blinzy

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by blinzy 2y ago
Unbelievable! how bloody rude can you be? To the moderators (dang), do people get to keep their account here just because they're a "famous" poster despite writing the way they're doing all over this post? I'm assum
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by blinzy 3y ago
The cost isn't just bandwidth, but also: - infrastructure (memory, CPU, disks...): all of which must deal with the huge amounts of data they manage (500+ hours of video uploaded every minute). - personnel cost (developers, SREs...) (al
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by blinzy 3y ago
When you take into consideration the median household income for both countries, the difference isn't as great as it sounds: - US: ~$70,000 (source: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo&#
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by blinzy 3y ago
what you've linked is the median household income, not individual income, i.e., calculated as the combined gross income of all members of a household, so it stands to reason that the individual median/average income is closer to t
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by blinzy 4y ago
I'm not saying it's impossible to sell software with one-time payment model, I'm saying it's noticeably harder. There's always going to be companies that make do with such business models, but what's the ratio
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by blinzy 4y ago
Yes, I know you said they do sell hardware and that's probably how they survive. If you look at my comment I said "if they only produced software", because I wanted to use it as an example (just from your £200 figure) with ba
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by blinzy 4y ago
It has become worse for you; for me as a user it has become incredibly smooth for my use case, requiring literally no tweaking/toggling whatsoever to have a decent experience out of the box, which definitely wasn't the case for me
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by blinzy 4y ago
If that company, the one that develops DaVinci Resolve, only produced software, would that model of £200 fixed one-time payment be sufficient to be financially viable? Let's say the company's headcount to develop/maintain suc
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by blinzy 4y ago
Is your first/native language SVO (subject-verb-object)? Mine isn't, it's VSO (verb-subject-object) or SOV (subject-object-verb), and for me the first example isn't more readable so I wonder if that also changes our pers
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by blinzy 4y ago
It's not about whether you like it, or they like it, or I like it; it's about being able to provide certain features that a subset (of which you may or may not be a member) desire or require. For example, taking web push notificat
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by blinzy 5y ago
How does Google search make money? By having people see or click on ads. First of all, if company X pays to have an ad published when a search query includes a particular set of terms then they definitely expect the ad to be present more or
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by blinzy 5y ago
From my personal experience, at work we use C and not Rust because for really low-level code (e.g., kernel bypass, niche datastructures, real-time, etc.) I believe Rust would have to use "unsafe" due to work with raw pointers and
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by blinzy 5y ago
I guess you can say C17 is a change if you want to be pedantic except it didn't actually introduce any new features; it just corrected some defects found in C11. So we have C89, C99, C11, and C2X (C23?) as the only revisions introducin
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by blinzy 5y ago
What? That's not my experience at all; from my desktop, tablet, and/or mobile phone browser I can access all subreddits I'm interested in without having to be logged in, including the one you mentioned, /r/programmi
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by blinzy 5y ago
I don't know which way the OP intended the "play the game" sentence, but I didn't take it to mean go work for Facebook or whatever; instead I took it as don't be naive in thinking you can fight against injustices in
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by blinzy 5y ago
I don't like how people downvoted this comment without even saying why. The wording may be harsh (not what I think, just attempting to guess) but I believe there is truth in it; although the idea of allowing free access to academic jou
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by blinzy 5y ago
I think the initiative will serve both to reduce inequality and bolster Xi; to what degree each is yet to be seen, I can only speculate. I do understand (and agree) with the fact that chances are Xi is not doing this out of the goodness of
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by blinzy 5y ago
Oh I definitely agree that is the case for certain sites, which will ask you for an outrageous fee and they may not even fully disable ads and/or tracking. But even in the fair payment scenario you're suggesting, how many people d
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by blinzy 5y ago
There may be some policies/actions from the Chinese government I don't like but certainly not that one, I think it's laudable to take measures to shrink the gap between rich and poor and raise the standard of living for every
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by blinzy 5y ago
Again my point with Aum is that, like NSU, they're microscopic in terms of percentage of population (NSU membership being 0.0002% of Germany, Aum being 0.001% of Japan) so it's missing the point of discussing behaviours that may e
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by blinzy 5y ago
I mean, Germany is not void of issues, or the UK, where I currently reside, or any other country really... But comparing my example with the NSU makes no sense to me, the NSU is comparable with Aum Shinrikyo (the Japanese cult that caused t
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by blinzy 5y ago
I believe we are interpreting hostile differently because for me it doesn't necessarily imply actively antagonistic or harmful, it can simply mean inhospitable/unfriendly and that to me is a textbook situation. Here there are also
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by blinzy 5y ago
The train situation is not "we were sat down --> he entered the train --> he decided not to sit down next to us and sat elsewhere", but "he was sat down --> we entered the train and sat close to him (not literally ne
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by blinzy 5y ago
Not the person you replied to but I've been to Japan twice, with different people, each for a month across Honshu/Kyushu and can definitely say there's a duality in how they behave towards foreigners... On one hand, as you me
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by blinzy 6y ago
Oh I definitely agree with you, I just found that workaround above because I was really frustrated as I don't see any advantage to having javascript enabled on my searches and was used to not needing it in Google, Duckduckgo, Ecosia, a
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by blinzy 6y ago
As I posted on another comment I think that happens because you have disabled Javascript and there seems to be a bug for English. If you use JS (as done for your Google search) it returns results as expected.
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by blinzy 6y ago
That also happens to me if I disable javascript (and therefore get their Qwant Lite page). However, it works if you use a non-English language: https://lite.qwant.com/?l=de&q=foobar https://lite.qwant.com&#x2
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by blinzy 7y ago
I completely agree with you, especially considering that comment was posted in reply to the maintainer's also dismissive comment "this patch is boring", which to me makes it seem not as bad as if it were out of the blue...
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by blinzy 7y ago
I agree that the comment is in bad taste but what I don't see this being considered a "far, far, far over the line." comment when I take into consideration that it had been posted in reply to the maintainer's also dismis
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by blinzy 7y ago
I think it's again to mitigate against potential bad actors attempting to access legitimate users' accounts. You could use other methods but there's always tradeoffs, e.g., let's say that instead of using a captcha you j

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