pkulak

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   by pkulak 1y ago

   Sorry, I meant long distance train. DC metro and especially NYC are also both faster than driving.
2. 272.▲
   by pkulak 1y ago

   The problem with every train is that it doesn't go faster. But Acela is already faster than driving, which is a benchmark no other train can match in North America. Probably faster, door-to-door, than flying, unless you ride its entire
3. 273.▲
   by pkulak 1y ago

   > due to freight having priority Fun fact: by law, Amtrak has priority. Not that it matters much, even back when laws themselves mattered.
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   by pkulak 1y ago

   Whenever I go to the East coast, I make a point of finding some reason to ride Amtrak, preferably Acela. There's just something magical about staying anywhere between Boston and DC, and yet only being one relaxing, couple-hour trip awa
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   by pkulak 1y ago

   Oh good. They made up an acronym, yet managed to find one of the ones already in the heaviest (computing) use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSP
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   by pkulak 1y ago

   Counterargument: God(s)
7. 277.▲
   by pkulak 1y ago

   If you make it vibrate at ultrasonic speeds, maybe it has!
8. 278.▲
   by pkulak 1y ago

   There must be a limit though. Surely a light saber is not more safe than a dull knife.
9. 279.▲
   by pkulak 1y ago

   A lot of the cool stuff we have now started off for accessibility.
10. 280.▲
    by pkulak 1y ago

    I believe it's easier to hide in regular traffic.
11. 281.▲
    by pkulak 1y ago

    Welcome to fashion cycles. Windows 7 has come back around.
12. 282.▲
    by pkulak 1y ago

    I maintain a few Linux projects in my spare time. I don’t really care about your opinion here.
13. 283.▲
    by pkulak 1y ago

    Something like this really highlights AIs inability to negate things. Like, search for "no lace hiking boots" and you get hiking boots... with laces.
14. 284.▲
    by pkulak 1y ago

    Why is a comment trashing a different project, in the most lazy way possible, at the top of the page? EDIT: wow, all the comments are like that. I guess something has to come first.
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    by pkulak 1y ago

    But 40,000+ Americans die in their cars (and run over by others' cars) every year. No subway caveat is ever going to beat that. And at least it's obvious that subways going missing is a _very_ solvable problem. We've complete
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    by pkulak 1y ago

    I would have to admit that even I, I public transit nerd, would prefer an empty subway car. I also don’t like driving when I’m stopped dead in traffic, or biking when it’s next to a highway with no lane, or the bus when I miss my transfer,
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    by pkulak 1y ago

    Waste your time? You know what would waste my time? Building out my own deployment of Redis/Postgres, all the dependencies, systemd services, ML server, and backup solutions (yes, the compose takes regular DB backups for you) and then
18. 288.▲
    by pkulak 1y ago

    So you use Google Photos and backup to Google Drive? Sorry to say, but if Google ever decides to deactivate your account (which can and will happen for any reason, real or imagined), you lose everything. A stable release is only a couple mo
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    by pkulak 1y ago

    I watch lots of YouTube. $14 is fine. I have several other streaming video subscriptions I'd cancel before YouTube.
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    by pkulak 1y ago

    +2. I did exactly what's in this article since before Tailscale existed. Then there was this Tailscale thing, but I never moved over because why bother? I've already got my setup. I was creating keys and schlepping them to all the
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    by pkulak 1y ago

    > The problem is their battery life is ~10 years max Depends on how you define "life". I think for the Leaf, it's 70% capacity. But even if it gets down to 50%, it'll sill keep driving. Also, what's really annoyi
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    by pkulak 1y ago

    Well, that's certainly not the cheapest. You can find old Leafs for 5k. People love Bolts, for good reason, and bit them up.
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    by pkulak 1y ago

    Rootless is nice because if you mount some directory in, all the files don't end up owned by root. You can get around that by custom building every image so the user has your user id, but that's a pain.
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    by pkulak 1y ago

    Green threads can be nicer to program in, but it’s not like there’s no cost. You still need a stack for every green thread, just like you need one for every normal thread. I think it’s worth it to figure out a good system for stackless asyn
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    by pkulak 1y ago

    Doesn’t FF use the system Hunspell? And if not, maybe making it do so would be better?
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    by pkulak 1y ago

    This is the exact tyranny that the second amendment supposedly prevents.
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    by pkulak 1y ago

    Say you start on Main, then make a new branch that you intend to be a PR someday. You make commit 1. Then another. Maybe 6 more. Now you realize that something in commit 1 should have been done differently. So, you "edit" commit 1
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    by pkulak 1y ago

    Firefox is the one app that I want in my base system. Maybe it’s better now, but I always seem to run into some issue with the Flatpak. Usually because some other Flatpak app wants to log in and something goes wrong between all the redirect
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    by pkulak 1y ago

    I’m a big fan of the Debian+Flatpak combo. Super stable base system, plus bleeding edge, usually dev maintained, GUI apps.
30. 300.▲
    by pkulak 1y ago

    It’s out of date, feature wise, but should have all the security updates, I believe.