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by jchw 1y ago
Hmmm. The Cybertruck has only been on sale since 2023, so presumably it shouldn't be impacted by this issue, but it seems like it still is (moreso than other used cars at least.) Being the most distinctive Tesla car there is, I expect
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by jchw 1y ago
> Seems there's some willingness[1] to do just that. I'm glad the wxWidgets developers are being helpful here. > Wayland is soon older than X11 was when Wayland got started, and it's still a mess. To me the Wayland tran
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by jchw 1y ago
I don't think it's absolutely necessary to move off of wxWidgets for Wayland support to be in decent shape in the long run. There is definitely a path forward that wxWidgets can improve its Wayland support, or KiCAD can add its ow
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Unfortunately the KiCAD messaging has been a bit messy. They list a spectrum of issues, some of which are very vague and also clearly issues with KiCAD (like "Application freezes and crashes: Instability issues specific to the Wayland
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by jchw 1y ago
Consider a project like Kubernetes. Find a dependency whose domain name has lapsed, or might soon. Snipe it, replicate the original VCS, add a new malicious version under a new tag. Wait for someone to go get -u it. This is pretty bad even
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by jchw 1y ago
There is actually a gray area about what code "counts" as source code to the point where you would consider it "open source" if it were licensed as such. I think if you had a repository consisting of only generated cod
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In my opinion, though, they're also not really source code either. They're an artifact of a training process, not code that was written by someone.
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I think source code really only exists in terms of the source code/object code dichotomy, so what "traditional" open source means for model weights is really not obvious if you only go off of traditional definitions. Personal
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Framing it this way implies that open source is "flawed" specifically because it was trying to eschew the ideological aspects of the free software movement and make it more appealing to businesses and underscore its technical adva
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Go MVS ought to be deterministic, but it still benefits from modules having lockfiles as it allows one to guarantee that the resolution of modules is consistent without needing to trust a central authority. Go's system may be worth e
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I would love to hear your explanation for why you think that statement is an invocation of "no true Scotsman" of all things. Are you sure you know what that means?
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This is extremely confusing. I'm just talking about how it would harm the open source ecosystem if we allowed things that were not open source to be advertised as open source (and how it's bad when something is unopened after peop
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by jchw 1y ago
Firstly, no it wasn't. The history of the open source definition and OSI are interesting, including hijacking a term that was already in use, but the hyperscalers had nothing to do with it. I'll avoid restating Wikipedia, it'
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by jchw 1y ago
Your customers, potential competitors, and even hyperscalers are all possibly the same people at different points. AGPL works because corporate lawyers are horrified by it, not because it actually discriminates against hyperscalers. If you
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by jchw 1y ago
So, I definitely believe this story 100%: when I was on the anglosphere Internet in 200x, there was a lot of elitism and hazing rituals of sorts, among other things. It was a very real and unfortunate thing that coincided the otherwise exce
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by jchw 1y ago
If there is a particular reason why that wouldn't work, I'm not aware of it. Seems like you would eat a very tiny cost for deflate literal overhead (a few bytes per 65,535 bytes of literal data?) but maybe you would wind up saving
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by jchw 1y ago
The zstd library is already included by most major browsers since it is a supported content encoding. Though I guess that does leave out Safari, but Safari should probably support Zstd for that, too. (I would've preferred that over Bro
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by jchw 1y ago
Why would PNG + ZStandard have a harder time than AVIF? In practice, AVIF needs more new code than PNG + ZStandard would.
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by jchw 1y ago
APNG wasn't part of PNG itself until very recently, so I'd argue it's kind-of neither here nor there.
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by jchw 1y ago
JPEG-XL is supported by a lot of the most important parts of the ecosystem (image editors and the major desktop operating systems) but it is a long way away from "everything". Browsers are the most major omission, but given their
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by jchw 1y ago
Believe it or not, last I checked, many browsers and some other software (file managers, etc.) still couldn't do anything with JPEG files that have arithmetic coding. Apparently, although I haven't tried this myself, Adobe Photosh
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by jchw 1y ago
JPEG XL definitely has advantages over PNG but there is one serious seemingly insurmountable obstacle: https://caniuse.com/jpegxl Nothing really supports it. Latest Safari at least has support for it not feature-flagged or
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by jchw 1y ago
Never even once thought that running a coffee shop would be fun, but then that example kind of made it seem interesting. I mean, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't actually want to do it, but also it does seem interesting to just sit th
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by jchw 1y ago
I believe early on Linode used UML for their VPS hosting offering. At that point in history, I recall solutions like OpenVZ being pretty popular in the low end space, too. gVisor's modular design seems to have been its strongest point.
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I think they mean to say that a part of gVisor is used by Fly, because if I recall correctly flyctl did use the gVisor user mode TCP stack for Wireguard tunneling.
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by jchw 1y ago
It's a bit tangential, but thinking of Neko, I miss the old trend of little gimmicks like this. I remember for Windows, there were all kinds of weird widgets and toys on the desktop. I've got an old version of Windows XP Plus pack
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by jchw 1y ago
A couple years ago during NixOS's bi-annual Zero Hydra Failures event, I decided it would be fun to look at the issue breaking CDE, because I was honestly fascinated that CDE existed in NixOS at all (and promptly read up about the hist
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by jchw 1y ago
I think it's only a non-starter for me in SQLx if not using query caching. Caching makes the situation workable. For sqlc, it isn't really a big problem because you only need to run the code generation when you're actually mo
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by jchw 1y ago
The most interesting thing to me is that some people actually prefer the WSL2 experience over using Linux, not just because of the Windows desktop, but because of the WSL2 experience itself . I think Distrobox gives you the same basic expe
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by jchw 1y ago
Mac users talk like Mac is ubiquitous among whatever niche they're in. That's a trope as old as the Year of the Linux desktop.

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