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by sph 4mo ago
> LinkedIn offers no way for $company to disavow users who claim to work for $company - they will appear on the official company page as long as it's in their profile. I had the opposite problem: my company name was equivalent to th
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by sph 4mo ago
The risk of bit flips is a percentage. The more RAM you have, the greater the likelihood. I have experienced heisenbugs on my 64 GB desktop that I bet were because of random bit flips
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by sph 4mo ago
I work on a desktop, but as a backup I have bought a refurbished Dell Latitude, there are a lot of decent ones for €250 on eBay. Put Linux on it, it’s good enough for most workloads. I just hope my top shelf 2020-era desktop doesn’t die on
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by sph 4mo ago
The original sin is earlier, when people with a dream and a million dollars were dubbed Hackers. And then articles like these calls these Stanford and Harvard guys nerds. Have they ever seen a true computer nerd, you know, the type of peopl
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by sph 4mo ago
The evidence of younger code being better than old one doesn’t pass the smell test, and it’s hard to prove in a nascent field of technology where the oldest piece of software in continuous use has barely reached middle age. You just cannot
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by sph 4mo ago
Link: https://github.com/emacscollective/borg Seems worth a look, simply because it’s from the magit author.
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by sph 4mo ago
Neovim suffers from the Javascript kids mode of development. Constant change, constant churn, the mirage of stability always behind the corner, you always require third-party packages for functionality that should be core, completely erasin
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by sph 4mo ago
Increasingly so, yes.
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by sph 4mo ago
Elixir has it. To make it worthwhile, the entire standard library has to be designed to have the ‘object’ of the function as first argument. [1,2,3] |> Enum.map(&square/1) |> Enum.filter(&odd?/1) Using
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by sph 4mo ago
True and I don’t want to defend tyrants, but if we have to be fair, we have to admit history has had thousands of kings, and not everyone was mad with power. For every Caligula, there was a Marcus Aurelius. The vast majority weren’t great,
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by sph 4mo ago
And the Twitter campaign will find even more suckers to convince, and they will vote yet another Trump if not worse. The Internet was a mistake because it expected every person to become a paradigm of rationality, yet we are at the end of t
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by sph 4mo ago
It is sad to admit it to our Western selves, but authoritarians plan across decades, democracies across electoral terms at best. No king wants to rule over a failed state.
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by sph 4mo ago
People are stupid. I almost had a fight with a friend I have seen in a long time, a usually smart person, that wanted to convince me that solar power is more polluting than non-renewable alternatives. He’a not a shill, he is a farmer and li
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by sph 4mo ago
All his talks are very good. ‘Boundaries’ is probably the most illuminating video I have ever seen on software architecture, its lessons I still think about when I design any complex application. Incidentally it’s also a great introduction
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by sph 4mo ago
Why does bandwidth (MB/s) decrease over larger sizes? Is it possible caches play a larger factor during smaller memcpy, and you see the real CPU<->RAM bandwidth when you’re touching larger areas of memory? EDIT: never mind, your
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by sph 4mo ago
I’m so glad vibecoders adopt the same garish style of web design, I can spot them from a mile away and not waste my time in playing their slop. I hope this was worth the 2 grand and 10 minutes of your effort.
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What’s that got to do with FreeOberon?
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What every coder should know about gamma (2016)(blog.johnnovak.net)
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On the third hand, pestering and shaming open-source maintainers because they don't accept your PR is how you get the XZ backdoor situation.
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Fresh from the slop factory.
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Italy is a very economically diverse place. I haven't seen anyone sell beer at 2 euro a glass in two decades in my corner of Italy. The beers I was drinking last night were €5 or €6 (small northern city)
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The problem is that, adapting Brandolini’s law, it is an order of magnitude harder to make an extension to circumvent these tricks when companies have teams that make daily changes to their applications to make it shittier than before
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by sph 4mo ago
A lot of nonsense about AI and this The inbox of the future will be faster, smarter, and more capable than what most of us use today Please, Fastmail, don't fuck this up. I have been a happy customer for years. Do not fuck this up wi
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by sph 4mo ago
A quicker alternative: comm -1 -2 <(pacman -Qq | sort) <(curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/quantenProjects/3f768dce7331618310f016d975bf8547/raw/beef579f8a8efeed6ccf60788e5b768775550095/p
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by sph 4mo ago
Be aware of false positives! I found I had two of these packages installed, clang19 and compiler-rt19, but due to my recent laziness in updating my system, mine were still the versions from July 2025 from the official repos before they had
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by sph 4mo ago
This is my favourite genre of literature lately. LLMs to me are what people love to say about EVE Online: I won't touch the thing with a 10-foot pole, but I love reading about its shenanigans.
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Even more precisely, CPI tracks what someone has decided the average person would buy, and its basket of products is often tweaked to present more palatable numbers; it makes comparison of prices and inflation across years pretty much impos
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by sph 4mo ago
True but it also depends on the initial audience that sets the tone, and the time zone. In my empirical experience, pro-AI posts fare much better when West Coast is awake, and response is more muted when Europe is awake.
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Oh yes, it's been 3 years for me of being 'untethered' and it's still so easy to just waste my day if I am not careful with distractions. And the feeling that I should just stop being silly and I should find a normal job
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by sph 4mo ago
Quite the extraordinary claim. What of today writers of the past did not predict? Mind you, no one is able to predict the future with accuracy. I am not saying that a single person has gotten all their prediction right. That's ludicrou

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