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by bsder 1y ago
Snapshots seems to be a cheap feature in ZFS but are expensive everywhere else, for example. OverlayFS has had performance issues on Linux for a while (once you start composing a bunch of overlays, the performance drops dramatically as well
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by bsder 1y ago
> git supported directory mapping. Is this a "git" failure or a "Linux filesystems suck" failure? It seems like "Linux fileystems" are starting to creak under several directions (Nix needing binary patching,
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by bsder 1y ago
Fire is vitally useful ... Starting a wildfire likely kills your entire tribe. Now, perhaps there should be some rules around using fire?
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by bsder 1y ago
Because the light flux may be insufficient to cause enough photosynthesis to balance respiration when not illuminated. Plants consume oxygen and respire when there is insufficient light just like we do all the time.
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by bsder 1y ago
> Less than a decade later, separatist Pilgrims landed in New England, and by contrast, grew crops immediately, and cultivated diplomatic relations with their neighbors. And, as I understand it, settled into areas which had previously be
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by bsder 1y ago
Except that Covid showed us that the immigrants quit coming and even go home if there is no job. We know how to stop illegal immigration--you put CEOs in jail for employing illegal immigrants. Illegal immigration stops dead. "Illega
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by bsder 1y ago
This UI "update" is so obviously detrimental to anyone who doesn't have great 20ish-year-old eyesight, that it is going to negatively impact customer support costs, sales, engagement, etc. So, you can either assume that Apple
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by bsder 1y ago
They also broke XWayland via a Mutter change that clearly wasn't tested at all given how quickly the bug reports started pouring in. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/4133 So, they do
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by bsder 1y ago
> I think optimizing for VisionOS Yeah, this really looks like an Apple temper tantrum of "Nobody wants to program for the Vision Pro? Fine. We'll MAKE you program the iPhone like the Vision Pro. Take that developers. Now
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by bsder 1y ago
A fallacy is only relevant when you are trying to establish "truth" or, more likely, "falsity" from a well-formed premise. You have established neither a well-formed premise that can be falsified nor any particular exper
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by bsder 1y ago
> Is it even possible at this point given that YouTube garners so many eyeballs and is just so easy? The big problem is that someone will download your video and upload it to YouTube if you do not. Often while monetizing it until you st
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by bsder 1y ago
Sorry, but I want those transaction fees to go up. A LOT . Like one or two orders of magnitude. There are far too many domains that are "parked" because those transaction fees are so low. Add an extra zero and most of those do
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by bsder 1y ago
> Lately, every app I install, wants bluetooth access to scan all my bluetooth devices. Blame Apple and Google and their horrid BLE APIs. An app generally has to request "ALL THE PERMISSIONS!" to get RSSI which most apps are us
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by bsder 1y ago
Well, there is some "cause-and-effect" in evolution. Whenever a species winds up isolated in a cave, it loses eyesight really quickly in evolutionary terms because making and maintaining an eye is so metabolically expensive. So
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by bsder 1y ago
> An ancestor lost the trait for vitamin C synthesis by chance, and because these primates were living in trees eating lots of fruit with vitamin C, evolution simply didn't notice. There is no disadvantage to being able to synthesis
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by bsder 1y ago
> “They are rich and naive”. This is blaming the victim, and I'm not having it. The problem has been that BankCorp are all forcing us into online pathways because it's cheaper for BankCorp. Of course, they don't put goo
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by bsder 1y ago
The grind at the top is still a grind--in fact, it is the worst grind. To top that off, Magnus is in his mid-30s now. Anyone doing anything at the level of "Elite in the World" is putting in an amount of effort that borders on ma
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by bsder 1y ago
> Basically, the democrats want fighters. Trump called and got Jan 6th. Democrats called and nobody could be bothered to show up to vote.
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by bsder 1y ago
> It certainly will kill off the few companies/people trusting them with closed source code or security related stuff but you really should not outsource that anywhere. And how many companies have proprietary code hosted on Github?
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by bsder 1y ago
> Why Elixir + Erlang are not more popular for high concurrency projects is a mystery to me. 1) Because the amount of "high concurrency" you can handle with a single machine with "standard" languages keeps moving up e
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by bsder 1y ago
> A tight iteration loop is the only solution I've seen for building high quality UI/UX. Embrace that it's going to be terrible the first few times and plan for this. The problem I have seen is that all the GUI toolkits we
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by bsder 1y ago
More likely vaccines, antibiotics, and public health initiatives/nutrition. Diseases (and especially virii) are showing to leave behind WAY more damage than everybody thought. Nutritional stress leaves behind lasting damage as well.
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by bsder 1y ago
Here's what to do: Show me a video of LLM fixing four filed issues in the KiCad codebase. If you do that, I'll swallow my AI skepticism. I would love to have an LLM that I can turn loose on an unfamiliar codebase that I can ask qu
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by bsder 1y ago
> Claude's output was thoroughly reviewed by Cloudflare engineers with careful attention paid to security and compliance with standards. So, for those of us who are not OAuth experts, don't have a team of security engineers on
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by bsder 1y ago
> I've literally never in practice seen a human update their beliefs using Bayes' formula. Then you've never debugged anything genuinely difficult. Moving from "Where did I screw up in my code?" to "Is this
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by bsder 1y ago
Which is ironic given how much of the original Star Wars was fixed in post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFMyMxMYDNk
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by bsder 1y ago
Power-only USB-C connectors don't have the same pitch issues as they only need to pin out the power and CC1/CC2 pins. However, the 0.65/0.40 pads required for USB-C are no longer an issue for any of the board houses I have us
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by bsder 1y ago
> When did Microcenter re-gain its popularity? When online became infested with counterfeits and opened returns with no way to distinguish. Anyone ordering computer parts from Amazon is just asking to get fleeced nowadays.
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by bsder 1y ago
LLMs are a decent search engine a la Google circa 2005. It's been 20 years since that, so I think people have simply forgotten that a search engine can actually be useful as opposed to ad infested SEO sewage sludge. The problem is th
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by bsder 1y ago
Only because "profit" is in the way. $20K a year with 20 students is $400K per year which is more than enough for two teachers and the infrastructure and then some. While this is fine in elementary and early middle school (which

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