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by yakcyll 3mo ago
In this particular context there really isn't any difference. Technically Mozilla isn't in the business of delivering ads, but their revenue is mostly supported by ad money from Google, and Google, being an ad giant, can simply cu
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by yakcyll 6mo ago
There really doesn't seem to be anything new or unique to their solution. I'm personally not surprised, because it is what has worked for thirty years. I presume you know this, but maybe for others: judging by what was written in
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by yakcyll 6mo ago
They mentioned switching to the Steam networking backend, which for games is essentially GNS.
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by yakcyll 1y ago
It's worth remembering when deciding on rolling out your own engine that this is a multi-layer trade-off as well, I have an anecdote on this. I have decided a couple years back that my setup will have a hand-rolled physics engine, spec
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by yakcyll 1y ago
There is a very big difference between engaging with your own stream of consciousness and being spoon-fed stimuli without any effortful engagement. While I get the sentiment that the parent comment may be snarkily over-generalizing (for the
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by yakcyll 2y ago
> It's great because what we call plagiarism in academic setting, in the real world work we call collaboration, cooperation, standing on the shoulders of giants, not reinventing the wheel, getting shit done, and such. That is absolu
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by yakcyll 2y ago
The corollary to this is that companies do this because they are incentivised to do so by their very fundamental goal - to make profit. Whatever pressure that does not lead to a loss on the quarterly report is, in practice, no pressure at a
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by yakcyll 2y ago
I have a feeling we, collectively, glance over the question, and over the author's stance on the subject, and almost dismissively say 'yeah, sure', without the amount of thought that they deserve.
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by yakcyll 2y ago
Many thanks for this level-headed response, I'll save that if you don't mind.
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by yakcyll 2y ago
The title originally claimed 575M hours spent every year by Europeans on cookie banners. That's 12 seconds on average a day per person. Hardly anything to complain about.
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by yakcyll 2y ago
All the time settings that are or were historically used in Go tournaments had their own quirks and idiosyncrasies that added charm to the time management issue. At the same time, I can understand the tediousness of Canadian being an argume
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by yakcyll 2y ago
With the topics of ADHD and autism entering mainstream Internet conversations more often, I think it's kind of predictable that stuff like this will start showing up more regularly. Considering how much people can struggle with these i
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by yakcyll 3y ago
This was talked about before here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37316959 I assume this move, in essence, is meant to combat spam?
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by yakcyll 3y ago
No need for question marks. I think we really need to square off with the idea that, while we will personally not cause or contribute highly to major shifts in how the world operates, there are ways to contribute - even a simple e-mail to y
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by yakcyll 3y ago
I agree with the perspective that it's impossible to tell exactly, with confidence, how harmful they are and what each of us should do. The topic may not be fresh, but the awareness of the dangers is. If you aren't willing to go w
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by yakcyll 3y ago
I think this may refer to the second law of thermodynamics - entropy cannot decrease over time in an isolated system. One could argue the entire universe is one.
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by yakcyll 3y ago
That display looks great actually, I've been looking for something similar to build a home dashboard. It is unfortunate that it does not have a touch screen; are there large e-ink screens (>15") that do? Alternatively, can Visi
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by yakcyll 3y ago
On that subject, are there any good looking smart/hybrid pocket watches?
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by yakcyll 4y ago
One thing that struck me was the sizes of blocks assigned. I get a dynamic /64 prefix from my ISP at home, which would be large even if it were assigned to my work office; why is the maximum prefix length /48 for a single site and
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by yakcyll 4y ago
I am actually almost certain that a paragraph like this: > The design of their machines is so bad I have come to the conclusion that no one is designing them. I know this sounds like a ridiculous claim, but I am quite certain it’s true.
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by yakcyll 4y ago
If a piece of copyrighted artistic work is only being used for private pleasure, who cares? Copyright doesn't, for sure.
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by yakcyll 4y ago
I found Obsidian great, so if this reaches near feature parity and allows me to stay in the terminal, it's a great upgrade already. Recently though I switched from vim to Doom Emacs and started learning org-mode. This turned out to qui
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by yakcyll 4y ago
The labels as required preconditions take a moment to figure out, but I found it satisfying to do so. I'm a sucker for graph and topology puzzles, so this was very enjoyable to me. I loved that you could clearly sense progress mounting
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by yakcyll 4y ago
I'm also quite surprised that the impact this could have on how the Chinese view Russia and Russians in general is not mentioned. It's likely not major (I'm not sure how easy it is to access the Chinese Wiki in there), but I&
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by yakcyll 5y ago
Sounds eerily like the plot of "On Patrol" from "Tales of Pirx the Pilot" by S. Lem.
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by yakcyll 6y ago
> What makes people go from believing the media, science, etc to unwarranted skepticism? It's the phenomenon of illusory truth. Wiki has some sources [0][1][2]. It seems inherent to discussions on the Internet as it becomes more and
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by yakcyll 6y ago
Along with a response from Antti Törmänen 1p, a Finnish professional: https://www.nordicgodojo.eu/post/276/impact-of-go-ai-on-the-...
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by yakcyll 7y ago
They are really shaping up to become a proper major hardware and service provider. If what they are saying about their values actually promises permanence, I'll seriously consider switching to their hardware soon.
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by yakcyll 8y ago
> Populist has a derogatory connotation For a very good reason. > insulting peoples will seems improper It does seem improper, but drawing the connection between calling out people drawn to populism and insulting them is one of the le
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by yakcyll 8y ago
He seems to have left the project four years ago. I suspect the murder might have an impact on the public relations side of things, but I'm also pretty sure people who do donate to them do their research better.

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