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by simoncion 1mo ago
> They finally killed the `old.reddit.com` subdomain for logged-out users this week... Is it a gradual shutdown? [0] works just fine for me, and I don't and have never had a Reddit account so I'm always logged out. I've vi
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> my phrasing ... is somewhat wrong It's completely wrong. > I stand by the position that all this doesn't seem very restrictive though. Is your position that it's less restrictive than it needs to be? If that's
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> HDR... Yep. Sucks. It's the only thing I miss about gaming on Windows. Hopefully xlibre will be adding that in. > ...VRR, Mixed refresh rate/DPI displays, Zero-copy video acceleration... I know that the first two work fi
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> Wayland + VRR is even better. On AMD hardware, VRR works fine on xorg and has for quite a long while now... so long as you have either a single active monitor (or maybe the restriction is just "don't have any active non-VRR
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> People are getting way too bent out of shape... I hope you're not including me in "people". Remember that I said: There might be some merit to a claim that Google Drive isn't a medium customarily used for soft
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> Perhaps. No, definitely. > What would you suggest? Unironically? Either: * Mind control. * Refusing to permit anyone who will enrich themselves at the expense of others to serve as a public servant. But both seem somewhere between i
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> I suppose forcing a means to share the source code could have been too restrictive, but the GPL only speaks about the shape of the source code itself (it should be "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it&quo
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by simoncion 1mo ago
There might be some merit to a claim that Google Drive isn't a medium customarily used for software distribution these days, but, yeah, it's definitely not paying a thousand+ cent bill in pennies, and I'm skeptical that it&
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by simoncion 1mo ago
/me inserts the "You're proposing a software solution to a social problem" copypasta form Seriously, if the coordination problem you've identified isn't solved by the instantaneous global communications tech th
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> ...when you take the resell value of the components on the second hand market into account. When taking the resale value of used kit on the second-hand market into account, one must also take into account the hassle of selling on the
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by simoncion 1mo ago
Yep. Though, given that this was originally a message board and hangout for folks deeply involved with YCombinator, and that prior to LLM Mania, the most commonly posted stuff was either "Techie 'lifestyle' blogging" o
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> What you actually said was that I "didn't put any meaningful thought into it". What he literally said was [0][1] You submitted thoughtless pap; of course it didn't get any traction. ... > What was thought
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by simoncion 1mo ago
That's what either a disclosures section or a series of footnotes at the end is for. For folks who care about quality discussion and writing, it's a tragedy that people are using microblogging tools to publish essays. The length r
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> Only people with $$$$$ are allowed to touch Fable. This was primarily a clever way to try to shore up their revenue numbers. By preventing folks who don't have seven-to-twelve-figure bank account balances from using the tools th
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by simoncion 1mo ago
Yep. I've been hearing «Look, we only got tools that are really capable in the past 6->8 months... everything prior to that was unusable garbage, so anything anyone said about the field prior to that is totally invalid.» for year
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> ...there’s nothing about being into tech that’s in opposition to class consciousness. I agree about the ethos and ethics of early hackers. But, I note that -by volume- most of the folks who do programming and nearly all of the people w
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> What's the point of all this talk... It signals to people who have money and/or influence that the speaker is "committed to doing the right thing" and "eager to find a workable path forward" that "mea
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> It's like in-band signalling in the telephone network... The major LLM providers claim that they are very committed to security and that their products are very dangerous and capable of great harm. Given that their tools do what M
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> I'd like to reiterate that dual-stacking is an administrative pain... This professional administrator disagrees. > The sin in dual-stack IPv4 + IPv6 is that they're the same protocol. There is nothing different in their ai
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> I still don't, on any residential carrier I can purchase from. That's a bummer! Contrariwise, this USian has had solid IPv6 service from every ISP I've gotten residential service from for more than a decade now.
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> If IPv6 were wholeheartedly "adopted" then I and most consumers would not require "dual-stack" at home. Nah. We're not going to shut down IPv4 service for many, many decades. IPv6 is primarily an global-addre
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> Dual-stack is a terrible curse and a hack. Odd. Is the IPX + IP dual stack a terrible curse and a hack? [0] IP + Ethernet? [1] [0] If you think this isn't real, you're not old enough. [1] Given that your focus is home network
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> Seriously. If your "worst case scenario" is still "I could retire comfortably tomorrow without any hardship"... Yeah. A long while back, I was talking to the guy who ran a Subway-branded sandwich shop that I frequ
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by simoncion 1mo ago
One option is to pay back enough of his compensation from that period (and money made off of investments funded by that compensation) to make his total comp over his tenure equal to that of a low-to-mid-level line worker. Some say that mone
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> ...in year 2026, still IPv6 is not fully well utilized... Eh. It took quite a long time, but even HN has a v6 address these days: $ dig +short news.ycombinator.com ANY 2606:7100:1:67::26 209.216.230.207
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> Way to double down on the “needlessly picky and combative” angle, dude. Sit and consider the points of similarity between my refusal-shaped reply and the entire conversation we had prior to it and you might find enlightenment, in the s
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> unless, of course, you don't know said engineer because you don't even work in the same company... Or they work in a different part of the fairly-large company that you both work for. I guess emmelaich either missed the par
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> Please explain... I'm neither required nor strongly obligated to do so, nor do I see significant personal benefit to doing so. So, I will not. However, these days it's quick and easy to command an LLM-based system to generate
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by simoncion 1mo ago
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation... Assume good faith. That's what I did. So, right back at you.
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by simoncion 1mo ago
You: [0] Nobody's talking about an obligation here. Also you: [1] If you think you can do better than journald's existing format, propose a new one with tests to prove it. The fact that you're personally powerle

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