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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

This was in 1985, on a ABC80, a Swedish computer with a 3 MHz CPU. So, in theory it would be much faster, but I assume there were many performance losses (slow basic interpretor and thing like that) so that for loop got close enough to a second for us to use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_80

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

On my first programming lesson, we were taught that 1 second sleep was for i = 1 to 1000 😀, computers was not that fast back then...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Are they really? Didn't you press a button that said "Buy"? Just because they want things to be something else, doesn't mean that the meaning of the words changed.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They explain a bit more about what that means here: https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave/75

TL;DR They use multiple sources for search results besides their own indexer, the most obvious one is Google. To lessen dependence on one single search provider they have been adding other sources, one of them is now Brave. That is the whole thing.

On Dec 26, Kagi started including search results from Brave search index, after we previously added Mojeek and Yandex earlier in the year. Brave has a public search api and we currently implemented it for about 10% of queries as a first test (same as any other API we use, there is no mutual development or anything of the sorts). This was announced in our Dec 28 public changelog. Approximately a week later on Jan 5 after several posts on social media about ‘Brave partnership’ the situation escalated.]

So, if you do not like to use Google in the first place, I don't really understand why lessening the dependence on google would be a bad thing?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Corrected my typo, so contextually challenged persons can avoid being confused. You are welcome.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

I found that a homicidal lane assist, have a really good effect on my alertness. Before lane assist I could relax and almost doze of, but with lane assist I don't dare to relax for a second since I know it will try to murder me the first chance it gets. So, I guess that is why people say lane assist prevents accidents.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 11 months ago (4 children)

What?!? Pictures Under Glass turns out not to be the most desired solution for controling your car? Who could have guessed? /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I can sell a disk to whoever I want. I can lend my disk to a friend. I can play my disk in any player I want. Heck, I'm even allowed to crack the copy right on the disk if that is needed to play it on my device. I have the right to backup my disk to a hard drive.

Don't pretend Buying a movie online is anything close to buying it on a physical medium. It doesn't make you look good.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

If I give you the impression that you buy a gold bar, but in reality you get a cheap gold plated metal bar, then that is fraud. It doesn't matter if it looks and feel the same.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (10 children)

No, what you describe is called "Rent" or "Lease". People who press a "Buy" button and buy something, expect to own it. Words have a meaning, and trying to wiggle around this with fine print should be considered fraudulent.

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