roqi

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by roqi 3y ago
> Err, "Google has rewritten the linker twice. Both times with the stated goal to make link times much faster." isn't an appeal to authority. It is, and a very weak one considering Google has a history of getting people to
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by roqi 3y ago
> So although you might not encounter issues with link times (debug or otherwise), it is a multi-million dollar problem for big companies like Google and Apple. Both in resources and engineer time. I appreciate your appeal to authority,
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by roqi 3y ago
> The problem being tackled here is link time in debug builds. This affects all platforms. I've worked on many projects, big and small, and the link time of debug builds was never a problem that was worth fixing. In fact, even today
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by roqi 3y ago
> But I still think it's important to note that this isn't really advancing the state of the art like Apple would like you to believe. It's just a new middle-of-the-road approach with its own possibly-positive tradeoffs an
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by roqi 3y ago
> Rerendering and recomputing too much (ever encountered these chains of map() and filter() in render()?), many API calls, huge icon sets, huge custom fonts, CSS frameworks and JS frameworks, huge dependency trees with many instance of t
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by roqi 3y ago
> The entire internet is slower because it's being squeezed to oblivion for monetization and tracking purposes. Bullshit. All you need to track a user is data you send as part of a HTTP request. Pushing metrics is a fire-and-forget
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by roqi 3y ago
> Ironically, many modern SPAs are significantly slower than the traditional apps they replaced. All software becoming slower is a already a meme. This isn't exactly a SPA issue. > Sometimes it's regrettable that the webdev
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by roqi 3y ago
> I'm pretty sure you were the problem What problem is that? Your comment reads like a puerile "no u" and adds nothing to the discussion. It's quite ironic given the topic.
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by roqi 3y ago
> Um, I don’t think I was advocating any particular level of moderation, was I? More like visibility into its processes amd motivations, and that providing those convincingly and to an appropriate extent is the moderators’ responsibility
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by roqi 3y ago
> I have to agree with GP, I am part of several subreddits where the moderators clearly enjoy being kings of their precious little fiefdom. You never used IRC, have you?
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by roqi 3y ago
> And nowadays you can deploy apps really close to users so latency is really low. That sounds like blindly throwing money at the software architecture problem you created for yourself. Supposedly SPAs became popular because your line of
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by roqi 3y ago
> Making a 'server call' on each interaction is also what web apps used to do before SPAs were a thing. One of the reasons behind the popularity around webapps was that they would no longer need to make 'a server call&#x27
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by roqi 3y ago
> The original point of this thread is that they'd like to be able to get an M2 PC like that. Not really. The point is that Apple's products are overpriced, and in particular the Apple Mini underperforms and simply isn't c
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by roqi 3y ago
> It's a bit of a different design point. I don't see the point of your comment. It matters nothing if you underline design differences if in the end you can get a cheaper minipc that's upgradeable and ships with more memo
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by roqi 3y ago
> I think to compare prices you need something with adequate GPU performance (which the M2 has). I feel your comment reads too much like fanboy excuses. CPU is not the only or even main requirement. I personally want to max out on RAM an
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by roqi 3y ago
> (...) leads you to the conclusion that they’re not spiritual gateways. I find this surprising as those are one in the same to me. How does that surprise you? I mean do spiritual gateways exist at all? Is there even a concrete definitio
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by roqi 3y ago
> The products do come at a bit of a premium, but, in my experience, it's well earned and is a premium experience as well. As a long time Linux and macOS user, I don't agree. Even though macOS is more polished than your average
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by roqi 3y ago
The worst mistake these naive proponents of free speech absolutism make is assuming that everyone is arguing in honest, good faith instead of exploiting founding liberal democratic values to undermine it. Time and again we see fascists dema
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by roqi 3y ago
> There is also the issue that it seems safe to assume that many people at the CIA etc consider him a traitor and would like to assassinate him, given the opportunity, even if he could be assured of immunity from prosecution. The US is k
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by roqi 3y ago
That's interesting. It reads as a central bank of grains.
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by roqi 3y ago
> Ah so Russia is a communist country? Russia still represents itself as the successor of the Soviet Union, and hardline communist parties still hold onto the (whitewashed) history of the Soviet Union to validate their existence. Russia&
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by roqi 3y ago
> If Brazil exports less food it isn't Brazil alone that would pay the price Ukraine is/was the world's bread basket. Supporting Russia jeopardizes the world's access to food. Brazil's actions don't exist in
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by roqi 3y ago
> And now they depend on US for the same things paying a much bigger price. What? Germany is now reporting record drops in it's energy prices. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/energy-costs-german-hou...
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by roqi 3y ago
> Brazil is not Europe. It’s not going to be some minor inconvenience like having people to take cold showers and virtual signal on the internet. There will be famine and the poorest people will die. I don't get your point. Where do
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by roqi 3y ago
> ethics are meant to be the definer of how far to go (...) No, the definition of "ethics" is "moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity." If you feel compelled to resort
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by roqi 3y ago
Anything you have to say, mostly.
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by roqi 3y ago
> (...) those who sponsored the development of the virus (...) This isn't a tinfoil hat forum. Please leave those loony ramblings elsewhere.
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by roqi 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. You made me make my first paper airplane in years. Oh joy.
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by roqi 3y ago
Nodb's docs page is completely broken and unreadable in mobile. Not the best look.
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by roqi 3y ago
> and thus Deno specific stuff will not be developed? Deno supports typescript out of the box. This alone greatly simplifies any deployment, and even if Deno did not offered anything else it would already take the lead in developer exper

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