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by chongli 10mo ago
A lot of rage over systemd from what I recall. I raged a lot when my Arch machine would break after an update and I'd have to do config file surgery on a machine that no longer wanted to boot into a graphical desktop. I've never h
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Although they do have a category for best editing, it's hard to call it an award for "best film editor" when it doesn't control for the overall quality of the film. For example, with the Oscars, it's extremely commo
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by chongli 10mo ago
Suppose I'm writing an http server and the error is caused by a flaky power supply causing the disk to lose power when the server attempts to read a file that's been requested. How is the http server supposed to diagnose this or a
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Then it’s a good thing you have a lot of people available to sort through it!
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There are multiple levels of possible generics at play here: the container type and the element type. You can have a map/reduce/filter that operate on any element type (generic elements) while still being specialized to linked lis
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by chongli 10mo ago
How do governments become corrupt in the first place though, if they don't start that way? It's collective action problems all the way down. Perhaps the root problem is that we've blown too far past Dunbar's number to be
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by chongli 10mo ago
To further stretch the analogy: the main street is now full of potholes, sinkholes, and even landmines. The root problem is that, in exchange for convenience, we as a society have ceded too much power to these large businesses and we are no
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by chongli 10mo ago
This is a problem with modern life in general. Computing and the internet have exploded the complexity of society. Regular people have so much on their plate as it is (school, work, family, mortgage, etc) that they simply cannot keep up wit
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by chongli 11mo ago
And yet if you watch low level players they’ll be fine with that until a bunch of zerglings show up at their base and then they panic trying to micro marines and repair bunkers while their minerals shoot up to 1000 and then they have no uni
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by chongli 11mo ago
When people complain about APM in an RTS like StarCraft, they’re really not complaining about the spam clicking done by players at the pro level. They’re talking about multitasking which is an essential skill at all levels of the game. Not
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by chongli 11mo ago
I would also recommend ArtosisCasts [1]. Dan ‘Artosis’ Stemkoski has been a professional StarCraft play-by-play commentator and colour analyst for decades. He’s lived in South Korea (now in Canada) and cast countless professional matches an
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by chongli 11mo ago
The linked short story is barely 5 paragraphs long. You could have just read it instead of writing an insubstantial remark like this. It’s a fun anecdote about a famous programmer (Bill Atkinson).
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Yes and reality is the hard part. Moravec’s Paradox [1] continues to ring true. A billion years of evolution went into our training to be able to cope with the complexity of reality. Our language is a blink of an eye compared to that. [1]
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by chongli 11mo ago
I'm questioning the idea that people should be writing compositors at all. Why doesn't Wayland itself do the compositing and let everyone else just manage windows? It's like going to Taco Bell and they make you grind your own
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That's on the Wayland team though. They drew up the new API boundaries and decided that all window managers would now be in the business of compositing. If I wanted to put it most uncharitably, I'd say they decided to push all of
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by chongli 11mo ago
Lots of businesses have big positive externalities [1]. They provide more benefit to their communities than they take in for themselves. Unfortunately, these sorts of businesses are easy pickings for PE. Artists are a classic example. They
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by chongli 11mo ago
Weren't they losing money for years on all-you-can-eat seafood specials [1]? It's not uncommon in the fast food business to be breaking even or losing money on all aspects of the business while the true value of the company, its r
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by chongli 11mo ago
Just like crows! People hate crows even though they play a valuable role in ecosystems. I would argue that moribund businesses who maintain a competitive moat but are otherwise extremely unproductive and inefficient are the real blight on s
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by chongli 11mo ago
From what I've seen, they take a terrible business and liquify its valuable assets for their investors, freeing up capital to be invested more productively elsewhere in the economy. Of course those investors could take the money and co
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by chongli 11mo ago
Yes, but why is the compositor dealing with this? Shouldn't the compositor simply be deciding which windows go where (X, Y, and Z positions) and leave the rendering to another API? Why does every different take on a window manager need
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by chongli 11mo ago
Private equity are the crows of the economy. They pick off weak / dysfunctional businesses and open space for fresh competition (or for other markets to open up).
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Why is this something a Wayland compositor (a glorified window manager) needs to worry about? Apple figured this out back in the 1990s with ColorSync and they did it once for the Mac OS and any application that wanted colour management coul
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by chongli 11mo ago
Thank you for the Alex Slocum link. I was aware of a lot of those other machinist channels but the engineering course is new to me. This looks incredible. Alex is a fantastic teacher!
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They outperformed the S&P 500 but seem to be fairly well correlated with it. Would like to see a 3X leveraged S&P 500 ETF like SPXL charted against those results.
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I think you’ll find that won’t actually work in practice. Many contract workers are not independent freelancers but actually employees of a different company who contracts the work out as a whole. For example, a courier company like UPS emp
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A law like this just means getting full time employment becomes that much more difficult and the vast majority of people working for a company will be non-voting contractors without benefits. The existing employees would even vote for chang
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Thanks for pointing this out! I looked at the edit history and without looking at the timestamps assumed it was in reverse chronological order. Seeing that I was wrong brought a smile to my face. I appreciate that Andrew and the other Zig t
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by chongli 11mo ago
I don't use AI though. Are they going to put automatic AI responses on the SERP? That's less green than simply not having AI on the SERP. Giving me something I do not want is wasteful by definition.
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This is a really nice summary of the history of Mac OS (in both its incarnations). While Mac OS X in the mid-late 2000s may have been a technologically superior operating system to Classic Mac OS, it was never as easy to use. The loss of th
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Chess doesn't rank people based on how quickly they complete a puzzle after midnight EST (UTC-5). For people in large parts of Asia, midnight EST translates to late morning / early afternoon. This means someone in Asia can complet

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