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New comment by gsich in "A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals"

gsich — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:09:34 +0000

That doesn't matter.

New comment by gsich in "A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals"

gsich — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:28:58 +0000

Intelligence is inheritable.

New comment by gsich in "sshole"

gsich — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 20:09:16 +0000

Tried it, doesn't work.

New comment by gsich in "The case of the 9 bit AES key"

gsich — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:10:50 +0000

one and the same

New comment by gsich in "Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown"

gsich — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:49:45 +0000

Because it's a workaround on Googles control. Next year it will be a week, then a month, then never again.

New comment by gsich in "Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky"

gsich — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:00:16 +0000

>It's not actually trivially obvious that different minds would agree on how "sharp" and "soft" apply to sounds and to shapes.

Same genetics produce the same outcome (mostly).

New comment by gsich in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"

gsich — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:50:56 +0000

They used IE in the beginning.

New comment by gsich in "IRCv3"

gsich — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:49:06 +0000

The Lounge https://thelounge.chat/

New comment by gsich in "IRCv3"

gsich — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:48:20 +0000

Your loss.

New comment by gsich in "IRCv3"

gsich — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:48:07 +0000

only voice and subpar text chat.

New comment by gsich in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

gsich — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:21:33 +0000

>neutral non-position

This wasn't the case. Mozilla even used similar wording as Google did.

Mozilla >We might find it necessary to support the format if usage becomes more widespread, but that will be a product decision

Google >There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL

(this was retarded too, but wcyd if you are forced to say this)

New comment by gsich in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

gsich — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:55:45 +0000

[2] was anticipatory obedience from Mozilla. Good for them that they grew a spine later (or more likely: they knew that Google will implement it some time later, so the change of opinion cost them nothing).

New comment by gsich in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

gsich — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:43:25 +0000

Obviously, once the Google overlords decided it.

New comment by gsich in "Can gzip be a language model?"

gsich — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:12:03 +0000

but worse filebrowser

New comment by gsich in "Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account"

gsich — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:36:50 +0000

Cell Broadcast yes, SMS no.

New comment by gsich in "Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled"

gsich — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:49:04 +0000

The pictures.

New comment by gsich in "Studio Canal Movies purchased on PlayStation Store removed without refund"

gsich — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:43:11 +0000

This was planned for DVDs too, but they failed miserably.

In any other case: use MakeMKV

New comment by gsich in "Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing"

gsich — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:23:17 +0000

lines of code produced. similar dumb metric.

New comment by gsich in "USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits"

gsich — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:50:28 +0000

You sure?

Those regulations go even higher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra-low_voltage

New comment by gsich in "Leaving Mozilla"

gsich — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:08:09 +0000

Gatekeeping is not always bad.