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100%. Even just loading files off the old spinning disks took ages. Loading screens for a game could take 5-10 minutes. Even just booting into my Linux box took 3-5 minutes and opt…

I think this is a major (the only?) reason these internet companies are even successful. Because they just ignore all these costs that don’t scale well that ordinary companies shou…

In my experience for medium sized services it’s still better to have everything talk to the same authentication database. Postgres has insanely good read performance. Most companie…

They need to. Honestly we need a way to completely segregate Chinese and Russian networks off, as well as anyone who peers with them. They are using our open networks to brazenly a…

This is my take. Consciousness is overrated and probably just an emergent phenomena of the brain processing external stimuli into memory, moving memories around, etc etc, in a cont…

I feel like this announcement could use a more clear summary of the key point at the top. It sounds like Remix will be discontinued and anyone using it will need to upgrade to Reac…

They do. My wife lost her 10-year-old Instagram account to a well crafted phishing attack against an email she had published… Instagram/Meta’s customer support is absolutely atroci…

> They managed to secure continuous income streams of free money by talking to people on their phones. It’s extra money and surely they planned on doing more scams. That’s the moti…

Really? When I first saw it I understood it must have to do with changing languages.

A funny argument to make when the “contract” is entirely automated, without negotiation or consideration. Such agreements should not be enforceable in the first place.

I don’t think anyone is trying to pass an exam here, but just give an understandable overview to a general audience.

I’m betting they’ve turned on some AI “features” for detecting fraud and it’s not working out as well as promised.

“Officially” is meaningless here. The blocking exists, and it is at the direction or under the control of their government. They are yet same thing. You know, if it looks like a du…

I found the interviewer comes across as incredibly pretentious. I can’t stand this style of writing, he is trying way too hard.

Not only that, but reinvented it way worse… now it depends on GitHub (aka Microsoft).

Because Meta and Google are weaponized by a dictatorship? How can people really be so blind to the enormous threat posed by allowing hostile dictatorships unfettered access to our …

I’m not so sure about that. I would say Chinese society values the family… people don’t really give a shit about others outside of family or friends. My feeling on Japan is that th…

I wouldn’t call most of those Amazon, FB, YouTube etc, people the actual smart people either. They’re mostly just lucky. What made Facebook or YouTube successful over any other com…

This is all very fixable for Google: stop streaming video for free to clients that don’t have subscriptions. Otherwise, if you send the content to my device for free, it is my righ…

You haven’t mentioned what kind of laptop they own. Everyone I know who owns MacBooks uses them for: photography editing, video editing, graphic design, programming.

Honestly, no it doesn’t. Google pays creators a pittance and their practices around copyright and monetization are beyond exploitative. Most creators make their money from sponsors…

People “freak out” for good reason. People need to understand just how insidious the communist party’s methods are.

There’s no risk of cancer from heating up tissue.

I'm also living in central Taipei, this one woke me up, we felt really strong shaking in our flat on the 4th floor. Some tiles fell off the buildings on my street but otherwise eve…

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