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by lloeki 3y ago
> In context 99% of the users I meet don't even know what USB-C is. OH (frequently): - hey I need to to up, do you have a phone charger? - yup, which kind? - not "an Apple" - oh, so USB? - yeah the "standard" one
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by lloeki 3y ago
> a lot of old school "cron" users who don't touch the better "anacron" processes You're touching on something subtle where, like markdown, all cron look the same until they differ.
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by lloeki 3y ago
Debugging and tracability is just nuts too. With a timer and a run-once service it's easy to see what happens, happened, and will happen: systemctl status foo.timer tells you when it has last triggered and when it will triggered next,
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by lloeki 3y ago
Indeed, in that case "rubberbanding" doesn't quite describe it as it involves giving a boost to the laggards (e.g IIRC in Sega Rally 1v1 second-ranked car max speed would get a very obvious +20kph plus a slight boost to grip)
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by lloeki 3y ago
The use case for this would be that it doesn't reify the block IOW doesn't allocate a proc to wrap the block. ... but that optimisation has already been made† (and IIRC it is too for *args and **kwargs that just get forwarded to c
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by lloeki 3y ago
Right, I can deny contact uploading all day long, as long as a bunch of people that have my number upload theirs to foostter it quickly paints a social graph where I'm† precisely pinpointed even though I did not interact with foostter.
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by lloeki 3y ago
> all audio/video across the whole OS plays in slo-mo. I have to turn my headphones off and back on to fix it. Sounds like a sample rate inconsistency issue, maybe a trip to Audio MIDI Setup.app could give hints.
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by lloeki 3y ago
> plonks thunks It's been like 15 years since I operated one yet the sound and weight of that spacebar is still eerily vivid in my mind. > Yeah, it’s a whole different kind of noise. Totally, I have a Keychron right now and its s
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by lloeki 3y ago
Maths has a constant "next step" which makes it very iterative though whereas a pyramid or a cathedral is only complete or not-complete, and it's not-complete over these decades/centuries. > religious Probably the mos
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by lloeki 3y ago
I live with it, the most annoying part being how big it is vertically. It has a weird psychological effect of screaming WASTED SPACE!!! at me, even though I rationally know that if the screen would start below would make for less space. I
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by lloeki 3y ago
> If you want to create a world where there's no bullshit jobs at all then you'd be creating a world where millions are unemployed. With such absolutes we're entering wild hypothetical territories. An alternative viewpoint
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by lloeki 3y ago
> I think you're assuming renewable means infinite. No, for the purpose of this dumb exercise of mine, I mean the resource we use for energy production is replenishable. > It's not a fixed resource that we're depleting.
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by lloeki 3y ago
> There is no "ecosystem" that depends on the rate of slowdown of Earth's rotation I mean, raise acidic/temperature levels only so slightly and it kills off coral reef, which in turn destroys fauna that depends on it,
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by lloeki 3y ago
So essentially the problem is one of being able to foster a meme+ that outlives the scale of an individual's life. + the original meaning, not the internets one, which is only an extremely short-lived subset.
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by lloeki 3y ago
Another one is places where you can use `user@host` and those where you can't and have to use `-l user` (and thus have to use `-e 'ssh -l user'` or equivalent) Usually I use per host `ssh_config(5)` (both for port and user) b
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by lloeki 3y ago
> If we are being reckless and just want to use power until we figure out nuclear fusion or something better, let's say a million years or so, we can make some 180 PW from tides. But since it would almost all turn to heat, and since
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by lloeki 3y ago
> Same for solar if pea counting, but solar is really endless until the end of the solar system Imagine you wrap the Earth inside a sphere of perfectly efficient solar panels, that would be energetically troublesome! Every bit of solar p
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by lloeki 3y ago
> your monitor simply doesn't support the brightness control commands Or it does but the state of DDC/CI (and HDMI-CEC) is very sad as implementation is inconsistent and subpar to say the least (from order of commands to timing
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by lloeki 3y ago
> The "tightness" of the steering and the suspension varies drastically between vehicles I could push your argument forward a bit more: the same vehicle can have tightness change as speeds goes up: electric power assistance pro
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by lloeki 3y ago
Yes there's a bit of slack and elasticity all the way including in metal parts, not just in tires. Still, even though the tire tread doesn't move right away the moving rims are immediately exerting force on the tire interior ,
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by lloeki 3y ago
> Without OSS, there would be much more duplicate work available across companies. That sounds very much like bullshit job + NIH syndrome twisted into an employment rate political play, creating an artificial source of work that duplicat
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by lloeki 3y ago
> It makes no sense to estimate the total cost of the proprietary equivalent of _all_ that is currently OSS at $177M Right. I mean, I would guesstimate, say, sqlite alone to cost in the ballpark of that amount of money to develop from
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by lloeki 3y ago
> Cryptography was considered a war weapon It still is. e.g in France: https://cyber.gouv.fr/en/protection-sensitive-and-restricted... This legal framework has been introduced in 2011 in order to protect facil
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by lloeki 3y ago
> Instead of actually trying to understand the source of the error, I just sped-run tweaking different values +/- 1 until I got the expected result. That's perfectly valid, when one knows a specific step or result must be pos
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by lloeki 3y ago
If I go to a cat shelter it's to help cats and interact with cats, how dare you steal that time from me with your simiesque jibberjabber! There's nothing specific to any context† that would let presuppose that anyone's up for
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by lloeki 3y ago
It might come as shocking, but it used to be the case that one could meet new people in the street, because the probability of positive human contact dwarfed the scammers or beggars you describe. Couples that met on a bus commute was a tr
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by lloeki 3y ago
> The first parts of the movement are actually quite responsive but don't result in a huge change. > If the wheels moved as the drive dictated the car would flip over. Non drive by wire cars react instantly by virtue of having wh
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by lloeki 3y ago
> And it's sooooo much faster that python and Ruby. That advantage becomes vanishingly small when the language task is to glue together a bunch of spawn/fork/exec to external processes. If the glue code somehow needs actua
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by lloeki 3y ago
The nice thing with software is that everyone gets to be an archaeologist in short order; ~6 months is more than enough... - Howdy! there's a bug! - Okie, lookie! *dig dig dig, stares at line 47* - Oh my, this horsemanure cou
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by lloeki 3y ago
> I eventually downloaded one from my bank Had the same experience, but that I could not do, as my bank would only give out some crude Netscape era HTML laid out with a borderless <table>, that might just as well have been plain te

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