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No it's not.

Happy holidays. I only started using HN around a year ago and while I wish communication on here would be more relaxed and less formal in many ways, the place has a very nice community that's always ready to engage in insightful conversation.

Okay, updated results (cleared all the caches and restarted shell/terminal between runs):

"time command ls -lR --color=always": 12.31 secs

"time command exa -lgR --icons": 11.32 secs

Still, no performance difference on my system. In fact exa seems to be slightly faster (I did the test multiple times and it was alwasy ~1 second faster). This is on a physical HDD and I could hear it churning equivalently on both of the runs.

That is not at all the behavior that I am observing on my system:

"time command ls -lR -color=always": 898 millis

"time command exa -lhgR --icons": 638 millis

This is in a directory of roughly 17k files of varying filetypes. Exa also outputs underlines and icons.

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Admittedly if I create 80000 arbitrary extensionless files "ls" takes around 700 millis while exa takes around 1000 millis, but still the performance difference is nowhere near what you demonstrated.

I don't know what job you're doing that requires "ls"-ing >20k files, but on my system there seems to be no performance penalty before an uncertain, unachievable threshold.

I have to strongly agree with your last point - I also never understood the massive hard-on that the technical user-base has against useful telemetry. Perhaps it's just the loud minority, but to me it seems that most of them have never worked on an user-facing product (for-profit or not).

Yes, users can themselves explicitly communicate feedback regarding the product or its features, and no, most of them don't do that. That's why telemetry is useful.

This is the article that finally helped me grasp and understand IEEE-754. An excellent read.

It's okay to feel weak my man.

SUVs look cool. That's why. They are also somewhat of a status symbol.

Tridactyl is terribly slow for me.

Hmm, $30 Xiaomi wireless Bluetooth earpods have pretty good battery life and very decent audio quality. I don't know about waterproofness, but the low end range of wireless earphones has improved significantly in the last few years.

Backblaze is that cheap? Or am I just out of touch as storage prices go?

> Am I reading this right?

You're not. There may be no correlation between the platform being bad and it being profitable. If it happens to be bad, don't let your career depend upon it, unless it also happens to generate revenue for you.

Is that the only argument for credit over debit?

If it wasn't a vise investment, publishers and developers of AAA titles wouldn't invest in it. But they do.

As for your first point: sites don't look at your screen resolution, they look at the resolution of the visible viewport, which shrinks when you switch to vertical tabs, triggering the layout change.

That sounds terrible.

> Once AR is there, they could make a game out of it, showing progress bars at the peripery of the eyes.

Are you good?

> Savings will run out and labor supply will increase again.

Yet, before the pandemic there seemed to have been a plethora of articles proclaiming that young people are living paycheck to paycheck more than ever before. So where are those savings coming from?

It probably means that the person's blindness is sufficient enough as to be recognized by the legal system. Just a guess.

Same, I didn't even notice the mistake. Could also be interpreted as "how focused the dog is _on_ something".

Depends on the kind of hacker. Some do worse.

> That said, I can't see how FB managers and engineers would actually agree to carry out something like this intentionally.

They can either agree to comply with the orders from up above or they face consequences? How is that hard to comprehend?

Probably the JVM implementation. I have observed the same effect on my system.

Rendering webpages is already GPU-accelerated by default in most browsers and platforms.

Hasn't everyone in the modern world lived under a "papers, please" surveillance type system for multiple decades now?

How would the platform distinguish those votes from regular ones?

How would Steam selling an AMD graphics card differ from any other retailer selling an AMD graphics card?

I bet you are loving that it's free though.

Maybe read the article?

People don't have time for all that, nor should they.