viktorcode's comments

On: Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media

[viktorcode]

I expect more kids will switch to playing more games on their phones with their friends. Whoever thinks the kids will instead put down their phones and starting go out more often has lost touch with reality.

[GreenWatermelon → viktorcode]

This is still a trillion times better than the Antisocial media of today. At least they'll interact with their friends.

Online competitive games at least require you to work your brain.

[heavyset_go → viktorcode]

You don't understand, we're going back to the good old days.

Kids will go back to rolling hoops and playing jacks in the street, they'll write letters to each other in cursive, because print is addictive, and we can finally go back to the time where if a kid is even a little bit different from those around them, they're robbed of having any type of social support system that doesn't ostracize them.

On: A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived

[viktorcode]

They pushed them out of Italy, which forced mafia to adapt in the US, eventually becoming richer and stronger. A much more powerful transnational mafia returned back to Italy.

[oriettaxx → viktorcode]

by "they" do you mean Mussolini?

What exactly Leonardo Sciascia mean in his "Porte Aperte" is the fascism merely "anesthetize" the mafia rather than eradicating it (gaining temporary Sicilian consent through illusionary repression)

On: Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app

[viktorcode]

It was the opposite. US mobile operator stores charged upward of 50% to sell stuff on their feature phones, with cherry on top in the form of paid submissions.

[bogwog → viktorcode]

You think that's bad? Grugnar charge 80% to sell rocks in front of cave, but Grugnar killed by Bugluk and then cave belong to Bugluk. Bugluk eat you and take rocks if you try sell in front of cave.

[viktorcode → bogwog]

I'm replying to the statement that 30% was always a bad deal, by providing an example that shows that it was a clear improvement on the market of mobile development (as others did the same in this comments section).

In your cavemen logic the closest example would be that nobody killed the first guy; he was forced out of business because a new cave opened nearby and they were selling rocks much cheaper.

On: Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app

[viktorcode]

On the contrary. There is an ongoing DoJ antitrust case against Apple with a long list of grievances. Most of those were already addressed by Apple (since the case was filed a pretty long time ago) the rest will be tested in the courtroom in the following years.

Those cases take a long time.

On: Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app

[viktorcode]

Epic lost on 9 counts out of 10 in the original lawsuit. The one they won is being appealed and in the process Fortnight was ordered to be reinstated in the US. I wouldn't bet that this arrangement will survive appeals.

On: Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app

[viktorcode]

They will, the moment your bank starts selling media inside the app.

On: Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app

[viktorcode]

They also host and serve videos. Not sure about other media

[fc417fc802 → viktorcode]

Good point. That makes them a combined platform and payment processor. So it seems to me the logical question would be, shouldn't they just break the platform part out then? But isn't that exactly what their percentage fee amounts to? So Apple should be entitled to 30% of their (IIRC) 5%, right?

Really they ought to further split that out into "processing fee" and "platform services fee" and Apple would then be entitled to 30% of the latter.

On: Russia using Interpol's wanted list to target critics abroad, leak reveals

[viktorcode]

And yet despite his alleged criminal activities Russian prosecutors have failed to present an evidence-backed case that would warrant the notice to Interpol. That is why it was cleared.

[pjc50 → viktorcode]

Ah, this is an OJ Simpson: looks extremely guilty, but because the police are lazy and incompetent they frame him rather than building an actual case.

On: 150k lines of vibe coded Elixir: The good, the bad and the ugly

[viktorcode]

It's the second time today when I see that the higher number of LoC is served as something positive. I would put it strictly in "Ugly" category. I understand the business logic that says that as long as you can vibe code away from any problems, what's the point of even looking at the code.

[dkersten → viktorcode]

As the saying goes:

   Measuring software productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by how much it weighs.

150k sounds like a lot. I do have to wonder what the program does exactly to see if that’s warranted, but it sounds bloated.

[esafak → viktorcode]

Think of it as 60 man-years of work.

[idle_zealot → esafak]

If that's true then I can ship 60 man-years of work with

  yes 'println("a very important and useful line of code");' >> main.c

in under a second!

[esafak → idle_zealot]

How is that 60 man-years of work? You are not going to replicate what the LLM generated in under a second without the LLM.

[pjmlp → viktorcode]

Remember, there used to be a time programmers productivity was measured in LoC per hour.

As such, this is high productivity! /s

[michaelcampbell → pjmlp]

> Remember, there used to be a time programmers productivity was measured in LoC per hour.

Do you remember such a time or company? I have been developing professionally since the early 1990's (and hobbyist before then), and this "truth" has been a meme even back then.

I'm sure it happened, but I'm not sure it was ever as widespread as this legend would make it sound.

But, there were decades of programmers programming before I started, so maybe it just predated even me.

[pjmlp → michaelcampbell]

I do, besides the sibling comment, there is hacker lore about these kind of issues,

> They devised a form that each engineer was required to submit every Friday, which included a field for the number of lines of code that were written that week.

https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

[kryptiskt → michaelcampbell]

IBM had such a culture back in the day, where they feted 1 kloc/day programmers. That was what Bill Gates sneered at with the "Measuring software productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by how much it weighs" quote.

[miningape → njhnjhnjh]

Yes, as we all know, when evaluating which programming language to use, you should get a line count of the compiler's repo. More lines = more capabilities.

Why would I ever want a language with less capabilities?

[williamcotton → miningape]

I mean, awk? jq? SQL?

[OoooooooO → williamcotton]

APL

[adw → njhnjhnjh]

> to the extent that our systems' world models are effectively indistinguishable from the real world.

https://genius.com/Jorge-luis-borges-on-exactitude-in-scienc...

[enricotr → njhnjhnjh]

'Means' according to what? Put some (laughtable) reference so I can laught louder.

[quietbritishjim → njhnjhnjh]

Genuinely hard to tell if satire.

Just in case not, consider whether the short function

   def is_even(x):
      return (x%2) == 0

Handles a wider range of input conditions than the higher LOC function

   def is_even(x):
     if x == 0:
       return True
     if x == 2:
       return True
     if x == 4:
       return True
     ...
     return False

On: Chromium Has Merged JpegXL

[viktorcode]

Anyone knows if their implementation supports animations? This is a feature missing from Apple's

[adzm → viktorcode]

According to the chrome platform status page, yes! https://chromestatus.com/feature/5114042131808256

>>>

  - Progressive decoding for improved perceived loading performance
  - Support for wide color gamut, HDR, and high bit depth
  - Animation support

[Latitude7973 → viktorcode]

Yes, but it's not recommended - it does not have inter-frame compression, so it is significantly less efficient than just having a regular video file and slapping 'gif' on it.

[ignaloidas → Latitude7973]

That's not strictly correct, it's rather that the current encoder does no inter-frame compression. Patches (and the frame system in general) does give tools to do some inter-frame compression (not as many as in video, but still quite expressive), just nobody stepped up to implement compression using them for animations yet.

[112233 → Latitude7973]

Do you know of a video format that supports progressive decoding?

[adgjlsfhk1 → 112233]

Progressive decoding isn't a very useful video feature because you need to decode the whole frame before you decode the next frame for inter-frame coding methods anyway.

[112233 → adgjlsfhk1]

It is, however, a very useful image format feature, giving you most information from the spinner/sticker/emoji/sprite, and refinig the already playing loop as it loads. That's why animated jxl is a bad video format — it's not a video format, it is a separate kind of seemingly weird thing.

[account42 → Latitude7973]

Video files are not supported in <img> tags.

[nar001 → viktorcode]

It does, I just tried it in Canary and the jxl test page did also show animations

[actionfromafar → viktorcode]

What, isn't this the cue for someone to explain that it's ironic webp is really a video format which is a bad image format, and now we have symmetry that JpegXL is a good image format which is bad video format? :-D

(I don't know if any of this is true, but it sounds funny...)

[account42 → actionfromafar]

Webp is also an incredibly bad animation format since it drops most of the inter-frame compression features of the video codec it was derived from.