Posts by CommonBloke 139 publicly visible posts • joined 19 May 2021
The European Union admits that bitcoin is actually the best thing to have ever existed and decides to make it the de facto currency of the European Union. The value skyrockets as every other country wants to buy it. Once that happens, the EU pulls the ultimate dump from its pumping, effectively colonizing (again) everyone that fell for it.
Tencent is like an even worse version of EA or Activision, while Baidu is a name many people might remember from that malware that kept installing itself circa 2012-16. Even if you completely ignore their Chinese roots, it's impossible to expect anything even remotely good for "customers" to come out of this
Lessee, 1 dollar out of 100 million users, plus, let's just throw a wild guess for this one, 500k "verified checked" users, plus advertising revenue. Let's jut continue guessing and assume the total monthly revenue there sums 350 million. Muskrat will only need ~125 months (assuming he doesn't pay any maintenance, rent, salaries, taxes, etc) to recoup his buyout. Truly a genius of business
Regarding raw, single core CPU speed, we already hit it some 20 years ago in the consumer space. Because of that, the evolution sidestepped it with multiple cores instead. You'll be hard pressed to find anything running over 2GHz without being overclocked, and anything running over 3GHz without -serious- cooling.
Maybe something has gone terribly wrong with our compilers?
- Seems to be a problem only with Windows C/C++ and LLVM. Those things are absurdly large beasts in Windows
Maybe each individual library or level of abstraction has bloated so it all adds up (or even multiplies)? Maybe we are perching more levels of abstraction one on top of another? Maybe we're even writing software wrong now? (Casey Muratori is not a fan of OOP.)
- This is extremely visible in the web and javascript. Harder to tell with OSes
Maybe the hardware is working against us and forcing more work to be done in software?
- Hardware is so damn powerful that most shitty code will run without looking like shit for the end user. It's not working against us, but it sure as hell is making programmers complacent. "Bandwidth is cheap" leads do sites continuously increasing their bloat. "Storage is cheap" leads general program and games size bloat.
As an aside, seeing someting like SliTaz, which is a fully fledged (and severely driver lacking) distro in roughly 50MB is proof that you still can make lightweight OS in this day and age. I think their main problem is that severe lack of drivers, especially for wifi connectivity. Seriously, of 6 computers I've ever experimented it on, only in 1 the wifi worked "out of the box"
> may as well use as much as we can rather than craft something non memory hungry
That, and adding more advertising and tracking bloat on every page, since connection speeds are faster today than 10 years ago. Oh, and a side dash of auto playing video or two, for good measure
You tell me. I have a significant number of 8-32gb microSD cards that I rarely use nowadays, plus a handful of USB drives. They're in good condition and good to use, but I don't have a use case for all of them anymore. Maybe come up with some sort of local NAS? Though i'd need something with 10+ USB ports
I mean, I never saw any groups ask for any of those terms to be dropped. Maybe the master, master/slave thing makes some sense, but black/white hat, list? What next, we won't be able to use the expression "black and white" to express obvious differences? What're you going to call those? Day/Night instead? Oh no, now you're discriminating against time of day! What about #000hat and #FFFhat? Oh no, now you're discriminating against the people that don't understand 256 color codes! What about...
> "red team" because it's not a reference to indigenous people
That they even thought it *could* be a reference to native americans speaks more about them than whoever came with the term
> "fair hiring practice" which INI folk decided could not be construed as indicating a preference for light-skinned people.
OH MY F--KING GOD, GO TOUCH SOME GRASS! The english language is full of drunken nonsense and reuse, but that leap of logic would be enough to send the whole INI to the moon.
No, really, the mere fact that those Tier 0 were even considered shows how bonkers these guys, oh, sorry, how OXYGEN-CHALLENGED these GENDER NEUTRAL PERSONS are.
It really sucks that our best bets for making the internet not suck again is having curated lists of sites, not unlike what "the internet" looked like back in '97, with portals such as Yahoo.
The problem, of course, is that such lists are bound to suffer enshitfication on the long term, because sooner or later, the place will be sold off or run by an a-hole who only cares about profits.
> Musk knows a little bit more about running business than you and the rest of the haters that predicted twitter would fall over within a month of the takeover?
Does he know how to run a business? Possibly. Does he know how to run twitter? Of course he does: running it into the ground, that is.
Most people predicting twiter going down under in a month were using hyperbole. When you buy a company for 44 billion and its estimated valuation drops to 15bn in ~8 months, you're obviously doing something very wrong. When companies are reluctant to spend money advertising on your platform, it means something is wrong. When mr owner throws insults at said companies that no longer spend money, it sends a clear message of "Your ROI in advertising here is nonexistent". Dismissing money from a single source can make sense. Dismissing money from several sources because you loudly called them poo-poo heads is anything but an indication of "knowing how to run a business"
I like how the FBI could apparently only come up with one instance, out of 280,000, where its warrantless spying resulted in actual defense, but failed to specify how it was the ability to spy without asking for a warrant first that led them to success.
I wonder how much money "a few bad apples" are earning selling that data under the table.
Then again, all that corporate-bullspeak is just the shiny new "leadership product" sold by marketing scammers to incompetent idiots at the top of companies. Zoomers will eventually fall for the same sales pitch under a different name in 20-30 years. Get your <currently relevant> certification today! Oh, and sign up for the level 2 certification next year for a big discount!
The fact that, despite everyone and their dog spotting corporate bullshit from a mile away and despising it, is not enough for corps/"decision makers" to stop using it, is what should be studied.
... Is truly worth investigating.
Not to mention their (and many other companies) insistence on rushing to copy whatever Apple does. Apple gives the middle finger to a file format? QUICK, LET'S DROP OUR SUPPORT, TOO! They're adding a new codec? QUICK, WE MUST DO THAT, TOO!! Ditching physical keyboards? OHMYGOD DESTROY THOSE, WE'RE NEVER USING PHYSICAL KEYBOARDS EVER AGAIN!!
Congrats on ignoring that the majority of browsers available today are variations of the Chromium core: Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, Edge, Samsung Internet
"Use Firefox!"
I already do. That doesn't change the fact that Chrome alone is still more than 60% of the whole browser market. If you sum up those variations above, it easily passes 70%. If Google says "We won't support X", you can bet only a very tiny minority of sites will bother showing X in any form.
It's not about the browser you use, it's about Google abusing its power
Correct me if I'm wrong on the step by step process:
1- get 10k eth
2- current ration of eth/shot is 1/100. spend all of it buying random shotcoin.
3- you now have "the whole supply" of shotcoin
4- Ratio goes from 1/100 to 1/1
5- convert shotcoin back into eth. Since this is a direct conversion based on current market price, instead of a buy/sell, it doesn't affect the price.
6- ???
7- PROFIT!!
And that, somehow, is a crime, despite being sold as a feature?
Snarky but honest ponder. I can picture some people wanting to "magically wave away a payment", but I doubt they also meant using their own money to pay for it. The people who are likely to adopt this on their own volition are undoubtedly the same people that feel safe waving their phones over another machine to pay for stuff, confirmations and security be damned.
Assuming the average expense with those 11k workers is around 75k per year, we're looking at 825 million pounds being "freed up", or ~6,35% of their yearly income of 13 billion.
I wonder, if the head cutting started at the top, how many directors/chief-whatevers would have to be fired to achieve a similar saving.
Everyone knows that it's the higher ups who are more easily replaced (no wonder they do everything to hide that fact), especially when AI, which isn't "intelligent", shows more intelligence and understanding of topics presented than the vast majority of fellows currently responsible for shouting orders.
I remember when they were considered a feature, instead of a bug that got "fixed"
Apple led the "fuck you and your rights to repair" since the beginning, but when most android phones also began being manufactured with the back tightly shut with glue, it was pretty easy to point back at Steve Jobs as the culprit.
Faulty hardware happens once in a while. If Apple didn't glue in everything, their lawyers wouldn't have to worry about this.
> It also now requires FBI agents to "opt-in" if they wish to run a search against Section 702-acquired data, instead of having queries run against this data by default.
So, you're telling me they still have all that juicy, privacy invading data, only that it's not "searched on" by default? If that's indeed the case, boy, I sure am glad that it's completely impossible for them to search through the data they have without the query count going up, huh?
Good ol' uncle Sam abhors the idea of any of its southern colonies, I mean neighbours, having any sort of independence. You know, because when you stop being a vassal, I mean friend, of the land of freedum 'n leebertay, you automagically become an evil, barbarian red commie.
I also find it very intriguing how iphone owners don't have a qualm with banning Chinese goods, despite most of the hardware being fabricated by and in China.
Since static content can be copy-pasted and served, there's no further processing needed for the video proper.
Livestreams, on the other hand, are more likely to make the best use of AV1 and this GPU acceleration.
As to what will actually happen, whatever is most profitable while being less costly to companies.
Since we're dealing with a pipedream where, even if the algorithm became visible, there's nothing ensuring anyone would have the slightest idea of what's going on, it's better to avoid YT.
Invidious lets you do that. Watch YT videos without being tracked, without being served insufferable ads and, depending on instance, download the video. All video recommendations will be based on whatever you're watching, never on your browsing history (since instances don't keep any). On android phones, you can use the NewPipe to the same effect.
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