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by klodolph 6mo ago
What part do you disagree with? It sounds like you don’t disagree with either the title of the article or its contents. > In talking to engineering management across tech industry heavy-weights, it's apparent that software engineeri
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by klodolph 6mo ago
> guess how that turned out? My guess is that significantly fewer people use drugs than would have used drugs if they were not banned. > "The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) estimated that 8.7% of people aged 16 to 59 y
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by klodolph 6mo ago
There have got to be a million ways to do this by now. Some of the more principled approaches are tools like Nix ( https://xeiaso.net/talks/2024/nix-docker-build/ ) and Bazel ( https://github.com&#x2F
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by klodolph 6mo ago
IMO—package manager outside the container. You just want the packages inside the container; the manager can sit outside and install packages into the container.
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by klodolph 6mo ago
It’s a variety of different software that just isn’t updated very often. I don’t mind being somewhat behind, but it seems like there are a lot of packages that don’t get regular updates. It’s okay to have packages that aren’t updated, but t
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by klodolph 6mo ago
Recently I’ve been noticing that Nix software has been falling behind. So “the software you need is almost certainly there” is less true these days. Recently = April 2026.
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by klodolph 6mo ago
> The system was deterministic enough that it could record your inputs/the game state and just play them back to get a gameplay video. NOT how demos work in Quake. It’s more like Quake uses a client/server architecture, and the
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by klodolph 6mo ago
“Your own server in a colo” means going to the colo to swap RAM or an SSD when something goes wrong. You rent a server and the benefit is the rentor has spare parts on hand and staff to swap parts out.
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by klodolph 6mo ago
NFS in practice is too different from S3 to make this work. I’ve been at a couple companies where somebody tried putting an S3 interface in front of an NFS cluster. In practice, the semantics of S3 and NFS are different enough that I’ve had
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by klodolph 6mo ago
> […] why would they sell bitcoin to continue funding their mining operations […] There are usually some fixed costs involved and you need cash flow. Without cash flow, your business can shut down pretty damn fast. With cash flow, your b
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by klodolph 6mo ago
> Disclaimer: I wrote this on a basic text editor which has spell and grammar check, presumably powered by some sort of AI/LLM tech. The ramblings, and run-on sentences, are all mine. I think I want this at the bottom of the article
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by klodolph 6mo ago
Yeah, this is probably closest to the right answer. Apple DID choose the 88K, and then changed. Reportedly they put some 88K systems in a Mac chassis. I do wonder what the exact reasons were. Maybe the PPC (complete systems) could be made c
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by klodolph 7mo ago
I want to look at this from a different perspective… a single-precision floating-point multiply is pretty simple, no? 24x24 bit multiply, which is about half as many gates as a 32x32 bit multiply. Maybe I would prefer to rip out the integer
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by klodolph 7mo ago
The PS1 version definitely has its own engine, which is not just a port of the Quake 2 engine to the Playstation, but a new engine.
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by klodolph 7mo ago
You can find a lot of discussion about what the minimum specs for Quake are. Famously, it needs a decent FPU, and the Pentium was a convenient early CPU with a decent built-in FPU. It was significantly faster than a 486. …But people have ma
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by klodolph 7mo ago
The diagonal traces and the empty spaces are throwing me for a loop. Is this the autorouter in action? (But… still, nice work.)
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by klodolph 7mo ago
When you say “You don’t know that”, you expect the people reading your comment to interpret it generously. A good interpretation of your comment is something like, “You’ve provided no reasoning to back up that argument” or “I think it’s unl
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by klodolph 7mo ago
It’s selection bias; the people who complain are the most visible online. Especially HN.
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by klodolph 7mo ago
That is technically correct but uninformative. If there’s a point you’re making, I can’t figure it out. You earlier said that there’s no point in bidding anything but “current market price”, and that’s what I was responding to. Limit orders
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by klodolph 7mo ago
> Either the price is higher than your bid, and your order won't fill (so why place it?) or the price is lower than your bid, and you should expect the market knows something you don't. There is no risk-free way to trade. You c
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by klodolph 7mo ago
> How can you invest in SP500 minus TSLA without racking up exorbitant fees? Various options… 1. Direct indexing (requires minimum amount of assets), 2. Certain actively-managed ETFs like GGRW, which is not exactly SP500 minus TSLA but i
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by klodolph 7mo ago
My take on why options are bad—options are bad most people because most people don’t get use from hedging, don’t have enough information about the timeline of price movements, and all you’re left with is a form of gambling. A form of gamb
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by klodolph 7mo ago
I’m not convinced. If you think you know what the fair price is for a put, then you can bid that price. If you don’t think you know what the fair price is, then you shouldn’t be trading options. There are reasons for not trading options, bu
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by klodolph 7mo ago
pocksuppet’s advice is I think more of a reaction to a specific way that you could take a short position, and in 2026 I think you want to assume that people who know what “short” means, also know what options are. The advice is good in a ki
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by klodolph 7mo ago
“Shorting” a company does not just mean short selling stock. Instead, it means having a short position, which you can use without unlimited downside. The easy way is to buy puts. Maybe your next question is, “who is selling puts?” And that’
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by klodolph 7mo ago
The analogy has a lot of problems. Imagine you got a loan to buy a bunch of laundry machines to run a laundromat. But your laundromat earns $8,000 a month, and the loan payment is $10,000. You can decide to sink $2,000 of your personal mone
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by klodolph 7mo ago
Isn’t private credit defined in part as “lending by non-banks”? Like, when a bank originates a mortgage, that mortgage gets traded, much like private debts don’t.
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by klodolph 7mo ago
There are also USB-C 2 cables.
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by klodolph 7mo ago
I think the reasons are a little more boring, that it was a combination of different reasons that contributed to Stadia’s failure.
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by klodolph 7mo ago
I agree with the assessment about eshell. I use eshell for one thing only—quick terminal sessions in the same directory as the file I'm editing.

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