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by csdvrx 2y ago
> wondering what really needed improved Maybe not much? A few months ago, I ran out of power (my mistake, I use full screen apps to avoid the distraction, so I didn't realize I was unplugged) After plugging in and restarting Linux t
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by csdvrx 2y ago
> Probably because it's implicitly pirated. It doesn't have to be. Old software is cheap, even shrink wrapped ("new old stock")
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by csdvrx 2y ago
It's extremely efficient: cold starting Word from an old Office suite is much faster than starting Libreoffice. It also uses less RAM. A few years ago I purchased a few shrink-wrapped Office on ebay for each of the versions Wine clai
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by csdvrx 2y ago
The next step is to isolate the Windows applications: you could use different WINEPREFIX, but I think the better way is to do it like android: one "user" per application. It's not just to prevent applications to read other ap
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by csdvrx 2y ago
> In my experience even the best open source 7B local models are close to unusable. They'd have been mindblowning a few years ago but when you are used to "full size" cutting edge models it feels like an enormous downgrade
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by csdvrx 2y ago
You can get the config files from https://github.com/csdvrx/bash-timestamping-sqlite
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by csdvrx 2y ago
Ctrl-R and sorting by time since the last run is nice, but odds are you run the same commands again and again WITHIN the context provided by the current directory, so the cwd should be kept Another important parameter is the number of suc
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by csdvrx 2y ago
> I derive a lot of my personal sense of worth from what I do - from what I build and for what I contribute to other people. I don't know what I would do in a world where that was no longer needed. Is that healthy? Probably not. (I
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by csdvrx 2y ago
I can, in vim it's simple. It just bothers me that it is the default and I have to take care of tabs with the rainbow, or a toggle shortcut like: function TabCollapse_Toggle() abort if &tabstop ==1 set tabstop=8
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by csdvrx 2y ago
It may looks chaotic ("explosion") when you don't see the structure. When you do, you appreciate the density of information. When I read perl it's like I read a poem: to take a simple example, 'while/until&#x27
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by csdvrx 2y ago
> They call it like that, but it depends on the programmer as always. There are different styles, but in general they are concise, and I like them. perl use various sigils to remain concise, while other languages take a lot of room on th
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by csdvrx 2y ago
I like Perl mostly because it's poetic (the code is super nice to read, with variable types standing out thanks to sigils), but another core strength is how very fast and light it is. Instead of "cross-compiling" or just runn
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by csdvrx 2y ago
> you'll likely be unable to achieve anything close to the economic status expected and planned on It may be a problem of expectations + loss aversion, as high income from software jobs is a historically "recent" phenomeno
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by csdvrx 2y ago
> I’m looking at you America And I'm looking back at you from America :) > We are already seeing more developers than job vacancies is the tech market, so this isn’t a theoretical concern either. Agriculture also employs far fewe
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by csdvrx 2y ago
Your perspective is very strange, as I want to be replaced by cheaper devs - or ideally, even machines, which would free us humans to work on other problems that machine can't work on yet. > In fact, I do not care to be convinced ot
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by csdvrx 2y ago
> Because some people just don't care where their code ends up. Yes, take me for example. > Many people release code to the "public domain" (or under very liberal licenses). In my case, the MIT license, because I saw it
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by csdvrx 2y ago
> Anonymous common property, sold by the LLM companies. No credit to the author. Yes, and? > Why anyone opens any software anymore is a mystery to me. Before LLM: to share nice things with other people who may like them After LLM: to
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by csdvrx 2y ago
Since you did reverse engineering and checked the internals, have you found the cause of the high power draw in suspend? (device on, screen off, wireless off, not playing anything) I haven't checked, but I would suspect either the USB
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by csdvrx 2y ago
Funny fact: clocks used to feature "Una ex his" (for "Una ex his erit tibi ultima") in order to maximize this "terrifying reminder" effect
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by csdvrx 2y ago
> I think you were browsing the cards and using the quick navigation to go to another card in the same deck. Yes, I was just looking at how it works because I liked how you presented your design principles. My personal design principle i
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by csdvrx 2y ago
> I still have a couple of features missing before I can call it done enough. I've checked your website and HN profile but there's no email to contact you, so here are some simple suggestions: when you enter a deck, I would su
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I'm very new to BSD in general, but I find it very fun and interesting! However, I need pointers to get started. > You won't be spoon-fed, and are expected to have read the manuals and other documentations... I read a lot of Fr
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I'm afraid it will be sold at a price most will not be able to afford, especially without health insurance. I'd support decriminalization efforts instead: we let people with cancer get weed from a dispensary. Why not let veterans
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by csdvrx 3y ago
Are there FreeBSD/NetBSD equivalents to do the same without creating a UFS volume: - programatically declare the /dev/ files and their permissions - link the binaries you want to use I've learned about crunched binaries
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Why should a dead person's wishes bind the actions of living people? Let's start by looting rich dead people fortune the day they die: Steve Jobs money could have been used to reduce the US national debt!
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> It's not unusual for authors to express a desire for their unpublished works to be destroyed. Kafka wanted all his unpublished works to be destroyed - consider these are most of his known works now, we're quite lucky his exec
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Oh, I see what you mean. In this case, as the passenger in question is a known vlogger, I would suspect it is probably unnecessary (he is not shy about either his picture or his name on YouTube). It could have been a stage name, but th
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> What purpose would publishing a photograph someone's passport serve in exposing extortion? It would tie the name to the picture of the known extorter, so that he may be refused service. The same thing is done is some supermarkets
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> There is a heavily redacted version of the passport image from the Facebook post in the YouTube video @ 4:00 > Well, instead of sharing a screenshot of the alleged extortion attempt, he shared a picture of Cahill’s passport, with al
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by csdvrx 3y ago
Aren't mercury-based amalgam teeth fillings more durable than other techniques because the metal is more plastic that other fillings which are more brittle? Last time I read about that, the risks for mercury exposure was for dentists,

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