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by haiku2077 1y ago
My parents live on a street steeper than San Francisco (we live along the base of a mountain range), my ebike eats that hill for lunch
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by haiku2077 1y ago
Specifically, I upgraded my mac and ported my software, which ran on Windows/Linux, to macos and Metal. Literally >100x faster in benchmarks, and overall user workflows became fast enough I had to "spend" the performance e
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by haiku2077 1y ago
> If it was invented 10 years later we'd all ride $1000-$2000 Segways today. I chat with the guy who works nights at my local convenience store about our $1000-2000 e-scooters. We both use them more than we use our cars.
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by haiku2077 1y ago
https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2025-06-02-llms-are-ch... , also note the "objections" section Anecdotally thanks to hardware advancements the locally-run AI software I develop has gotten more than
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by haiku2077 1y ago
> Remember the revolutionary, seemingly inevitable tech that was poised to rewrite how humans thought about transportation? The incredible amounts of hype, the secretive meetings disclosing the device, etc.? That turned out to be the sel
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by haiku2077 1y ago
Meta and Amazon both have separate DoD contracts (Meta with Anduril, Amazon through massive GovCloud contracts)
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by haiku2077 1y ago
> I dunno. There's also a good chance that you just end up being left behind like graybeards that only wanted to code in C and assembler. All the people I know in the US with those skills make huge amounts of money- at least, the on
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by haiku2077 1y ago
"That is true," replied a commenter. "But it has successfully worked for breaking my bad habits in the past."
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by haiku2077 1y ago
You've just described the consulting industry.
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by haiku2077 1y ago
On window managers like i3 or sway, you launch programs (including GUI applications) via their shell command in an autocompleting micro-menu.
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by haiku2077 1y ago
> In general, rent payments are less than mortgage payments for the same property (though this can vary in specific cases due to a number of factors). This didn't seem true to me - Anecdotally, my friends pay more in rent for apartm
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by haiku2077 1y ago
60 comes from the electrical grid - 20th century TV used the electrical grid to sync rather than forcing every TV to have a perfectly synced clock. Regions that didn't have 60Hz electrical grids used other standard framerates. 24 comes
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by haiku2077 1y ago
Having worked in the private satellite indsutry, I would dismiss most of the information on Google, Wikipedia and Britannica on this topic, yes. Most of the information online about satellite operations is very, very wrong.
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by haiku2077 1y ago
From a product page for Carbon Black, a similar material to the stuff Apple uses, these look like the advantages over a phase change thermal pad: - Fortified with glass beads to maintain uniform bond line over the life of the device - Elimi
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by haiku2077 1y ago
> I asked Chat what it thinks private systems would cost and it suggests around half+. I am genuinely unsure why someone would think an LLM could accurately estimate that kind of cost and would like to know your reasoning.
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by haiku2077 1y ago
Don't use regular thermal paste or pads in a Mac. They're not suitable for non-pressure mounted applications. You can buy TCRS Carbon Black if you really need to repaste a Mac part instead of swapping a new part that was pasted at
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by haiku2077 1y ago
+1 - there was a misconception that initscripts were easy or simple - if you wanted _correct, bug free_ initscript you were probably looking at around 100 lines of shell script.
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by haiku2077 1y ago
Especially in Python, where it can be hard to tell if something is being imported purely for side effects.
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by haiku2077 1y ago
I've worked as a sysadmin/devops for a double digit number of years. Across companies, jobs, and hobbyist collaborators - I've never met someone who didn't at least like systemd, if not sing its praises. It made so many
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by haiku2077 1y ago
Reminds me of how some FPS games have a "quick weapon switch" button to toggle to a specific weapon separate from the full menu of all weapons.
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by haiku2077 1y ago
Joss Whedon's style of character writing is arguably the basis for modern "quippy" dialog where any serious moment has to be balanced with comedy or sarcasm.
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by haiku2077 1y ago
What did you think of Romulus? My friends were mostly thankful it wasn't terrible - we were desperate for a new Alien movie that we didn't hate, heh
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by haiku2077 1y ago
> they change it back and forth at the same gate at the same airport-- I fly enough to know. Are you using the same scanner machines every time? (They can look similar externally but operate on different principles)
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by haiku2077 1y ago
It's due to new technology: https://youtu.be/nyG8XAmtYeQ
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by haiku2077 1y ago
Good Old Games started out with the founders selling pirated games on disc at local markets.
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by haiku2077 1y ago
> Many people in software have passed through similarly hard gates in the past. I didn't. I dropped out of school to work at my first job. That's different from a doctor, nurse, lawyer, CPA or PE who have to meet an industry st
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by haiku2077 1y ago
> Lookup tables are always faster than calculation - is that true? I know it's not always true on the Nintendo 64, because it shared a single bus between the RAM and "GPU": https://youtu.be/t_rzYnXEQlE?t=94
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by haiku2077 1y ago
Current esports titles don't use tick rates. https://youtu.be/GqhhFl5zgA0 You can film the screen in slow motion and visually see more fluid motion (and see how it reacts to player input). Games also use predictive met
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by haiku2077 1y ago
Yes, most will go up past 500FPS, even old ones like Quake and classic Counter Strike. https://youtu.be/nqa7QVwfu7s
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by haiku2077 1y ago
> I can buy that humans can see at least 120hz at a minimum. 60Hz is the generally accepted threshold, but I’ve long suspected that 120Hz has mostly imperceptible effects that are still noticeable, if rarely. There are videos on youtube

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