[-] wischi@programming.dev 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[-] wischi@programming.dev 11 points 9 months ago

Only in the US 🤣

[-] wischi@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago

24h analog clocks exist but they are pretty useless because you lose angular resolution. So unless you are a vampire that's up 24/7 a 12 hour wall clock has better angular resolution than a clock with 33% wasted area you'll never use/see because you are asleep

[-] wischi@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago

Newton believed in god, so there obviously were things he accepted with practically no evidence whatsoever 🙊

[-] wischi@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

Any backups of the repository itself (and not the GitHub rendering)?

[-] wischi@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

You mean 10 types:

  • those who understand binary
  • those who don't
  • those who think it's a ternary joke
  • those who know that this works in any base

Every base is base 10 😉

[-] wischi@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

Didn't the right one train the ninja turtles?

[-] wischi@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago

Because of the shadow maybe. But it's practically impossible to offset the human carbon footprint with trees.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

👍 That was actually one of the reasons why I wrote this blog post. I wanted to compile a list of points that show as clear as humanity possible that there is no consensus here, even amongst experts.

That probably won't convince everybody but if that won't probably nothing will.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's just wrong. "Kilo" is ancient Greek for "thousand". It always meant 1000. Because bytes are grouped on powers of two and because of the pure coincidence that 10^3 (1000) is almost the same size as 2^10 (1024) people colloquially said kilobyte when they meant 1024 bytes, but that was always wrong.

Update: To make it even clearer. Try to think what historical would have happened if instead of binary, most computers would use ternary. Nobody would even think about reusing kilo for 3^6 (=729) or 3^7 (=2187) because they are not even close.

Resuing well established prefixes like kilo was always a stupid idea.

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