bobthecowboy

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by bobthecowboy 8mo ago
Do smart people work at Boring Company? Do smart people work on FSD at Tesla? What about the HyperLoop? It is possible for smart people to make technical achievements without the overall project being particularly successful.
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by bobthecowboy 10mo ago
At least as of a couple months ago, `ty` was actually being developed in the `ruff` repo (per an pdocast interview the devs did on Talk Python), so that might be why the `ty` repo looks empty (and pulls in ruff as a git submodule).
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by bobthecowboy 1y ago
I've been considering this as my Android exit plan (as part of a slow rolling de-googling effort, even before the recent "sideloading" news). Are you using it as a daily driver? I'm sort of surprised it doesn't ge
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by bobthecowboy 1y ago
Likewise on the prime number game, I had a board with all even numbers >2.
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by bobthecowboy 1y ago
Also, sending Matt Damon places usually seems to involve a pretty expensive and involved rescue mission later...
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by bobthecowboy 1y ago
My kid is a bit young, but this is the laptop he'll be getting in a year or so to replace the garbage Chromebook he's currently using (which has steadily gotten flakier since purchase). First class Linux support is requirement #1;
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by bobthecowboy 1y ago
At my company we're using GCP Artifact Registry for an internal PyPI proxy as well as to publish (proprietary) Python wheels to.
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by bobthecowboy 1y ago
FWIW, I believe DNF (as of 5?) is now written in C++. But as a long time Linux user who always has to use a Mac at work I've been consistently floored by how painful Homebrew is to use, to the point that for my latest corp-issued MacBo
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by bobthecowboy 1y ago
I've written some fairly complex stuff in Ansible. It is mostly declarative but you should be careful with assumptions about its idempotency, especially if you reach out for community modules.
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by bobthecowboy 1y ago
They have to wait for the AI scraper bots to steal it for them :(
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by bobthecowboy 2y ago
I'm sure there's technical reasons, but from Google's perspective, one benefit has got to be the non-copyleft license.
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by bobthecowboy 2y ago
Somewhat weirdly, if you want to play Minecraft Bedrock (not the classic Java version, but the one developed for handhelds, consoles, and Windows) on the SteamDeck this appears to be the most solid path. I've played it and it works.
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by bobthecowboy 2y ago
I've applied to a couple of these. If I remember correctly PostHog and Enveritas both posted here and for both I went past the initial screening step, but that's where it ended for me. I also participated in the hiring side for t
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by bobthecowboy 2y ago
It seems like it would matter if they internally believed/discussed it being illegal for them to do so, but then did it anyway and publicly said they felt they were in the clear.
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by bobthecowboy 2y ago
> Property rights will still have value. Manufacturing facilities will still have value. Social media sites will still have value. I was with you on the first two, but the second one I don't get? We don't even have AGI right n
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by bobthecowboy 2y ago
I've been digging over your website; super interested and just applied.
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by bobthecowboy 2y ago
This is kind of a strange comment to leave to the author of the tool that's being compared... Obviously "nothing in life is free" - the person you're replying to literally spent a bunch of time writing a solution to thei
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by bobthecowboy 2y ago
> You consented to people reading your code and learning from it when you posted it on Github. And if I never posted my code to github, but someone else did? What if someone had posted proprietary code they had no rights to to github at
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by bobthecowboy 2y ago
Yes, I totally get the distinction (and I was among those amazed by BeOS back in the day - I still show the old demo videos to friends who haven't seen it). I hadn't considered the container formats used by media, but in my head
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by bobthecowboy 2y ago
My gut reaction to this was "isn't that just sqlite"? I don't think this is what you were thinking of, but I do kind of love the idea of formalizing sqlite file formats where the "metadata" is standardized and
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by bobthecowboy 2y ago
> In fact cookie banners show this. People hate them because they force meaningless choices on them. If you make a website with tracking as an opt-out option, almost everyone clicks "accept all". If you make a website with trac
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by bobthecowboy 3y ago
If anyone out there has questions about VM Squared, I'm happy to try to answer them. Typo aside, the title certainly gives you the jist, but this is a great chance to move VM workloads off of VMware and onto something that's easy
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by bobthecowboy 3y ago
I think the only way is to summon @dang. Also, for disclosure, I work at SoftIron as I've mentioned in the past.
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by bobthecowboy 3y ago
Typo in the title, the company is SoftIron, not SoftIorn :)
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by bobthecowboy 3y ago
As someone who's nearly exclusively used Firefox since before it was called Firefox, I would not say that the product itself has been neglected. It continues to get better, from my point of view. Like seriously if you're reading
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by bobthecowboy 3y ago
The jist of what you're saying is in the Free Culture movement/philosophy, I think, and it resonates with me as someone who does not like what AI has done with copyrighted works but also dislikes copyright. The "rent-seekers&
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by bobthecowboy 3y ago
Because a shocking number of services don't actually require you to verify you control the email address. I'm talking about mainstream services like Spotify. I'm in a similar situation, except in my case, the person providin
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by bobthecowboy 3y ago
> If a computer can do it adequately it should be done by a computer Wasn't there recently some entirely AI "musician"? I'm guessing the person you're replying to doesn't see an ongoing need for musicians e
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by bobthecowboy 3y ago
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. I believe our smallest configuration is 5 servers and a few switches.
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by bobthecowboy 3y ago
If you're willing to spend money on rack-mounted gear you definitely have options, and what you get sort of depends on what you're interested in playing with. A lot of homelabbers (and even some small businesses) go for Proxmox as

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