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by deckard1 4y ago
> Uh, no, it smells of mainframes. Look at some of those 90° serifs, right out of the 1950’s. maybe that's why I like IBM Plex Mono so much. My go-to font has always been DejaVu Sans and before that Bitstream Vera Sans, which are pr
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by deckard1 4y ago
I bet you can go on Slashdot and find a thread from a million years ago with people saying they will never switch to this trendy new Thunderbird and that you can pull their pine/elm/mutt from their cold dead hands. I remember a ti
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by deckard1 4y ago
It's been going on much longer. Google's revenue was disrupted with Facebook. Then they scrambled to get Google+ out the door, which had absolutely no reason to exist beyond being a Google-branded clone of Facebook. They effective
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by deckard1 4y ago
> almost every game on Steam has a quick accessible rating that lets me know if it works fine on Linux Sure, it's more convenient that Valve runs Steam and can put the rating right there. But let's give WineHQ a bit of credit h
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by deckard1 4y ago
ChatGPT spam created by ChatGPT is when you know we've entered the inner circle of hell
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by deckard1 4y ago
They really do want the people that will crawl through broken glass for them. The whole tech industry is insane. Can we please go back to: I give you work, you give me money. And if you want passion then I want equity .
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by deckard1 4y ago
If it's an assistant that you constantly have to double check their work, then they would get fired ASAP. That's the problem with Copilot. If I'm not familiar with the API calls then I'm still going to have to dig into t
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by deckard1 4y ago
yeah 286 was minimum. I had an 8088 XT and it would not run. However... there is a little known game that id Software did release that would run on an 8088. It's called Catacomb 3-D[1]. It was basically Wolfenstein with goblins and s
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by deckard1 4y ago
It is on Ryzen. Stick with AsRock or Asus motherboards, though.
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by deckard1 4y ago
> a multitude of bit flip errors ECC can only report >1 bit flip per word. It can't correct it. If your memory is going bad, the chance of multiple bit failure is going to be much higher than the stray bit flip from other causes
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by deckard1 4y ago
> (page unknown, ebook copy, chapter 27) page 148 in the physical book, at least my copy. However, you leave out the following section titled "Clean Check-in" in which Beck argues the exact opposite when working on a team. Clea
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by deckard1 4y ago
60 is quite low for leetcode. There are a few dozen patterns to learn. Most people will probably do on the order of 200-300 before they are truly comfortable. I've heard some people do it in as little as a month or two with 8 hour days
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by deckard1 4y ago
If you're on Android, get Aegis. It's better anyway and you can export backups.
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by deckard1 4y ago
I really don't understand what has happened in the last few years in this space. At my company we went from stable but boring Jenkins to this Github/K8S hell. Everything is broke all the time. Literally every single day. It blows
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by deckard1 4y ago
That sounds like the similar, but opposite case of tail recursion optimization. Some languages/compilers don't do it because devs want stack traces. But allow TCO in and now the code that gets written is quite different than the c
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by deckard1 4y ago
Excellent resource. Never seen that before. In a similar vein, there is The Architecture of Open Source Applications which is great: https://aosabook.org/en/index.html
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by deckard1 4y ago
let's say you have an organized collection of music on your home computer, laptop, NAS, whatever. An easy way to stream that is with a subsonic server. I prefer Navidrome, but there are lots to choose from. To get that on to your Andro
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by deckard1 4y ago
Scheme is deceptive. I think R5RS was all of 50 pages or so. But try implementing quasiquotes, closures, lexical scoping, tail call optimization. Not to mention the trickier things of call/cc, dynamic-wind, hygienic macros. There is a
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by deckard1 4y ago
realistically? I've worked in HIPAA environment before, with secured corporate laptop, access keys to various departments, etc. Any person walking in there with a lowly USB stick could walk out with private personal data and no one wou
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by deckard1 4y ago
yep. A coworker introduced a CSRF doing this. I had to point out that you can't just take raw input from a URL and throw it back on the page. Even after I pointed it out and gave a proof-of-concept they still didn't get it.
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by deckard1 4y ago
Navidrome is my favorite, by far. It's like a personal Spotify. It also has built-in subsonic support. Syncthing is another I could not live without. All devices upload to my server and my server gets backed up to S3/backblaze typ
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by deckard1 4y ago
same here. We had an 8088 with AdLib, which only had FM synthesis. We stepped up to a Pentium 75Mhz with SoundBlaster AWE32 and 16-bit 44.1kHz audio. And CD-ROM drive! Those were amazing times. Shortly after that the internet hit mainstream
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by deckard1 4y ago
Boring maybe. But I'll take the sheer joy of plugging in a random USB device and having it just work over the absolutely pain it was dealing with serial and parallel ports and I/O addresses, DMA channels, IRQ conflicts, etc. And
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by deckard1 4y ago
> It was amazing, and infuriating, to have your decently high-end system basically obsoleted in two generations. I remember this all too well. And PCs were expensive . $2,000-3,000 rigs in 1990 money. Today you can pick up a loaded Ryze
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by deckard1 4y ago
A lot of people don't want to receive a sermon and, likewise, wouldn't want to give one either. Every time I visit LinkedIn I roll my eyes at some of the things people publicly post. There is a certain self-seriousness bordering o
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by deckard1 4y ago
> and passphrases means no automation. You can easily specify a password file via env variable[1]. Make sure file permissions are restricted to root only. If someone had root they could read any file already, so I don't see a threat
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by deckard1 4y ago
You can't go wrong with Tetris, and Tetris Effect is the best version of it. It must be experienced. It's impossible to describe what it feels like to be in the "zone" with this game. It's one of those games you can
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by deckard1 4y ago
> Nextjs 13.1 just added actual server-side middleware the middleware has been available for awhile, they just added a few "advanced" features it looks like. The problem with their middleware is that it's based on their ed
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by deckard1 4y ago
Lutris makes it easy to install GOG and Epic store games as well. Epic has been giving away a lot of games the past year or two, so it's a great option for Linux. Amazon Prime also gives away games that usually redeem on GOG or other s
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by deckard1 4y ago
> Ryzen desktop with ECC, and it registers about one bit-flip per week. yeah, you have bad ram. Or you overclocked it. I have a Ryzen server with 32GB ECC RAM running 24/7 for a year. 0 bit flips. Not a single one.

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