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by shirro 2y ago
I haven't worked in a Windows environment for a long time so was a little surprised how much of the online commentary suggests people in that environment are comfortable or at least resigned to the necessity of unattended live third pa
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by shirro 2y ago
I thought it was all metaphorical or for dramatic effect.
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by shirro 2y ago
I had to configure modelines on my first PC, bought so I could run a *nix at home, specifically Linux. The video card was a Tseng ET4000W32 and that is about all I can remember about the hardware in that PC. PC monitors seemed to rejected f
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by shirro 2y ago
The important thing is the Framework laptop is getting a third party board even if it is under-powered and unusable for most people. Raspberry Pi could take some of their IPO money and do an ARM board or Qualcomm and not have to worry about
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by shirro 2y ago
Snowden is one of those guys like Stallman who you can disagree with and think their position is extreme but it is foolish to completely dismiss them. There is currently a gold rush to circumvent IP rights and exploit the works of billions
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by shirro 2y ago
I do it very deliberately and I think it is good practice. It ads nuance and balance to Internet discussions which often tend to be very polarised with people shouting at each other. In my view Musk is a very flawed person but that doesn&#x
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by shirro 2y ago
US ideals of free speech are not required for a functional democracy and misunderstandings about the universality of US laws leads to misunderstandings online and does need to be corrected unfortunately. IMO Australia desperately needs bett
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by shirro 2y ago
It might be free speech in the USA but Australia is a sovereign nation with its own legal system so nobody cares what people in the US think.
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by shirro 2y ago
Plenty of Linux users want the freedom to run useful algorithms including those classified as machine learning and marketed along with a lot of other crap as AI. I don't personally want the distraction of a copilot in my dev environmen
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by shirro 2y ago
ML is an interesting technology. AI is a cult. Some people are in really deep.
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by shirro 2y ago
Blue Origin have been consistently disappointing. The leadership of Bezos and Bob Smith had a lot to do with their lack of achievement but that might change with Smith gone though they are still persisting with the stupid sub-orbital joy ri
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by shirro 2y ago
He certainly had an impact on Tesla's supercharger team. I know it goes against the prevailing mythology in the US of great men and visionary leaders but sometimes success or failure have more to do with the market and time. He did rec
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by shirro 2y ago
The Apollo mission architecture was inspired. Going to the moon likely would have remained a fantasy if they hadn't done the only thing that could work. Any country with ambitions to land people on the moon in the future is facing the
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by shirro 2y ago
It is hard to define what value Musk brought to his enterprises apart from capital and hype. I do not like or respect Musk but SpaceX are undeniably a world leading aerospace engineering company and very likely would still be if he wasn&#x2
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by shirro 2y ago
Still IF I think rather than when. Some good progress has been made but a large number of critical technologies still need to be demonstrated and development is burning a lot of money.
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by shirro 2y ago
Artemis does involve a lot of BS unfortunately. The SLS stack is a political bridge to nowhere that was never capable of directly returning people to the moon. When SLS got propagandized into a moon mission the limited delta-v necessitated
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by shirro 2y ago
Wake up yourself and all the dogs in the neighborhood at the same time. I want one. I went through the obligatory Australian fascination with espresso and am well over it. It is a load of fetishistic bs and scalding hot coffee is disgusting
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by shirro 2y ago
Always disliked Quora. Full of dark patterns to draw people in, scores far to well in search results and often felt like very low quality results. Felt not much better than a bot driven SEO farm. Reddit was only as good as the subreddit mod
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by shirro 3y ago
The notify protocol isn't much more complicated than that. From memory you send a string to a unix socket. I have written both systemd notify and listenfd in a few languages for little experiments and it is hard to imagine how the prot
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by shirro 3y ago
You need to understand the bias of many HN commenters. They are running businesses, aspire to run businesses or employed by businesses that are monetizing the work of tinkerers and packaging it for a mass market where they can sell higher v
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by shirro 3y ago
Perhaps in some countries but low population/high labor cost places like Australia and NZ don't have domestic vehicle manufacturing industries to protect and free trade opens access to foreign markets for their exports. If "f
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by shirro 3y ago
Memory safety isn't exclusive to Rust. Language designers and implementers solved these problems years ago with safer languages (better type systems, removing pointers) or safer runtimes (jvm, .net etc). Rust is notable because it brin
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by shirro 3y ago
The distros I use (debian, arch) have a kitty-terminfo package. First thing I install when I ssh into a machine. My terminal settings just work and I don't have to do archeology on decades of obscure terminal escape sequences.
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by shirro 3y ago
New Zealand like Japan, Indonesia and other places around the pacific ring of fire is very geologically active. I have only barely felt one earthquake living in Australia in half a century and it was almost imperceptible. I expect the low g
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by shirro 3y ago
Yes it is. It is hoped that finding commercial applications for space technology will benefit NASA by giving providers more opportunity to amortise development costs and lower prices. It isn't all billionaires but they are part of the
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by shirro 3y ago
My understanding is there are international agreements (eg Hague Convention) when serving civil court documents to someone in another sovereign nation like Australia. US courts have no jurisdiction here and nobody cares about their rules. I
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by shirro 3y ago
I don't think it is a suicide but a pivot into a new phase of their business. A phase that is focused more on mainstream content, increased monetisation etc. The rushed API change and poor communication appeared to be incompetent but p
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by shirro 3y ago
I haven't heard back on my data request but I expect they are dealing with a higher than usual volume. I got an export when I mass deleted my comment history so I am not too concerned. My main interest in the data request now is as con
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by shirro 3y ago
Hacker News is till great though the more I get exposed to the whole ActivityPub fediverse thing the more I wish it wasn't disconnected. I was in a read only HN app earlier today and wanted to post a comment to HN and instantly wished
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by shirro 3y ago
I wish Zig had Go-like interfaces. I understand why they don't as they have decided control flow must be explicit but having to include a heap of boilerplate to get the same result isn't a win for readability or maintenance. Given

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