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by ori_b 2y ago
And regularly releasing new x server versions. It seems like there's a new release every couple of months. For example, in January this year, xrandr got code to allow for multiple virtual monitors on a physical display. In April, there
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by ori_b 3y ago
I think protobuf might just be a performance art piece, exploring the question of how much complexity it's possible to insert into a simple concept.
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by ori_b 3y ago
(shithub admin here) We ran out at probably over a thousand concurrent accesses. Not much, but it is served with a shell script on a pretty small dual core vultr node. For whatever reason, it seems like a few months ago we also attracted th
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by ori_b 3y ago
Why a flag? In what case would you turn that analysis off separately from other optimizations?
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by ori_b 3y ago
*looks nervously at the AI revolution*
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by ori_b 3y ago
How much less have you been driving due to AI?
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by ori_b 3y ago
It hasn't been a nonprofit in years. https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp
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by ori_b 3y ago
For me personally, I want off the Thinkpad train, but I don't think I can get a new laptop with a trackpoint, 3 physical buttons, and a good high-res matte screen elsewhere right now.
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by ori_b 3y ago
> People want an experience that works out of the box. That they don’t have to think about package managers or maintenance. I still have to think about them on the new shinies. It's just harder to understand them.
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by ori_b 3y ago
The ideal toolkit for building accidentally quadratic code.
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by ori_b 3y ago
No. There are plenty of well paying jobs that actually match my skills. I probably would have made a bit more at OpenAI, but at the cost of not enjoying my work, and probably not excelling at it.
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by ori_b 3y ago
Yes, at least if they joined in 2020 or later. I interviewed and got an offer around that time, post for-profit conversion, and the pitch was that the "shares" (actually, profit sharing rights) would be bought by investors every f
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by ori_b 3y ago
Being good at self promotion is not the same as having interpersonal skills.
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by ori_b 3y ago
I am currently working on helping small companies solve technical problems, build a strong technical culture, and scale their engineering orgs. Both hands on code and leadership, as needed. For a summary, https://orib.dev/co
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by ori_b 3y ago
I see. Do you mean like the Xorg fast path for local 3d rendering that became the basis for Wayland?
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by ori_b 3y ago
We were looking at moving 9front's implementation of troff to neatroff at one point. It may still happen, but there are a lot of small differences between the current troff, some of the scripts and tools in the current document process
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by ori_b 3y ago
I may not be a great programmer, but I sometimes play one on TV.
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by ori_b 3y ago
> Porting a mainstream browser to Plan 9 is about 50 times more labor than has ever been put into Plan 9 even when Bell Labs was footing the bill https://orib.dev/interject.html
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Tenth International Workshop on Plan 9: 2024 Edition(iwp9.org)
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by ori_b 3y ago
I should take the opportunity to plug the upcoming International Workshop on Plan 9 conference: https://iwp9.org . There was a lot of neat work presented at the one held last year: https://9e.iwp9.org/
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by ori_b 3y ago
No. Matrix is not usable on plan 9, to my knowledge, so the people that care tend to use IRC or our own 9p-based home-grown chat system known as gridchat. Those that don't seem to have settled on discord. (Unsurprisingly, it seems most
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by ori_b 3y ago
It's a living document. 9front gets a few commits a day, and this document updates to keep up to date with the system.
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by ori_b 3y ago
> That feels as if that would invite regulator's immediately. Why even adopt ActivityPub if they plan on dropping it? Why did they adopt xmpp and then drop it?
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by ori_b 3y ago
If I see discord, I move on. You chose how to run your community, and I'm not going to complain -- I'm not that entitled. I'm just not going to participate.
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by ori_b 3y ago
Some people seem to think that systemd is the only alternative to the sysv init mess. This is a false dichotomy. Sv, smf, s6, openrc, runit, dinit, epoch, BSD, ...
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by ori_b 3y ago
No, probably not. It requires a crafted binary to be executed.
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by ori_b 3y ago
How are snow chains a recurring cost? You buy them once and wrap them around your tires when you need them.
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by ori_b 3y ago
The Arabic phrase is chanting "From Water to Water, Palestine will be Arab". Freedom is only in the English translation for the sake of the rhyme, and presumably palatability to English speaking audiences.
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by ori_b 3y ago
A modern combined cycle power plant is significantly more efficient than a typical internal combustion engine, even when taking into account transmission losses. So, an EV is going to use less fossil fuel per mile, even if the power plant i
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by ori_b 3y ago
The problem is that if you want to keep the server state around, there's already a cheap and easy solution: write a persistent server.

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