snovymgodym

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by snovymgodym 1y ago
It's unfortunate that MacOS continues to get worse as the hardware gets better.
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
Yes... to any Apple Silicon machine.
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
Console success hasn't really been about performance for some time now.
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
The same "millions of years of evolution" resulted in both intelligent humans and brainless jellyfish. Evolution isn't an intentional force that's gradually pushing organisms towards higher and higher intelligence. Evolu
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
ReactOS, the effort to create a free and open source Windows NT reimplementation. It has been in existence in some form or another for nearly 30 years, but did not gain the traction it needed and as of writing it's still not in a usabl
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
A striking amount of business software runs on Windows because Microsoft was dominant during the peak PC era (e.g. 1990-2010). The companies running that stuff aren't doing so because old guys think Windows is good, they're runnin
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
Modern tech is bloated and rent-seeking through ads, upsells, and dark patterns. Older tech does one or a small number of things, and it usually does those things well and stays out of the user's way.
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
I'm not convinced Microsoft cares about the Windows market share in consumer PCs or the small amount of money they make from selling Windows licenses to regular consumers. If they did, Windows wouldn't be so usable unactivated and
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
Yeah you clearly don't have "no clue" of what you're doing in this example though. You're someone who knows the difference between a PNG and an SVG, knows enough Javascript to know that "DOM-based" JS is a
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
"economic growth" and "GDP" are numbers on a spreadsheet which are only important to economists who serve the elite. Meanwhile for the last half century the average American has seen declining wealth and wage growth when
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
And yet, running clusters of Mac Minis is one of the most common datacenter solutions for when you need MacOS (usually for CI systems that run iOS builds or something similar).
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
This Bryan Cantrill quote is relevant any time Oracle comes up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2305s
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
Yet somehow ECMAScript was a worse name.
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
I do think the United States needs to overhaul its firearms laws, however: There are very few countries that ban firearms outright. The type of weapon used in this attack was a bolt-action hunting rifle. You can buy that sort of weapon on t
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
Claude code is by all accounts a revolutionary tool for getting useful work done on a computer. It's also: - a NodeJS app - installed by curling a shell script and piping it into bash - an LLM that's given free reign to mess with
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
> I can build myself a new amd64 box for just under €200. pcpartpicker link?
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
It's just a color-coded map on some guy's twitter account that doesn't cite a source for the figures, but it might well be true.
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
> C is not portable in practice. Almost every C program and library that does anything interesting has to be manually ported to every platform. I'm guessing you mean that every cross-platform C codebase ends up being plastered in ca
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
Yeah, I'm fairly certain you could run it on an android device using termux. You'll likely need to root the phone to get the OS not to kill the termux process due to idleness though.
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
I don't know, have there really been meaningful "language barriers" between mainstream programming languages for the last 20 years or so? If I think about the 10 most common languages being used for application code right now
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
Tools for Conviviality is insanely relevant today. When I was reading it I just couldn't believe it was written in 1973. So ahead of its time.
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
> It's an illusion. In a sense, all vision is.
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
All things being equal I'd rather have a new car for $15000 than a used one.
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
No, but it makes the stock price appreciate which is even better than a cash inflow for an inside investor since your wealth increases without a taxable event.
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
This is cool, I think the most novel/unique aspect is the advanced memory tracking: https://github.com/helixlang/helix-lang?tab=readme-ov-file#a... Still, I don't really see this going anywhere. There are alr
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
It's pretty simple (in the US, can't speak for elsewhere). There are 2 big factors at play: 1. Margins. Manufacturers make huge margins on expensive vehicles and very slim margins on cheap vehicles. The numbers differ, but I think
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
At least OCaml exists outside of the company https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2023/04/goldman-sachs...
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
The social drinking and binge drinking culture of most European countries make the USA look like Saudi Arabia.
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
Feels like YouTube is ripe for disruption. In the recent past (say up to the mid 2010s) it was a really good product and there was a reason nobody gave a shit about Vimeo et al, YouTube as a site, app, platform was so far ahead of the compe
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
> He could maybe withdraw the US from it. realistically speaking, this destroys NATO

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