Viewing profile — _trackno5

At some point I realized that it is okay to drop a book I started reading. If it turns out to be boring or not meeting whatever expectations I had, I just ditch it and move on.

That’s interesting. I went through that book not that long ago and I found it fascinating. I had a hard time putting it down. I found that the concepts he covers in that book can e…

I’m not saying I believe $12 is good value. It’s not a matter of opinion. It’s just a fact. Similar forms of entertainment cost the same. You’re the one with the subjective opinion…

I am not. The EU’s move is to force Meta to stop personalised ads and Meta is pushing for an ad-free option. That’s an attempt to appease the regulators and keep their business mod…

Sure you don’t NEED meta. But it still offers value to their users. Regardless of their “addictive” design, you can’t deny that people want what they (and other social media) offer…

Here you go: https://edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2023/edpb-urgent-binding-de...

New EU regulation is forcing Meta to offer users an ad-free alternative. That’s why they are doing this. Meta’s revenue per user is around 40 USD iirc. Tbf, as much as people like …

macOS already uses (at least on ARM chips) device trees. I don’t see why they would go back to ACPI as long as they keep their SoC model.

I wonder how this compares to the Hisense Reader Pro. I’ve been eyeing it for a while

> Were women more likely to be junior, and therefore more likely to be cut? It's almost as if NPR just wants to parrot a narrative. That last point read like BS to me. I’m willing …

Is the conference explicitly only for women? I thought it was something that focused on women in tech but men were allowed to join. If the organizers don’t want men attending it th…

The main thing io_uring gives you is avoiding multiple syscalls. With a pipe you can’t really avoid that. With a shared memory queue/ring buffer you can write to the memory without…

Man that’s just sad. I remember a while ago Lex Fridman had a girl on his podcast talking about the changes in academia and self-censorship.

Sounds like C and C++ are converging? Wikipedia has a good summary of the changes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C23_(C_standard_revision)

This is the dumbest statement i’ve ever seen. You would prefer to have all your fellow humans die to save the planet. I’m all for improving things and looking for solutions to the …

I’m in a senior position and most of my time goes to architecting and design work. I barely get to code at my day job. I just use my free time to code. I see it as a relaxing activ…

Would this be something that might make electric aircrafts practical? AFAIU the good thing about regular aircrafts is that as it burns fuel, it becomes lighter. That doesn't happen…

Like the other commenter said, you’re falling prey to the “appeal to nature” fallacy. There are plenty of natural things that are bad for you and plenty of synthetic things that ar…

I mean, I'm in my late 20s and use emacs. Maybe for whatever work you do your IDE works better for you. In my case, I mostly code in C++. I've tried JetBrains' IDEs and it drives m…

You literally proved my point. It’s not generally auditable. Even if you ignore the fact that the audit window is restricted and that the software is developed behind closed doors,…

Just because those companies have certifications it doesn’t mean they can’t make a mistake. In addition to that, the source code is closed and not generally auditable by third part…

Sure, we can all agree that this narrow use is in the interest of the public. Emphasis on narrow. It’s completely unreasonable to have a broad scope direct communication channel be…

It’s absurd that an article exists to allow French govt agents to display messages in my browser. How is that even enforced?

This is great, thank you! Mozilla should really link to it in the petition page