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by klodolph 3y ago
From this and Dart, I think one of the lessons here is that SAT solvers are the wrong technique for solving dependencies. SAT solvers find “better” solutions by some metric, but humans using package managers want something which is both sim
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by klodolph 3y ago
The su command is correct for that purpose, as is sudo. This is kind of a subtle point that the article makes—the problem is that “su” is not good for dropping user privileges in general , but it does work if you are a user trying to spawn
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by klodolph 3y ago
I see this a lot when people are looking for some library / framework / programming language / game engine. You keep adding requirements and assume that you can spend some additional time evaluating alternatives to make up fo
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yes, the needs for archives (sole copy) and backups (additional copies of live data) are different. > It is possible to use RAID-5/RAID-6-like encoding schemes that can survive the complete destruction of 1 or even 2 storage centers
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by klodolph 3y ago
Isn’t C the wrong locale, though? Why would I want to use something which is incorrect as the basis for comparison?
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yeah. It gets even more complicated, because tape drives and tape media has different failure rates. At the places where I used tape, we used a more efficient encoding for archival tape backups. Rather than storing 2 or 3 copies, we used fo
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by klodolph 3y ago
When I did the calculations a few years ago, break-even was somewhere around 150 TB, and I don’t think it’s changed too much since then. This is just considering the cost of drives and media. Obviously, the real inflection point is going to
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by klodolph 3y ago
There are tape libraries as small as 3U with 25 slots. That’s a capacity of only 300 TB with LTO-8. It’s not hard to justify if you’re working with stuff like video.
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by klodolph 3y ago
Why would I want to set my locale to “C”? My actual preferences are en_US, and it sounds to me like you’re asking me to misconfigure my shell.
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by klodolph 3y ago
How gross are menus compared to, say, doorknobs, railings, or chairs? There are a lot of things we touch in a restaurant, and I want to know why menus, specifically, are what’s gross.
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by klodolph 3y ago
I definitely notice a speed improvement with Dash. Most shell scripts are too small to notice a difference, but it made a big difference back before the switch to systemd, back when init was a bunch of clunky shell scripts.
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by klodolph 3y ago
It’s harder to source MIDI controllers in that price range, compared to synths.
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yeah, there are a couple exceptions. Roland used to make a popular master keyboard. My main question is why someone would want a $2500 controller, when at that price you could get something like a CP88.
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by klodolph 3y ago
MOTU drivers didn’t work for months when some recent macOS came out. I think it was Catalina. Audio people “never” upgrading is a bit extreme. But it is still extremely common to delay updates until you know that your gear works with the ne
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by klodolph 3y ago
The problem is that pure MIDI controllers are often not very good. When you pay $2,000 for a synthesizer, it can have a very good keyboard.
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by klodolph 3y ago
It takes time to fix this stuff. It always has. I don’t know why. Core audio is the API. You still need a driver for the audio interface. If it’s USB class compliant, then you get a driver for free. Not all devices are class compliant (for
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by klodolph 3y ago
Agreed—I think the economics just don’t justify production of good MIDI controllers. Outside of one or two models, they’re mostly bad. You have to try keyboards out in the store to find one you like. They won’t be a good replica of a piano,
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by klodolph 3y ago
I’ll add that any time you care about a song, you should probably be doing your own transcriptions. I’ve seen so many different problems with so many different transcriptions of songs. If you make your own transcription, it may not be more
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by klodolph 3y ago
I have been using PGP a lot longer and still struggle to use it. When you say, "People make exactly the argument you are making about git," well, those people have a point. I use Git in spite of its usability problems because it g
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by klodolph 3y ago
25 years of people trying to figure out how to use it. I think the population of PGP users has some extreme selection pressure acting on it--it's a bunch of people who want security and don't care how bad the UX is.
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by klodolph 3y ago
If you're comparing RedHat Linux 7 against Windows XP, you're thinking in terms of the release date of XP. Windows XP was not very good when it came out, and it wasn't until it got the service packs. So if you're going t
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by klodolph 3y ago
I have the 2013 MBP and still use it—it’s the 2017 MacBook which is painful to use.
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by klodolph 3y ago
The MacBook, specifically, is not a rocket ship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-inch_MacBook The Kaby Lake m3 with 8 GB is the version I have. It is utterly and completely schooled by my 2013 MBP. The MacBook runs th
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by klodolph 3y ago
That would have to be from 2016 or earlier. My 2017 MacBook is… really not fine at all. It works, but it can only handle lighter workloads.
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by klodolph 3y ago
Tcl is super interesting from a historical point of view. It seems to hit about halfway between shell and Lisp. With some small differences, it probably would have competed more directly against Perl, Python, or maybe Lua. As it is, it gave
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by klodolph 3y ago
I’ve equally seen problems with technical people who have been promoted into management, buck lack management skills. However, I’m not going to draw some kind of conclusion from this—“technical people shouldn’t be in management” is as wrong
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by klodolph 3y ago
To be honest, it feels like engaging in a cultural war. I don’t want to liken this to any kind of mainstream cultural war, but instead liken it to the old tech cultural wars, like Emacs versus Vim or some shit like that. I feel like saying
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by klodolph 3y ago
Start over? People believe that renters are throwing their money away, and home owners are building equity when they make their mortgage payments. This belief is definitely wrong in Toronto. If you do the math, you stand a better chance bui
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by klodolph 3y ago
> Error budgets and the SRE model are haute couture. The error budget does not mean that you don't read the errors. It is just a way to adjust the amount of time you spend fixing bugs versus pushing new features. Also, as mentioned.
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by klodolph 3y ago
I feel like Google Docs is slowly catching up with the functionality of Word 5 on the Mac. Maybe one day it will reach feature parity!

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