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by asveikau 10mo ago
I used to think this way many years ago, then I saw my own code in production hit OOM errors and manage to recover, and even log what was happening so I could read about it later. After those experiences I agree with the sibling comment tha
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by asveikau 10mo ago
It may be helpful to re-read the topic being discussed. This guy was talking to ChatGPT about how he was the first user who unlocked ChatGPT's true consciousness. He then asked ChatGPT if his mother's printer was a motion sensor s
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by asveikau 10mo ago
Wasn't the Google project scanning physical books and not distributing them externally? That seems like a very different thing than torrenting or even downloading stuff uploaded by a third party.
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by asveikau 10mo ago
> I think there will be always people in bad mental state who will unfortunately commit suicide after some interaction. I don't think there is a way to avoid that completely, I have been close to multiple people who suffer psychosis
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by asveikau 10mo ago
FreeBSD is moving to a scheme where the base system is managed with pkg. In the release notes for last month's 15.0 release, they suggest that this will be mandatory in 16.0. The ports tree will still be very different from base, but I
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by asveikau 10mo ago
I seem to recall Solaris put packages in /opt. Each package got its own prefix under /opt.
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by asveikau 10mo ago
He could give a hell of a speech. I've listened to him make speeches where pretty much everything he said was correct from a policy standpoint. The problem was he was an incompetent administrator running a personality cult. I'm re
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by asveikau 10mo ago
The ironic thing is that nationalizing the oil was pretty much the most defensible part of Chávez's legacy. (To be clear I'm not a fan of Chávez or of Maduro.)
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by asveikau 10mo ago
I was a unix head at the time and ran OpenBSD on my personal Thinkpad. I figured a stint on the Windows team would broaden my horizons and expose me to differences. It did that. I don't regret it. I did in the end feel that the company
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by asveikau 10mo ago
Back when I was there, part of my calculus was that cost of living in Seattle was cheaper than the bay. It was about 35% cheaper back then, according to regional CPI data I looked at at the time. Not sure what the difference is today. I bel
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by asveikau 10mo ago
They have a lot of staff turnover too, and each generation of new SDE has less of a clue how the old stuff worked. So when they're tasked with replacing the old stuff, they don't understand what it does, and the rewrite ends up do
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by asveikau 10mo ago
What kind of features does "advanced epub" provide that "compatible epub" cannot?
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by asveikau 10mo ago
It sounds like you did the right thing and that guy is grumpy.
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by asveikau 10mo ago
And most normal people are fed up with it. Nobody understands why most of their apps suddenly have chatbots in them now.
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by asveikau 10mo ago
That one goodreads review for the Estonia book is amusing. One reader criticized him for providing references. I feel like that's a positive, not a negative, and if you find it uninteresting those tend to be easy to skip.
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by asveikau 10mo ago
The greatest sin of Windows 11 is that it will cause many people to throw out otherwise usable machines.
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by asveikau 10mo ago
The current administration would let them do it.
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by asveikau 10mo ago
> Oh, there was plenty of internalized propaganda about civil disobedience being the "wrong approach" Yes, I'm aware of this. But I think it's surprising to me because decades later, MLK et al. are nearly universally
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by asveikau 10mo ago
I feel there is currently a bit of of internalized propaganda about protests being stupid or worse. Witness any cause which involves protesting by blocking the street. You get an army of internet trolls talking up the idea that this is some
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by asveikau 10mo ago
io_uring does more than IOCP. It's more like an asynchronous syscall interface that avoids the overhead of directly trapping into the kernel. This avoids some overheads IOCP cannot. I'm rusty on the details but the NT kernel ha
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by asveikau 10mo ago
I was at Microsoft during the Windows 8 cycle. I remember hearing about a kernel feature I found interesting. Then I found linux had it for a few years at the time. I think the reality is that Linux is ahead on a lot of kernel stuff. More
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by asveikau 10mo ago
I actually have tons of experience with people who suffer mental health issues, including psychotic illness. One thing that experience gives me is to be cautious about making armchair diagnosis from afar.
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by asveikau 10mo ago
You misread me. I said "with this kind of frustration", meaning a broad category of frustration with the system of academia and education. That is not that 100% of the problem is student debt. It's that aspiring academics and
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by asveikau 10mo ago
I don't know much about the suspect, but I do know that people have been saying for years that they go into deep debt to get degrees, even in things that are supposed to be respected or in demand, and then it turns out there is actuall
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by asveikau 10mo ago
My daughter wanted a book that was kindle exclusive in the US, and I found I could purchase an epub from another store by paying in euros and claiming to live in Europe. Needless to say I did this without a VPN and without leaving San Franc
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by asveikau 10mo ago
Fyi for anyone reading, it is very easy to break DRM on old kindle purchases. I think they rolled out new DRM for things published this year and it may be harder but still possible. I would encourage anyone here who has a kindle library to
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by asveikau 10mo ago
About 5 years ago I got qvwm working on a modern system and put it on github: https://github.com/asveikau/qvwm I don't recall what was broken, but it was a few random things. I also added xrender image scaling on
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by asveikau 10mo ago
I recognize this is very anecdotal (your observation and mine), but my gen alpha daughter approaching the teenage phase always has her head in a book. She also has a very short attention span.
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by asveikau 11mo ago
In home automation circles, Roomba is generally regarded as worse than other brands. Anyone know which brands work when you completely block internet access? I think Roborock is one of the better regarded robot vacuums, but I think I read t
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by asveikau 11mo ago
Hard to summarize. He created the impression of being authentic. He had an unpretentious New York accent. He was happy in and advocated for unpretentious areas, which goes against some of the stereotypes of overly social media friendly food

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