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by sgbeal 5mo ago
> I'm not sure MSVC could compile the GNU extensions used. The supported platforms only list Linux and Mac. Notably missing from that list is any of the BSDs (not counting what may or may not remain of BSD under the Mac hood).
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by sgbeal 5mo ago
> When people talk about minimal Linux, they often think of the old days when systems used only 300 MB of RAM. Wait, what??? No - we think of systems with 4-8MB of RAM and hard drives were <= 120MB (MB, not GB).
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by sgbeal 5mo ago
> “Shared hosting providers” These haven’t been a thing since VMs That is unfortunately not true. i left my last one only a few years ago and they're still going strong without me.
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by sgbeal 5mo ago
> Even with shared hosting, you generally have root in your VM or container Lots of shared hosters don't use VMs or containers. It's some arbitrary number of people logging in to a shared system, each one with a home directory
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by sgbeal 5mo ago
Thank you! It's legible now!
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by sgbeal 5mo ago
That big flashing yellow bar near the top makes the page _literally impossible_ for me to read. Human eyes are built to follow the fastest/flashiest thing around, and that bar takes the provierbial cake in terms of eyeball distraction.
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by sgbeal 5mo ago
Whereas i was thinking "it's about time a hero arrived!" ;) i don't presume to know whether Cthulhu is the hero we need or the hero we deserve.
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
Somehow disgusting but also lovely :). Now i want one styled after OS/2 Warp for my own site.
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> The most consequential new feature is Auto Browse, powered by Gemini 3, which handles multi-step tasks autonomously: scheduling appointments, filling forms, collecting documents, filing expense reports, and managing subscriptions acros
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> I frankly don’t care about being on top of tech any more but I’m keen to use my years of experience being productive. Preach it, brother! :-D > In this situation would you do it? FWIW, if it would keep me productive and keep a roof
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> The fact that the transition to European alternatives does not always go smoothly is evident in Schleswig-Holstein, where the local government is already struggling with the migration from Microsoft to an open-source environment. It&#x
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
i personally know only one developer (drh of SQLite fame) who does not like/use syntax highlighting. For most of us, it helps us quickly separate the noise from the code. Some brains don't need that, though, or they find it distra
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
IMHO a working ARM port would be a massive win for the project in terms of drawing in new users and developers.
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
This wins my internet today. Now to go file a claim against my dog for not allowing me the full five seconds of the five-second rule before it ate my dropped food... Edit: < https://benlirio.com/petty-small-claims/?c=
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
It's easy to imagine this being the basis of a role-playing gaming aid, creating party-appropriate encounters/scenarios automatically and illustrating them.
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> The internet reports that D100 is impractical to use... It's a nice novelty but it's not terribly practical. Despite having a d100, 2d10s are invariably more comfortable to use and easier to read. My d100 was purchased back i
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> but wouldn't you need 101 sides to get 0% and 100% for that? There is no 0% in d100/d-percentile rolls. Every "how to interpret these dice" paragraph in games which use them will tell you to interpret 0-0 on 2d10 as
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> More than just the d100 he was a pioneer of being very exacting when it came to making polyhedral dice. Absolutely, but i couldn't fit all of that into the subject line ;) and he's best known for the d100. Many of us remember
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Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died(icv2.com)
130 points by sgbeal 6mo ago|54 comments
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> Do you always make things about yourself? That's an abrasive question but i dare say that we all do. It's our only constant point of reference. > Have you written a parser or interpreter? i have written many parsers, sever
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> My strong hunch is they are moving to closed source because it is now trivial to copy a product with AI clean rooms. Which, tbf, is a totally valid reason to move closed source. Since such "clean room" implementations ostens
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> Today, we are making the very difficult decision to move to closed source, and there’s one simple reason: security. (Enter name of large software vendor here) has long-since proven that security through obscurity is not a real thing.
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
i tend to think of myself as a computing nerd, but posts like this one make me realize that i don't even rate on the computing nerd scale.
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
While i have not had the opportunity to switch my web-facing system to ARM, i would jump at the chance to, if for no other reason than the likely power savings[^1]. i host several Pi (ARM) systems in my home network and have nothing but res
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> So describing the situation as "nobody knows what 17% of the top crates.io packages do" is an overstatement. Noting that you willfully cut the qualifying "virtually" from that quote, thereby transforming it to over-
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> Am I thinking correctly No, you're not. Company time + company resources = company property. Company project = company property. No code within any given company belongs to one person, but belongs to (spoiler alert!) the company.
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
This file _really_ needs a license header. Anyone who's at least marginally license-conscience is not going to touch this without a license declaration in the source file. Edit: i now see there's a separate LICENSE file in the git
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> Most approaches in this space generate thousands of individual simulated personas, ask each one your question, and aggregate the answers. We think that's backwards. You're creating artificial noise and then averaging it out.
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> We built our answer into Firefox 148, introducing a centralized AI Controls panel in your browser settings including a single “Block AI Enhancements” switch that turns off every AI feature at once. TIL. Woot! Sure enough, it's rig
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> (no blue or green light) Coincidentally, i saw several headlines yesterday (now long gone from my news feed) claiming that blue light filters are not nearly as effective as once believed. It may be worth researching the current status

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