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211.
by jfb 8y ago
Agreed 100%. I'm just stating my case, not denying others'.
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by jfb 8y ago
But that’s not a useful comparison, because you can’t run a Xeon at 2.95W. There is a floor wattage that the processor simply cannot go below.
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by jfb 8y ago
10-25GB. But a fast computer, so?
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by jfb 8y ago
The craziest thing is how close they get at 3W . That's the part that's staggering. What could Apple do with, say, laptop thermals? Desktop thermals? The mind creeps closer to boggling.
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by jfb 8y ago
I must also be missing something because I never explicitly index my mail. I fetch it with mbsync every two minutes and then use mu4e to read it and new mail shows up as one would expect. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by jfb 10y ago
Right, true.
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by jfb 10y ago
I do this. It's simple enough to install homebrew, to, say, $HOME/.homebrew. I haven't had any problems with this approach, but then, I don't use Ruby, and if I did I wouldn't use homebrew to manage it.
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by jfb 10y ago
$HOME/.homebrew
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by jfb 10y ago
For an engineer not to be actively looking, you have to believe that Twitter will be around for the foreseeable future. That seems like a sucker's bet, to me.
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by jfb 10y ago
Yeah, I don't know if it's mentioned in the docs. I had written my own version before I found it.
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by jfb 10y ago
I use brew leaves instead of brew list for this sort of thing; as I usually don't care about the constituent transitive dependencies, only the final results.
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by jfb 10y ago
It's a catastrophe on Mac OS as well.
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by jfb 10y ago
Rent-seekers seek rents, dog bites man, &c. &c.
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by jfb 10y ago
The best part is that a local hunter found the boat six years ago. That's awesome.
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by jfb 10y ago
You became conditioned to the state of the system. You would save before known problematic operations; you would have comprehensive backups. You adapted to the misfeatures of the underlying software. It's not much different, from a UX
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by jfb 10y ago
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein
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by jfb 10y ago
attr.s = "attrs" = plural of "attr" attr.ib = "attirb" = alternate spelling of "attr" It's too cute by half.
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by jfb 10y ago
I don't want to depend on upstream for things that may change faster; not everyone uses debian derivatives; system installation means that everything on the box gets the new versions. That's three good reasons not to use the syste
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by jfb 10y ago
River-Horse , William Least-Heat Moon. It's a wonderful account of a classically idiosyncratic journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific, through the waterways of North America. Speak, Memory , Vladimir Nabokov. The pinnacle of the me
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by jfb 10y ago
Oh, sorry, missed this. Sure. Send me an email to the listed address if you're still interested.
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by jfb 10y ago
I have a TK1; it's perfectly usable as a desktop machine. I don't use it because I don't like Ubuntu and the project I was using it for has finished, but plug a SSD into it and it works a treat.
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by jfb 10y ago
I have two in the box under my desk, and they most assuredly do. Perhaps you're thinking of the Teslas?
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by jfb 10y ago
What? Mutating a list? DISGUSTING!
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by jfb 10y ago
I can see the argument for terseness in source, particularly in domains where the terseness in code reflects well-understood shorthand in the actual problem space. But stuff like that makes me itch, to be honest.
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by jfb 10y ago
Yeah, fair enough. Not everybody hates the shell as much as I do.
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by jfb 10y ago
I"m curious about why it's written in sh, given that it's OS X only and OS X includes by default many languages significantly less crappy than Borne Shell.
237.
by jfb 10y ago
Yeah, I get that, but the HTML interface is so awful I think we'd all be better off if we just used Gnus to read it.
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by jfb 10y ago
Don't be silly; nobody uses Windows.
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by jfb 10y ago
The gmane interface is so bad it beggars belief.
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by jfb 10y ago
Or Emacs, for that matter.

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