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by smodo 2y ago
I’m not very well versed in kernel development. But I am a Rust dev and have observed the discussion about Rust in Linux with interest… Having said that, this part of the article has me baffled: >> implementing these features for a sm
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by smodo 2y ago
A space sweeper made of diamonds. If only they still wrote James Bond scenarios like that. I love it.
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by smodo 2y ago
> We republicans may not do these things because we're worried about global warming or climate change (…) Hilarious every way I turn it. The consequences of global warming are ever more clear, but for the time being cooler cars prev
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by smodo 2y ago
PowerBI with an actually decent DAX IDE or language server. Writing DAX in a single line like an excel formula is bonkers. The language itself is pretty interesting but MS apparently can’t be arsed to help me write it.
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by smodo 2y ago
My ink supplier actually provides refunds on their own ink whenever HP pushes another OTA update. They just keep doing it, the industry is aware. And when my next toner runs out I’m buying Brother and never touching HP again.
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by smodo 2y ago
Love the YouTube clip. I’m reminded in turn of Foucaults concept of heterotopia (‘other place’ or ‘place of otherness’) where things are different by design. The otherness of such spaces is one of their goals: they are there to provide an o
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by smodo 2y ago
This may demonstrate the intricacy of the type system but isn’t a very intuitive example… I feel like the Rust Book does a good job of explaining the different types in std. For one thing it shows these types in their most idiomatic use cas
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by smodo 2y ago
To add to this point. A couple of plastic recyclers in my country just went out of business because oil has been made so cheap recently that they are simply priced out of the plastics market. According to interviews with the founders, in th
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by smodo 2y ago
D2 is open, they just have an optional proprietary layout algo. Of course one might contend that the rest is ‘just’ tooling but I find D2 provides a very quick and easy way to rough out diagrams without touching a mouse. The open source alg
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by smodo 2y ago
Really makes you wonder how we put up with ReiserFS for so long. Looks like the author has decided to sell his book by looking at political dimensions of programming. Nothing inherently wrong with that but among programmers it hardly feels
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by smodo 2y ago
>> What if there was something about the way we compute that was at odds with the way humans are? I’d never heard anyone suggest such a possibility (…) What? That’s the premise of almost all techno-dystopias, a slew of horror movies e
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by smodo 2y ago
It definitely resonates. I am afraid of there being an upper bound to the amount of management work I can do without burning out. And yet I still get promoted every year and continue up the ladder… interestingly I have the exact same ration
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by smodo 2y ago
I think this talk [0] by Jodie Burchell explains the problem pretty well. In short: you are right that for a given task, only the outcome matters. However, as Burchell shows, AI is sold as being able to generalize. I understand this as the
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by smodo 2y ago
A bit of cart-horse-y reasoning…. An expressive type system helps me to model the nuances that are actually present in the business logic. If I simplify or restructure my model more than real life allows for I would say that causes much mor
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by smodo 2y ago
This is one of the key understandings regarding negotiations. They are not adversarial by nature. They can devolve into a tug of war but only if the scope is extremely limited. Expanding the scope by openly considering multiple benefits and
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by smodo 2y ago
Same here, have used trunk for over year and find it very easy to work with. I use it with egui and it has made distribution of my stuff really easy.
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by smodo 2y ago
I didn’t know about this new graphic novel. That’s cool, I’ll probably buy it. The book about Mechner creating PoP was very inspiring too.
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by smodo 2y ago
Yes. Also, one of the pearls of wisdom gained with age is that young people will inevitably overestimate themselves. So all OP’s cleverness was at the time probably received with a mixture of annoyance and sympathetic chuckling. I know that
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by smodo 2y ago
At least they own it when writing that ‘building a local music player relying on web technologies for audio playback wasn’t a great idea.’ Looks like a lot was learned and that’s really what this kind of project is for isn’t it? There’s not
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by smodo 2y ago
Can you explain what this alludes to? Him lobbying for AI regulation that incidentally positions his company as the de facto standard?
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by smodo 2y ago
I can somewhat relate as I’ve suffered a brain injury. It was similar in that I couldn’t continue to go full tilt everyday. In my mind all my success was based on that: working all the time. Turns out I was wrong; I still make a living but
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by smodo 2y ago
They could just pass the browser a blocklist?
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by smodo 2y ago
Totally agree. I’m working for a company right now that put off ‘refactoring’ their tangle of spreadsheets and database query export ‘pipelines’ for over a decade. We are hemorrhaging money right now because it does not scale. And you won’t
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by smodo 2y ago
Lol that’s precisely what it is. It redistributes the cost of accidents. Across all its members, paid forward. Just don’t get insurance and nothing of yours will pay for anything belonging to anybody else.
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by smodo 3y ago
On top of that, Onedrive is the worst of the lot at handling collisions in files. I routinely find that files I work on using two machines in my office (gbit uplink) get garbled. To the point where neither has the latest changes, they’re ju
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by smodo 3y ago
Very possible. I’ve suffered a brain injury that has made me more aware of this kind of discontinuous input. It is definitely more taxing for the brain. LED lights with poor drivers are a rudeness to me now.
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by smodo 3y ago
In that case I’d say it’s far more likely he suffered tremendously from the position he found himself in and wanted to end his life to stop his suffering. But my money is on Boeing having leaned on him to such a degree that he saw no way ou
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by smodo 3y ago
It sounds like a dream job, but I’m sure that’s the nostalgia talking. And of course you have to wonder: could I rewrite this in Rust over a weekend?
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by smodo 3y ago
I’d say the ship is in port but ready to sail. Before this does anything you have to provide your own API key. So it’s off by default. It’s just the button that is there.
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by smodo 3y ago
I’m interested in this because lately I’ve been using an rpi4 with Surge XT, a great open source softsynth. The sound engine itself is not cpu bound in most scenarios. The pi can be brought to its knees with a lot of voices and effects but

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