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by jasoneckert 1y ago
As someone who has used the Snapdragon X Elite (12 core Oryon) Dev Kit as a daily driver for the past year, I find this exciting. The X Elite performance still blows my mind today - so the new X2 Elite with 18 cores is likely going to be ev
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
The same points made about battery life with Apple Silicon in this blog post equally apply to Snapdragon Elite X laptops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFMTJm3vmh0
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
SGI hardware was the sexiest hardware of the 1990s, and IRIX was the sexiest UNIX OS of the same period. They were the desire of nearly every UNIX nerd back then. Remember "Erwin", the SGI O2 in the userfriendly.org comic? https
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
Thanks for the reply — I really appreciate how I missed the distinction between individual choice and systemic expectation. I was speaking more to personal situations (like artists or self-employed folks), but I see how referencing “996 cul
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
These are sage points that make sense to me - I can see how it might have come across as tone-deaf or misaligned with deeper values some people hold. Likewise, I've also noticed the same regarding left-leaning here on HN (and when it c
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
A note of caution: everything is relative, and details are important. If you love what you do (artist, self-employed, etc.) a 996 culture can be considered a good thing as a certain amount of "good" stress allows us to feel self-a
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
My personal website breaks this each time (jasoneckert.github.io), which is both a letdown and a pleasant surprise.
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
Ah, yet another brave soul seeks to gamify the ancient art of Vim. Admirable. But Vim is not merely a tool... it's a discipline. A lifestyle. It is not learned in an afternoon, nor in a weekend sprint of neon-highlighted tutorials. No,
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
This is an incredible achievement... not just for the technical depth, but for what it represents. Alyssa's work is nothing short of inspiring. The way she combined deep technical insight with years of dedication has not only brought o
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
"One of the things it means to be Canadian is to honour the rights and wishes of other people. That’s part of what makes it a wonderful place to live: most people genuinely believe in equality and respect for others, including people w
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
I think the biggest takeaway from this blog post is that developers and other professionals should take more note of the tiling window managers available on Linux like Sway and Hyprland - they are insanely fast and customizable to exactly w
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
I think the reason why so many of us look up to the Woz in the tech world is that he is genuine, in an industry where we see so much of the opposite regularly - and we want to be the same.
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
The best part of April Fools jokes are that they capture the spirit of the time. I remember the Thinkgeek PC EZ-Bake Oven that fit into a 5.25" bay in your PC - fitting for 2004! https://hoaxes.org/af_database/perm
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
I used to demo this for my IT class back in the early 2000s and it blew their minds that a GUI-based OS - with apps! - could run from such a small footprint.
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Demonstrating the Power of Apple Silicon Using Actuated CI(jasoneckert.github.io)
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
There's something thrilling about spinning up an old machine... it's like resurrecting a digital dinosaur. You're back in a time when systems felt strange and commands were different (especially on older UNIX). Everything was
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
I still fire up my old SPARCbook 3000ST (Solaris 2.5.1) in case I need a hit of Sun UNIX nostalgia from back in the day. And whenever I give a presentation at a venue that has a projector with VGA input, I'll do the presentation from t
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
While Ozzy had nothing to do with the tech world directly, many of us leveraged his music to create our code and keep our sanity. I'd love to see a black bar on HN to celebrate the Prince of Darkness!
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
The gap is widening largely because the maintainer left the project due to the Linux kernel rust drama. But there is still plenty of very talented contributors who have taken over. That, combined with a rapidly growing interest to run Linux
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
Yes - it's a developer workstation and I run a few different staging environments on it, including a K3s cluster and a big FreeBSD VM - both of which are lightening fast. But what always surprises me is how fast it is at compiling anyt
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
For the same reasons, I prefer Linux - but also like Apple Silicon platform. As a result, I use Fedora Asahi Remix natively on the hardware. It's a few generations behind in support (M1- and M2-based systems right now), but I can'
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
This begs the question: At what threshold would we consider it 'the year of Linux on the desktop'? 5% seems too low. Would it be 30%? Or 51%? Answering that question in the public sphere may quell many of the "Is ___ going to
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
I still have a C64 in my basement in case I need a nostalgia kick. A few years ago I set it all up and loaded a game. I was surprised at how slow it is and how bad the game was compared to how I remember it - so I boxed it up again and have
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
Most of the work that goes into chip design isn't related to the ISA per se. So, it's entirely plausible that some talented chip engineers could design something that implements RISC-V in a way that is quite powerful, much like ho
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
I'd argue that this hobby computer culture is still alive in well, but in a different form: the large number of vintage computing hobbyist groups that work to restore, understand, and make new hardware for the simplistic systems that f
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Qualcomm's next-gen Snapdragon X chips arrive at the beginning of next year(xda-developers.com)
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
I provisioned, administered, and used so many Sun systems. I loved them so much that I still keep many Sun workstations and servers in my basement in case I need a nostalgia kick. I tried to use Marie Kondo's KonMari method to get rid
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
After watching the Qualcomm-ARM lawsuit in December, I have very little respect for ARM's relentless pursuit of profit for profit's sake: https://www.tantraanalyst.com/ta/qualcomm-vs-arm-trial-day-1... https
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by jasoneckert 1y ago
> Commodore is one of the few companies that manufacture their own chips. This is one of the best takeaways from this ad. Because they owned MOS, Commodore had an advantage over their competitors that is commonly replicated today.

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