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Comment · 13 hours ago
Inspired by recent law proposal to tax dataflow per GB in France
Comment · 3 days ago
> surely the danger is much much lower

It depends on what chemicals the plastic reacts with. Its more of class of pollutants like aromatic hydrocarbons, randomly forming when the plastic reacts with something in environment, the paper has this explained:plastic is "conditionally inert" material until it gets some electric charge. Then it suddenly a chemical factory floor.

Comment · 4 days ago
Comment · 7 days ago
i've tried various options, Firefox prefers ` for (let i = n; i--;) out[i] = a[i] * b[i] + 0.25;` Its already at peak optimization so no form is significantly better.
Comment · 7 days ago
IIRC in weird corner cases, JS code can outperform wasm/C/C++ because JIT optimizes with escape analysis/inlining.

>where it doesn't optimise to SIMD even when beyond obvious What was that code?

Comment · 17 days ago
Any "central payment system"(like e.g. obsession with Paypal) is a single-point-of-failure vulnerability. Cash is decentralized and independent of any technology failing. people find this the hard way during electric blackouts, that credit cards are useless without electricity, but somehow still think "electronic payment" is worth completely switching over.
Comment · 19 days ago
Yes, according to Socrates all writing is brainrot and libraries are essentially TikTok bingewatch.
Comment · 20 days ago
Comment · 20 days ago
Actually, its just inertia and lack of reliable forum hosting, the actual "killer app" that replaced volatile and unarchivable chat content, but no one learned from it and people flocked to Discord, which is even more hostile to archiving/scanning chat history.
Comment · 22 days ago
The problem is scale. Trying to replace something big like Reddit/Browser/some-huge-library requires enormous resource investment which is inviting the same forces that enshittified the original. The original reddit was a link list with voting, no comments/media/etc it was cheap, and as it grown into social media giant with insane complexity, it became much more expensive and slower to process(both on client and server). But the users loved it, they now don't need to host the video/image/comments elsewhere, its all included inside the walled garden, and reddit which was 100% links to outside resources is now mostly self-contained media with pictures, videos, blog posts(self.subreddit) being most of content and hyperlinks to "outside" being mostly mainstream "big websites" with social clout.
Comment · 26 days ago
"Cheap-to-generate" mediocre content forces the floor expectation to rise, becoming the "minimum", which raises expectations of "current mediocre" further. Its largely invisible, slow process, where you can't gauge past "floor-level" expectation for content, because it implicitly assumed the 'current year' standard is the norm(while its evolution of expectations). In a few years, expectation for "mediocre slop" would likely include stuff that considered top-level today, but has some minor deficiencies and the "slop of years past" would be relegated to unusable/useless junk, like\ e.g. Stable Diffusion 1.5 images and GPT2 texts.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Wikipedia.org :270 cookies, 110MB used. Never cleared or disabled any.

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