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Reddit's org is broken. Free unofficial apps maintained by random devs in their spare time are better than the official one

I believe the UI is being managed to death. I noticed the same with Slack recently.

The old UI was probably built by engineers for performance and ease of use.

The new one is pretty, does all the stuff marketing wants, has loads of features, uses shiny new tech. Or, all the original engineers that knew how to build a good site left. Maybe both.

It's a dumpster fire. I haven't found anyone that disagrees and I have all the same bugs you do.

Then downvote and move on. Nobody is forcing you to read replies buried at the bottom of the thread going off on tangents.

Fuscia and Java are both Android and tech related, don't see the problem. And the previous comment about Fuscia is just as off topic as mine, if not moreso. Java is at the core of Android and Fuscia hasn't made it out of the lab

I don't want to become rich off of other people's suffering

Obligatory SAP is terrible. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy

So happy to see Java have broad support from various vendors. I've always been a fan despite it's shortcomings. I'm wary of using "captive" corporate languages like Go, C#, Kotlin. And there aren't any other options with the combination of speed and ease of use for high level work

Does anyone know how it compares to Codec2? Opus is great down to ~12kbps but Codec2 is the real contender down at the bottom. And I bet it uses way less CPU than Lyra

Escaping Java doesn't make sense to me now that the Oracle stuff is resolved. Java is a great choice for phone apps. Huge developer base with good productivity. And it's quite fast for a high level language.

And the backwards compatibility. One of the codebases I work on has loads of untouched 15 year old code that runs fine on Java 16. Good luck doing that in JS, Python, or really any other popular language besides C/C++

Newer versions of Java are better, but Android is stuck on a hacky version of Java 7 from a decade ago.

Google is planning to fix this eventually.

Android's API is also atrocious.

Multi threading sanely requires Arc, and reference counting is a crappy form of GC.

If you have enough threads passing stuff around and can deal with the ~50% performance loss between Java and Rust, it's much easier to use a language with GC.

There's talk of adding a quality GC to rust and dedicated GC types. If/when that happens, Rust will be a contender for a bunch of higher level systems

No way. Rust is great, trust me.

I'm not even going to say why because it would be a huge rant. It improves on C++ in virtually every way. Every feature you have in C++, Rust does it better. Every feature you wish C++ had, Rust has it.

I agree with you on Kotlin. It's better than Java on paper, but in much the same ways Groovy already was. And the advantages are shrinking in new versions of Java, especially if you use Lombok.

Java is a better fit for high level code, and you can already use Rust where performance matters.

I've put a lot of time into learning Rust and I still reach for Java for high level stuff. GC is just wonderful for developer productivity. Lifetimes are way better than C but still a PITA.

Especially when you mix with threading, you end up using Reference Counting anyways which is just shitty GC.

Very old people. There you go.

Going to school or even having relationships with people under 40 is impossible without the internet.

Debugging Spring is easy if you know the framework well. That's true for any framework

I hear this all the time but in most of our apps average query time is less than 5ms in postgres. And it scales with threads, so it's more like 30k queries per second.

We have a single Postgres instance and serve thousands of requests per second. You're going to be scaling Django way before that.

In Java at least, the massive Hibernate ORM is only about twice as slow as raw SQL. Which is still orders of magnitude faster than Django. The lack of performance is far deeper than ORM usage.

We have a Rails app that struggles at 50 req/sec. It has an embedded Angular app whose back end easy handles 10,000 .

One of the reasons were trying to migrate is that Rails servers cost us almost an engineer salary, where our other backend is ~200/month

One of my favorite bike shedding topics.

My mind is blown that anyone writes software for stacks that max out at few hundred requests per second.

Everything I've seen comparing "high level" languages says programmers work around the same efficiency whatever the language. So why isn't everything done in Go, C#, and Java where 100,000 requests/second is trivial?

Even if you don't have much load, isn't the possibiliy of a cat DDoS'ing you by sleeping on someone's F5 key at least slightly concerning?

I swear half these companies that claim their site is "being DDoS'ed!" it's just somebody just running HTTrack to archive an article they like.

I love that if you keep making it bigger it takes over the entire page

Yet Go's code generation is clunky even compared with Java's Annotation Processors.

AZ vaccine is made with a genetically engineered Chimpanzee virus, ChAdOx1 . It makes me uneasy. Zoonotic viruses tend to be more dangerous the closer related the species. There's plenty of human viruses that seem harmless like flu except for rare cases where they kill. How do we know that ChAdOx1 is not one of these?

I would be less worried if they used a fish virus or something. My primary concern is using a virus from such a closely related species. The mRNA approach without a live virus seems safer

I have a strong suspicion that firearm deaths are related to crime which is related to wealth inequality. Of which US does extremely badly compared to most developed countries.

People become criminals when there's few other options

Show me a single mainstream website where conservatives don't REEEE about censorship. You won't find one. Because any website large enough to capture a few percent of worldwide web traffic leans left. Because the English speaking world leans left and the republican party is a hard right structure.

The truth means nothing to those that wont listen. The Republican party is a far right monstrosity. The democrats in US are a right leaning party for all practical purposes. Hell, Biden said he would be fine running with a Republican VP.

Gaming headsets are generally all low delay. HyperX stuff is all 50ms or less. The biggest thing is just don't use bluetooth which has terrible notorious delay.

Proprietary USB dongles for low delay headelsets is standard for foreseeable future.

Don't switch to wired, there's no point. Chances are, your HyperX headset has same latency as a wired connection.

Not easy. You can measure with your phone camera for visual delay but it's still suspect.

I measured my delay using a USB keyboard which are generally assumed to have zero delay but that's not great.

I base most of my delay numbers off of reviewers that have special hardware

I think the endgame is machine learning based blocking and Apple/Mozilla disabling API's used for fingerprinting.

I think Google pre-emptively locked down Chrome API to prevent ML based blocking from working. This would explain their fixed URL block list and removing interactive API

It depends on the game. I play competitive shooters which I've gotten worse at as I age...

PC upgrades have given me 50ms reaction time advantage. Nearly what I lost since my early 20s. Feels nice to be "good" at games again

Gaming stuff is also low delay. My screen tested at 4ms and gaming mouse at 6ms.

Newer studies have shown recognition of events as fast as 13ms. https://news.mit.edu/2014/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-0116

More than 30ms of delay is noticable. My old screen + mouse had a delay of ~50 crudely tested. My old bluetooth headset was over 400ms!

I totally believe you that delay is noticable. I haven't used iPhone, but Android has terrible UI lag virtually everywhere (pointless animations don't help, pro tip you can turn these off in developer options)

I'm saying internet wide. There's almost 20% more democrats than republicans nationwide. And since young people use internet more, it could be much higher ratio on the net.

If 2/3 of US internet users are left of conservatives, that's why they get downvoted to hell anywhere outside their safe spaces. IMO the crazy moderators on reddit are a result of the left lean, not the cause.

The biggest contributors are WFH demand, more PC gaming, but especially crypto mining and release of new consoles.

Mining and the new consoles take tons of silicon. And everybody is competing for the same fabs.

Supply chain problems and tariffs aren't doing much (if anything). Fabs run 24/7 365 and we just can't make enough chips