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But I should be careful what I wish for. Current BEVs have many user-hostile clown-car features.
I didn't pay careful attention to the wording of the submitted title. I may have been confused because of the wording of the actual tweet: I tested a random selection of four NVMe SSDs from four vendors.
The word "random" meant to me that Samsung drives could have been selected twice. But, yes, then there wouldn't be four distinct vendors.
Unstated but implied by you is there are only two (major) Korean vendors to choose from.
So if Samsung is a Korean winner then Hynix must be the Korean loser. Which is now clear to me.
Is it possible there's a third (minor) Korean player? Could I possibly still have a chance? :)
This does a disservice to those who might be running drives from those vendors with an expectation that they don't lose data post-flush.
That said, this narrows one of the data losers down to Hynix. Curious about the other one, considering how many US-based SSD vendors there are.
Not really. Samsung builds a plethora of SSDs.
Too bad programmer laziness won and most current hardware doesn't support this.
As a teenager I remember getting hit by this all the time in assembly language programming for the IBM S/360. (FORTRAN turned it off).
S0C8 Fixed-point overflow exception
Well, you still have lots of tracking stuff loaded probably, unless you got something extra for blocking trackers. A tracking pixels does not need JS. A font loading from CSS does not need JS. Personally I dislike those too, so I would still recommend using a blocker for those.
Yes I'm sure I have that stuff loaded. But I don't care because it's quite ephemeral:
I exit Firefox multiple times a day, there's really no performance cost to doing that after every group of websites. E.g. if, while reading HN, I look up something on Wikipedia, or I search with Bing or Google, everything goes away together.
In my settings: delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed
In my settings: clear history when Firefox closes, everything goes except browsing and download history
No suggestions except for bookmarks.
So when I restart Firefox to then browse reddit it starts with a clean slate.
Comcast insisted I purchase a DOCSIS3 modem quite a while ago. Once downloads are at 100 mpbs+, does it really matter if I repeatedly re-download a few items to cache?
The only noticeable downside is when I switch to Safari to view something that needs JS, I then see ads for clothing that my wife and daughters might be interested in. I presume this is due to fallback to tracking via IP address. Of course I always clear history and empty caches in Safari.
Obviously this doesn't work for someone who wants to or needs to keep 100 browser windows open at once, for months at a time. But that's not me. I don't think that way, never have.
Edit: just had to add that sites like Wikipedia are better w/o JS (unless you edit?). I don't see those annoying week-long pleas for money. Do they still do those?
Yes there is sometimes an echo chamber here, but it's only for limited topics. It very much has a Silicon Valley feel to it, but @dang and I have gone around on this and he assures us that the readership and comments have broad geographic representation.[1] It's a worldwide echo chamber. :)
Fortunately the echo chamber doesn't exist for most submissions. Most of the discussion on HN is on non-polarizing topics.
profootballtalk.com works great if you don't want to vote or comment
macrumors.com great functionality
nitter.net happily takes the place of twitter.com
drudgereport.com works great and I rarely turn on JS when I go to the sites he links to, usually the text on target sites is there if not as pretty as it could be
individual subreddits (e.g. old.reddit.com/r/Portland/ ) are quite good w/o JS. But the "old." is probably important.
I admit that there are lots of sites that don't work, e.g. /r/IdiotsInCars/ doesn't work because reddit uses JS for video. For so many sites the text is there but images and videos aren't. Also need to turn off "page style" for some recalcitrant sites.
In conclusion, contrary to your JS experience, I'd say that I spend over 90% of my time browsing w/o JS and am happy with my experience. Things are lightning fast and I see few or no ads. I don't need an ad blocker since 99% of ads just don't happen w/o JS.
Since this runs entirely on the domain of the website, it can easily ignore your privacy rights, with Google more or less washing their hands clean of it.
Indeed, if we take blocking trackers as expression of consent, the only possible reason this exists at all is to illegally circumvent privacy preferences.
In other words, if you work for Google, you are literally working for a criminal organization. How times have changed.
It seems the only possible option to retain privacy rights given to us by law (eg in the EU) is to disable JavaScript and cycle IPs or other fingerprinting features. None of that is realistic.
As a EU citizen, i hope that our ineffectual administration at least tries to fight this somehow. Of course, there is little hope.
Yeah, but there are a lot of employees there who check their bank accounts twice a month and say: "Just wow".
Venial evil is easily bought.
Edit:
As a EU citizen
I really hate to even say this, but "Crazy Vlad" nearby is what true evil is about.
Yeah, right. Blame it on "old people". Certainly not the code base with 10,000 global variables:
The design review found things like: Other egregious deviations from standard practice were the number of global variables in the system. (A variable is a location in memory that has a number in it. A global variable is any piece of software anywhere in the system can get to that number and read it or write it.) The academic standard is zero. Toyota had more than 10,000 global variables.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19613055 That original link is now broken. I don't think Toyota paid to scrub it, probably just decay.