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In this particular context there really isn't any difference. Technically Mozilla isn't in the business of delivering ads, but their revenue is mostly supported by ad money from Go…

There really doesn't seem to be anything new or unique to their solution. I'm personally not surprised, because it is what has worked for thirty years. I presume you know this, but…

They mentioned switching to the Steam networking backend, which for games is essentially GNS.

It's worth remembering when deciding on rolling out your own engine that this is a multi-layer trade-off as well, I have an anecdote on this. I have decided a couple years back tha…

There is a very big difference between engaging with your own stream of consciousness and being spoon-fed stimuli without any effortful engagement. While I get the sentiment that t…

> It's great because what we call plagiarism in academic setting, in the real world work we call collaboration, cooperation, standing on the shoulders of giants, not reinventing th…

The corollary to this is that companies do this because they are incentivised to do so by their very fundamental goal - to make profit. Whatever pressure that does not lead to a lo…

I have a feeling we, collectively, glance over the question, and over the author's stance on the subject, and almost dismissively say 'yeah, sure', without the amount of thought th…

Many thanks for this level-headed response, I'll save that if you don't mind.

The title originally claimed 575M hours spent every year by Europeans on cookie banners. That's 12 seconds on average a day per person. Hardly anything to complain about.

All the time settings that are or were historically used in Go tournaments had their own quirks and idiosyncrasies that added charm to the time management issue. At the same time, …

With the topics of ADHD and autism entering mainstream Internet conversations more often, I think it's kind of predictable that stuff like this will start showing up more regularly…

This was talked about before here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37316959 I assume this move, in essence, is meant to combat spam?

No need for question marks. I think we really need to square off with the idea that, while we will personally not cause or contribute highly to major shifts in how the world operat…

I agree with the perspective that it's impossible to tell exactly, with confidence, how harmful they are and what each of us should do. The topic may not be fresh, but the awarenes…

I think this may refer to the second law of thermodynamics - entropy cannot decrease over time in an isolated system. One could argue the entire universe is one.

That display looks great actually, I've been looking for something similar to build a home dashboard. It is unfortunate that it does not have a touch screen; are there large e-ink …

On that subject, are there any good looking smart/hybrid pocket watches?

One thing that struck me was the sizes of blocks assigned. I get a dynamic /64 prefix from my ISP at home, which would be large even if it were assigned to my work office; why is t…

I am actually almost certain that a paragraph like this: > The design of their machines is so bad I have come to the conclusion that no one is designing them. I know this sounds li…

If a piece of copyrighted artistic work is only being used for private pleasure, who cares? Copyright doesn't, for sure.

I found Obsidian great, so if this reaches near feature parity and allows me to stay in the terminal, it's a great upgrade already. Recently though I switched from vim to Doom Emac…

The labels as required preconditions take a moment to figure out, but I found it satisfying to do so. I'm a sucker for graph and topology puzzles, so this was very enjoyable to me.…

I'm also quite surprised that the impact this could have on how the Chinese view Russia and Russians in general is not mentioned. It's likely not major (I'm not sure how easy it is…

Sounds eerily like the plot of "On Patrol" from "Tales of Pirx the Pilot" by S. Lem.