CamouflagedKiwi

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by CamouflagedKiwi 5mo ago
What? Compared to Python they're like lightning. Typically milliseconds to the start of main() - admittedly they can be slowed down by init() nonsense and terrible generated protobuf code nonsense in deep dependency trees - but with a
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by CamouflagedKiwi 5mo ago
PyPy is not looking healthy right now - it's several versions behind in support and, while it's not dead, it looks like it might be settling down for a rest. Obviously it's not easy to move the whole language of a big codebas
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by CamouflagedKiwi 5mo ago
requires is also new (not sure exactly when that appeared, it's after the last time I wrote C++ in anger) although I think it's fairly clear what it means. I can only guess at the other two. Not familiar with Zig but AFAICT `inlin
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by CamouflagedKiwi 5mo ago
> Same as ARM nodes a few years ago: cheaper, denser, widely available – still not the default choice. Because ARM nodes save you a bit of money (they're cheaper but a bit slower, maybe you end up saving 20-30%) but the move isn&#x2
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by CamouflagedKiwi 5mo ago
So the engine is 35MB, but what does it run in? By itself it's a binary blob that doesn't do anything. Chrome seems to be ~404MB installed on here; that is conspicuously missing from the comparisons here to Docker containers which
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by CamouflagedKiwi 5mo ago
(and New Zealand)
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by CamouflagedKiwi 5mo ago
This is nice. I haven't worked with GIS data for ages but I really like the idea of a well-understood plain text container for it. Much nicer than wrangling with binary formats like shapefiles, especially when something goes wrong and
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
Presumably so it's an easier conversion - you replace the motor but don't have to replace the rest of the drivetrain, and maybe you want the gearstick inside for the look of the thing (although I imagine you likely wouldn't h
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
> What happened to the days when a dedicated manager would manage 8 reports? Cheap money went away which caused companies to start asking hard questions about productivity and how much those dedicated managers were contributing.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
I suppose the idea was that Canonical is a UK-based company and they're being threatened by the US's enemy. Having said that, I really can't believe that either Trump or Starmer will give a shit about this, especially given t
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
Not for me, I'm not getting any response from it.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
It is the job of the build system, yes. In most cases the problems people want to solve with locally runnable Actions aren't the build not working, it's the whole integration of the thing; all the YAML definition, secrets, exactly
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
Quite a lot of people out there have made that decision. There's some sense of solidarity with artists, which makes sense, but I've seen plenty of angry messages about personal projects that were never going to pay an artist where
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
A 14 year old Macbook Air is an Intel Mac, AFAIK most hardware is pretty well supported. M series Macs are still very much a work in progress. I'm typing this on one, in Linux, so plenty of things work, but not for example USB-C output
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
It could easily be several more, if they are 50% bigger than they need to be, and they're firing 10% at a time.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
Well yes you could do that on a status page, but it's basically just lying to put Actions as green if it's actually down because it depends on Packages which is red. With that set, I wasn't proposing a set of totally independ
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
The intersection of uptime across every possible service they offer isn't a particularly great metric. I get the point that they are doing badly, but it makes it look worse than I think it really is. What I would like to see is a combi
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
I wondered. We'd seen for most of today that Actions were slow to trigger, I had at least one that was just missed, it felt like something was definitely off but the status was green all day until this.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
It definitely is a thing on my M2. Unsure if it is something that was fixed in the later models. My wrists, conversely, are fine, but I suppose I rarely use it in a 'classic' desk position that would cause that.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
> Businesses definitely want to control the AI they're using (especially with RAGs of their own data) instead of just throwing it at their LLM vendor and hoping for the best Yes, agreed on that. I'm not sure I'm clear how
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
What even is this? A chat frontend to arbitrary model providers on the backend - I guess that's sort of useful not to have to build yourself but it doesn't feel like the amazing thing they're trying to hype. Some of the featu
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
On the last one: OP said they were trying to get it working for a musl toolchain, so the tarballs are probably not useful to them (I assume they're built for glibc). Agreed on the others though. Why's it even installing ncurses, s
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
No, the email client was never called Firebird, that isn't what I was saying. Browser: Phoenix -> Firebird -> Firefox Mail client: Minotaur -> Thunderbird
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
Replacing the wifi card isn't necessarily easy. I'd rather not buy and use a USB dongle for it if I can just get it out of the box. I remember doing those kind of things nearly two decades ago now, I don't expect to have to d
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
My assumption would be that it's very little, given that Thunderbird was separated out of the Mozilla Corporation to MOZLA (or whatever it's called). On the bright side, that actually makes me a bit keener about donating to it; do
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
It was originally Minotaur (when the browser was Phoenix), then they were Firebird and Thunderbird, until the browser renamed to avoid a name clash.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 6mo ago
I don't think much of the "defining game" thing. Many of them feel like they're just thrown in as a big game at the time - Diablo 2 is an amazing game, and was very popular, but it wasn't fully 3D and the resolution
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by CamouflagedKiwi 7mo ago
Very nice. I have a book of maps for his world on a bookshelf here which I got when I was young (The Atlas of Middle-Earth - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlas_of_Middle-earth ). I enjoyed reading that a lot, and i
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by CamouflagedKiwi 7mo ago
And, fortunately, the sheer temperature of it...
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by CamouflagedKiwi 7mo ago
5 / 9 Found much of it pretty hard - I'd be confident of telling a modern subsurface line from a deep one, or the Jubilee (which to me at least has a very distinct motor sound), but for lots of the others I was guessing - sometime

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