IgorPartola

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by IgorPartola 3mo ago
The Climb was a great response to it and according to my partner who then read more books about that year’s expeditions it is much closer to what happened than Into Thin Air.
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by IgorPartola 3mo ago
Slightly off topic, but I first heard of Green Boots in the book The Climb. I picked it up completely randomly from a used book store six states away from home and wow what a find! It is a riveting story start to finish and I recommend it t
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by IgorPartola 3mo ago
Well it sounds like it’s either that or tragedy of the commons where Amazon et al needs to charge higher and higher prices due to inefficient bots constantly crawling their site. Also consumers are already about to change how they shop. In
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by IgorPartola 3mo ago
Options: 1. Any cost of browsing an e-commerce site is taken off the next purchase, whenever it happens. 2. Give each user 100 free page viewed per day or some such before you charge. 3. You don’t actually have to charge users for browsing
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by IgorPartola 3mo ago
Please tell me this will be IPv6 only or at least IPv6 first! Or allow differentiated pricing so IPv4 calls can be made more expensive. CF, as much as I have issues with the constant CAPTCHAS I run into and blocking my Hurricane Electric tu
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by IgorPartola 3mo ago
Heh I wonder if speaking in royal decrees is what it needs. Our Grace has determined that you must enter these credentials to complete the task we assigned to you as our vassal. Enter the password. Your liege commands it. Henceforth you sha
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by IgorPartola 3mo ago
Neocities exists and you are welcome to it :)
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by IgorPartola 3mo ago
I love using older hardware in this way but browsing the web on an old laptop is PAINFUL. Even with a light browser and adblock websites are dog slow. Something like Google Maps or Google Docs becomes unusable. I am not against JavaScript o
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by IgorPartola 3mo ago
A while ago I asked Claude to present to me the best versions of the conservative and liberal pitches for how to run the country. It was quite instructive and thought provoking. It made a solid distinction between what the theoretical best
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by IgorPartola 3mo ago
Wait but why isn’t it an Electron app? I thought visual apps like this required at least 1-2GB of RAM to run. How can it possibly only need 16MB?! Must be vaporware.
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
The way to pressure ISPs to support IPv6 is stupid but effective: 1. Sites that help shoppers choose can add a big visual red flag to any ISP that doesn’t support IPv6. Consumers don’t know what IPv6 is by and large but they do understand s
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
Is None OK in Python? NULL in C just doesn’t belong at the end of a string. But IMO having a “there is no value here” designation is not a bad thing.
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
How many people actually live in areas that do not have some sort of broadband? That’s the whole point: this is a product designed for relatively few people.
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
StarLink is a bad investment too in my opinion. It is fundamentally a US company that must charge US prices but in the US there are relatively few people who need that tech. Only in more rural areas that are sparsely populated do you not ha
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
Since I am not familiar with the law, can you expand on the mechanism by which the US government could making downloading openly licensed files illegal? How would the government avoid denying people their first amendment rights by doing thi
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
I don’t see a way to succeed at this game. The issue is that there doesn’t seem to be a way to meet the first 5 year plan and it’s all downhill from there. But this really points to a deeper problem: in a game like this you have to pick one
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
Exactly. This is non-trivial and the API for something like this is unusual in how you work with this data. My hope is that Postgres making this kind of thing a first class citizen feature will mean that ORMs and other tooling incorporate i
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
This is something that is incredibly useful. I built a system like this a while back that also adds versioning to each time period. The use case is this: let’s say you are tracking your state’s sales tax rate. You do not control this and da
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
Is Homebrew still tied to GitHub or has there been any move to provide redundancy across multiple providers? Also coming from what I consider traditional package managers such as apt, rpm, emerge, pkg, etc. I am still confused on cans, taps
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
The issue with GoPro was that they did not know what business they were actually in. They created a new camera hardware segment and became experts at it. Then they decided that they had to pivot to a media platform. That was a dumb move tha
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
I wonder if AI could be detected via copyright. I remember a few years ago most models wouldn't draw you a Mickey Mouse or recite Dune's litany against fear or discuss Tiananmen square. I wonder how effective questions about these
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
Because my priorities and priorities of a non-human entity that is an order of magnitude master than anyone who has ever lived might not line up.
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
Maybe. I can’t imagine what kind of solutions a software engineer who is 10x smarter than any human who has ever lived would be like by definition. All I know is that there is a possibility it says that the most optimal way to solve a probl
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
I think this is exactly right. Basically when I am coding, having an agent that roughly matches my intelligence is a feature, not a bug. Having one that is 10x as smart would actively slow me down because I would have to spend the time unde
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
> Corporate leaders are starting to question whether soaring AI spending is delivering meaningful returns. This is act one the AI bear market. Yes I know everyone screams “bubble”. Let me explain the scenario I have in mind. 1. AI booms
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
It's pretty much MS Paint type experience. You get a grid and color pixels black or white. But you can move up/down grid sizes automatically and then you get to fix it at different grid sizes.
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by IgorPartola 4mo ago
I worked on an embedded project a few years ago using a tiny 128x64 display and wanted to use a pixel font but none of the ones I found made me particularly happy so I made my own. Turns out it is very easy to do. Font Forge is fantastic an
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by IgorPartola 5mo ago
Any chance of this not needing to run on a Mac? I would try it out but want to run it in a Docker container.
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by IgorPartola 5mo ago
Back in 2011 or so the Yellow Pages still delivered physical phone books to ever address in the state where we were. My city literally sent out an extra off cycle recycling truck the next day to pick them all up. Everyone threw them out. We
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by IgorPartola 5mo ago
And at that point why not OPNSense? OpenWRT for me is what I would run on crappy BestBuy routers that can’t run a proper router OS. OPNSense is 100% amazing.

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