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fantyoon

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About fantyoon

sometime I write stuff at https://straynotes.xyz

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    Comment #49147378

    PKGBUILDs are more powerful than that. They might download dependencies for the build from a package registry like npm, pypi, or crates, they might download and apply patches, and …

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    Comment #49147106

    > No, I'm sorry but who on earth installs random software from random strangers, without a single step of validating before giving it access to (presumably) the same computer you d…

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    Comment #45183298

    > The voting that followed was among ISO’s most contentious: several national bodies abruptly swelled with new members, many Microsoft partners, who then voted in favor. Sweden’s i…

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    Comment #44614421

    35kB after its uncompressed. On my end it sends 13.48kB.

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    Comment #44520399

    > Kagi has no ads and is fully funded by its users. None of the 4 plans say anything to the contrary either.

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    Comment #40142856

    I suppose the difference is that Meta didn't just contribute to Torch, they created it. Meta seems to be quite good at open sourcing things in a way that provides real value to peo…

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    Comment #40100272

    Unless VLC is one of the historic cases, F-Droid builds apps from source themselves [1]. They are more like a Linux Distro than an app store in that way. VLC hasn't had a new stabl…

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    Comment #40052345

    Seems reasonable to me. Unless there is a good reason to believe that they have valuable information, ignoring condescending people seems worthwhile. How likely is someone to under…

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    Comment #39817166

    Mozilla has now the chance to release a Gecko version of iOS Firefox to people living in the EU. That version currently doesn't exist and, depending on how valuable Mozilla thinks …

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    Comment #39621140

    I think it would be wise to reflect on whether the next logical step from "I think fines are not effective enough and decision markers should face jail setences" is "I think we sho…

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    Comment #39102215

    Its worth noting that this article is based entirely on an anonymous comment made below another article. They also link a Tweet alleging that "[..] other usually credible, usually …

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    Comment #37081985

    Is the Windows version ever exposed as a string in the Windows API? Seems strange in my mind, but I have no experience with Windows. On the one hand it sounds like something Micros…

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    Comment #37081785

    Music can also be cached on device and is often replayed. Reducing the amount of bandwidth requirements even further.

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    Comment #37004973

    Instead its owned by the Government which can borrow an infinite amount of money and does for all kinds of reasons. Right now they spend 1.5 billion Euro each year for the Deutschl…

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    Comment #36858974

    The central issue seems to be that Yoav frames this as a technical discussion. That people are unhappy with how Google tries to achieve the goal. > Focusing on use cases would enab…

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    Comment #36189037

    Its safe to assume that whoever OpenAI outsources to does not get access to the model. Collecting data and training models on it will be two different steps.

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    Comment #34663786

    Seems to work when you go to that link via the homepage but fails to load when you use a direct link or refresh the page. It appends a / to the URL when you use the direct link, wh…

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    Comment #34039681

    It seems to me that this article is not wrong, yet. Unless I misread, it argues that there will never be profitable power plants using fusion, rather than fusion being impossible.

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    Comment #33913899

    The need for bootstrapping in this context comes from the lack of a compiler for the language you want to implement, as in before the Zig compiler in C++ there was no Zig compiler.…

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    Comment #33831358

    Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl were created by a third party studio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Brilliant_Diamond...

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    Comment #32733795

    This post should probably get a (2020).

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    Comment #30350681

    Huh, this is the first time I have heard about interventions. Checking about:compat on Firefox for Android reveals (perhaps unsurprisingly) multiple fixes for Google sites. I wonde…