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by physicles 8mo ago
It’s also in their best interest to set the price so as to maximize their own profits. If switching costs or monopoly power allow them to set a higher price, they will do so. Have we learned nothing from a decade of subscription services?
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by physicles 8mo ago
Did you have a particularly bad experience? Things have changed _a little_ since 1992. I switched from Windows in 2018 because I was trying to install some Python packages, and it was hours of work to find the specific visual C++ runtimes t
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by physicles 8mo ago
He’s said in multiple interviews (like on his own climbing podcast, Climbing Gold) that he’d do it for free with no publicity. He’s been trying for a very long time to get permission to do something like this, just because it’d be really co
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by physicles 8mo ago
Just had a great experience with this on Linux. One time in 20, when my X1 Carbon (Pop OS 22) resumes from sleep, Bluetooth doesn’t work. This kinda sucks because my mouse is Bluetooth. After 10 minutes with Gemini, we found the incantation
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by physicles 8mo ago
Wipr 2 is in the running for the best $5 I’ve ever spent in my life.
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by physicles 8mo ago
I use the Nexstand K2 (well, the Chinese knockoff I got for $5), and I bent some coat hangers to attach to the top of the stand and tilt the laptop forward. I’m a tall guy, and the top of the screen is even with my eyes. Bonus is that with
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by physicles 9mo ago
Desktop CPUs have a lot more punch than their equivalent mobile parts. My current dev machine is an X1 carbon from 2019. Compiling go code is slower than I’d like, some JavaScript-heavy websites like Jira take a couple extra seconds to load
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by physicles 9mo ago
I can't get over how expensive these observability platforms are. Last I looked (and looked again just now), if we were to take all our structured logs from all services and send them to Datadog with our current retention policy, it wo
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by physicles 9mo ago
Typora is the best markdown authoring experience out there, even surpassing obsidian imho. I wish I could use it every time I interact with markdown.
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by physicles 9mo ago
What software are they using for that, and how did they know ahead of time that the software would use their NPU?
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by physicles 9mo ago
If you turn off you watch history in account settings, then youtube.com is just a passive-aggressive black screen telling you to turn it back on. It’s beautiful. When you click over to subscriptions, you see only the stuff that you subscrib
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by physicles 9mo ago
If anyone hasn’t heard it, the podcast Darknet Diaries episode 92 (2021-05-11) is a great listen.
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by physicles 9mo ago
Everyone’s so excited about the wave if windows users coming to Linux. Those people already have monitors. I switched in 2018 and was surprised I couldn’t use fractional scaling on one monitor like I’d been doing for years on windows.
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by physicles 9mo ago
> I see this response a lot but I think it's self-contradictory. Building faster, understanding faster, refactoring faster — these do allow skilled developers to work on bigger things. When it takes you one minute instead of an hour
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by physicles 9mo ago
I had the same problem, and solved it this way: Find a close friend for whom reaching out and convincing people is not draining, and partner with them. They do the reaching out, you take care of the logistics. The framework that helped me u
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by physicles 9mo ago
I like my remote job and don’t want to leave, but I also can’t work at home because I get depressed and my productivity drops to zero. Wework and other coworking spaces have mostly been a disappointment as a way to find community, with just
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by physicles 9mo ago
There’s something about cold plunges. My group started when some of us started meeting for drinks and a swim after work during the summer, and we just kept doing it every week through the winter. Some joined the group during the winter. Tho
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by physicles 9mo ago
In my own experience (and from everything I’ve read), LLMs as they are today don’t help us as an industry build a higher mountain of software because they don’t help us deal with complexity — they only help us build the mountain faster.
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by physicles 9mo ago
- Surround yourself with friends who also aren’t playing the game. - Get really clear about what your actual financial goals are, not what they’d need to be in order to maintain status among game-players. - Get compensated in ways other tha
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by physicles 9mo ago
The Demon-Haunted World, by Sagan. I read it during a journey that ended up leading me out of religion. That book showed me so clearly how strange it is to believe in supernatural events.
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by physicles 10mo ago
This piqued my curiosity. Are you the author of the paper? For this principle to become widely known, it needs to be communicated in a more succinct way. 400 pages is too much to ask people to invest. Even so, as far as I understand the gis
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by physicles 10mo ago
I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but since SpaceX is the only launch services provider that could actually put one of these in orbit, this smells a lot like hyperloop to me — an unserious proposal that serves as a distraction and furthe
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by physicles 10mo ago
> sometimes the people you are working for are incapable of reasoning about planning artefacts or understanding how the system will look or operate simply from a document I’m wrestling with this now. Over my career I’ve seen a strong cor
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by physicles 10mo ago
I’m currently fighting the “don’t use Gemini to write internal documents” war at my company. It’ll be long and hard, but I think I’ll eventually prevail. Every time someone throws a document written by AI at me, it feels so disrespectful.
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by physicles 10mo ago
> "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." Love this! Corollary: when you have too many meetings, that’s easy to notice. When you don’t have enough meetings, that’s harder to notice
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by physicles 10mo ago
I agree that the days when “everyone” watched the same show are done. But if you can find a small group to watch a show with (better in person), then there are better shows available for that experience these last several years, even if the
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by physicles 10mo ago
We’re in the middle of this right now. Go makes this easier: there’s a go CLI command that you can use to list a package’s dependencies, which can be cross-referenced with recent git changes. (duplicating the dependency graph in another bui
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by physicles 10mo ago
Yep, I have a cron that does git add . && git commit -m “daily commit”. Haven’t touched it in a couple years.
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by physicles 10mo ago
Piggybacking on this… do all nvidia cards have the same issue with Linux drivers, where the fan won’t ever go below 30%? I have a 3090 on Ubuntu 24 and hours of googling netted nothing that worked.
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by physicles 11mo ago
Yeah this happened to me at least once, and I had to spend several hours with low-level recovery software to get my files back. This was the catalyst that finally got me to ditch windows for good 7 years ago.

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