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by loudmax 4y ago
Wow that StarFighter looks awesome! Too bad about the lack of trackpoint though. I wonder if they'll come out with an ARM model. Open source OS's are in a good position to take advantage of alternate CPU architectures.
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by loudmax 4y ago
I've been getting back into social media via Mastodon. Social media never had the hold on me that it did for some of the people interviewed in that article, but I had stopped checking Facebook and Twitter a few years ago, largely for t
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by loudmax 4y ago
You should consider linking to your Mastodon profile in your blog. I didn't see it in that post, or in your "About" page.
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by loudmax 4y ago
You created your account with mastodon.social. My mastodon account is with techhub.social. So your eggs are in that basket, but my eggs are in a different basket and others' eggs are in yet more baskets. You can argue that all of yo
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by loudmax 4y ago
Just for fun, I used ffmpeg's `minterpolate` ( https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#minterpolate ) feature to raise the framerate of my Mad Max 2 Road Warrior DVD from 24 to 100 fps. The results were interesting. If y
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by loudmax 4y ago
As I understand, this is the promise of Oxide Computer company. While they're not making their own SoCs, they are attempting to design the hardware and software together. Co-founder Bryan Cantrill has gone on rants about the number o
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by loudmax 4y ago
This is true in just the same way that a free society would have no have no government at all. No taxes, no laws, no police or judiciary, just complete freedom to do whatever you want to your neighbors. Ayn Rand's utopia. I wouldn&#x
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by loudmax 4y ago
Without knowing the background to that anecdote, the impression I get is less that the tech folks at that company were coddled than that the marketing folks were undervalued. If the marketing folks really are providing value for the compan
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by loudmax 4y ago
The weight of the 1988 Suburban ensures that in a collision, the risk of being killed is transferred to the people in the vehicle struck by the Suburban, rather than the occupants of the Suburban.
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by loudmax 4y ago
I saw nothing in the interview to indicate that you should accept 100% of statements mainstream media institutions. Quite the opposite. You do need to be able to evaluate relative trustworthiness. Mainstream journalism isn't going to
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by loudmax 4y ago
This is what the Gitlab wiki does. There's a markdown+git interface for technical folks and a web interface for normal people.
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by loudmax 4y ago
Agreed. You could be romantic about carpentry or bicycle repair or even accounting if you create the right mental framework. What strangles the romance isn't the craft itself, it's the pressures that surround it.
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by loudmax 4y ago
> I've likened firing most of the engineers to taking your hands off the wheel in the car. It won't crash immediately, but it doesn't mean the car can go driverless. This is an excellently apt analogy, in light of Twitter&
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by loudmax 4y ago
"Doomed" seems a strong take, but I totally agree that Amazon is leaving e-commerce ripe for disruption if they don't address the trustworthiness of their reviews. The paradox of choice would be mitigated by better trust, and
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by loudmax 4y ago
Rather than saying trust is expensive, I would express it as trust is precious. By analogy, sunlight and air are cheap, not expensive, even though we can't live without them. If either of these were in short supply they would become e
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by loudmax 4y ago
They might, but not under the current management. The product that stands out to me is Stadia. As a technical achievement, Stadia is impressive, but Google managed to maximize all of the downsides to fully online gaming and minimize all of
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by loudmax 4y ago
I had Compiz Fusion with LXDE running on my Acer Aspire One and I was amazed at how well it performed. Wobbly windows for live video from the webcam and everything. Running Gentoo's emerge did take all day though. In retrospect, Arc
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by loudmax 4y ago
> But that's up to each individual. I'm with you, but my friends and family are all on Instagram and Discord, even if they're using the browser version of those apps. There's a lot of interest in Mastadon since Musks
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by loudmax 4y ago
Yeah, that's why I qualified my comment about the hardware drivers. If you can get by on an Intel or AMD GPU, those should be very stable. If you need the power of an Nvidia GPU you're at their mercy, so you will need to track k
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by loudmax 4y ago
Sway and i3 are excellent, but they're clearly not for everyone and I wouldn't recommend them for people new to Linux, or who just want a normal desktop experience. For a notion of what GNOME ought to be, I'd point in the d
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by loudmax 4y ago
It's unfortunate the GNOME is still the default desktop environment for most Linux distributions. People give Linux a try, then give up because it's unstable and difficult to troubleshoot. Linux itself is stable (given the right
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by loudmax 4y ago
Fortunately, zstd seems to be in active development: https://github.com/facebook/zstd As far as I can tell, most of zstd's development is still by Facebook employees, though not all of it. I tend to think zstd ha
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by loudmax 4y ago
I generally feel the same way that you do, especially about recycling metals. But glass is much heavier than plastic, which translates to more energy spent shipping products around. We need to be cautious about the effects of plastics, an
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by loudmax 4y ago
I can't speak for S4/suspend to disk level hibernation, but regular S3/sleep when I close the lid has worked perfectly for me since 2008. That isn't to say that it's worked out of the box. When I install Linux on a
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by loudmax 4y ago
Absolutely this. Even if you've written off the cost of the licenses, you're still better off avoiding their licensing system entirely. Red Hat seems to have engineered a situation where their paid product is worse than the free
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by loudmax 4y ago
Systemd timers are more complicated than cron, but there's a reason for the complexity. Once you've put in the extra effort to understand the logic, they're really powerful. If you don't want the complexity, then just r
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by loudmax 4y ago
The answer to a problem should be the right answer, and it should also avoid unnecessary complexity so someone looking into it can figure out what's going on. Avoiding unnecessary complexity sounds easy, but it often isn't. Bang
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by loudmax 4y ago
There is a nuanced point to be made for Xi's alleged concern for the welfare of ordinary folk rather than the elite, but that's not it. If you're feeling generous toward the world's most powerful autocrat, you can extend
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by loudmax 4y ago
Perun has been making some of the best videos on Youtube since the start of the Ukraine invasion. Mostly on how military procurement works. It sounds like a dull topic, but when you start to understand the intricacies and the stakes invol
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by loudmax 4y ago
Possibly, if for no other reason than the existing entity has the right connections, knows how to navigate the framework, and knows who to bribe to make things happen.

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