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by bityard 1y ago
and off by one errors
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by bityard 1y ago
Nvidia has always been a PITA on Linux, whether you're using the open source or proprietary drivers. Decent drivers, documentation, and support for their Linux community has always been somewhere between actively hostile against to bar
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by bityard 1y ago
I'm going to need to see some data to back up that claim. Americium-241 has a half-life of 432.6 years. The detector itself isn't going to degrade in any meaningful way after only 10 years. Plus, many smoke alarms these days use a
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by bityard 1y ago
Rachel has been blogging for a long time, she knows what topics get clicks and stir up debate on social media.
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by bityard 1y ago
Maybe they exist but I haven't worked in a company yet that wouldn't fire an engineer or manager for refusing to implement a feature that some salescritter already sold. One of them made the company money (on paper, sure) while th
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by bityard 1y ago
I think LCDs have been around long enough that we no longer notice all the problems with them. If you have a large monitor on your desk, chances are very good that there is nowhere you can place your head where some part of the display does
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by bityard 1y ago
I work for a company with servers, employees, and customers in basically every time zone around the world. And yet every server, internal tool, and workflow uses Pacific time. UTC is used precisely nowhere. Setting aside the issues of DST,
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by bityard 1y ago
OpenSSH was written by and is still maintained by those who adhere to The Unix Way. If you asked for this feature, they would probably tell you to just use a shell alias or function instead.
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by bityard 1y ago
El Reg has always had nicknames for companies and employees. "Microserfs" goes back at least a decade or two. Google == Chocolate Factory, Intel == Chipzilla, Cisco == Borg Collective (pretty sure Broadcom deserves that title th
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by bityard 1y ago
Perhaps their target audience is readers who don't take themselves too seriously. ;)
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by bityard 1y ago
Depending on your requirements, yes: https://sharpdevices.com/memory-lcd/
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by bityard 1y ago
It's weird to me that cell phones in the classroom is even controversial. When I was in school, some kids had Walkmans, CD players, and game boys. You could bring them to school but they weren't allowed in the classroom without pr
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by bityard 1y ago
I use a local LLM for lots of little things that I used to use search engines for. Defining words, looking up unicode symbols for copy/paste, reminders on how to do X in bash or Python. Sometimes I use it as a starting point for high-l
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by bityard 1y ago
Mistakenly? No, Broadcom was very up-front about their plans to offload small customers and massively upcharge large customers pretty much the same week the purchase was announced. It's stupid, and Broadcom are certainly assholes, but
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by bityard 1y ago
What code? An on-prem VMWare deployment is all about hardware, storage, networking, and fuck-tons of planning, budgeting, and approvals. There is little to no customer-written code in a typical VMWare farm, except maybe some Ansible or what
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by bityard 1y ago
Yeah. I had to zoom out to 75% in my browser before the text looked normal-ish sized but the "widgets" still looked very big and awkward. Maybe this was designed not just for mobile-first but mobile-only?
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by bityard 1y ago
I read the series on chronological order and enjoyed it. Getting to the end of the last book was sad, but on the bright side I read pretty slowly (a few pages a night before bed) and have a terrible memory for fiction so starting the cycle
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by bityard 1y ago
Since Podman is open source, Ubuntu (and others) are able to package it and and update it themselves if they choose. But I think it's understandable that Red Hat would not want to pay their development teams to package their software f
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by bityard 1y ago
Not a good idea: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian (It's titled "Don't Break Debian" but might also be called "Don't Break Ubuntu" as it applies there just as well.)
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by bityard 1y ago
"stiff the open source contributors" I'm not sure you realize that "open source" means anyone anywhere is free to use, modify, and redistribute the software in any way they see fit? Maybe you're thinking of fre
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by bityard 1y ago
Now I wonder if that's how I found them? Very likely through some open source stream player, at any arte.
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by bityard 1y ago
Yes! There is also a Groove Salad Classic channel now too.
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by bityard 1y ago
I joined a gym for a few months last year partly because I thought it would be a great way to meet some people. BIG misread on my part. It turns out most public gyms around here have a strong "leave me the hell alone vibe." Essent
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by bityard 1y ago
You are deliberately confusing ads with things that already have better names, such as notices or listings. They feel different because they ARE different. Advertising is wildly successful because it's literally everywhere and we are c
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by bityard 1y ago
You are perfectly describing another extremely common advertising tactic: fear of missing out (FOMO). The reality is that 3/4 of these are things you did not actually need or want, which is exactly why advertising exists. There are man
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by bityard 1y ago
I love SomaFM so much. Been a listener for around 20 years, maybe a bit longer. Nice surprise to see this posted today, it must be fate that I happened to wearing my Soma FM t-shirt to work. ETA: Other stations I listen to sometimes (that h
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by bityard 1y ago
I thought the name sounded familiar, I'm guessing its no relation to this project which has been around for 7 months? https://github.com/mpaepper/vibevoice
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by bityard 1y ago
I didn't have an account at the time, but I tried to like Reddit when it was one of the new link aggregators on the block. The minimalist functionality appealed to me and there were no subreddits at the time. Unfortunately I give up o
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by bityard 1y ago
I'll heartily agree with that but will point out that Jobs was absolutely famous for believing his opinion was the only correct one, micromanaging anything that caught his interest, and routinely chewing people in public out over unimp
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by bityard 1y ago
Yes. The more experienced you are, the more your network does all of your job searching for you in the background. (Of course, this assumes you are actively building and maintaining your network.)

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