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WikiLambda, backend for Wikifunctions, rewrites itself from Node.js (!!) to Rust
  • Calculating the digits of pi seems like a poor benchmark for comparing various languages in the context of backend web application performance. Even the GitHub readme points out the benchmark is entirely focused on floating point performance.

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    America is ratchet
  • How exactly do Democrats block movement back to the left? What does it even mean to move "back" to the left when the goals of the left are things we literally have never had before?

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    Do you make $5,000/day?
  • Yes, it's equally as unrealistic as leaving money idle for 532 yrs.

    The only point I was making was that multiplying $5,000 a day by so many years is a silly comparison as it ignores the dominating factors to building wealth.

    Billionaires shouldn't exist but also they don't exist because they stuff X dollars under their mattress every day.

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    Do you make $5,000/day?
  • Not really with that amount of time. Suppose you put away $1,000 a year for 532 years, at 3% you still end up with $225 billion.

    The deposits are completely dwarfed by the compounding interest. If you only start with $1,000 and add nothing else but let that original $1,000 compound at 4% you'll have over $1 trillion.

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    Do you make $5,000/day?
  • But if you made just 3% interest on your money as you deposit $1,825,000 annually, over 532 years, you'd end up having $410 trillion dollars or more than 2,000 bezos.

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    Netflix has closed its AAA gaming studio
  • If only this meant the removal of the annoying tiles for games that show up in the app above everything else (often using up the entire screen) even though I've never tapped on them once.

    I don't want your games Netflix. I barely want your shows.

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    It's a matter of perspective
  • What? The first ordinal you start counting at doesn't change the total count, and alternatively the last item would be indexed at 2 if you used 0-based indexing.

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    A third of Americans agree with Trump that immigrants ‘poison the blood’ of US
  • I searched for the actual question text and found:

    Q19a. The immigrants entering the country illegally today are poisoning the blood of our country.

    The split was 14% completely agreed and 20% mostly agreed.

    I'm not as surprised by the results as the headline would have suggested because of the use of the word illegally. It biases the question negatively.

    The 20% who mostly agreed may have agreed with some negative connotation surrounding illegal immigration while ignoring the racism of "poisoning the blood." In other words, if I put myself in the shoes of someone who feels strongly about securing the border, I could understand how those respondents would lean towards agree simply because of the use of the word "illegal."

    To further support this interpretation: In the same survey, more than 40% of respondents favor or strongly favor building a wall along the US-Mexico border.

    Maybe I'm just optimistic that only around an eighth of the country is completely crazy and that is just a less clickbaity title.

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    This man is a parody of himself
  • The younger version of yourself displayed by the mirror is kissing the older version of yourself in front of the mirror, so I suppose you're both correct. Unless you're a photon.

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    LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking
  • I'm pretty happy with Chromecast currently for its simplicity. I meant to try and replace the TV firmware so it's more or less a dumb TV that just displays its inputs without having ads and other gimmicks.

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    LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking
  • The TV I currently have is Android OS but the built in Chromecast is noticeably lower quality. Not sure if it's an older version or what.

    Regardless, IMO the displays themselves outlast their software support, and I prefer to just plug in whatever the latest device.

    I'll also mention Android OS on my TV takes a full minute to "boot" and that itself makes me want to yeet it out the window.

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    LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking
  • My TV is probably going to kick the bucket in a year or two at most. Filtering "non smart TVs" on a site like BestBuy shows only commercial display options at this point.

    Are there any well maintained projects out there that are able to replace the firmware on newer smart TVs to get rid of these features? I really just want a dumb display with an input for a Chromecast with CEC support (or similar device if Google decides to enshittify that platform with screensaver ads too).

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  • Completed my Mandalorian costume just in time for Halloween.

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