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by kaslai 2y ago
All the little tricks that the CPU has to speed things up, like branch prediction, out of order execution, parallel branch execution, etc, are mostly more expensive than just not having to rely on them in the first place. Branch prediction
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by kaslai 2y ago
I got ad-free Twitch years ago with Twitch Prime. And then they added ads back in for Prime users. How long will it be until they start adding ads back in for Turbo users?
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by kaslai 3y ago
I think the original intent was referring to the fact that given the same operand, the order of multiplication and division shouldn't matter, e.g. A * X / X should give the same result as A / X * X, but in reality they can gi
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by kaslai 4y ago
This is why I think that the trade school model of teaching software development should really be developed further. Having been in charge of hiring software developers a number of times in the past, I have found that a Bachelors in Compute
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by kaslai 4y ago
It's one of those things where if it works in your area, it works great. I've been on MVNOs for a decade now and the worst I've ever experienced was sometimes my data rate would drop to a couple mbps in crowded areas, but tha
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by kaslai 4y ago
Yes and no. Real wages in US manufacturing have been on a steady decline for a long time now, and the cost of manufacturing goods overseas has been steadily increasing. After factoring in all associated costs with importing goods from a pla
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by kaslai 4y ago
Every time I click a link in email, IRC, Slack, Discord... At least 100+ times a day, easily.
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by kaslai 4y ago
100k probably just isn't as dense as you'd intuitively expect. As a sense of scale, 100,000 pixels is just shy of 5% of the pixels on a typical 1080p screen, so even with a radius of a few pixels per star, there will still be quit
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by kaslai 4y ago
I think a "web app" should definitely be able to have some sort of more properly integrated filesystem API, but a "web page" has no business having access to such a thing. There just hasn't been a line drawn in the
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by kaslai 5y ago
While this isn't directly Google's doing, they do enable it for other services too: when I was on a road trip, I realized that I was going to need one additional hotel stay before getting home, so at 1 AM I was shopping around for
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by kaslai 5y ago
It's important to honor the GPL here because these are the terms that the code was licensed to TikTok under. By violating the terms of the license, TikTok forfeits their right to use the code. This is intended to protect the freedoms o
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by kaslai 5y ago
The GPL requires that any derivative work of GPL licensed code must also be licensed under the same (or compatible) license as the original GPL'd code. This is the "viral" aspect of the license. It applies even if the only in
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by kaslai 5y ago
In the US, 95% ABV Everclear is readily available in most states. 75.5% ABV Everclear is available in even more. It's the easiest way to get near azeotropic food safe ethanol for making extracts.
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by kaslai 5y ago
Yeah I definitely missed it and it caught me by total surprise today. I imagine many are in the same boat. This also comes after they've adjusted their policy so that they keep all fees even after a payment has been refunded. They&#x27
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by kaslai 5y ago
Ah, thank you for the links. I searched prior to posting but the title on [2] is very non-descript. I was expecting a lot more outrage considering the size of this hike is pretty massive for merchants that process a lot of smaller transacti
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by kaslai 5y ago
I have seen absolutely zero coverage about this change so I wanted to make sure people knew about it. The change seems to have happened on August 2nd according to archive.org [1]. I checked my PayPal records to verify this was true and sure
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PayPal raises fees for most domestic transaction types to 3.49% + $0.49(paypal.com)
337 points by kaslai 5y ago|243 comments
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by kaslai 5y ago
I depend on a mountain of C and C++ code to not only not crash, but to also not have any subtle memory errors which might allow a packet from the internet to run arbitrary code on my machines. Failures of that sort are disturbingly common.
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by kaslai 5y ago
My personal take is that this type of telemetry is fine. I just don't want to give potentially unbounded, hard-to-audit access to my telemetry data over to the likes of Google. If your application provides a means of learning _what_ is
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by kaslai 5y ago
Hm, yeah I hadn't considered the possibility of the machine itself having aliased instructions. That's some interesting info, thank you.
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by kaslai 5y ago
I think I'd want to extend your definition a bit. I do think that it's reasonable to target a virtual machine with a so-called assembly language, however an assembly language must have an unambiguous bidirectional mapping between
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by kaslai 5y ago
Hmm, I was under the impression that Windows would also overcommit but it seems you're right. I've been in Linux land for too long I guess. If Windows doesn't have a physical place that can back the allocation, it will fail :
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by kaslai 5y ago
Except on non-embedded platforms, oftentimes large blocks of allocated memory aren't occupying physical memory until you write to them. There's not much reason to avoid using exponential buffer growth on a system with a robust vir
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by kaslai 6y ago
It's a quoting character, so any environment that intends to use » semantically would probably not use it as a redirection character
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by kaslai 6y ago
Doesn't RSS include shared mappings? That's why metrics like PSS and USS were introduced. But that aside, yeah Discord is pretty heavy. My current instance which is only connected to a single server is eating 555 MB PSS, or 846MB
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by kaslai 6y ago
Yes, though that's kind of irrelevant. What use is Facebook to me if all my friends are only on Discord? These companies aren't the only source of socialization for everyone, but for a lot of people they effectively are.
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by kaslai 6y ago
According to MDN you can choose one of the following MIME types: text/plain text/uri-list text/csv text/html image/svg+xml application/xml, text/xml application/json S
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by kaslai 6y ago
While I agree, unfortunately we're in the minority of people who actually care about that. The best I can ask for at this point is sane defaults.
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by kaslai 6y ago
Because people want a desktop application experience inside of the browser. When I was playing a Counter Strike web app example posted here a few months ago, it was endlessly frustrating to have Control and W mapped to actions that you may
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by kaslai 6y ago
Vector images don't really need direct support though, do they? A lot of vector image interchange formats are just plaintext so normal text clipboard APIs should suffice. Animated images could definitely be somewhat useful though, albe

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