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by jpetso 4y ago
I haven't really spent much time on simulation games past SimCity 2000, but I find this odd. Even the most winsome cities and countries in the world are struggling. Instead of scenarios or AI, why wouldn't it be the case that succ
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by jpetso 4y ago
The company/organization/government capable of making the robot wouldn't hand it out to random people, and would instead reap the paycheck by themselves.
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by jpetso 4y ago
There are a handful of these companies out there. Collabora, KDAB, D. Richard Hipp's SQLite company, and if you're lenient enough you could also include companies that productize their open source package such as NextCloud or The
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by jpetso 4y ago
It's not just practicing leetcode though. It's also putting your considerable skills to work for an entity that will funnel the world's attention into advertising (Google), create platform lock-in and undermine repairability
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by jpetso 4y ago
The problem is that there is also a steady supply of people coming in who don't give much of a damn about any of this, and just want to do what their friend group does. They might get more aware later, but by then there's already
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by jpetso 4y ago
Meanwhile, my 500-person company switches from MS Office to Google Docs like it's no big deal. Because it isn't. Excel isn't the main skill, using spreadsheets is. Formulas, tabs, references, filters, sorting, pivot tables, s
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by jpetso 4y ago
> Is that why they're so unresponsive to user needs? It's because Wayland is a set of protocols, rather than a single dominant implementation. In order to do it right, cross-compositor and flexible, you have to get different ac
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by jpetso 4y ago
With Coreboot and the ChromeOS Linux kernel running well on the device, how much would it take to release a Framework Laptop Linux Edition based on the Chromebook mainboard, but with a standard keyboard and somewhat optimized for a pre-inst
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by jpetso 4y ago
I've recently purchased a monitor with poor HDR that I knew was not worth any cost premium, and I'm using it with an operating system that still has to get basic HDR infrastructure in place. I do not feel like I'm missing out
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by jpetso 4y ago
On an opposing note, updating my Arch system (pikaur -Syu) recently wanted to install Electron 20 and remove Electron 19, which the element-desktop package was still depending on. I wasn't using it so that's an easy uninstall. But
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by jpetso 4y ago
I clicked through for the code first, and then got interested in the research. Thanks for doing it the way you did :)
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by jpetso 4y ago
> Most fundamentally, if you want to raise your children without, for instance, an emphasis on educational attainment, you should have the right to do so. Perhaps that's true if you believe that parents should be the only ones respo
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by jpetso 4y ago
Shockingly, years of continued development can indeed resolve a lot of issues with software.
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by jpetso 4y ago
The T14s Gen 3 is apparently using Qualcomm wifi chips instead of MediaTek or Intel this time around, it seems likely that we'll see the same for the X13 Gen 3 as well.
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by jpetso 4y ago
Perhaps not, but they can sell their crypto reserves to other actors who are in a position to exchange them, for stuff that's actually useful to them.
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by jpetso 5y ago
No relation to this project. Just wanted to chime in to say that KDE's Kate editor pulled its Flatpak because the sandboxing makes much of the system integration (terminal, git, language servers) hard or impossible. A Flatpak may have
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by jpetso 5y ago
I'd like to note that Microsoft is doing no better with DirectX. If it weren't for the drivers on Windows being distributed and supported by the GPU manufacturers themselves, Vulkan would only be a thing for Linux (incl. Android)
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by jpetso 5y ago
Here's AMD's attempt: https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIPIFY Naturally, the HIP tooling doesn't support M1 GPUs at this time. We'll see if anyone else tries.
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by jpetso 5y ago
React was doing the right thing for sure, and perhaps in a more principled way than Qt in terms of state propagating downwards and events bubbling up. (CSS still makes layouts unreasonably complex imho.) But also, React is doing things that
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by jpetso 5y ago
So, transferable yes, but marketable no. I would classify those as different things.
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by jpetso 5y ago
As an alternative to the sibling comment's suggestion, you could try playing some non-grindy games. There's this general expectation that one doesn't get good value out of a game unless there's at least 60 hours of conte
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by jpetso 5y ago
> Without a relationship you have no future. Not to take away from your overall point, but I would encourage people to be skeptical of this claim. Relationships are healthy, yes. They can help to provide meaning and purpose. They may end
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by jpetso 5y ago
If you get bored by technology but want to give it another shot, see if you can find meaning around making it work for and with other people. Perhaps you have an offline community that could benefit from some kind of automation, like genera
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by jpetso 5y ago
What kinds of changes did you make, what did you learn from it? How do you go about rearchitecting and decision making?
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by jpetso 5y ago
Rejoice, Lenovo is introducing a ThinkPad that finally lets them scrap this excellent setup for a mainstream rectangular keyboard: Z13 and Z16. Doubly sad because those look like a kick-ass AMD Ryzen implementation otherwise. Trippy sad bec
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by jpetso 5y ago
S0ix has stronger requirements on the "correct" interaction between firmware/BIOS and OS, it offloads more work to the OS. Poorly implemented S0ix will drain the battery faster, but correctly implemented S0ix is as good as S3
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by jpetso 5y ago
Is there any particular reason that any mention of Fabrice Bellard turns into a praise-fest? I mean, I get it, the guy makes neat stuff and lots of it. But the level of hype is unusual, and I wonder whether there's an origin for this m
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by jpetso 5y ago
I might take a risky job if the upside justifies the risk. But even in the US, the amount of stock options granted to employees (apart from the very earliest ones) will only result in a big pay-offs for the most successful of startups, and
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by jpetso 5y ago
Mostly because Jensen Huang was willing to pay a nice premium over what the market would otherwise offer. There are some cough synergies cough that Nvidia could have instrumented for higher profits, Jensen had a clear and enthusiastic v
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by jpetso 5y ago
Well, apparently worldwide population will peak sometime and then slowly fall. The mitigating factor being that it probably won't happen in most of our lifetimes yet. That said, some countries might experience their population plateaui

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