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by ninjin 4mo ago
As a type-1 diabetic, in my experience it is perfectly possible to end up in a situation like this even if you are responsible. Remember, type-1 diabetes is a condition that requires your attention tens if not a hundred times per day. This
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by ninjin 5mo ago
I have run NixOS for about eight years on server and desktop and been a nixpkgs maintainer. Yes, most of the time I would agree with you. The fact that you get warnings in the terminal for a lot of incompatibilities and changes when upgradi
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by ninjin 5mo ago
Modern operating system booting on hardware that is closing in on 40 years old in just over three minutes, this is wild to see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btwiiZw3B2s Kenji Aoyama truly is aligned with the best of th
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A Quarter Century of Unix (Peter Salus, 1994)(archive.org)
2 points by ninjin 5mo ago|2 comments
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by ninjin 5mo ago
In memoriam: https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033750.html
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by ninjin 5mo ago
Well, it surely did not help that the government has been drip-feeding us computational resources. First we had about 16 GPU nodes to share between the whole country for over a decade. Then just before Isambard-AI came online they made one
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by ninjin 5mo ago
If I had the time and energy, I would make some sort of simple code language model and generate infinite junk and feed that to them in the hope that it ruins their future training runs. But, I lack the former and some of the latter. Alterna
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by ninjin 5mo ago
I can report that Facebook does not respect robots.txt. Heck, I even mailed domain@fb.com with the specific IP ranges and log samples three times over a month and they of did not even respond. Keeps on wasting my CPU cycles to this day by
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by ninjin 5mo ago
Use whatever gets the job done. As for scaling and cropping, to the best of my knowledge, ffplay(1) supports all the options that ffmpeg(1) does. Here is what I for example use when capturing my Famicom: ffplay -sws_flags fast_bilinear -fra
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by ninjin 5mo ago
My preferred way is ffplay(1). Last time I checked I get lower latencies than OBS at that, at least when I use `-sws_flags fast_bilinear`, which is the same scaling OBS uses by default.
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by ninjin 5mo ago
> Nvi 2 (nvi under openbsd) has Unicode support. It's like BSD Vi but with Iconv. Perfect for my needs. My primary editor for text (not code) editing and e-mail. I just wish Unicode support made it into base vi(1) on OpenBSD, but fo
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by ninjin 5mo ago
Fair I suppose. I guess one can treat this either as a personal story (although frustratingly scattered across multiple places and incomplete) or as a description of a single instance of an arrest in Japan.
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by ninjin 5mo ago
> It's frustrating to try to interpret these stories with a lot of writing and video describing everything except the crucial detail about what the charges were for. Is it really a crucial detail though? As someone having lived in
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by ninjin 5mo ago
Likely some sort of stimulant as you point out. It is hardly the first time either as there have been public cases like this numerous times over the last two decades. Some cases even ending with deportation. The one I remember most vividly
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by ninjin 5mo ago
The Japanese have some wonderful programming along these lines. For preschoolers there is PythagoraSwitch (ピタゴラスイッチ) [1] which features amazing Rube Goldberg machines, geometric reasoning, algorithmic thinking, etc. Sadly, NHK loves to keep
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by ninjin 6mo ago
For those considering the US model which is listed as USD 549 [1], the Japanese one currently sells for ~USD 260 in Japan [2]. [1]: https://pomera.us/products/pomera-full-suite-typewriter-for-... [2]: https:/&#x2
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by ninjin 6mo ago
I lack an answer, but for other interested, here is a link with more details regarding the event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Shafrazi#Shafrazi_and_Gue...
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by ninjin 6mo ago
> I think the record was 5 million tons of bombs over Vietnam (170 kg of bombs per capita), still the collapse didn't happen. Unsure about the tonnage, but the parallels to current events [1] and the illusion that a bombing campaign
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by ninjin 6mo ago
Always fun to read jcs@'s write ups. I am seriously tempted to look into getting one of these as light, fanless alternatives to run OpenBSB on the move are few and far between. My current main laptop is not big at 11", but it cloc
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by ninjin 6mo ago
It is an utterly amazing collection, although not the era I am the most familiar with. However, let me add a few as I love your initiative and went through them all and skimmed the ones below to get a sense of the quality. Billy Bragg: * h
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by ninjin 6mo ago
Many thanks for all the code! The second hand market is currently flooded with Wii U hardware that is cheap enough to buy enough stock to last a life time for peanuts. Would be amazing fun for PowerPC development and if I had an alternative
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by ninjin 6mo ago
In addition, here is the Bright White Lightning discography: https://dataairlines.bandcamp.com/album/bad-teeth-data024 https://dataairlines.bandcamp.com/album/dirty-nails-data038 Having not seen a
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by ninjin 6mo ago
> I'm reminded of that scene in "Ghost in the Shell" where some guy ask the Major why he is on the team (full of cyborgs) and she responds something along the line of "Because you are basically un-enhanced (maybe with
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by ninjin 7mo ago
Indeed, Heathrow security is the rudest I have experienced. They get aggressive if you so much as ask a question. Furthermore, I have on numerous occasions had them argue with me to go against the medical advice from both doctors and medi
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by ninjin 8mo ago
Would have loved to see how it holds up with some load via FastCGI and CGI (via slowcgi(8)), since httpd(8) can be used with both of them.
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by ninjin 8mo ago
> Although I guess the argument will be that email clients should use AI to summarise the HTML into a plain text summary. Or you could pass it through ~5,000 lines of C [1] and you will have it done in milliseconds even on hardware that
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by ninjin 8mo ago
I think our contexts are all different. But, to share a different experience, as an academic (with plenty of conversations involving people in industry as well each year) I have used interleaved and bottom-posting for decades and it causes
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by ninjin 8mo ago
Exactly. The problem is that by their very nature some content has to be dynamically generated. Just to add further emphasis as to how absurd the current situation is. I host my own repositories with gotd(8) and gotwebd(8) to share within a
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by ninjin 9mo ago
The uniqueness of the situation is that OpenAI et al. poses as an intelligent entity that serves information to you as an authority. If you go digging on darkweb forums and you see user Hufflepuffed47___ talking about dosages on a website
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by ninjin 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanda_Devi_Plutonium_Mission

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