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I am compelled to point out how much "For uint64_t and UINT64_MAX you will be waiting a long time" really undersells it. If we assume that the uint32_t version runs in one second, …

Disempowering deputies is how you end up with customer service that can't actually provide service to customers. Low-trust societies are a huge efficiency loss, and just a general …

We are not all selfish actors here. Who have you surrounded yourself with in your life, that you would end up believing that we're all self-interested actors here?

It's better for five people to earn $100k than for one person to earn $500k and four people nothing. That is a societal negative that progressive and marginal income tax discourage…

Claude: Solve this jigsaw puzzle for me...

Because I believed in the product! (Firefox, in my case)

I do, yeah. Hope that helps!

As a VRChat regular, Meta's VR world efforts have been hilarious every step of the way. So long and thanks for all the headsets! :) Maybe not everything has to be the next big thin…

You are not allowed to discard the more reliable source, but you're excused from, and basically forbidden from, asking for more info or for info from third parties.

We all demand Windows but without ads, but that doesn't cause the market to spit one out. The OS market isn't a healthy market, and government is stepping in here in part because o…

2A just says that if the e.g. client request headers say the age bracket, the server (dev) can trust the reported age, but also shall not ignore it on purpose. No "just ignore the …

I read Hyperion and I found it... alright, just not my thing. Maybe it is indeed a masterpiece but "that every fan of sci-fi ought to have read" oversells it. I honestly can't cons…

Absolutely!

It's also true in a moral sense though. Choosing "defect" rather than "cooperate" shall not be excused by game theory rationalization, appeal to popularity, or "just following orde…

We literally have to be willing to get taken advantage of sometimes, and we have to come down hard on the "don't hate the player, hate the game" f-you-got-mine assholes. It is not …

And the GPU API cycle of life and death continues! I was an only-half-joking champion of ditching vertex attrib bindings when we were drafting WebGPU and WGSL, because it's a reall…

I did indeed play in the era LanceH is talking about, and I agree with them! We had many thriving communities with no serious cheating problems because of community moderation. Yes…

Well unfortunately, the device pixel size of something does actually depend not just on the css size and dpr scaling, but also on position and iirc even potentially what else is on…

A bunch of my friends in VRChat dropped $1500 or so on Bigscreen Beyond 2e orders earlier this year, and are ecstatic to finally be receiving their kits. I'm eagerly awaiting my ow…

How it happened internally is irrelevant to whether Facebook is responsible. Deploying systems they do not properly control or understand does not shield against legal or normal re…

Once upon a time, we were told not to share our real name or personal info online with strangers. That remains wisdom!

Network effects and moats, sadly.

I always thought hacking scenes in sci-fi were unrealistic, but if you're cooking up AI-fortified code lasagna at your endpoints, there are going to be a mishmash of vulnerabilitie…

It's about clarity of intent at the call site. Passing by mutable ref looks like `foo`, same as passing by value, but passing mutability of a value by pointer is textually readably…

> the WebGPU committee had to work backwards to justify Do you mean to allege "[the Apple delegates to] the WebGPU committee"? Because the committee as a whole has a ton of public …