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by rollcat 2y ago
Well it is simple if you use the whole package as delivered (although Apple has been straying off the road it paved for quite a while now). The point is, everything they make is vertically integrated. They want to deliver a feature (like
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by rollcat 2y ago
Depends. Sometimes a one-liner or a reference to a ticket is enough. There are times when I make a one-line change and write a paragraph or two explaining why it had to be done. But these kinds of things often drown in the noise of a dozen
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by rollcat 2y ago
> you complain about 48 eur and not having a free tier, but you also mention you want stuff. I don't mind paying. Hardware has to be manufactured, infrastructure has to be kept up. I paid for my phone and my computer, I keep paying
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by rollcat 2y ago
I feel like the GB/GBC/GBA are pretty much what the VT102 is to writing grid-cell software. The demo scene keeps cranking. Chiptune is still in love with the hardware - especially with the OG DMG, with a pro sound mod. Writing new
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by rollcat 2y ago
I understand why they had to EOL Vue 2 and make Vue 3 - I'm still facing migrating a couple of projects at some point, and I will keep putting it away x) But is upgrading Vue 3 across minor versions that much of a pain? Actually curiou
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by rollcat 2y ago
I think the biggest obstacle are the "getting started", and then "actually owning it" parts. I registered my domain with Gandi (who have also initially hosted my email), got a VM from Hetzner, set me up some nginx, and I
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by rollcat 2y ago
I complained about hardware perf and viability in another thread. However, there are enough options for enthusiasts / early adopters, including budget HW. I don't think e.g. PINETAB-V[1] is a desirable/useful general purpose
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by rollcat 2y ago
As an iPhone+AW (S6) user, I consider the two devices married, perhaps even sharing the same mind. Almost everything that I can do with one is instantly and transparently mirrored on the other. I can still leave my phone at home, and since
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by rollcat 2y ago
I believe at that point we would have to seriously ask ourselves about the definition of "reasoning" or "intelligence"; humans have an intuitive understanding, LLMs don't - would an LLM be able to evaluate the outpu
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by rollcat 2y ago
> porting a browser to RISC-V Modern web browsers take several hours to compile on reasonably powerful hardware. (I don't know much about rebuilding for incremental changes. TBH I'm terrified of the scope to even try.) Also tha
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by rollcat 2y ago
I stand corrected about the high-end state of the art; TBH I haven't been following the developments in a long while. But the device in question clearly looks low-end to me. I would love to see it benchmarked against a contemporary mid
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by rollcat 2y ago
That's why I wonder, who is this device being sold to? I do understand why RISC-V appeals to enthusiasts - I've been eyeing a couple RISC-V SBCs to potentially add to my homelab - I just don't understand the form factor. I su
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by rollcat 2y ago
"By design" LLMs lack: initiative, emotion, creativity, curiosity, opinions, beliefs, self-reflection, or even logical reasoning. All they can do is predict the next token - which is still an extremely powerful building block on
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by rollcat 2y ago
Honest question. I've been looking both at iPads and Thinkpads for a device that I can carry around, sit in a cafe with, do some typing, watch videos, play games, etc. Both of these are powerful and capable on their own, but also have
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by rollcat 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/1683/
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by rollcat 2y ago
I think it's also because a desktop is broadly considered a "power tool", you absolutely need it for systems development, and that is forever at odds with "iPhone-level" lockdown/security. Even if you'd st
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by rollcat 2y ago
It's a bit more complicated. Ideally you'd only need libdyld.dylib and libSystem.B.dylib or so, but... $ echo 'package main; func main() {}' > nop.go $ go build ./nop.go $ DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES=1 .&#
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by rollcat 2y ago
I like how Go provides the "syscall" package in the standard library. It's OS/ARCH specific, and takes every precaution to call the raw thing safely - notably syscall.ForkExec on UNIX platforms (digging thru the source m
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by rollcat 2y ago
Does Dropbox or Onedrive keep hourly+daily+weekly+monthly deduplicated snapshots of everything that's happened on your machine, that work without any network connection? It's no substitute for backups (I use Borg), and syncing is
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by rollcat 2y ago
Personally I prefer the approach that the BSDs took: your OS has a "base" that is designed and integrated as a whole, provides basic services (SSH, httpd, mail, etc) plus a spartan GUI and all the tools to support its own developm
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by rollcat 2y ago
I understand your objections, but I don't think I have to explain that anything directly touching wireless is already walking the edge of the regulatory abyss. But yeah, some vendors make it easier, others seem to just want developers
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by rollcat 2y ago
From TFA: > The ESP32 series of chips support open-source NimBLE and Bluedroid as Bluetooth host stacks. The undocumented commands in question (which implement the debug interface) are about to become documented, and Espressif was both t
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by rollcat 2y ago
Does Fedora support ZFS (without building from source) yet? Filesystem snapshots is not something I'd ever give up on, and Btrfs still doesn't seem production-ready. Also - I'm done distro-hopping. The problem is KDE/Gno
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by rollcat 2y ago
I've been using NixOS for a couple of years; I still have it on one of my RasPis. I've had a moderately elaborate config for my laptop. I could enumerate all of the problems I've had with it, but back to my point: not that di
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by rollcat 2y ago
Yeah I'm using enough Mac-specific (Logic, Compressor, Sketch, ...) or otherwise proprietary software that it makes perfect sense. I'm lucky that this is already my platform of choice. And honestly it's been getting better (O
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by rollcat 2y ago
> I have to hold the power button to force it off roughly twice a month [...] Hmm... $ last | grep reboot reboot time Sun Feb 16 14:10 reboot time Fri Feb
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by rollcat 2y ago
I'm a self-branded hacker so I'll share my motivation: Shit. Works. This is critical. I can focus on my actual task at hand, rather than fiddling with the system. Some perspective: I've been on Debian for 15 years, and I stil
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by rollcat 2y ago
> the fault of your distro's policies Yeah, about that... fracturing at every possible level. - Linux vs Free/Open/Net/Dragonfly BSD - Linux distro 1 vs X vs A vs Ω vs ... - glibc (with all its warts like versioned sy
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by rollcat 2y ago
Apologies for the cheap shot at sarcasm, however the point I was trying to make is this: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/09/this-is-a-pretty-dire-asses...
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by rollcat 2y ago
Wow, I'm not keeping up with all the new developments in the Linux desktop land, but that surely sounds like a step back. So let's say I'm building an app like Blender or Reaper - I'm sidestepping the need for most of th

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