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Comment Re:What I love about Git ... (Score 1) 67

... is that it's a protocol designed and built by someone who knew what he was doing (Linus Torwalds) resulting, among other things, in the fact that migrating your upstream Git repo away from a commercial service like Github takes something like 20 seconds, if you're having a slow day.

The difficulty of migrating away from Github is when you've built your entire deploy pipeline and QA process around it, which is what a lot of companies are doing lately.

Comment Re:Wassa matter China? (Score 1) 88

More cylinders does make for a smoother engine without complex harmonic dampening, which the Japanese have decades of experience in doing exceptional at.

There was a big scandal about smooth submarine motion during the cold war. Toshiba makes the quietest refrigerator I've ever heard (42 db iirc). Can't hear it in the next room.

Comment It's a lot harder to make 3000 glyphs (Score 1) 93

Among widely available fonts under OFL, GNU GPL for Fonts, or other free licenses, not many of them cover the 2,100-odd Jouyou (regularly used) kanji and 1,000 name kanji that BadDreamer mentioned. It's a lot easier to make a font that covers 100-200 characters from two alphabets, such as Chilanka that covers the Latin and Malayalam scripts in a distinctive and dyslexia-friendly handwritten style, than one that covers 3,000 different kanji made of 600 radicals (as iggymanz mentioned) with manually-tuned slight variations to their shapes to make them fit next to each other in a character.

Comment Switching to kana is homophonic (Score 2) 93

you could still [write Japanese] in native language with a manageable scope by sticking to the phonetic scripts.

Exclusive use of kana (Japanese phonetic characters) was common in games for MSX, Famicom, and other 8-bit platforms. The one problem with that is the sheer number of homophones in both Chinese and Japanese, words spoken the same and written differently. Kana normally don't even distinguish which syllable a word is accented on, which would be like writing Chinese without its tones. Yet somehow Korean avoided this and switched from Chinese characters (Hanja) to a suitable phonetic alphabet (Hangul).

Comment Re:Miracles (Chips, how do they work?) (Score 1) 125

ii. Get rid of senior executives who are more interested in their fiefdoms vs. the company well being

I appreciate your ideas, but this will never work. Executives (and every other sane person at the company) will always be more interested in their own success than in the company's success.

Comment Re: Case in point (Score 1) 211

I would suggest you look at Kagi, or something like SearXNG. I pay for the former, and occasionally use the later.

Kagi can be configured to leave out the AI bullshit, and even in the default mode (currently) does it with a light touch. I don't believe searXNG even has AI search as an option.

This is supposed to be the value of the internet, that if a site starts to suck, we are simply a new URL away from one of their competitors. Google just is not that good anymore in my experience. I occasionally have to use it when using someone else's machine (sons PC, kids school Chromebook, etc.), and I'm frustrated the whole time. There really are better alternatives for search. You just need to be willing to kick the tires on them.

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