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When a smaller network tries to be interoperable with a larger network, the larger network almost always eats up the smaller one. This is how XMPP was killed by Gtalk, if any of you are old enough to remember.
Re:Record Club: indie social network for music lovers on Thursday November 27, 2025 @03:24AM (#46067020)
I just found out about this site. I'm loving it.
Re:Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits? on Friday August 01, 2025 @05:10PM (#44762546)
interesting. i see underlines in firefox. but the width of the line is 2px in chrome, 1px in firefox.
Has always been like a mafia internationally tho.
Aha, you are right. This has always been the way he does business.
Re:Vietnamese Graphic Design on Sunday February 23, 2025 @11:24AM (#43150461)
Rude.
Re:Reassessing Wayland on Thursday February 13, 2025 @08:40AM (#43035695)
It is so bad that it is not worth assessing in the first place.
Re:I've Acquired a New Superpower on Friday January 10, 2025 @02:45PM (#42659337)
Please stop using that RSS icon on your "Subscribe" button if you don't intend to provide an RSS feed.
Re:Gosub: A browser engine written in Rust on Monday October 14, 2024 @04:20PM (#41841499)
Yes I have. But not this.
Re:Gosub: A browser engine written in Rust on Monday October 14, 2024 @04:16PM (#41841456)
Someone else should write a browser engine called “Godom”. Which honestly would be a great name. A good browser will handle sessions and DOM.
Re:Gosub: A browser engine written in Rust on Monday October 14, 2024 @04:15PM (#41841446)
Thanks for the pointer. And it makes it doubly confusing. Doesn't a reference to an obsolete, pre-modern language tarnish the reputation of Rust? Doesn't the creator of this project fear lawsuits from the legal team at The Basic Foundation?
Re:Gosub: A browser engine written in Rust on Monday October 14, 2024 @04:06PM (#41841359)
I'm confused. Why do you name it “go”-something when it is not implemented in Go... I have a more catchy name for you, Rub, which stands for route to unlimited browsing.
Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense on Sunday October 13, 2024 @11:09AM (#41828671)
IMHO, it would be more correct-miş, in terms of linguistics at least, to call it an “aspect” than a “tense”.
Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense on Sunday October 13, 2024 @11:08AM (#41828657)
It's not a tense. It's called evidentiality.
Re:They trained artificial neural networks using physics on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @07:10AM (#41776029)
Well, Geoff Hinton should get the prize for physiology instead. It's called “neural” networks after all.
Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word on Saturday October 05, 2024 @09:50AM (#41749834)
TSMC has stopped way earlier.
j makes me shudder. But thanks for sharing.
Re:Sweden will offer migrants $34,000 to go home on Sunday September 15, 2024 @12:41PM (#41548524)
No you are not. The Swedes will love to have you there.
Re:Understanding the Y Combinator on Friday September 06, 2024 @08:25AM (#41465520)
I thought this post was about dissing Paul G, Garry Tan and the like. I was wrong.
Re:Delving into "Delve" on Monday September 02, 2024 @07:36AM (#41424529)
Thanks for delving into this!
Re:Elon: Code is brittle. Need a complete rewrite on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:14PM (#35049202)
Do that in Rust.
A few years ago there was a case in China. Someone forged documents in the name of a mayor, using a seal with the mayor's name on it. The authorities later found it fake because the mayor used a different seal design. (Just a random detail in a complicated lawsuit.)

It would have been difficult if nobody else had seen his real seal though.

Re:They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia on Sunday May 12, 2019 @11:56AM (#19892656)
Programming is not for everyone. Teaching programming is no easy task either. In the end, one of them, even if only one, got a real software job. This is enough to say this program is not a failure.
Re:China's secret internment camps on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @09:45AM (#19849223)
This is not new. Things have been like this (but less systemic and organized) for the Uighurs/Uyghurs for decades. The world collectively shrugs. Because, to be honest, the West is the only part of the world where politicians nominally cares about human rights. In other parts of the world, including China and Muslim-majority countries, politicians don't even pretend they care.

And when the concept of human rights is applied to real people, some seem to be more deserving than others. Muslims are certainly not the tribe Western politicians most identify with.

As Mona Eltahawy wrote back in 2009 -- 10 years ago: If Only the Uighurs Were Buddhist and China Was Israel.

link: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/if-only-the-uighurs-were_b_22...

Re:China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @11:05AM (#19674251)
One solution, beside bashing China, is to vote for a liberal agenda that would give more funding to universities. Guggenheim and other art institutions took money from the Sacklers, who started the opioid crisis. Because they need money. And universities need money. They have to get money one way or another.
Re:China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @11:01AM (#19674204)
No. I'm not here to argue with anybody. I don't intend to change anyone's standing point. I realized long ago that online argument is more about sending pheromones so that the like-minded will come to you.
Re:China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @10:58AM (#19674176)
No worries. It's true being a US citizen carries certain guarantee of basic rights that a citizenship of any other country does not.

You wouldn't believe. Sweden is really a high-trust society. You can look up any person in the country online, etc, etc.

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