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by dale_glass 6mo ago
We'd have to invent a new connector first. It's too thick for modern laptops, not to speak of cell phones. Also, RJ45 is terribly fragile if you keep plugging and unplugging it, eventually that latch will break. And copper can bar
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by dale_glass 6mo ago
Not always quite enough. I've seen a few people discuss a desire for custom "Muzak", AI generated to fulfill a need. Upload your gym workout, and have it generate tracks to match each exercise -- right genre, BPM, type of tra
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by dale_glass 6mo ago
Probably your parents setting it up? As far as I know, Worms is a normal DOS game, so the only way for that to happen should be a DOS install configured to just auto-start Worms on boot. Which makes sense as a way to keep a kid away from an
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by dale_glass 6mo ago
Nonsense. The "git restore" command is now an official part of git, and nothing is being lost because it's technically a git-checkout underneath. It's just a thin UI on top for convenience, nothing is being sacrificed. T
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by dale_glass 6mo ago
> How is git restore any better? Restoring what from when? At least git checkout is clear in what it does. And this is exactly where disconnects happen, and where you need telemetry or something like it to tell you how your users actuall
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by dale_glass 6mo ago
> I'm curious why corporate development teams always feel the need to spy on their users? Is it not sufficient to employ good engineering and design practices? No, because users have different needs and thoughts from the developers.
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by dale_glass 6mo ago
Trials have rules for evidence. You can't just pull out some footage out of nowhere. Where did that come from? From what camera? What was the chain of custody on its footage? Etc.
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by dale_glass 6mo ago
> Sorry, no. Our recent experiences during the energy crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine showed us that we cannot trust energy sources outside our own borders. You could trust Sweden, Estonia, etc. since they're all in
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by dale_glass 6mo ago
Yes, but we're trading a research megaproject that might not ever live up to its promises when it's done in 30 years, for a boring megaproject we can start right now and that will very quickly start producing power.
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by dale_glass 6mo ago
But there's far easier solutions to that than fusion. For example, HVDC. Interconnect and buy power from somebody with more sun. Or just overbuild solar by a lot. It's cheap, so chances are having too much of it still works out ec
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by dale_glass 6mo ago
Very neat, but why Arduino Uno? It's well past its prime.
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by dale_glass 6mo ago
If that happens it will still take decades. It took us a lot of time to standardize computers. We made lots of weird architectures before things settled down.
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by dale_glass 6mo ago
True, but we've built tokamaks and we're building ITER, which so far has an estimated price of between $45 billion and $65 billion. Now of course that's a research reactor full of experiments and instrumentation that wouldn&#
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by dale_glass 6mo ago
It's a nice video, but a striking thing about it is that it ends with "I just want my infinite free energy". Where on earth is that supposed to come from? Fusion is ultimately a fancy way to boil water. The tokamak (or stella
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by dale_glass 6mo ago
A good addition would be the sales price per MWh, price for the power plant, and the loan interest rate. Because IMO all that is extremely critical. I fully support the pursuit of fusion as a scientific endeavor, but given that we're p
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by dale_glass 6mo ago
Precisely because of it. On Linux, /bin/bash, //bin/bash and /bin//bash are the exact same file, the same inode. They look somewhat off to people, but they're entirely harmless, so cleaning that
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by dale_glass 6mo ago
But maybe you should anyway. Because maybe you use S3, which treats `foo/bar.txt` and `foo//bar.txt` as entirely separate things. Because to S3, directories don't exist and those are literally the exact names of the keys
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by dale_glass 7mo ago
It kinda blows my mind that after XML we've managed to make a whole bunch of stuff that's significantly worse for any serious usage. JSON: No comments, no datatypes, no good system for validation. YAML: Arcane nonsense like sexage
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by dale_glass 7mo ago
It's missing Ryzen AI MAX+, which is sort of the Apple Silicon equivalent.
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by dale_glass 7mo ago
> The web was objectively awful as a technology, and genuinely amazing, and nobody got into it because programming in Perl was somehow aesthetically delightful. As an old school Perl coder, not true. Lots of people had a taste for Perl.
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by dale_glass 7mo ago
What makes Agile the most-wrong way to manage, in your opinion? I'm curious.
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by dale_glass 8mo ago
Data has negative weight on punched cards or tape.
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by dale_glass 8mo ago
For anyone who enjoyed Descent, please go buy Overload. It's a pretty much perfect spiritual sequel, with a great soundtrack. And I believe made by some of the people that formerly worked on Descent.
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by dale_glass 8mo ago
I disagree, I think TUIs are a great fit in some problem domains. Think for instance the Debian package configuration dialogs -- they're far more comfortable than the same questions without a TUI, and still work over a serial console i
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The FOSDEM Gaming and VR videos have been posted(fosdem.org)
1 points by dale_glass 9mo ago|1 comments
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by dale_glass 9mo ago
FOSDEM is one of the largest Free and Open Source conferences, but I've found it a bit hard to talk about things like game and VR development on it due to the lack of fitting tracks. There's a Graphics track, but that tends toward
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by dale_glass 9mo ago
Is there any TTS engine that doesn't need cloning and has some sort of parameters one can specify? Like what if I want to graft on TTS to an existing text chat system and give each person an unique, randomly generated voice? Or want to
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by dale_glass 9mo ago
I went for the uber-nerd approach to gaming. Whatever's possible, local on Linux. If it's not, one of my servers has a GPU that I pass through to a Windows VM, and run the games there and displayed by streaming. Also works for VR.
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by dale_glass 9mo ago
Sleep just ceased to exist in the last few years and got replaced with an always on, low power mode. I believe the reasoning was partly that suspend to RAM had serious reliability issues due to the complexity of saving the state, partly tha
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by dale_glass 10mo ago
I think that makes sense and was in a way unavoidable. Compare a physical shop with Spotify. A physical shop has limited space, so old stuff has to be pruned out to leave room for the new releases. So sales for old stuff gradually stop, and

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