eichin

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by eichin 5mo ago
We formalized that as "if you didn't find a kernel bug yesterday, you didn't find one today either" (while implicitly glaring at the java developer who kept blaming everything but his own code.) The funny thing is that
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by eichin 5mo ago
or that the comments themselves are AI/bots? (not meant as a criticism, other than of youtube itself)
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by eichin 5mo ago
I read the point as: if it's an existential threat that you've got principled objections to - why would it even matter that it's useful ?
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by eichin 5mo ago
In the associated video, she explains exactly that - a Debian Trixie VM specifically for screenshotting https://youtu.be/E7vFdy4BEAY?si=WVBxmCPLVEdRBbtU&t=114
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by eichin 5mo ago
I'd suggest reading the Connie Willis novel by that name - no idea if it will actually help , it's just really good writing :-)
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by eichin 5mo ago
yeah, part of my current writing push was made more successful by two things: * I am not allowed to use a blogging system I wrote. (Really, I've written three or four at this point and need to stop, and there are plenty of existing sys
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by eichin 5mo ago
Anybody remember "cram"? From about 10 years ago, https://bitheap.org/cram/ basically a markdown syntax (making heavy use of code-blocks) for documenting and writing tests as "shell commands and expected
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by eichin 5mo ago
That's not the same thing - with a pty in line mode, you get one line that you can edit, and when you hit enter, it gets sent. With Domain/OS, you still get to edit your last line until you hit enter... but if the process is ot
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by eichin 5mo ago
pipes buffer, and you don't know when the child is actually reading? (Maybe you could cook something up with ptrace, since it would be a blocking read in this case...)
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by eichin 5mo ago
Ah, not related to Hans Boehm of the Boehm GC though (the Barry Boehm page even has a "not to be confused with" header.)
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by eichin 5mo ago
I hadn't realized Domain/OS emulation was viable these days. It's one of the few systems that has actually "lost" features - the terminal-window-like thing (called pads, I think?) when in line mode had a dividing l
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by eichin 5mo ago
Just because there's actual virtue doesn't mean there isn't also virtue signalling going on... especially when it might be (in your particular circles) more taboo to talk about the actual numbers than the "doing it for
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by eichin 5mo ago
When I last did it, there were two wins for a tech startup incorporating in delaware: * it's easy and well-documented - the main thing you have to remember is to check the boxes that say this is an actual company, and not a holding c
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by eichin 5mo ago
That's actually a useful test page for "did turning off everything in chrome://flags that says gemini actually work?" (it's reporting 148 and "unavailable" for me.)
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by eichin 5mo ago
Given how often younger people find my typing speed startling, I think it has been somewhat forgotten (US high schools had "keyboarding" classes at one point but that seems to have fallen off...)
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by eichin 6mo ago
Yeah, betterplace made it from 2008 (wired) to 2013 (bankruptcy.) Nio is trying again and it looks like they hit wired in 2018, again in 2023, and are still active today...
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by eichin 6mo ago
powernapcomic (maritza campos) is a surreal dystopian version of this (with the corporate part turned up to 99). Excellent sci-fi and very weird...
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by eichin 6mo ago
https://www.thedecafproject.com/ (Dec 2024) let you order matching swiss water, CO₂, and Ethyl Acetate (sugar cane byproduct) decaffeinated coffee from the same batches of beans. The EPA banned methylene chloride earlier i
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by eichin 6mo ago
https://www.anthropic.com/system-cards generally, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679406 more specifically (I'm guessing the article didn't link directly because it's an unreleased mo
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by eichin 6mo ago
probably the HN-specific "Second Chance Pool" for resurfacing links
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by eichin 6mo ago
Color photos existed but color film and processing was very expensive (and while mono film development "middle school student can do at home" for a generation, home color work wasn't a thing until late 80s/early 90s
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by eichin 6mo ago
From using Okidata printers back in the day, a "tall" lower case g really does look bad in running text. (The similarity to the e is a little troublesome, but I don't have a fix for that...)
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by eichin 6mo ago
Yeah, the article seems to have missed the likely biggest reason that this is the popular x86 idiom - that it was already the popular 8080/Z80 idiom from the CP/M era, and there's a direct line (and a bunch of early 8086 DOS
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by eichin 6mo ago
The graphs towards the end were discharge curves for a single transistor/capacitor cell out of only 16 present, if I understood correctly? So "enough cells to count as memory" and "addressing logic" are definitely f
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by eichin 6mo ago
And no brightness impact either, right? (I think that was in the LTT video.) We always ordered thinkpads without touchscreens, but it sounds like just leaving it off in software might actually be sufficient...
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by eichin 6mo ago
> who Yale :-) Alan Perlis' intro to CS at Yale back in the late 80s was an APL class (a relatively small one, though.)
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by eichin 6mo ago
yeah, last I looked (a couple of years ago) this was a better and more complete collection than what archive.org had (and is what enabled me to get rid of most of my paper collection, though I kept some particular highlights)
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by eichin 6mo ago
yeah, my one use of kdenlive has been to slap an on-screen telemetry track over a video - and it worked great for that, speaking as someone who has no interest in video editing :-)
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by eichin 6mo ago
There's an entire industry of "distraction free writing devices" based mostly on that nostalgia/yearning (not to say that it isn't effective, but the effectiveness is not actually being measured :-)
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by eichin 6mo ago
One of the reasons I've always encouraged software people to learn to touch type has nothing to do with typing speed - it's about reducing/eliminating the cognitive load of typing, you want to be thinking in expressions (se

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