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j16sdiz··on How good are American roads?
No.

Another side of the problem is how often we need close a road to dig it up. If we just enforce the quality, we will just wasting more time and money for more works and less time actually using them .

Proper solution would be a utility duct or tunnel.

j16sdiz··on DOJ filed paperwork to US District Court to force Google to spin off Chrome [pdf]
> This has already been discussed extensively in prior threads, but the biggest question is, how does a spun-off Chrome get funded?

How about... just don't fund them and let it "die"?

Everybody is using Chromium -- Microsoft, Google, Opera, Electron, etc.. Some of them will step up and fork chromium.

j16sdiz··on Why is Apple Rosetta 2 fast? (2022)
TSO is what x86 do when you are _not_ using atomics.
j16sdiz··on Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)
Konqueror is underfunded and can't catch up with the standards
j16sdiz··on Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)
Safari use open sourced webkit, just like Chrome use open sourced chromium.
j16sdiz··on A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor
> Don't animate anything

Animation helps to correlate screen elements. Without animation it actually takes longer to establish the mental relationship between the action and the result.

j16sdiz··on AlphaProof's Greatest Hits
Only if we take AC, I guess?
j16sdiz··on It's time to replace TCP in the datacenter (2023)
WebSocket is fairly inefficient protocol. and it needs to deal with the upgrade from HTTP. and you still need to implement you app specific protocol. This is adding complexity without additional benefit

It make sense only if you have an websocket based stack and don't want to maintain a second protocol.

j16sdiz··on Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe
bullshit.

movable type are not used in china until oil based ink and metal casting technology mature in Europe.

j16sdiz··on Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe
If the EU patent is revoked in court in EU, the court in other country almost certainly will revoke the equivalent patent in their country because the precedent.
j16sdiz··on Unusual Raku Features
Doing High-Order Programming in perl is not something new.

There is a full book about it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-Order_Perl

Whats nee in Raku is putting them together with other experimental features as first class citizens

j16sdiz··on Marine pilot loses command after ejecting from F-35B that kept flying
huh? Commercial aircraft updates its manual all the times
j16sdiz··on Limitations of frame pointer unwinding
> 9X% of users do not care about a <1%

The same could be said about any accessibility issue or minority language translations

j16sdiz··on The Billionaire Is The Threat, not the Solution
The global market has changed a lot since 1930s.

In the 30s, customers can't place orders on the order side of the ocean and have it the same week.

j16sdiz··on Voyager 1 phones home with transmitter that hasn't been used since 1981
Older nodejs don't support newer TLS/SSL version.
j16sdiz··on Software freedom isn't about licenses – it's about power (2021)
This morning I was reading LWN on "WordPress retaliation impacts community" ( https://lwn.net/Articles/993895/ ).

Software freedom, like many other freedoms, need power and energy to maintain.

j16sdiz··on Redact-a-Chat
Didn't #xkcd irc had a similar channel?
j16sdiz··on Cqwrteur's fork of Linux kernel, rename it to Cinux
Good Luck.

Keeping a linux fork is not a task a single developer could afford. .. and cqwrteur don't have good track record working with others.

Honestly I like his idea/direction, but I don't think he can success

j16sdiz··on Why Safety Profiles Failed
> A C++ compiler can infer nothing about aliasing from a function declaration.

True. but you don't solely rely on the declaration, do you? lots of power comes from static analysis.

j16sdiz··on MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)
"Primary Key" is the term in SQL standard. The url you linked is in "Part II: The SQL Language"
j16sdiz··on Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products
dotnet is a mixed bag of good and bad.

VSCode catch on, but i would rather have Atom instead.

Exchange have beth broken before migrating to cod

j16sdiz··on MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)
> the article literally says that pg's mvcc design is from the 90s and...

Actually, it is 1980s. The article:

> Its design is a relic of the 1980s and before the proliferation of log-structured system patterns from the 1990s.

j16sdiz··on A Console-Friendly Pastebin with binary support
> catching the low-hanging fruit would at least probably handle any potential legal liability?

Actually No. It take 5 minutes to create a script to randomize a password, encrypt and upload.

Abusers have been doing the same for 20+ years and it is very effective.

j16sdiz··on Concerns raised over Bitwarden moving further away from open source
> Use Cloud storage service.

It works until you have conflict edits on different device and need merging.

j16sdiz··on Concerns raised over Bitwarden moving further away from open source
Isn't passkey support already in? I am using that in day-to-day basis. Bugs exists, but it is not that far.
j16sdiz··on Memory safety without lifetime parameters
> - C++ objects implicitly have links from parent to child and child to parent. So there's built-in circularity. How does that work?

Can you elaborate? In my understand, the parent/child relation are on the class not the object itself.

j16sdiz··on Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users
They can't whitelist useragent, otherwise bot will pass just using agent spoofing.

If you have enterprise plan, you can have custom rules including allowing by url

j16sdiz··on Traveling with Apple Vision Pro
Not able to compute that won't stop them reselling or holding it. At some point it will leak, and available for sell to PI or someone will more personal interest on you
j16sdiz··on AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU
Google TPU was introduced around same time as apple. Basically everybody knew it can be something around that time, just don't know exactly how
j16sdiz··on Tesla needs to come clean about HW3 before the word 'fraud' comes out
key bit:

> ... if Tesla knows that it can’t deliver unsupervised self-driving on HW3, it needs to let owners know right now and stop selling the software package to HW3 owners without a clear plan to make things right. Otherwise, this quickly becomes fraudulent.

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