Lorkki

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by Lorkki 22d ago
Fair point, there's a lot of nutritional bunk going about. I'm not an expert either, but the Wikipedia article seems to cover the big studies that I've heard of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_alterna
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by Lorkki 26d ago
> What we do know: neurons carry electrical impulses across their synapses to trigger other neurons to fire, and more frequently used synapses are strengthened while infrequently used ones are pruned. This is not all that dissimilar to h
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by Lorkki 27d ago
This is DRM as in Direct Rendering Manager, which is the kernel interface to GPU hardware; not Digital Rights Management.
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by Lorkki 1mo ago
If I remember correctly, actual pirated copies would have been maybe tens of megabytes, since they didn't include the CD audio. But that would still have been a hefty modem download.
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by Lorkki 1mo ago
The cookie laws and GDPR are hampered by malicious compliance, sure, but also outright intentional non-compliance. What's needed is more efficient oversight and enforcement.
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by Lorkki 1mo ago
Rust has it as an experimental feature: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/keyword.become.html Of course it's nowhere near a guarantee that it would land in the stable language, but it's still an oppor
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by Lorkki 5mo ago
In recent years we've also had browser-exploitable vulnerabilities that allowed reading arbitrary memory as a regular user, but slowly or without full control over the locations. I think wiping credentials as soon as possible after use
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by Lorkki 5mo ago
Manufacturing dispute on non-disputed things is also a common tactic to influence people and create confusion and disorder. For that you don't need to turn the facts on their head, just make the result seem indecisive.
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by Lorkki 6mo ago
There were decent and reasonably thin layers over that to solve the immediate practical issues (e.g. Delphi, MFC), but they're no longer fashionable and nothing seems to have replaced them in the same space. Maybe we need a "NoFra
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by Lorkki 7mo ago
I think there's similarity to the dynamic too. Not many instances have the means at this time to produce LLMs from scratch and operate them at scale.
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by Lorkki 7mo ago
IBM owned literally the whole market on computers at a time when computing equipment was prohibitively expensive and centralised.
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by Lorkki 7mo ago
At their best they had an exceptional amount of demoscene / game development content overall, as well as several full (usually "previous") versions of various creative software like 3D modeling or photo editing apps. Later on
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by Lorkki 8mo ago
Brutalism doesn't signify "brutality" though, it's about leaving the building materials bare and favouring clean lines. Those glass and steel buildings could also be considered brutalist architecture of a different flavo
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by Lorkki 8mo ago
> library quality and algorithm choice And especially having performant and actively maintained default choices built in. With C, as described in the post you responded to, you'll typically end up building a personal collection of d
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by Lorkki 9mo ago
It's made a lot of sense in general if you think about the business models around open source products. An extensive test suite gives you the ability to engineer changes effectively and efficiently, meaning that you can also add additi
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by Lorkki 1y ago
I've occasionally spent time doing and even fighting for latency optimisations that supposedly don't matter in the great scheme of things, but that resulted in customers leaving positive feedback about how the product is noticeabl
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by Lorkki 1y ago
It's also repeating what the hellscape of inconsistent skinned UIs did in the late 90s and early 2000s. People are looking back at those times with a rather selective memory.
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by Lorkki 2y ago
> As an aside, I know tons of experienced "Senior" developers who just suck at their jobs. The problem is they have tons of experience in delivering terrible products based on terrible code and architectural decisions. It'
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by Lorkki 2y ago
Apple have always preferred preserving letter forms over hinting, so Macs are therefore also "blurry" on lower DPI displays. The reason they aren't these days is because the DPI is higher. Usually when people complain about t
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by Lorkki 2y ago
I guess in the same sense that every functional aircraft is. Taking everything apart and putting it back together, replacing worn out parts, is considered normal maintenance.
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by Lorkki 3y ago
Altered Carbon also.
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by Lorkki 3y ago
There was definitely a key combination that would skip the whole thing (out of old memory, alt-x?).
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by Lorkki 3y ago
I switched to a new Android phone just weeks ago. Choosing the search engine was part of the onboarding wizard.
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by Lorkki 3y ago
It would be pretty strange for experts to recommend doing something that they consider ineffective or harmful.
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by Lorkki 3y ago
The expert opinions that I've seen so far have indicated that geoengineering at any scale that we're realistically able to produce on a short notice is unlikely to have a sufficient effect on climate change. Essentially it's
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by Lorkki 3y ago
> I gather that OpenXR is lower level, but what exactly does that mean for an app developer? Mostly that they won't be using OpenXR directly. It's a standardised layer that lets many kinds of tools and libraries make use of the
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by Lorkki 3y ago
Morally, it's pretty significant that we make conscious decisions (as a process that we often see as distinct from the rest of the animal kingdom) to kill and eat thousands of other animals mostly for the sake of taste, rather than for
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by Lorkki 3y ago
Used to be that way for me too, but I believe with the latest LTS the slowdowns just went away. I'm using Firefox through the default Snap packaging every day, and it's just fine. This is also with the distro installed with all de
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by Lorkki 3y ago
As far as I know, Servo wasn't ever really intended to be a production browser. But significant parts of Firefox have been rewritten in Rust since, and those parts have included bits from Servo.
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by Lorkki 3y ago
Banners are in no way mandated, though. As the quoted text states, you need to have a policy easily available - the same as you'd have any other legal information on your website. Typically it isn't served on banners or popups, bu

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