic

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