alextingle

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by alextingle 8mo ago
The cost of owning a car dwarfs the cost of an occasional taxi ride.
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by alextingle 8mo ago
Building stuff like this is wrong. You should find a different job.
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by alextingle 8mo ago
But I'm not having sex with my bank.
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by alextingle 8mo ago
I like Amberol's approach - no library management, just use the file-system. I use Picard to organise my music into a sensible directory structure, and so Amberol can see that and play by album or artist. It's really nice. It&#x27
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by alextingle 9mo ago
I agree. I've worked on large C++ code bases that use exceptions, and they've never caused us any real problems.
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by alextingle 9mo ago
Archive link?
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by alextingle 9mo ago
Try anything that's described as "Powered by the Apocalypse". It's an excellent foundation for rules-light role-playing games. Urban Shadows was my intro into this style of play. Monster of the Week is also very good. Bu
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by alextingle 9mo ago
How do you get a novel sized file into Claude? I've tried, and it always complains it's too long.
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by alextingle 9mo ago
Maybe you're right, or maybe your anecdote doesn't actually invalidate my anecdote.
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by alextingle 9mo ago
Everything I have runs AMDGPU.
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by alextingle 9mo ago
As I grew older I changed from being a person who never got angry, to having very distressing bouts of rage. I gave up caffeine, and the rages completely vanished. Worth a try?
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by alextingle 9mo ago
Wayland just seems really unstable to me. I try it occasionally, but glitches, freezes or crashes quickly drive me back to X.
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by alextingle 9mo ago
You are talking about modularity of design, not aftermarket repairability.
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by alextingle 9mo ago
Are you sure that's what customers want, or maybe it's what dealers want? The check engine light tells you nothing. It tells your local mechanic nothing. Do you can't get the problem fixed easily or cheaply. What it does, is
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by alextingle 9mo ago
You should read the wiki article. Criticising landlords is fine, but words (and phrases) have actual meanings, and the term "rent seeking" has literally no place in a discussion about landlords.
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by alextingle 9mo ago
"Rent seeking" has nothing to do with landlords and tenants. It's about buying legislation that forces people to give you money for nothing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking Tenants who rent pr
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by alextingle 9mo ago
His framing of individual-element mindset vs. grouped-element mindset is very clear sighted. It's what frustrates me so much about Rust - the language puts so much focus and complexity onto something that you shouldn't be doing in
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by alextingle 9mo ago
The criterion for "legitimate government" is very well established. It's "has effective control of the territory". It's a low bar, and clearly one that the current Venezuelan government clears.
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by alextingle 10mo ago
Apple giving themselves an advantage in the markets for headphones and watches, because they have a dominant position in the market for phones is a textbook case of monopoly abuse. They've done extra work to cripple competing devices.
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by alextingle 10mo ago
It ought to be cheaper at scale. Batteries' cost scales linearly with storage capacity. Cost for a plant like this scales linearly with the storage rate - the compressor and turbine are the expensive part, while the pressure vessels an
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by alextingle 10mo ago
The best thing about using watercourses as your heat source for heat-pumps - the water flow naturally takes away your "colder" output and brings you more "warmer". Ground source heat pumps are limited because the ground
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by alextingle 10mo ago
The air temperature isn't relevant.
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by alextingle 10mo ago
No, it's all about corporate greed.
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by alextingle 10mo ago
Even if all that were true, where is the path to profitability for OpenAI, and all the rest? If they can't pivot to making a profit, then they are going to pop, and their investors will lose all their money. That's the AI bubble..
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by alextingle 10mo ago
So in your opinion, monochrome icons are a sign of laziness, rather than an aesthetic choice. Got it.
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by alextingle 10mo ago
Separating interface from implementation of one of the core practices for making large code bases tractable.
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by alextingle 10mo ago
Flat, monochrome icons might look nice, but they are only useful if used sparingly. If you're going to use many icons, then they need to be visually distinctive. That means ditching the flat designs, and embracing colour again.
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by alextingle 10mo ago
So childish.
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by alextingle 10mo ago
Agree. Surely the ISP can assign customers a real IPv6 range, and also a NAT'd IPv4 address for legacy stuff? I hardly notice if IPv4 stops working, these days.
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by alextingle 10mo ago
It's possible to get malware onto even air-gapped machines. This is a way to then communicate across the air-gap.

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