bjackman

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by bjackman 9mo ago
Yeah ban is the answer. Trouble is that, as shown in the article, even if they include the charging and refilling bits they can be cheap enough to throw away after use. Taxing waste is one part of the story but it's actually a really g
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by bjackman 9mo ago
Yeah this was exactly my conclusion at the time. It's a cool trick but I just don't think I wanna write a serious system in a special half-language like that.
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by bjackman 9mo ago
> The biggest predictor for people who prefer starting late is how crowded their schedules are. Managers tend to have very crowded schedules which means they want a break between meetings, while ICs prefer not having to waste time waitin
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by bjackman 9mo ago
This isn't just useful for high-level application logic! (If I'm catching your drift from "the compiler writes the state machines for you). I used to write extremely low-lebel NIC firmware that was basically a big bundle of s
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by bjackman 9mo ago
Yeah exactly. Allowing insider trading makes adverse selection too high.
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by bjackman 9mo ago
Yeah need a tree view. Find all references, and references to references and so on.
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by bjackman 9mo ago
You can say you don't want prediction markets and that's fine. It's not responding to my comment though which is saying that if we have prediction markets, the goal should be for them to reveal facts about the world. If you t
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by bjackman 9mo ago
Why should we want prediction markets to be fair? I want them to reveal facts about the world. They only need to be fair inasmuch as it serves that goal. I don't think it wouldn serve that goal to forbid insider trading? (Why do we for
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by bjackman 9mo ago
Zed is faster and less annoying than VSCode, I hope to switch to it permanently sooner or later. Annoyingly the only hard blocker I have right now is lack of a call-graph navigation widget. In VSCode you can bring up an expandable tree of c
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by bjackman 9mo ago
The phrase "threat model gerrymandering" is fantastic, is fantastic, I will be using that a lot I think.
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by bjackman 9mo ago
I'm not trying to "challenge" your experience, it's your experience. But mine is completely different so I'll offer it for anyone who might be reading along... I've been using Linux at work and at home every da
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by bjackman 10mo ago
The title is written specifically for UK readers, the actual subject is about the point of alignment leaving GB. (Also for anyone who was confused by this, it's not about the poles, it's about the point where the bearings for all
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by bjackman 10mo ago
Shouldn't this go without saying though? At some point someone has to review the code and they see a human name as the sender of the PR. If that person sees the work is bad, isn't it just completely unambiguous that the person who
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by bjackman 10mo ago
I would recommend x86. Ok that's mostly a joke, I'm just not up to date on what platforms exist these days that are done properly. Back in my day the Texas Instruments platforms (BeagleBoard) were decent. I think there are probabl
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by bjackman 10mo ago
I opened the review and immediately ctrl-F'd "kernel". It said no upstream support so I closed the article. I would never buy one of these things without upstream kernel support for the SoC and a sane bootloader. Even the Ras
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by bjackman 10mo ago
I've had a similar case before but for a much more boring reason: a certain YouTube video somehow triggered a spike in power draw and caused my Google Pixel to reset. Google's response after looking at the crash dumps: "WAI,
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by bjackman 10mo ago
> main devs have moved on How confident are you in this statement? I have no particular knowledge of Asahi. But I do know this narrative emerged about Rust-for-Linux after a couple of high-profile individuals quit. In that case it was pl
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by bjackman 10mo ago
For optimal battery life you need to tweak the whole OS stack for the hardware. You need to make sure all the peripherals are set up right to go into the right idle states without causing user-visible latency on wake-up. (Note that often ju
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by bjackman 10mo ago
It's a crazy drug because there's a lot of significant downsides to Nix[OS]. E.g. it took me a solid half an hour of focus to upgrade my config to 25.11[1]. Also, like, no Secure Boot. And I've had to reverse engineer a lot o
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by bjackman 10mo ago
Geminii CLI has a specific "model is overloaded" error message which is distinct from "you're out of quota" so I suspect whatever tools they're using for this probably have something similar, and they're r
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by bjackman 10mo ago
Nope. Recently I had to use my company card to buy an ancient mini-PC from eBay just so I could get access to a certain Skylake model
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by bjackman 10mo ago
Intel do have a website where you can look up SKUs. If you wait long enough and exploit certain bugs in the JS you can get it to give you a bunch of CSV files. Now the only issue you have is that there is no consistent schema between those
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by bjackman 10mo ago
What, um... Are... Are people using samba to sync model weights between cluster nodes...?
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by bjackman 10mo ago
I work in CPU security and it's the same with microarchitecture. You wanna know if a machine is vulnerable to a certain issue? - The technical experts (including Intel engineers) will say something like "it affects Blizzard Creek
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by bjackman 10mo ago
Vinyl is nowhere near as inconvenient as tapes and sounds way better. And I say this as someone who used to lug around big bags of 12" records as a DJ! It's pretty annoying, but it's still better than having to rewind, and de
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by bjackman 10mo ago
This is like me showing you my scorecard after cheating at golf, and saying "do you think the scorecard is fake?". Real profit margin. Achieved through deceit. This is vilainy.
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by bjackman 10mo ago
Both groups have the same profit margin (golf score). One group is achieving it by deceive customers (cheating at golf) while the other is achieving it without doing that (being good at golf).
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by bjackman 10mo ago
It's funny that absolutely everything about GHA fucking sucks, and everyone agrees about this. BUT, the fact that it's free compute, and it's "right there"... means it's very very difficult to say no to! Person
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by bjackman 10mo ago
I also admired this and for a moment thought "I should steal this person's style". Then I quickly realised I am not even close to capable of pulling a design like that off, on so many dimensions. I guess that's why this
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by bjackman 10mo ago
You can't completely escape advertising while still participating in modern society but there's still a huge difference between free and premium YouTube in this regard. Yes, creators have paid sections but they are skippable (and

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