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by pengaru 1y ago
How long before Linus writes his own circuit design tool that changes the world?
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by pengaru 1y ago
> When people talk about it not being able to build they really mean mass transit and to some extent certain types of housing in some areas. Everything else gets built just fine. https://www.npr.org/2011/09/16&
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by pengaru 1y ago
I'll defer to Kurt Vonnegut Jr: “The Money River, where the wealth of the nation flows. We were born on the banks of it-and so were most of the mediocre people we grew up with, went to private schools with, sailed and played tennis wit
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by pengaru 1y ago
I saw some twitter-like shit comments on chi-mesh while visiting family in IL. But I've seen nothing but friendly interactions on the SF bay mesh which is much larger and thriving. Nothing seemed particularly toxic, not on either of th
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by pengaru 1y ago
I feel like a big part of it is the masses have less money to burn on big sound systems nor do they have affordable spacious housing to fill with loud sound from the system they can't buy. My first jobs (1990s) paid largely for restori
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by pengaru 1y ago
> but the speakers should still sound perfect speakers are wear items
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by pengaru 1y ago
My friends are objectively bad for my health vs. how well I take care of myself without their influences. What I suspect is common WRT these studies is lonely people become self-destructive, reaching for stuff like alcohol and/or comfo
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by pengaru 1y ago
In environments like home where it's acceptable, I prefer to use my laptop sitting on the floor. I find it stimulates repositioning often, preventing staying in one configuration for too long. It also compels me to get up and walk aro
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by pengaru 1y ago
> I’d say it’s both a systemd issue and a kernel issue. The fact that systemd motivates kernel fixes does point to systemd being maybe just a bit overengineered systemd is basically a victim here, you're quasi engaging in a tech for
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by pengaru 1y ago
It's one of those things that you don't care about until you do. As a former sysadmin through the dotcom booms, we regularly depended on atime for identifying which files are actively being used in myriad situations. Sometimes you
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by pengaru 1y ago
> I admit, I do not fully understand systemd ... > This indicates to me a very poor design. If not, it is a validation of the old UNIX saying "do one thing and do it well" and "keep programs small" (paraphr
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by pengaru 1y ago
Nice, looks worth watching. However, I'm pretty sure pwned Teslas will be going much faster before impact, and not a single battery fire? seriously?
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by pengaru 1y ago
It's only a matter of time before a similar hack hits waymo and/or tesla...
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by pengaru 1y ago
The Starbucks in Yucca Valley and TwentyNine Palms, CA both are often without available seating due to people on laptops not spending money. At least that was true when I was in the area a couple years ago.
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by pengaru 1y ago
I thought these kinds of ~affordable computers in keyboards were obviously aimed at families/young users plugging into an existing TV in the living room, like a modern take on the C64.
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by pengaru 1y ago
> In your 20s most people think of you as a kid After prison people think of you as a convict, regardless of age. That doesn't generally make life easier.
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by pengaru 1y ago
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others"
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by pengaru 1y ago
They use legitimate SIM cards, wdyt is the point of them?
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by pengaru 1y ago
Wait til you learn where honey comes from
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by pengaru 1y ago
Linux used to deliver relatively low syscall overhead esp. on modern aggressively speculating CPUs. But after spectre+meltdown mitigations landed it felt like the 1990s all over again where syscall overhead was a huge cost relative to the M
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by pengaru 1y ago
Musk has stated in various ways on different occasions that all driver input is error. When that frames how you imagine drivers of your vehicles interfacing with them, all sorts of stupid shit starts looking like a good idea.
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by pengaru 1y ago
Electric retractable door handles is such a stupid gimmick. I once pulled over to help a stranded Model S driver with a flat tire in the Mojave desert. Every door handle had a zip tie hanging off it because they _all_ had failed present me
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by pengaru 1y ago
When your own most competitive products are being made by your competitor for you, while you still have the cost center of running your own production fabs incapable of producing your most competitive products, and receiving bailouts just t
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by pengaru 1y ago
it's not like there's a lack of "settlers"
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by pengaru 1y ago
The AI story is inherently dystopian. I don't think it says one iota about the SF tech scene, that's more defined by the people in the city than the output of advertising dollars. From where I'm sitting (SoMa for coming up o
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by pengaru 1y ago
> Also, don’t you have to hit a pthread cancellation point for pthread_cancel to take effect? No, the whole point here is async cancellation - you don't test for it and you don't enter a cancellation point. Excerpt from pthread
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by pengaru 1y ago
The asynchronous cancellation in particular is difficult to use correctly, but is also one of the most useful aspects of the api in situations where appropriate. Imagine cpu-bound worker threads that do nothing but consume work via conditio
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by pengaru 1y ago
I too have self-hosted for decades, there was a brief period of annoyance where I had to set up SPF records long ago, but since then it hasn't been problematic AFAIK (not that I'm in constant contact with people on all the major p
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by pengaru 1y ago
I lived that dream, and it was good.
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by pengaru 1y ago
IME they tend to leave a lasting conspicuous shiny trail....

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