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by aktau 6d ago
Anecdata, but still: I ordered a Xyber NAS (N150) back when they were still in stock, wiped the Ubuntu that came with it and built up a NixOS config [1]. The power usage is very good (12W with 2 internal SSDs, bluetooth, wifi and a bunch of
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by aktau 9d ago
Great read. This is (unbelievably) impressive. Both from the model and the human. Congratulations. I also liked the postscriptum about the GPU driver. Mac hardware is some of the best there is, but I lost faith in macOS around 2015 when I e
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by aktau 10d ago
Given that Dutch is the ancestor here (not that Dutch hasn't changed since the split), I wouldn't call it "as if".
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by aktau 15d ago
> For example, one of the unique features of my harness is that the filesystem is completely virtualized and all filesystem I/O is part of the session... What are the mechanics of this? You mentioned bash so I asssume you don't
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by aktau 16d ago
My view is this isn't sufficent. They're pretty good at breaking out of stuff. A VM would be the minimal isolation boundary for me.
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by aktau 17d ago
Hi Kenton! One thing I'm wondering about (and was happy to see) is how you seem to have your (childhood) friends close by, at least on occasion. I live in Europe and am considering what a move somewhere else in Europe (+/- 1000km)
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by aktau 18d ago
> transparent matte coat for my exterior walls I'm curious about this. Do you mean a layer of paint-like substance that makes the walls isolate better?
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by aktau 1mo ago
On Linux, "self" is /proc/self/exe. In general, I've seen people use `os.Args[0]`. But on checking again, I see there's even `os.Executable()` ( https://pkg.go.dev/os#Executable ) for this p
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by aktau 2mo ago
+1, I like to test in a similar way. For example if I'm making a CLI, the test will spawn the CLI for each test-case, instead of invoking the code directly. This provides a more realistic flow, and makes it clear which user journeys on
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by aktau 2mo ago
My favourite Delphi program, and the one I learned to program with, was Dev-C++ ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp ). AFAIK there is a more recent fork, but I also clearly recall the 4.9.9.? versoin number from b
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by aktau 2mo ago
Reminds me of VirGL [1] and Venus [2], which I think do something similar for OpenGL and Vulkan. I use this with Baguette/Crostini on ChromeOS to get some light gaming done. Works very well [3]. [1]: https://docs.mesa3d.org&
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by aktau 2mo ago
Much more resource heavy. I tried NixOS and Bazzite (and other spins purporting to be lighteweight) and the difference on a 2010-era mid-range laptop was noticeable in terms of sluggishness. Not that this laptop was going to be my daily dri
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by aktau 2mo ago
I'm curious. Do you have more information?
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by aktau 2mo ago
Yea, both Westpark itself and the open-air cinema inside the park are stellar. It surprises me that no-one has mentioned Munich's premier city park though: the English Garden (Englischer Garten): https://maps.app.goo.gl&#x2F
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by aktau 2mo ago
I have the same question. It seems like a decent amount of posters here don't require (non-standard) interactivity. Plain HTML+CSS (perhaps via static site generators) would work. It made me think about the Javascript present on my bl
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by aktau 2mo ago
> If it’s important they will leave a message and I’ll get back to them. I can't really do that. For some things (urgent and important), loved ones need to be able to reach me. But yes, a lot of this advice would work.
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by aktau 2mo ago
Respect. I hope to find the strength to be more like that. Also to give a better example to others. I notice making the screen go grayscale (can configure volume up+down to do this in android) already makes doom-anything much less long-live
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by aktau 2mo ago
I lot of people echoing the same sentiment. It made me recall a quote from early 2026 that made waves in a few programming communities ( https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/2026771192191824108 ). Quote: ...i hate the
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by aktau 3mo ago
Not sure about RA, but for RA2 see https://chronodivide.com/
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by aktau 3mo ago
I think Neovim itself has been stabilizing quite a bit in terms of upgrade breakage. A common reason for breakage is/was: - Neovim changes some API (deprecating, ...). - User upgrades Neovim and theres some incompability, OR user
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by aktau 4mo ago
> Rayforce is a pure C17 zero-dependency embeddable engine where columnar analytics and graph traversals share a single operation DAG, pass through a multi-pass optimizer, and execute as fused morsel-driven bytecode. No malloc. Sounds gr
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by aktau 4mo ago
I clicked around in the kernel section and the other commenters highlighting the simplicity weren't lying. It's beautiful in its simplicity. Seeing the screenshots I was kind of expecting this was a pre-emptive multi-tasking OS (f
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by aktau 4mo ago
Spot on. Heaven forbid it turns into a C++ (I'm not a Rust practitioner but from the outside it seems to accrete features pretty quickly as well). The ease of grokking Go (both reading and writing) are big advantages, and facilitated b
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by aktau 5mo ago
I have a feeling that after enough slop has entered the system, the AI will also have difficulty debugging/understanding it. My questions are: will the AI get to be above our level at creating grokkable source code before it comes unma
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by aktau 5mo ago
> As of writing this, I have not seen anyone describe a process that "scales" agent-driven development in a large company. There is, however, evidence from the past that it is possible. I would point to Microsoft in the 1990s,
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by aktau 5mo ago
Thanks for the notes. Different as/link is definitely a way for incompatibilities to creep in.
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by aktau 5mo ago
I remember when we still had tcc in Neovim CI. I think it got removed eventually for being too much of a burden to maintain. How are slimcc/kefir different/easier to drop in?
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by aktau 5mo ago
This reminds me of a great adventure. A long time ago I was travelling through Brazil, in the Amazonas state. I was in Porto Velho and needed to get to Manaus quickly to catch a flight. The boat that would take us there (as I had found in t
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by aktau 6mo ago
I tried btrfs on three different occasions. Three times it managed to corrupt itself. I'll admit I was too enthousiastic the first time, trying it less than a year after it appeared in major distros. But the latter two are unforgiveabl
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by aktau 6mo ago
What were your (main) problems with Kodi? AFAIK it is written in C++ with Python plugins. Electron would be (on the face) a downgrade yes. But how is a Lua app much smoother? (My personal pet peeve is that Kodi still doesn't know how t

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