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firefox fork or poorly remembered pokemon? 1/n

Ever get annoyed by YouTube sticking things it thinks you’ll like in your search results, when you just want to find something specific? Turns out it doesn’t do that with the “before:” filter on. Just pick a date in the future and add it to your search: “my query before:2026”

politics, diplomacy 

So uh, everybody realizes that it is extremely not normal for a government official of one country (the US) to call for the resignation of someone representing the other country (Ukraine), right?

Like, this is a direct violation of the concept of sovereignty.

Sergey Brin thinks you should work extra hours to create something he’ll make money from that will give his company a reason to fire you. arstechnica.com/google/2025/02

You've played Fedi for 1460 hours
Would you recommend this game to other players?

@eniko Well... sort of? From what I remember, the whole archetypes thing serves to group together data for specific (sets of) components, because you're usually going to iterate over "all entities that have this specific set of components" - and for optimal cache locality you want the data stored to *only* be the data you are interested in because of the limited cache size.

So if you were to store all of an entity's data in an array, instead of just its data for specific components, less entities worth of data would fit into the cache (because the data includes irrelevant stuff) and that would incur a performance penalty.

(Going off my potentially lossy memory here)

@eniko Isn't that just to serve the cache locality purpose?

Also you may find github.com/SanderMertens/ecs-f helpful, iirc it goes into this too

@joepie91 not sure if there are more sim cards or emv payment cards, both could certainly have javacard.

instead of estimating damages of natural disasters in millions of dollars, estimating damages in how many fewer devices are now running java

@joepie91 They must have fired the guy who counted devices a few decades ago, because 3 billion seems very low today

Like seriously what was I thinking owning a vintage unwifi'd ereader and not using it, just using my phone instead

🦝 Let's settle down and have a nice read of a long book! Gee, I sure hope I don't get distracted from this book, for example by a distraction machine, much like the one that I'm holding in my hand right now, and staring at,

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That's only partly a shitpost by the way, yes, your SIM card probably has a JVM or some other kind of Java environment

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I gotta do like a Big Thread about this sometime on my blog that I don't have, but for now I've gotta say, Actually Making The Effort to use the e-reader rather than my phone for reading books has paid me dividends in Chill

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@gsuberland

Oh dang! So many good memories circa 2009.

Add it to the graveyard of stuff Microsoft destroyed. :P

I mean, Google has a graveyard of things they removed/discontinued, and things that never caught on.

But only Microsnot could spend billions to buy something that was thriving and then just smear it into the asphalt like that.

2.7 billion years ago, life came to exist on this planet. 3 billion devices run Java. Coincidence?

Probably, honestly

Time to reshare I think. “I don’t want my portraits to hang in your offices, because the president is not an icon or an idol. Hang pictures of your children there and look them in the eyes before every decision” – Volodymyr Zelensky

@joepie91 with the power of virtual reality, you can view this anywhere within the confines of this room

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