nine_k

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by nine_k 5d ago
It will. Water pipes, sugar, and fertilizer can be used to produce missiles. A kitchen knife can be used to commit a murder. Or a brick can be used to smash someone's head. A tree you plant can be cut and used to construct a club, or a
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by nine_k 5d ago
I mostly speak about more mundane software than CAD. I would say that the total sums involved are in the $100-$200 range, accumulated from multiple $5-$10 donations and purchases. I buy really, really little proprietary software %)
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by nine_k 5d ago
Fundamentally, Unix security is per user (in uid sense), identity-based with ambient authority, not capability-based with directly passed authority. There are many attempts to nerf, limit, lock down authority at the process level, but they
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by nine_k 6d ago
Solar panels are usually connected to inverters or other power circuits that make the variable voltage they provide usable as a stable source downstream. During operation a string of solar cells is under a pretty high voltage. It makes sodi
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by nine_k 6d ago
I asked Claude, and now I know that there are nice, basically undetectable, plausibly deniable ways to render solar panels useless within months, or, with some preparation, days. It seems that open-source, carefully scrutinized panel contro
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by nine_k 6d ago
Rather, in a case of such an acute confrontation, it denies their adversaries access to the highest-end chips, too.
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by nine_k 6d ago
Before, say, 2022 or 2026 for that reason, oil, coal, lithium, silicon, iron, etc were mined, processed, and shipped as usual. By now, the production and shipping of oil and oil-based fuels, and, to a lesser extent, LNG is hampered by wars.
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by nine_k 6d ago
I think I have donated more for Inkscape, Gimp, Firefox, and Libre Office than I ever spent on proprietary software. I also tend to buy paid versions of open-source apps in app stores, where available. It's great when a piece of open-s
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by nine_k 6d ago
The nipples in question are not real but realistic pictures, applied after surgery that removes real nipples. So it's a medical cosmetic tatto, not a bizarre erotic kink.
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by nine_k 6d ago
The current wars in Europe and the Middle East paradoxically push the world towards non-fossil enery like few things did before. Both oil and natural gas prices have skyrocketed on global markets, and will likely rise more, as Ukraine conti
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by nine_k 7d ago
Notice how in the current war in Europe Russia is not using ICBMs or nuclear torpedoes, and the bulk of the damage is dealt by vast numbers of small, cheap, subsonic drones, and a few medium-range missiles (some made by North Korea, of all
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by nine_k 8d ago
/* An industry that cannot grow vs an industry that changes completely every seven years */
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by nine_k 9d ago
> as well store the oil in those tanks Salt does not burn, unlike oil. It would be sufficient to store dry salt, and prepare the brine during the pumping. Still a lot of hassle, of course.
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by nine_k 10d ago
How well did it work for restoring? For me, the ability to mount a backup and look at a particular file proved to be important. Also, I restored from my backups four times; two of them was moving between machines, pretty quickly.
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by nine_k 11d ago
If I lived in Australia, I would have the exterior of my house to be very white (except solar panels), so as to reflect most of the visible and IR light, and stay cooler.
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by nine_k 11d ago
A right abstraction adds simplicity. I enjoyed working with a semantically styled frontend project as recently as 2024. It also used a React component library, which helped insulate per-component styles, while sharing the common parts.
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by nine_k 11d ago
> Tailwind looks ugly, but there are no hidden abstractions or structures in the code Verily, Tailwind is the assembly language of CSS. No structure, no semantics, no abstractions, only twiddling specific bits of visual representation.
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by nine_k 11d ago
There were and are many important pieces of Linux kernel that live out of tree; ZFS is a big example. The problem with this driver is not licensing or code quality; I assume it's under a threat of receiving C&D letter, or maybe als
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by nine_k 12d ago
> Aiming for modern design, multi-threaded Elisp, 10x performance and 100% Emacs compatibility. I'm afraid that 100% compatibility may be very often at odds with multi-threaded elisp. So much in Emacs depends on global state :-&#x
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by nine_k 12d ago
So it may be a good wirk machine to use during long flights, with a compact wireless keyboard. Unless you fly first class, using a laptop on a plane is painful.
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by nine_k 13d ago
> designed to ignore the rest of my system as much as it can and live in its own little world. Exactly what a small, locked-down system needs. A single-purpose server box. An advanced appliance, like a "smart TV", or media bo
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by nine_k 13d ago
(As a side note, I love the name ZLUDA; it very aptly means "delusion" or "deception" in Polish.)
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by nine_k 13d ago
In short: structurally like Docker (reuses Dockerfiles), but without a daemon, and, unlike Podman or Nix, very lightweight, only two binaries do everything. Common chunks of data are shared / deduplicated across installed packages, aga
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by nine_k 14d ago
I'd say that the ranking, and thus the relevance, is noticeably higher. If I know what I want to find, Kagi is good at surfacing exactly that, not something vaguely related.
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by nine_k 14d ago
It's relatively rare as of late that I need to specifically find something on the internet, and DDG does not suffice, so I rarely exhaust the 300 Kagi searches. Most of the time I need to find out something, and in that case, Claud
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by nine_k 14d ago
The real "old-school Google, but modern" is Kagi, with the caveat of being paid. (Worth the $5 for me.) But LLMs can be commanded. This is may bookmark alias for invoking the spirit of old Gog=ogle from within the new, AI-based Go
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by nine_k 15d ago
> Could an AI pray for you Prayer for external effects has long been mechanized [1]. But praying for your inner effect is a different thing. Similarly, production of songs for external consumption is being mechanized. But what you feel w
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by nine_k 16d ago
32" is too large, it makes you turn your head a lot, and the distortion at the corners is noticeable. You can put it farther away (which requires a nonstandard desk), but it sort of defeats the purpose. To me, 28" 4K is near the s
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by nine_k 16d ago
Trivially available at B&H for about $750. Speaking of DOS games, it's about half the cost of an IBM VGA monitor from 1987, in today's dollars.
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by nine_k 17d ago
Few pay it directly. It's paid in installments, subsidized by the carrier, traded-in for for an old but still okay phone, etc. And those who want to boast, can of course buy for the full price. This is a non-zero share of the target ma

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