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by ACS_Solver 7mo ago
Wayland experiences seem to vary wildly. It was most certainly not working fine for me six years ago. Well, six years ago I don't think I got as far as trying screenshots, I'd run into basic window placement or rendering issues th
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by ACS_Solver 7mo ago
This is also where I'm at. I don't care what protocol or whatever is running underneath but I just want things to work and Wayland doesn't do that. It has lately been better, previously I would try Wayland and run into proble
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by ACS_Solver 7mo ago
I saw it on SVT a few hours ago. DN and Expressen have also reported. The details about what exactly it is that got leaked are unclear (some report it's basically the code and certs responsible for BankID SSO) but this is certainly bei
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by ACS_Solver 7mo ago
> "it's not X, it's Y", "Not X, Not Y, Just Z" Interesting how LLMs have their own preferences too. Those in particular are very often used by ChatGPT, while Claude until recently couldn't stop saying &
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by ACS_Solver 7mo ago
Yes, it's Sonnet 4.6 for me as well as the most impressive inflection point. I guess I find Anthropic's models to be the best, even before I found Sonnet 3.7 to be the only model that produced reasonable results, but now Sonnet 4.
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by ACS_Solver 7mo ago
Yes, I think this is reasonable. I have been consistently skeptical of LLM coding but the latest batch of models seems to have crossed some threshold. Just like everyone, I've been reading lots of news about LLMs. A week ago I decided
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by ACS_Solver 7mo ago
This is one of the most interesting questions to me about human brains, and as far as I know no significant progress has been made in answering it. Some people appear to have a capacity for learning, retention and understanding that is well
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by ACS_Solver 8mo ago
I'm sure Apple has data showing that their extremely lockdown strategy is good for their business but I feel like I'm one of the potential customers Apple could gain if they didn't have that. They're a fantastic hardware
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by ACS_Solver 8mo ago
Arch wiki is far better than most man pages. I've referred to Arch for my own non-Arch systems and when building Yocto systems. Most Arch info applies. In the ancient days I used TLDP to learn about Linux stuff. Arch wiki is now the be
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by ACS_Solver 8mo ago
Proton is amazing and it's really three different subprojects that deserve a lot of credit each. First is Wine itself, with its implementation of Win32 APIs. I ran some games through Wine even twenty years ago but it was certainly not
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by ACS_Solver 9mo ago
No, people will never be switching to ReactOS. For some of the same reasons they don't switch to Linux, but stronger. ReactOS aims to be a system that runs Windows software and looks like Windows. But, it runs software that's comp
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by ACS_Solver 9mo ago
I'd still consider them more similar than not. Hurd was not a research project initially. It was a project to develop an actual, usable kernel for the GNU system, and it was supposed to be a free, copyleft replacement for the Unix kern
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by ACS_Solver 9mo ago
> I do think there's some opportunity for ReactOS, but I feel it would have to at LEAST get to pretty complete Windows 7 compatibility That's not going to happen in any way that matters. If ReactOS ever reaches Win7 compatibili
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by ACS_Solver 9mo ago
Yes. The unique point of ReactOS is driver compatibility. Wine is pretty great for Win32 API, Proton completes it with excellent D3D support through DXVK, and with these projects a lot of Windows userspace can run fine on Linux. Wine doesn&
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by ACS_Solver 9mo ago
In my experience, things like ReactOS would have been more useful in parts of the world with let's say a less thorough approach to things like compliance. A factory has a CNC machine delivered fifteen years ago that's been run by
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by ACS_Solver 9mo ago
It functionally is a project from fifteen-twenty years ago. Development activity was somewhat slow but steady but it largely fizzled out around I think 2018? The project tried to get political and financial support of the Russian government
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by ACS_Solver 9mo ago
ReactOS has been very slow to develop, and probably missed the point where it could make an impact. It's still mostly impossible to run on real hardware, and their beta goal (version 0.5 which supports USB, wifi and is at least minimal
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by ACS_Solver 9mo ago
Kryptos K4 seems to me like a potential candidate for AI systems to solve if they're capable of actual innovation. So far I find LLMs to be useful tools if carefully guided, but more like an IDE's refactoring feature on steroids t
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by ACS_Solver 9mo ago
Technically there has only been one fatal accident in space, the Soyuz 11 failure which killed the crew of three. That occurred above the Karman line, all other spaceflight related fatalities were at much lower altitudes or on the ground.
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by ACS_Solver 9mo ago
Surely AGI would be matching humans on most tasks. To me, surpassing humans on all cognitive tasks sounds like superintelligence, while AGI "only" need to perform most, but not necessarily all, cognitive tasks at the level of a hu
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by ACS_Solver 9mo ago
Thanks, I'll see about an on-page zoom. On my 1440p the whole table fits even with the side drawer open and with my webdev inexperience I didn't even think about zoom controls other than the browser's being an option. I love
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by ACS_Solver 9mo ago
StackOverflow was great because it's not like a support forum or a mailing list. It's more like a repository of knowledge. It's been extremely helpful to me when arriving from Google, and I've gotten a couple useful resp
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by ACS_Solver 9mo ago
It's ultimately a trust issue and understanding motivations. If I am taking to a salesperson, I understand their motivation is to sell me the product. I assume they know the product reasonably well but I also assume they have no intere
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by ACS_Solver 9mo ago
I remain somewhat skeptical of LLM utility given my experience using them, but an LLM capable of validating my ideas OR telling me I have no clue, in a manner I could trust, is one of those features I'd really like and would happily us
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by ACS_Solver 9mo ago
I think 2016 is a bit too early but yeah, xoofx first wrote about CoreCLR in 2018 and said he'd made considerable progress with something like himself and two other engineers doing it as a side project. That is four years before Unity
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by ACS_Solver 9mo ago
Not just probably scared off some good talent, they had xoofx leave over disagreements with higher management. xoofx was one of their most senior devs, the guy who started the CoreCLR migration and was leading it. They'll get there eve
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by ACS_Solver 10mo ago
I have minimal experience with modern Web tech, though I used to run a couple websites in the old days. My main job currently is in game dev, writing C#. Working for a small studio with flexible roles, I sometimes also take the opportunity
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by ACS_Solver 10mo ago
Yes, Perforce handles large files, and large folders of files, very well. It's quite efficient with deltas in binary files. It's also very useful that Perforce expects clients to check out only a part of the depot. There are folde
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by ACS_Solver 10mo ago
Perforce is standard in gamedev currently. As a programmer first and foremost, I prefer git but I've certainly come to appreciate the advantages of Perforce and it's an overall better fit for (bigger) game projects.

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