AceJohnny2

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by AceJohnny2 5d ago
Linux was free, and people will put up with a lot of shit for that.
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by AceJohnny2 7d ago
I haven't bothered to test the API, but you've effectively allowed a fully-open upload API? Who's paying the storage costs, and how do you prevent abuse? (Obviously I'm taking this more seriously than it's probably
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by AceJohnny2 7d ago
that's not necessarily a sabotage.
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by AceJohnny2 8d ago
> a bit of social capital within Apple by doing that and hopefully they're keeping those relationships warm That social capital and $5 will buy me a cup of coffee.
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by AceJohnny2 9d ago
Tangentially, I must highlight the underrecognized gvpr [1], the Graphviz Pattern Scanning and Processing Language and part of any Graphviz installation. In short, it is an AWK-like program to process your .dot files. Combined with the
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by AceJohnny2 12d ago
For a while I named by smartphone "Exocortex" as a tongue-in-cheek recognition of the cognition I offloaded to it... It's not so funny anymore.
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by AceJohnny2 12d ago
In cstross's Accelerando (2005) [1], there is an autonomous group of shell corporations all-but-DDOSing Delaware by spawning new companies and dynamically changing corporate structure. Back then, I believe, Stross had already conceptua
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by AceJohnny2 12d ago
As a former XMPP believer, I will say that the extremely fragmented capability state of the XMPP ecosystem, whatever people may claim, is the exact proof that vindicates Signal's position.
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by AceJohnny2 13d ago
"Federation freezes the technology" https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
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by AceJohnny2 13d ago
I mean, humans have been doing just that for a long time.
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by AceJohnny2 16d ago
I mean, they haven't announced the non-Pro iPhone 18 yet, so keep the hope alive!
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by AceJohnny2 16d ago
> There is some info on the optimizations in the docs, but I agree that a more complete technical explanation of all the things syq does could be useful First, thank you for taking the feedback :) To be clear, I'm focusing on the
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by AceJohnny2 16d ago
Thank you for showing this. I'll echo what some others say: if you're claiming to be faster than rsync, you should demonstrate why front-and-center. There have been decades of documentation on how rsync optimizes transfers, so it&
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by AceJohnny2 17d ago
it was the first Miyazaki I saw, in college, and it blew me away. I still occasionally listen to Joe Hisaichi's soundtrack.
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by AceJohnny2 17d ago
ooh good call, I should fix that.
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by AceJohnny2 17d ago
Princess Mononoke & Spirited Away (and also Kiki's Delivery Service because it was a package. Not that it's bad, but not as important to me as the other two) Into the Spider-Verse, for breaking away from the 3D animation movie
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by AceJohnny2 17d ago
As marketing goes, I appreciated the Reddit AMA [1] where "Coyote" responds in-character and only via signs. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1w58qjb/hi_reddit_i... My favourite is
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by AceJohnny2 17d ago
Thanks for reminding me to watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit again. It's one of, like, 5 DVD/Blu-Rays I own, because of how excellent it is.
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by AceJohnny2 17d ago
I tried it a few years ago, following all the "It's actually good now!" stories. But a few hours into the tutorial, at a point of yet another "go gather 20 wolf Pel^H^H Ores from that other planet and bring it back"
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by AceJohnny2 17d ago
You are, I'm afraid, in the minority. Apple produces a "small" phone (S or Mini series) only every few years because that's enough to saturate that market.
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by AceJohnny2 23d ago
The fact that it's news that a human beat an AI, post-AlphaGo, demonstrates the current norm.
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by AceJohnny2 29d ago
To reinforce your point, by default on macOS you can't use Tab to select different options in a dialog box. You have to enable that in System Settings -> Keyboard -> "Keyboard navigation" which is off by default.
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by AceJohnny2 1mo ago
Didn't Apple help define the Aarch64 instruction set?
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by AceJohnny2 1mo ago
This is off-topic, but I am reminded of the sci-fi novel Eternity by Greg Bear, in which the protagonist Olmy downloads a copy of an alien Jart mind into his nanowear to study it. Turns out this was a trojan horse, and the Jart escapes the
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by AceJohnny2 1mo ago
It is a popular story and I love it, but Tim Curry himself has denied it: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/movies/muppet-treasure-is... > Curry emphatically denied that interpretation. “I saw the M
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by AceJohnny2 1mo ago
Links are not CoW
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by AceJohnny2 2mo ago
While the idea of data-deduplication does apply everywhere, this specifically depends on the APFS CoW data feature, so it's not applicable outside of macOS (or APFS Volumes)
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by AceJohnny2 2mo ago
There are two aspects to compute performance: latency and throughput. There has been a ton of work to improve throughput, but that's often come at the cost of latency, because a great technique to improve throughput is batching, to avo
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by AceJohnny2 2mo ago
Fun fact: the Jeff Dean Facts was started by Kenton Varda (kentonv around here [1]), as a joke inside Google. He has expressed regret that it eclipsed Sanjay Ghemawat, with whom Jeff Dean basically did pair-programming with. [1] also known
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by AceJohnny2 2mo ago
Mentioned in Brendan O'Brien's talk "Iroh: syncing terabytes of data, peer-to-peer" at 2026 Local-First Conf. https://youtu.be/QLr-0RgMNzo https://www.localfirstconf.com/

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