serbuvlad

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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Wow, that's pretty cool. I've never used an Apple product, so I had no idea.
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Yes, people use the em dash. The point isn't the em dash itself. It's about U+2014. Yeah, in a book, or maybe a quality article, you'd type the em dash properly. But most of the time online? I write it as - or as --.
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Very funny to me that Java's initial appeal: it's easy to deploy "everywhere"; is now it's disadvantage (you need a whole Java setup with JAVA_HOME and God knows what else). Now the bar for GUI apps is cross-compila
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Wouldn't a timed breakfast delivery be about the same price for the same effect -- and also bring me breakfast?
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
We got Wayland over vt100 escape codes over ssh over tcp before we got a headless Wayland VNC/RDP solution.
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
I think the whole AI vs non. AI debate is a bit besides the point. Engineers are stuck in the old paradigm of "perfect" algorithms. I think the image you post at the beginning basically sums it up for me: ChatGPT o3/5 Thinkin
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Ah, the beauties of the POSIX shell.
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Why? Obviously rm -rf / will only "destroy the operating system" if the user is root and we're in the root namespace. There is nothing stopping you from building a sandboxed OS that never gives your users real root (Andr
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Yeah, you need to have (I would argue basic) Linux sysadmin skills. If you don't have those skills, and aren't interested to learn them, then you shouldn't self-host, just because it's the hot new trend. The thing I like
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
> Self-hosting is a better alternative than corporate cloud providers, but isn’t suitable for the everyman due to its complexity and associated costs. What costs? I run a self-hosted soultion for ~5 people off a $150 N100 machine + stora
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
My problem with C++, and maybe this is just me, is RAII. Now, Resource Aquisition Is Initialization is correct, but the corollary is not generally true, which is to say, my variable going out of scope does not generally mean I want to de-aq
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
If you want small function-style services then yea, that's valid, because p_i is really small. The question is really if you want hundreds of big and medium-sized services on a server, or tens of thousands of tiny services. This is a d
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
My point is that that's exactly the deployment model of Docker. So if I have 20 apps that are a Go binary + config on top of Alpine, that Alpine layer will only exist once and be shared by all the containers. If I have 20 apps that dep
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
The one thing I love about VSCode is how trivially I can fire it up on a container or on a remote machine via SSH. If Zed had this I would switch tomorrow. So my question for Zed users is: does it? The UI is a tad idiosyncratic on Linux (ca
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
ubuntu:latest is also 30MB, like Debian. Obviously an unoptimized C++/Python stack that depends on a billion .so's (specific versions only) and pip packages is going to waste space. The advantage of containers for these apps is th
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
> The potential benefits to enterprise orgs that ship thousands of multi-gig docker containers a week with microservices architectures that just run simple business logic, are very substantial. What are you talking about? Alpine containe
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
From what I was able to tell looking at the code, yes. The database is embedded in the program. Specifically, it is this file: https://github.com/h2337/connmap/blob/master/connmap/resourc... Presuma
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
> Is SSL also an evil technology designed to take away freedom from the internet? If it were not for Let's Encrypt, YES! Secure boot would not be a problem if it were trivial to enroll keys. Give me a big message like: "The OS
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
> These prices seem to keep increasing while we were promised they'll keep decreasing. A Ferrari is more expensive than the model T. The most expensive computer is a lot more expensive than the first PC. The price that usually falls
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
> Maybe, but you'll do so in an understandable way that you can catch in testing. You won't suddenly start fetching different wrong data when someone builds your program with a newer version of the compiler, which is a very rea
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
What's a memory issue? If I access beyond the end of an array in Rust, the panic handler runs and starts unwinding my stack. If I access beyond the end of an array in C++ with .at() the excwption handler runs and starts unwining my sta
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Missed the part where I said that: a) I develop the understanding with AI (I would never use something I don't understand at all), b) I test before pushing to prod and c) This replaces a bunch of shoddy shell scripts so even if there a
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
But that's exactly the thing. I DON'T understand the technology without AI.. I know stuff about Linux, but I knew NOTHING about Ansible, FreeIPA etc. So I guess you could say I understand the problem space not the solution space??
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Define "discredit". Define "rely". I administer some servers and a few classrooms at my uni, along with two colleagues. This is not my primary job. This is not anyone's primary job. We went from a bunch of ad hoc so
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
I live in Romania so I have different problems. I understand that Americans have problems with rent and healthcare. We have problem with other stuff, like food prices. But at the end of the day, it's extremely unhealthy to let these pr
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
Prioritize goals over the process and what AIs can do doesn't matter. Want to make a movie? The goal should be getting the movie out, seen by people and reviewed. Whether it's people captured by film, animations in Blender or AI s
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
The fundamental advantage of our society as designed is that it weaponizes narcissism, and makes narcissists do useful stuff for society. Don't care about competition? Find a place where rent prices are reasonable and you'll find
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
> because AI can make itself better Can it? I'm pretty sure current AI (not just LLMs, but neural nets more generally) require human feedback to prevent overfitting. Fundamentally eschewing any fear or hope of the singularity as pre
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
On the webpage at the "Why you should NOT use Canine" section, it is possible to swipe away a card that is in the background, which is very weird UX. Chrome 137. Android 13. Other than that... I'll give it a shot. Have three
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
That depends on how you define your terms. A pro-capital laissez-faire policy is new, sure. But the first civilizations in the world around 3000BC had trade, money, banking, capital accumulation, divison of labour etc.

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