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mi_lk··on Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
> Pornhub rakes in more monthly traffic than Google and FB combined.

traffic measured in visitors or bytes downloaded? any source?

mi_lk··on Fresh – Next-gen web framework
the repo is under a Deno core team member tho. https://github.com/lucacasonato/fresh
mi_lk··on Apache Hop 2.0
tangent - what is it about Apache or big data that the associated softwares are mostly written in Java?
mi_lk··on A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’
updatedb/locate?
mi_lk··on Eden
+1, that statement needs a citation, dev tools team is not more prestigious than some medium teams in FAANG in my experience
mi_lk··on Xor swap trick and add/sub swap trick (2010)
> slow and a really bad idea on modern hardware.

say more?

mi_lk··on What is the Eurodollar System? (2020) [pdf]
> read up on modern monetary theory's theory/description of central banking.

any recommendations?

mi_lk··on A quick breakdown of what SWIFT is and why it matters
what are the best books/resources to read about the system?
mi_lk··on Why I Like Java (2014)
Want to pick up some modern Java(11+?) best practices in general since my knowledge is mostly stuck in Java 7/8. Would appreciate recs on codebases, books, talks, etc.
mi_lk··on Why I Like Java (2014)
tangent: what are some modern java OSS codebases that you would recommend to read?
mi_lk··on Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers
and Evans is system focused
mi_lk··on Why are mathematicians so bad at arithmetic? (2017)
why are (some) computer scientists so bad at software engineering?
mi_lk··on Vim9 Script Feature-Complete
That goes without saying, and it's just unfortunate that he chooses to compete rather than collaborate
mi_lk··on SQL language proposal: JOIN FOREIGN
tangent question - what're some effective ways to learn how to write SQL?
mi_lk··on Feature comparison of ack, ag, Git-grep, grep and ripgrep
Nice, would be better if there are examples of each feature to show how their cli flags map to others
mi_lk··on I was sick, tired and had lost myself until I began lifting weights at 71
> Nassim Taleb style advice

what does that mean

mi_lk··on China Railway Map (2021)
Yeah it's political and off-topic, but it's also something to see how their citizens are trained by CCP to blatantly include Taiwan for every map they make (the post link and the gif)
mi_lk··on Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process
> Samsung's 3nm is supposed to use GAAFET while TSMC's 3nm will still be FinFET. So.. potentially Samsung re-claims the "crown" so to speak at 3nm.

Can you elaborate for us uninitiated? Why GAAFET might help Samsung win at 3nm?

mi_lk··on An internal team 'hoodwinked' Bill Gates into launching the Xbox project
Do you want to expand?
mi_lk··on Covid: France rewards frontline immigrant workers with citizenship
> regularly deport them

for what reasons?

mi_lk··on macOS Big Sur
Anyone have recommendations for vim simulator plugins?
mi_lk··on Toward a “modern” Emacs
> Emacs has more users than ever. It's definitely growing - not dwindling.

Growing in terms of the number of users, dwindling in terms of the share among editors

mi_lk··on Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?
Changed and it's still Google. Yeah the search string is probably hardcoded :(
mi_lk··on Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?
I tried Cmd-b search in spotlight but it went with Firefox+Google when my default is Firefox+Duckduckgo, any chance someone knows how to fix it?
mi_lk··on Julia 1.5 Highlights
thanks, looks like I didn't look hard enough ... https://juliacomputing.com/industries/
mi_lk··on Julia 1.5 Highlights
What are some industry players using Julia heavily? Can't find the info the the website.

Still have the impression that it's mostly used by academics or niche audience, would be happy to be proven wrong

mi_lk··on How Does Sqlite Work? (2014)
I get why you're downvoted, but it's not inaccurate
mi_lk··on KABOOM in 180 lines of bare C++
> The use of GitHub to show diffs of each step is quite effective.

Little off-topic, but that's one of the reasons I like to use Magit on Emacs, you can see the diff of each commit interactively and intuitively.

[1]:https://magit.vc/

mi_lk··on Evan Spiegel’s Imperious Style Made Snapchat a Success Until Users Fled
This. They really hate their non-app mobile users. Understandable but disappointed.
mi_lk··on Quora pays thousands for posting questions
For a long while when search results lead me to some interesting Quora questions, I couldn't browse the site without logging in. As a result I don't even bother anymore.
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