[-] lightsecond@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago

The Google Play Store uses a technique called delta patching to calculate the diff server side and avoid transferring parts of the app that haven’t changed since your original installation.

This is understandably not perfect because they want to avoid load on their servers and also the extra processing on your device to “unpack” it. So what you have is a happy medium between sending the entire app again and sending strictly the diff.

[-] lightsecond@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

That’s exactly how we got Javascript on the backend in the first place. I remember when this was the new “weird” thing.

[-] lightsecond@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago

Hi, I’m Dr. Mordecai Tutu on this glorious day.

[-] lightsecond@programming.dev 28 points 1 year ago

You know, saying that everyone except caucasians are “people of color” itself reeks of inherent racism.

Racism is quite common in the world. It always has been. It’s just that in most of our history our out-groups were still local so racism didn’t manifest.

Right now we’re at a point in the human journey where we see people of different races quite often, but we don’t interact often enough that it is no longer relevant for anyone. It’s improving.

[-] lightsecond@programming.dev 24 points 1 year ago

noʎ ʇoƃ ʎǝɥʇ …ɐɥɐɥ

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I have been reading the English translations and the characters and especially their dialogues feel very fake. I do appreciate the hard science aspect of the books but the long monologues, kids speaking like middle-aged philosophers, and army personnel being one-dimensional macho men breaks the immersion for me. It has the depth of a 1980s low-budget thriller.

I don’t read a lot of hard science fiction or translations of Chinese books. I don’t know if this is genre-related.

[-] lightsecond@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

!softwaregore@lemmy.world

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Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer famously quoted this from The Bhagavad Geeta in the context of the nuclear bomb. The way this sentence is structured feels weird to me. “Now I am Death” or “Now I have become Death” sound much more natural in English to me.

Was he trying to simulate some formulation in Sanskrit that is not available in the English language?

[-] lightsecond@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago

I read somewhere on Lemmy that ich_iel deliberately uses wrong words four the lulz. So be careful or you’ll be learning bad grammar. Youse diggitty?

[-] lightsecond@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago

Interesting read. I was genuinely surprised to read that ChromeOS has 4%+ desktop market share. It’s not popular at all where I am from. I’ve never ever seen one in person.

[-] lightsecond@programming.dev 86 points 1 year ago

It’s been out for less than ten days and it already has more than 35x the number of total users as Mastodon. It might not be for us, but saying that no one would want to use it is just sour grapes.

[-] lightsecond@programming.dev 22 points 1 year ago

Linus has the most unique programming career ever. It’s good for us that he became the impartial foul-mouthed emperor of fat penguins. If he were still great at programming but not so good at leading, i wonder what would have happened to Linux.

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This is disheartening. Not having local semiconductor production is a liability. I hope we get some capabilities soon.

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Showerthought: This post is just an opportunity for users with inappropriate usernames to show them off.

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