ethersteeds

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by ethersteeds 1y ago
You aren't wrong. I was replying to a flippant declaration "I don't see the point [in coming to grips with mortality]", which is quite different from your nuanced reply. I tried to convey that I'm not saying &quot
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
> It's just a question of what is overall best and fairest. If only it were so. But it's not just that. It's also a question of which section of society has the power to demand or prevent the creation of such a system. W
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
If mortality is just a tradition and you're the first to realize you needn't acquiesce, sure. If not, the point in doing that is the enormous amount of suffering you create while thrashing against an inevitability. That is not to
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
I like my structs packed and my lifetimes finite.
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
That's correct
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
"looks good on my machine"
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
> That would be nice, but Synology doesn't offer that either, no? I have a Synology DS920+ 4-bay that averaged 20W total including 2 spinning drives with sleep disabled. I agonized about going with the closed product, and in many wa
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
As I understand it, they forked years ago when btrfs was very much not ready to be used for production NAS storage. Their value prop was they took it and added lots of their own special patches that they claimed made it highly dependable. O
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
I came to say the same thing. In the late 2010s I ran Linux on a work-issued Lenovo P50 with a Nvidia Quadro M2000M. It was such a miserable experience that I swore to never own another NVIDIA product again. Given both Framework and NVIDIA&
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
Unskippable preroll ads in your dreams. A whole new meaning to "sentiment analysis".
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
Guess it's about time to water the tree of liberty again.
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
> no declarative dependencies, Is that a selling point? Could you explain why? I've heard plenty of reasons why people find systemd distasteful as an init, but I've not heard much criticism of a declarative design.
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
That's a good point. I've stayed completely away from Ubuntu since they started down that path, which has made me out of touch with the day to day experience of its users. Deplorable is the right word.
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
> You can't just look at hamburger sales to judge hamburger demand. You have to consider an alternate universe where hamburgers aren't on the menu, then subtract all the people who would have ordered something else for lunch vs
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
Huh. I'm sure there's some projects that release exclusively via docker or snap/flatpak, but in my experience that's pretty uncommon. Far more often I see a release page with a dozen or more options. Binaries for Arm, AM
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
As others have said, Clojure is still a thing. For anyone catching up with Clojure again after some time: check out Babashka! Think bash scripts, written in Clojure. It's delightful. https://babashka.org/
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
Can someone outline the kind of headless setup this would be used with? Best I can figure, a TV with a Moonlight client connected to a basement computer running Sunshine, (or similar client/server system) then a homekit command with op
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
Fair to be upset. Just noting that has been happening for about the whole history of televised comedy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smothers_Brothers_Comedy...
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
I'm of the "only way to win is not to play" mind with this exercise. I would peel off 10-20 million to eliminate lifetime financial concerns for my circle, and immediately go MacKenzie Scott on the rest, trying to put it towa
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
Are you unaware of Flock pushing their cameras to all the small town sheriffs? It's definitely not just in New York City. I live in an incorporated area whose population is less than 10,000. The police have mounted Flock license plate
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
Yes, features like this are what leads to DRM and locked bootloader requirements. It's a shame.
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
I'm right there with you.
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
I was under the impression that government sites having "business hours" had as much or more to do with their backends dating from the mainframe era, with nightly batch jobs that take all cpu time or prohibit database writes. Anyw
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
Since they've been told climate change is a hoax, republican voters in the US have needed an explanation for the dramatic increase in the frequency/severity of severe weather events. They have flocked to the conspiracy theory that
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
On unpacking after moving: I'd posit that what you describe is an extreme outlier of moving efficiency. More often, there was some amount of disorder introduced along the way. Boxes badly/not labelled, disparate contents mixed. Di
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
Since you're kindly offering recommendations, what do you use for longevity in engineering notebooks?
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
(Backups of linux ISOs)
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
I think you're saying that you want mailing lists to be handled as a series, and old editions deleted automatically. And indeed, I've never seen that. But Fastmail has an "auto purge after x days" feature on folders, whi
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
Ah, that's my error, I haven't used WhatsApp personally.
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by ethersteeds 1y ago
Signal started out as an Alternative Android SMS app that opportunistically upgraded text messages to use encryption when both parties had Signal. It exclusively used sms for transport, so phone numbers were baked deeply into it in a way si

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