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webkike··on “Twitter is going great” is being sunset
I have seen on my feed a picture of Hitler with a sympathetic quote from an account called "Racial Consciousness" with a blue check mark. I could not even imagine seeing that before Elon took over. So for me, yes, there are definitely white supremacists increasingly dominating my feed.
webkike··on More people are getting away with murder
That wouldn’t affect the clearance rate
webkike··on FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome
No they are not. They are information delivery devices being co-opted for content consumption
webkike··on Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (2014)
It’s a learning exercise man. Congratulations, you are very smart. FWIW, all of your questions are addressed in the article
webkike··on Twitter Is Blocking Likes and Retweets that Mention Substack
Well, they didn’t up until Elon took charge, so yes, Elon did this
webkike··on Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (2014)
Wow! What a blast from the past. I originally submitted this article back in 2014 when it was hosted on my personal page hosted by my university. You can view the thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8222487

When I migrated to my own personal domain, I decided I would update the article to address the comments on that thread, and I think the end result was much better (but alas, I never had a reason to re-submit the article here).

Obviously I do not recommend using a GC like this in general, but as a learning resource for how memory works and some of the more obscure parts of executables, I think it works pretty well! The compliments I've received from this article have been pretty incredible. Seeing it here, uploaded independently, really warms my heart.

Oh, and this article is so old that I'm now a Rust guy. Crazy how that works!

webkike··on China plans to ban exports of rare earth magnet tech
Nobody believed Russia would actually invade Ukraine? They've been at war since 2014. A full blown invasion was a legitimate possibility for anyone paying attention since Russia invaded Georgia in 2008
webkike··on The case for banning children from social media
> I don't relish this solution either. When I was 13, I was on forums making online friends. I loved it. But it was clearly different back then, before smartphones, before content-creators, when the internet was mostly nerds.

If I were to ban social media for my children, I would ban specific sites like Facebook, Instagram, etc. I wouldn't ban niche forums.

webkike··on Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default
I haven't had trouble with drivers using Fedora in years. RPM fusion handles Nvidia drivers just fine. It's a far cleaner and "noob friendly" distro in my opinion, so long as you're able to google "how to install nvidia drivers fedora"
webkike··on Banshees of Inisherin: The Game
It was a hilarious movie. It just also happened to be quite sad
webkike··on Vinyl Records Outsell CDs for the First Time Since 1987
Counter point: it’s just more fun
webkike··on Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow
And what is your experience?
webkike··on Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow
High rises are not dystopian. What is dystopian is people living in fucking tents
webkike··on Grid Beam
The holes are not what make this ugly
webkike··on Grid Beam
Wood's pretty re-usable as is, and these look ugly as sin
webkike··on Poll: Do you use anti-virus software on desktop Linux?
> Linux desktop users are so trusty; the only reason half of them aren't owned yet is because they aren't being targeted.

And the other half have ClamAV? Why _wouldn't_ they be targeted, surely a large number of proprietary technologies are developed on linux

webkike··on Poll: Do you use anti-virus software on desktop Linux?
owned by the man
webkike··on Poll: Do you use anti-virus software on desktop Linux?
If you're in a situation where you need to use antivirus on linux I'd assume you're already owned
webkike··on NYC Slice
Focaccia is basically pizza without the sauce so I'm not sure if the clarification is helpful? Wikipedia claims that some places even call focaccia pizza bianca
webkike··on Binance has lost $12B in assets in under 60 days
That does not actually indicate anything about the insurance limit not matching inflation because housing prices are not necessarily flat. In fact they are not. However, the fdic insurance limit is indeed worth less now, but most people don’t even have $5,000 in the bank. The mean bank account balance is $40,000 according to a quick Google search.
webkike··on Binance has lost $12B in assets in under 60 days
Those are banks, not crypto exchanges. Fundamentally different. Additionally, fractional reserve banks are FDIC insured up to $250,000 of an account.
webkike··on Argentina Wins the World Cup
It is random, it’s definitely not as random as a coin flip
webkike··on Argentina Wins the World Cup
Oh yeah, that would have been SO much better and less controversial than a shootout. What a great way to end 120 minutes of people pouring their heart out. A coin flip
webkike··on Investigating Logan Paul's biggest scam [video]
Problem is they’re giving their money to someone who is equally stupid
webkike··on We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult
Every now and then an article gets to the front page of this website that completely baffles me as to the reason it got there. Could someone explain this one to me?
webkike··on Rust 2024 the Year of Everywhere?
What part of rust do you think can be made simpler?
webkike··on Rust 2024 the Year of Everywhere?
If this is the case, why hasn’t math been replaced?
webkike··on PhD gets 5x increase in postdoc interview invitations by just changing his name
That sounds an awful lot like racism to me
webkike··on Japan wants young people to drink more alcohol
The first night I visited Japan I witnessed a Japanese man vomit on the subway. It was awesome
webkike··on Poly-time algorithm for deciding Hilbert Nullstellensatz. A proof of P=NP
“Finding the proof is itself in NP” does not make sense as finding a singular proof is not something that depends on the size of its input, which is what the entire field of algorithmic complexity studies.
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