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edinbruh

@ edinbruh @feddit.it

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  • Finite games are all definite, either player 1 as a winning strategy or player 2 has, all other "outcomes" are just mental illnesses. Get over it, math doesn't care about your feelings.

  • Oh nooooooo

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  • Good, we should make them even more reclusive and smarter. Honestly, an army of highly intelligent bug killers specialized in keeping out of my sight hiding in the interstices of my house sounds like an awesome idea

  • Best indication that you are getting old

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  • What if you are just delaying dinner? I often have dinner after 22:00

  • I will miss him dearly

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  • He will be remembered

    Thanks to the ram

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  • Because a browser doesn't just needs to keep working, it needs to evolve to adapt to the evolving web. New technologies get developed (webgpu, csp, cors, http3, etc..., some would add AI to the list but I wouldn't) and browsers need to implement them, and old technologies get improved (faster more secure JavaScript engines, faster document renderers).

    These are all things an actively developed browser engine will have to do, and things that a 2009 fork of Firefox receiving less than 10 commits per month by a single developer won't achieve without getting them from upstream Firefox. But if you need to rely on upstream Firefox then once again you won't survive meaningfully without Firefox.

    Or you can just do the hipster and keep on using a 15 year old browser. Maybe use lynx or w3m to cut on the bloat. Or switch to gopher. You do you, it's not my job to convince you.

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  • Yes, but you can think for yourself and you and Amy product manager know how much they would benefit (just as much as Google and Apple, other for profit companies of the same caliber) and you know they would have the means to produce such software (just like Apple and Google). So, knowing that they still decided it's not worth the investment, you can infer that the cost would be immense.

    Also, all the other points still stand.

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  • Right, let me rephrase "no Firefox fork worth using has any chance to maintain meaningful existence without upstream Firefox"

    I'm sure many forks will go on surviving from scraps if Firefox disappeared tomorrow. But they wouldn't get anything useful done.

    Let me put this into perspective, Microsoft (a trillion dollar company that would benefit enormously from rolling their own browser engine) didn't have the resources for maintaining a browser engine.

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  • Stupid argument. None of the various Firefox forks has any chance to keep existing without Firefox. You should still cheer for Firefox

  • that's the spirit!

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  • Well, mixed with coffee It will lower the alcohol. Also it doesn't matter the percentage if you are only drinking a little amount. In some regions of Italy in the past many people used to drink coffee with grappa, which has 37% alcohol.

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  • This is a "a tree falls in the forest" type of bitching.

    Do you, yes you the commenter, have free will while you are sleeping?

  • Explaining hardware to enthusiasts

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  • I'll just repost the same comment I wrote the first time someone posted this meme:

    It's a small form factor PC, pre-installed with Linux and steam. Period.

    Can you build something more powerful cheaper? Probably

    Can you build something more powerful with the same form factor for cheaper? Maybe, probably not... We don't know.

    All of those are beside the point.

    They sell millions of desktop PCs pre-installed with windows, they often make terrible hardware choices, and don't even have a small form factor, if they do they have the computing power of a laptop. All of this at an unreasonable prices. At the very least the steam machine will be better value than those. Anyone who would consider one of those PCs, might consider a steam machine instead.

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  • Go on wplace and guess from the drawings where they live. Apparently it's full of femboys and furries where I live, but I haven't found any yet

  • More code = more better

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  • That's also slower than most of the stuff you could come up with, it is so slow that there is no hyperoperation fast enough to describe it. There were other approaches that were almost worse though, like "the function is a switch-case that returns false by default. As complaint tickets are opened, more cases get added to the switch-case"

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  • Please don't do that, I was stupid when I wrote that. But still, in very dynamic languages like python or js everything is an object, including functions, so you can just do object stuff on them.

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  • The implementation is not very exciting, I capture a variable in python. It could have been done more cleanly.

    The proof is this. But, I could have made mistakes, it was many years ago.

    Note that in python you'll never be able to run is_even(5) the stack cannot handle it

    Edit: daaaamn, that variable is ugly as hell. I would never do things like that now.

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  • For a time on Reddit (some years ago when I still used it) there was a trend of finding the worst way of implementing is_even(x: int) -> bool. My contribution to that was a function that ran Ackerman(x,x) flipping a Boolean at every iteration, and check if it was true or false at the end.

    It works btw, I will find the proof later

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  • Call them Mr Boombaspis

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  • Wouldn't it be cool tho? You could go up to a tree that's super old and ask it about the world, and it would take an entire day to spell a word in a language you don't understand. And house plants would be chit chatting and making all kinds of noise inaudible to us, kinda like WiFi, but with sound instead of light. It's like a fantasy setting

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  • It's a small form factor PC, pre-installed with Linux and steam. Period.

    Can you build something more powerful cheaper? Probably

    Can you build something more powerful with the same form factor for cheaper? Maybe, probably not... We don't know.

    All of those are beside the point.

    They sell millions of desktop PCs pre-installed with windows, they often make terrible hardware choices, and don't even have a small form factor, if they do they have the computing power of a laptop. All of this at an unreasonable prices. At the very least the steam machine will be better value than those. Anyone who would consider one of those PCs, might consider a steam machine instead.

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  • Noooooo 😭

    It's not the kind of validation I do tho 🤓😉