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by bsder 1y ago
> If the choices are "I am miserable whilst my enemies are happy" and "I am miserable whilst my enemies are even more miserable", I know what I would choose. THOSE ARE NOT ALL THE DAMN CHOICES! How about we try: &quot
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by bsder 1y ago
> As a liberal-progressive with this background, I've had a mix of pride and concern, over the years, about how my current socioeconomic peers have supported some good causes, but also let huge swaths of the nation be thrown under t
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by bsder 1y ago
Fabrice Bellard also wrote an OpenGL thing: https://bellard.org/TinyGL/
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by bsder 1y ago
I originally read that as OpenFPGA (note the extra P ) and wondered what kind of eldritch abomination they had created ...
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by bsder 1y ago
> The you of today has access to much more, via the internet and now AI. Adult me does. But if I were a poor child today, would I really have access to much more? I'm not convinced. As a better recent example, I was trying to fi
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by bsder 1y ago
Do not cite Kent Beck as a software authority. Consider this your semi-regular reminder that Kent Beck is part of the posse (along with Ron Jeffries and Martin Fowler) responsible for the software disaster that was the "Chrysler Compr
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by bsder 1y ago
> LOC is often a rough approximation for complexity. I would argue that the word you are looking for is "containment". Is there any real difference between calling a function and creating a "const varname = { -> insert
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by bsder 1y ago
> Books and Libraries have existed long before Edu systems or Youtubers emerged From my position, I am very concerned that people no longer have access to books and libraries. Go walk into your local university library and try to get acc
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by bsder 1y ago
Any refurbished/used x86 is almost always a better choice than a the newer RPi's. By the time you get done bringing the RPi up to the spec you need, it's almost always more expensive and less reliable than something x86. If
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by bsder 1y ago
> And then you hit that moment – you're debugging, you hit "Go to Definition", and suddenly you're free falling through ten layers of traits, macros, and generics just to figure out how a buffer updates. This isn&#x27
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by bsder 1y ago
Let's all thank Bitcoin for making supply chain compromises worth anonymous money transfers.
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by bsder 1y ago
You're still getting the industrial levels of nitrates/nitrites. They just stuff it in as an extract from celery. The problem isn't the curing, per se. In old school hand curing, almost all the nitrate/nitrite has reac
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by bsder 1y ago
> You can barely set up a taco truck here. We have a ton of these food trucks all over Austin. Most of them ... just aren't very good. So, apparently, regulations aren't too onerous. And a food truck isn't exempt from th
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by bsder 1y ago
> Anyone using these models to do something at scale is paying maybe 100X over would it would cost in compute to run deterministic code to do the same thing That's fine if the person wouldn't be able to write the code otherwise
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by bsder 1y ago
Personally, I think its worse. The whole point of employing a company like F5 is precisely to protect against those kind of "nation-state" actors. If F5 can't do that, what is their actual value proposition?
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by bsder 1y ago
> It is. You can also write it in C++ or Rust and expose a C API+ABI, and then you're distributing a binary library that the OS sees as very similar to a C library. If I want a "C Library", I want a "C Library" a
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by bsder 1y ago
Tigerbeetle. Your autocorrect really mangled that one ...
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by bsder 1y ago
> B) Aren't experienced enough in the target domain to see the problems with the AI's output (let's call this "slop blindness") Oh, boy, this. For example, I often use whatever AI I have to adjust my Nix files b
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by bsder 1y ago
> People should be raving and screaming for faster rollout of self-driving cars. People should be raving to get rid of cars, period . Proper mass transit is always a better option. Just because cars become self-driving doesn't mea
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by bsder 1y ago
> But no real competition for on-chip Wifi/BLE around. No competition or no market? I can't imagine Espressif is selling much volume of these chips. The fact that they can't even fix their SPI module would tend to indicate
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by bsder 1y ago
> The issue is of course there is no market for US made goods at a good salary The Smarter Every Day scrubber demonstrates that is not true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY The problem is that the US has syst
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by bsder 1y ago
> The business loses employees to Walmart etc. despite the factory having higher pay and significantly better benefits. I'm SUPER doubtful of this. When I last bumped into this, the local Amazon warehouse paid more than all the lo
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by bsder 1y ago
Can someone explain to me why people keep building "home lab" things with RPi's? Both the "Hacker" and "Cheap Bastard" ethos are better served by ... just about any cheap x86 stuff-- especially used. What
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by bsder 1y ago
This DDoS is claimed to be the result of <300,000 compromised routers. That would be really easy to block if we were on IPv6. And it would be pretty easy to propagate upstream. And you could probabilistically unblock in an automated wa
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by bsder 1y ago
> If you have 10k (say) users on CGNAT that are compromised, it's likely that there's at least 1 on each CGNAT IP. This means you can't just null route compromised IPs as you are effectively null routing the entire ISP. Ho
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by bsder 1y ago
> development/project dependencies are not and should not be managed by either of those but through project-specific means" on macOS, the standard Linux "one package manager does everything" approach feels simply wron
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by bsder 1y ago
> I don't understand why this suddenly happened I could easily see Nexperia chips appearing in Russian munitions in Ukraine setting this off. It would also match charging the CEO with "incompetence". It would be pretty ea
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by bsder 1y ago
> Prop 13 is a religious document in California. Residential real estate isn't causing the big issue. It's been under Prop 13 long enough that people have died off and the properties are now sufficiently staggered that residen
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by bsder 1y ago
Is there an equivalent for Linux?
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by bsder 1y ago
> My experience working on a team with mixed levels of seniority and coding experience is that everybody got some increase in productivity and some increase in quality. Is that true? There have been a couple of papers that show that peo

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