wischi

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[–] wischi@programming.dev 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Have they announced a price yet?

[–] wischi@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

Wow didn't now that. I'm surprised I never heard of it, but I will definitely give it a try.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Is it reliable? Ad-blocking is a cat and mouse game and to actually have a useable ad-blocker it needs to be well maintained over a long period of time (for example like ublock origin).

Their concept looks nice, but they are researchers and I'm a bit afraid that they just drop that, write a paper about it and that's it. If there is no constant maintenance this will likely stop blocking YouTube Ads once Google deploys the next changes.

Update: checked the repo and it's actually a fork of ublock origin, so it should (for now) be pretty similar, but still they would have to keep maintaining that.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

To be fair that's actually really hard once you are dead.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

the entire bottom half of humanity

So about 4 billion people

[–] wischi@programming.dev 7 points 3 weeks ago

That Deadpool is trapped inside that gamer chair?

[–] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Black holes are GR and it wouldn't make the calculations much different. Take the moon for example, the orbit would be exactly the same no matter if earth is a rocky planet, a black hole or a point mass.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Sphere with radius zero. Problem solved 🤣

[–] wischi@programming.dev 29 points 4 weeks ago

Tried to save and restart? Maybe the battery in the cartridge died?

[–] wischi@programming.dev 67 points 1 month ago (18 children)

Feel free to use floppy disks. Btw if you are online, you use WebP and PNG all the time 🤣

[–] wischi@programming.dev 50 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Would completely defeat the purpose of making a new smaller file format if we prefix if with the old format.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 71 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Probably US-Americans confusing anything that's not predatory capitalism with Russia and China.

 

I often find myself explaining the same things in real life and online, so I recently started writing technical blog posts.

This one is about why it was a mistake to call 1024 bytes a kilobyte. It's about a 20min read so thank you very much in advance if you find the time to read it.

Feedback is very much welcome. Thank you.

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