Mastodawn

actually, i think what we need is a shibboleet feature for google that restricts results to authors that know a minimum of two programming languages

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Koopa 🌸2d ago

if you want a really fun time, look up 'microsoft teams web vs desktop "performance"'. absolute crickets, because apparently nobody gives a shit

Koopa 🌸2d ago

dude i am so tired of not having enough technical info to make informed decisions about the applications i use

suppose you are trying to find an optimal way to use discord. i have read once that discord integrates a decent bit of optimized native code, but i can't find any info about this on reddit!

so suppose then i just want to compare RAM usage. i take the size of resident memory of Discord from HTOP, open up the firefox process manager, only to be greeted with a singular Memory column with X MB for each subprocess. but there is not a single page on the internet (that google is surfacing) that explains how to interpret what these numbers represent

Koopa 🌸Mar 5

Gabriele Svelto Mar 4

A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. 🧵 1/5

Koopa 🌸Feb 13

the elon musk dunking lives in my head rent free because i keep going to myself "masterful gambit, sirs" every time i fuck up

via Discord

Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients.

@brentsimmons replied. Turns out he borrowed that layout for NetNewsWire in 2002 — and twenty years later, he's asking why no one's tried something different.

That conversation became an essay. I built a visual version (with an ASCII fallback).

https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation

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Phantom Obligation

Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.

Terry Godier

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Koopa 🌸Jan 18

do you guys think if i mute enough liberals on bsky then my feed will be usable

Koopa 🌸Jan 18

big fan of how most online political accounts are either progressives libbing out or leftists vagueposting and then being too conceited to elaborate

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