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by pengaru 11mo ago
1. the trouble with "bad guys" is they DGAF so good luck convincing them to change their ways 2. quit using permissive licenses if you expect corporations to "give back", Open Source != Free/Libre software. You see
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by pengaru 11mo ago
So which angelic vendor are you purchasing your hardware from instead? Do tell... I personally supported MNTRE by purchasing a new Reform and will order a Reform Next, but it's not yet a substitute for anything state of the art. (I&#
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by pengaru 11mo ago
So how does it feel folks to be living through Idiocracy? Flying the Clippy abomination as some kind of ideal is so misguided I don't even know where to begin. The only redeeming quality of Clippy was one's ability to easily turn
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by pengaru 11mo ago
I'm not sure how generally applicable it is. When you have several acres of undeveloped land full of sand at your disposal it's relatively trivial to dig a pit, mix some concrete from the sand you excavated, and pour a subterrane
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by pengaru 11mo ago
Not really, there was a brief excursion in kludging a ZTE MiFi device to use a DIY NiMh pack of AA cells when it refused to stop self-destructing its OEM LiPo batteries every summer. (I use a MiFi hotspot for a cheap security camera networ
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by pengaru 11mo ago
I've gone through a dozen or so LiPo-utilizing portable devices at my property in the Mojave desert. All it takes is a single season for many of these batteries to swell up to such an extent the enclosures split open. Ostensibly they
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by pengaru 11mo ago
> At least with SNAP/EBT, your landlord can’t take that money. You think people don't pay their rent with SNAP/EBT? I've got news for you - they do, by selling their benefits to someone with cash at a horrible rate.
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by pengaru 11mo ago
> Can we simply remove fever and coughing somehow… super annoying and more dangerous than the virus themselves sometimes. You're basically asking to become a bat
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by pengaru 11mo ago
Link to mfr's shop: https://shop.mntre.com/products/zz9000-for-amiga-preorder Note this is from mntre; the creator of the Reform and in-progress Reform Next open laptops.
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by pengaru 11mo ago
Until you find yourself desperate for a malpractice suit, and Surprise! your insurer and care provider are on the same team and you already agreed to arbitration when you got that insurance. A friend had his life wrecked by Kaiser, and none
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by pengaru 11mo ago
You guys seem to be assuming transpiling to C means it must produce C that DTRT on any random C compiler invoked any which way on the other side, where UB is some huge possibility space. There's nothing preventing it from being some sp
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by pengaru 11mo ago
the whole point of doing such things in ephemeral containers is to not have your secrets accessible from said container
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by pengaru 11mo ago
Of course the likes of Apple and Google are complying with lawful orders from the governments of countries they do business in. Businesses that don't generally cease operating in said country. LavaBit was a highly visible instance o
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by pengaru 11mo ago
> I am dubious about "red meat" being called pro-inflammatory. I dunno, recently I was told about alpha-gal syndrome which for the first time made me appreciate "red meat" has some special properties WRT human consump
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by pengaru 11mo ago
Corporation prioritizes profits over social harm, news at 11. You won't want to miss this breaking story - water is wet.
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by pengaru 11mo ago
There's also bonzomatic which the demo scene uses for shader live coding competitions: https://github.com/Gargaj/Bonzomatic
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by pengaru 11mo ago
I'd be willing to pay $100 to upvote your comment 100x.
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by pengaru 11mo ago
and be willing to endure the hazing ritual they call an application and interview process
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by pengaru 11mo ago
For many people especially old timer sysadmins, anything interpreted at runtime is a script. TBH, prior to perl6, perl was such a horrid inconsistent mess, it reeked of shell.
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by pengaru 11mo ago
This is like the LLM era version of the search bubble that prevented people from having the same search results for ostensibly identical searches. Also keep in mind that LLMs are stochastic by design. If you haven't seen it, Karpathy&
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by pengaru 11mo ago
People are also more isolated than ever, positioning them poorly for having robust real relationships. This makes them vulnerable to mistaking "influencers" as their friends.
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by pengaru 11mo ago
Sure, but the OG Brat is a tiny truck by modern US standards. It's like the Miata of trucks. Even my 01 Forester will look big parked next to the OG Brat. Despite looking diminutive next to most modern vehicles here in Cali... It&#x
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by pengaru 11mo ago
what driver?
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by pengaru 11mo ago
No doubt COVID kicked skimpflation into high gear, but this was already a pattern I noticed long before 2019. It seemed to generally coincide with the demise of retail in general, and of course the elimination of bank-teller interactions an
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by pengaru 11mo ago
It's odd how banks have largely stopped operating change counting machines. In my childhood we'd hoard loose change then make a trip to the local po-dunk bank serving my neighborhood surrounded by corn fields, and even there they&
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by pengaru 11mo ago
So much this, 'murricans are still struggling to grasp a reality where they're not in the planet's driver's seat anymore.
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by pengaru 11mo ago
RIP hyundai, you're dead to me
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by pengaru 11mo ago
> You do see glimpses of it in the other models. Eg. The removal of the indicator stalk likely saved <$100 (if that!) but it's a non-starter for many buyers. That has to be Musk's doing right? "all input is error"
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by pengaru 11mo ago
As long as people keep finding ways to regress the kernel, there will be opportunities created to fix those regressions. AFAICT the performance win is coming from undoing a performance loss stemming from relatively recently added CONFIG_SCH
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by pengaru 1y ago
This was all before my time. I don't have the impression quality has deteriorated from past gens of the product, quite the opposite from where I'm sitting. Working there is interesting. AMZN corporate can be a drag but I imagine

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