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by rmunn 3mo ago
The Arch wiki is one of the best Linux-related resources out there. I used to look things up there all the time back when I was running Mint (which is basically Ubuntu under the hood). Ironically, now that I'm actually running Arch I t
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Have you read https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html ? Section 1.2 addresses the exact scenario you wrote about in "Backups are a file copy". You got lucky with your testing, and didn't manage to copy the da
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by rmunn 3mo ago
There's some bad advice in the article: "Backups are a file copy. [...] you can back up a live SQLite database, under write load, without stopping anything." This is straight out of section 1.2 of https://www.sqlit
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by rmunn 3mo ago
"use loose; footloose; kick off your Sunday shoes"
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Found what appears to be a minor mistake you may want to fix: "This means that a dangling reference easily results in a reference to the wrong column " should probably be "... a reference to the wrong row ". (In the pa
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Ah. When that one commenter said "Wealth is having economic power over the people around you", I ignored him, because that's a ridiculous definition, not to be taken seriously. Any argument that arises out of that definitio
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I'm of the same opinion re: the bubble. The dotcom bubble held on longer than I thought it would (I had been predicting that it would burst in 1999), so I'm not sure I should be making predictions as to when the rental-LLM bubbl
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Probably because it's so useful in detecting the "smell" of fraudulent numbers. Fraud is, of course, going to be most common where money is involved, but it can show up in many other places: for example, someone might be temp
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Correct. Index funds are owned by people. For example, I have invested a large chunk of my retirement savings in an S&P 500 indexed fund (as many, many other people do). Whatever stocks the S&P 500 list, are what I end up owning;
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by rmunn 3mo ago
What you said was "why should Britain have any say in these matters?"; the question of "Did Britain have a need to claim Gibraltar back when?" is a different question entirely, which I am not qualified to answer, having
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Pretty much nowhere was a blank spot on the map before the current inhabitants took it over from the previous ones. Nor was it a blank spot when the previous inhabitants took it over from the ones who came before them . Many places in th
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Why does Britain have any say in the people who live in, say, Liverpool? Because that's historically been British territory. So what's the difference? Only real difference I can see is length of history (a few hundred years vs. ne
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I would add natural navigation barriers such as rivers and lakes (and some, but not all, mountain ranges) to the list of "clean" borders. They're not straight lines, but they're a natural place to site a border.
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by rmunn 3mo ago
There are many, MANY islands scattered around Earth's oceans. Not all of them have the resources to be self-sufficient, so any inhabitants have to import goods from somewhere. There are two options: either each island is its own countr
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I'm deliberately giving an illustration that shows that relative power throughout most of history had to do with physical strength and weapons, rather than money. And if you didn't mean that slavery is caused by relative wealth di
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Given the power draw of the GPUs and RAM needed to run those local LLMs, I don't see them being comfortable to hold in one's pocket anytime soon. :-) Not until some not-yet-imagined breakthrough in heat dissipation is made. But a
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I've been running Claude Code in a VM, where I clone the GitHub repos I want it to work on (they're open source so no login info needed) but have no other credentials. I used to reset the VM every day, but that was getting to be a
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by rmunn 3mo ago
> I reject all notions that these are mutually-exclusive concepts. Agreed; just because I "rarely" pull out the calculator doesn't mean I never use it. Sometimes my wife asks me "If this cake recipe calls for filling
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I have a calculator (and many other tools, of course) in my pocket at all times, now... and yet I don't pull it out very often. Because I can add $1.99 + $3.49 faster in my head ($2 plus $3.50 minus two cents = $5.48) than I could get
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by rmunn 3mo ago
EDLIN.EXE or bust!
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by rmunn 3mo ago
One of my college buddies, when getting set up for a marathon viewing of the trilogy (extended editions, naturally), referred to it as "twelve hours of butt-numbing Tolkien goodness". Exact words: it was more than 20 years ago but
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I love gyros; you're making me want to go visit that diner. Do you mind revealing its name and the city it's in? (If you don't want to because that would reveal too much about your own location, I understand perfectly well an
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by rmunn 3mo ago
That Evangelion analogy is a good one. I don't necessarily agree with all of it (for example, I think the high synch rate is the weakest part of the analogy, and LLMs can be used as tools with some decent success without needing to plu
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by rmunn 3mo ago
> ... human trafficking exists because some people are rich and others are poor ... No, it doesn't. This is an absurd claim, and nobody intelligent should take it seriously. Human trafficking exists because some people choose to do
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Seconded, I diff diffs all the time after a rebase or after merging the `develop` branch into my feature branch (which I sometimes do when the rebase would have produced so many merge conflicts over so many commits that it's just not w
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I've recommended https://learngitbranching.js.org/ to so many people. Something about seeing it visually, with the arrows pointing from child to parent , just clicks in the mind where a written explanation doesn'
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by rmunn 3mo ago
The fact that I misread that as "prebase" (I've done the same misreading with "prerelease" in the past, too) is why I prefer `before-rebase`, even though `pre-rebase` is slightly faster to type.
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by rmunn 3mo ago
TIL!
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The best explanation anyone has come up with for those dodecahedrons was as tools for making jewelry from gold wire. Here's a video by an expert knitter named Amy Gaines in which she demonstrates the process: https://www.you
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I find it really useful to be able to diff two commits, which if you're using a binary format is only possible if you have a meaningful-diff tool for that format. Some formats have one already created, more formats don't. (Though

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