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by danw1979 1y ago
Can’t wait for Kyle to set Jepsen loose on this.
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by danw1979 1y ago
> I guess the lesson to be learned here is if you want your pet project to stick around in the kernel you really can't afford to be stubborn yourself. Amen. And to your point about it being a "pet project" - I'm sure
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by danw1979 1y ago
And also, I've read plenty enough about how hard it has been to maintain btrfs over the years. It's never really felt like the future. Plus I needed zvols for various applications. I've used ZFS on BSD for even longer so wh
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by danw1979 1y ago
As a long time sponsor of Kent's on Patreon - $10 a month since 2018, $790 total - I've found this bcachefs debacle really depressing. I'm not even a bcachefs user, but I use ZFS extensively and I _really_ wanted Linux to get
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by danw1979 1y ago
I think if you’re a researcher with an incredible result in a pre-print then going to the press to “own” the story before it’s been peer reviewed is fine by me. The risk is that someone else sensationalises the story on your behalf and you
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by danw1979 1y ago
This page is insane. They Are frequently using PYREX, Pyrex and pyrex to refer to variously the same and different things.
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by danw1979 1y ago
Amen to failing fast. A machine that is responding just enough to keep a circuit breaker closed is the scourge of distributed systems.
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by danw1979 1y ago
Wouldn’t that result in the organs of lefties being flipped too though ?
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by danw1979 1y ago
Not a popular opinion I know, but I really like writing Terraform in HCL2. Like, if I’d invented this, it’d give me the feels and I’d want to share it.
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by danw1979 1y ago
The 1990s web was actually good
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by danw1979 1y ago
I can’t tell if the part of this post after they have made this “thing of questionable safety” and then bury their head in the sand is satirical or not.
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by danw1979 1y ago
The founding story of Replika (c.2016 ?) sounds like someone watched Black Mirror S2E02 (2013) and didn’t quite understand it was supposed to be dystopian.
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by danw1979 1y ago
My experience of interacting with people who have Down’s syndrome is that they are especially outgoing, preternaturally friendly and just generally lovely to be around. I’m not arguing for either side of the treatment/screening debate
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by danw1979 1y ago
Not a question, but I just wanted to say thanks for putting this out there. We’ve all been in a tight spot with storage before and it’s really useful to know about new features and approaches that can help you out and to know the limits of
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by danw1979 1y ago
I think of English as being actually not a single language but rather dialects with many different pronunciations which share most of their written form. I also think this means any centralised effort to change how it is written will fall
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by danw1979 1y ago
That one stood out for me too. I think there’s a lot of pronunciation nuance that would be lost with SoundSpel. I’d distrust any top-down effort to change a language anyway. It belongs to the users and they’ll adapt it to their needs the
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by danw1979 1y ago
What are your thoughts on humans learning from LLM output ? I’ve been encouraging the new developers I work with to ensure they read the docs and learn the language to ensure the LLM doesn’t become a crutch, but rather a bicycle. But it occ
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by danw1979 1y ago
what’s the vector for microplastics in shower water causing you harm ? swallowing some of it or through the skin or something else ?
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by danw1979 1y ago
Make has its place as a build tool for large C codebases. People sometimes treat it as a generic “project specific job runner”, which it’s not a good fit for. Even simple conditionals are difficult. I’ve seen several well-intentioned attem
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by danw1979 1y ago
Let’s assume starship works out and they come up with a nifty wide-opening payload door solution, one of the advantages will be payload volume as well as mass - the JWST’s main mirror would have fit inside without being folded (although the
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by danw1979 1y ago
Was this the BT demo exchange somewhere in Essex ? Bishop Stortford maybe ? I did that tour around the same time and it was fascinating ! right in the middle of the 21CN (ethernet core network) transition.
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by danw1979 1y ago
A local fibre co here in York dug a cable to all the way my parent’s farm house, about 250m outside the nearest village (and probably even further into the village to reach the PCP), then left the cable coiled up on the outside of their pro
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by danw1979 1y ago
Sitting at your desk trying to write code whilst a toddler is screaming for your attention nearby ? I’m honestly not sure what you’re getting at, but this isn’t the middle ages where the kids learn how to weave baskets by watching their mot
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by danw1979 1y ago
Sometimes I think everyone travelling to an office was a good thing because it reinforced the idea that your home and work lives are separate and it’s healthy to draw a line between the two. P.S. I’m a permanent homeworker, I like it. I l
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by danw1979 1y ago
The thing is, nuclear was never on such a steep learning curve as solar and batteries are today. It’ll never be too cheap to meter, but electricity will get much cheaper over the coming decades, and so will synthetic hydrocarbons on the bac
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by danw1979 1y ago
Your comment contradicts itself. The second sentence is partially true: they do have different modes of operation. But no, they don’t face entirely the same issues. Trains should hopefully never routinely encounter cars sharing their track
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by danw1979 1y ago
I live near Leeds and I can’t even listen to audio commentary of Leeds Utd games unless I use an analogue FM radio.
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by danw1979 1y ago
yes it does, and I think that’s a great development - the flat rate access to Claude Code - but I’m only on the Pro subscription.
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by danw1979 1y ago
Use Claude Desktop with MCP attached to your IDE (if you’re coding)
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by danw1979 1y ago
I’ll wager that sugar is probably better for you (in moderation) than artificial sweeteners. I remember reading something not that long ago about insulin response to sweeteners being similar to sugars. Give me fat coke over diet coke any

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