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by spudlyo 11d ago
That's not a problem with Ebooks writ large -- a zip file of a bunch of HTML documents aren't likely to randomly change on you. It's a problem of some evil vendor's "ebook ecosystem", where one day your copy of
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by spudlyo 11d ago
We are talking about our opinions here, so there are no wrong answers. It's an interesting observation, the physical presence of a book is something I hadn't considered. Having said that, I'd wager lots of us avid readers hav
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by spudlyo 11d ago
Sharing anything that has even a whiff of being machine generated opens you up to huge amounts of scorn and derision. It happens in the comment section of nearly every post on this site. If that's not the community here using shame as
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by spudlyo 11d ago
This seems like a lot of work for not a huge payoff. I get that the feel and experience of a physical book has a certain nostalgia, but for me, I'd just leave the big monster on the shelf and grab an epub from Anna's Archive. You
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by spudlyo 12d ago
Haha, thank you for using multiple exclamation marks!!! I'm thrilled that someone is as excited as I am about this feature, it made all the time I spent manually correcting/marking all of Gemini's elision hallucinations worth
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by spudlyo 13d ago
https://fabulae.orbilii.com - A Latin language audiobook containing both volumes of A.D. Godley's "The Fables of Orbilius" which are entertaining intermediate Latin stories written at the turn of the 20th century
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by spudlyo 15d ago
> For swap, the best advice is to disable swap on your desktop, unless <8GB RAM. That maybe reasonable advice if you never intend to hibernate your desktop. I like to shut my desktop down when I'm not using it, and it's nice
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by spudlyo 17d ago
I agree that there are people who can see the potential of these tools, and are enthusiastic boosters, yet are still unable to realize the benefits for themselves for whatever reason. I feel like these people are somewhat rare, and labeling
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by spudlyo 20d ago
I don't know if shorter would have been better. Would that have meant omitting the bit contrasting Harry Truman and Donald Trump? For me, that bit alone was worth reading to the end. I should probably pick up a biography of Truman, I
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by spudlyo 23d ago
Years ago, when I worked at Stripe (which had a somewhat unique and inventive lexicon) it was a common term. “Is this jank load-bearing?” someone might ask.
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by spudlyo 28d ago
There is a thriving and vibrant terminal ecosystem out there, with Ghostty, Kitty, Herdr, Tmux, and others leading the way with all kinds innovations and features. I can't imagine how a closed SaaS / freemium, telemetry sending, l
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by spudlyo 1mo ago
Improve the speed of APFS. Like try forking off a job to create a bunch of git worktrees in on APFS vs EXT4 -- it's significantly slower. Deleting a ton of files, cloning repos, hardlink performance, etc; APFS performance is poor compa
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by spudlyo 1mo ago
I'm not sure how this kind of software gatekeeping squares with our new glorious future where everyone is happily running bespoke vibecoded applications tailored specifically to their needs. I bristled a bit at the scalpel "you do
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by spudlyo 1mo ago
I've noticed that too with Sol (xhigh) it starts with pretty good architectural goals, but really get lost in the weeds with certification and validation. Like it won't trust native tools like (in my case packer, Ansible, gcloud)
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by spudlyo 1mo ago
> I have a hard time believing anything of value, anything worth copyrighting, could be entirely generated by AI. Perhaps you're not stretching your imagination enough. What if an expert novelist used an AI like it were a fancy auto
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by spudlyo 1mo ago
Tried to buy old DDR4 memory recently? I've been revitalizing some old laptops, and I foolishly paid nearly $200 for a Crucial 32GB Kit of DDR4 PC4-19200.
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by spudlyo 1mo ago
This is LE;DU: low-effort, didn't upvote.
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by spudlyo 1mo ago
The headline comes from the most recent post in the thread from Eli Zaretskii: > Thanks, this is now installed on the master branch, and I'm therefore closing this bug. Good news! This will enable a bunch of future in-buffer graphic
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
Two years down the line I suspect "persons" won't working directly on code bases they hate. Two years from now, I'd wager that even today's most ardent AI critics will be using them for dirty jobs -- like refactorin
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
Nice! I love all the Latin audio, although most of it is well above my level. I'm always pleased to hear well-pronounced Latin with elision and prodelision. Do you know how the audio is licensed? I'd love to have my own copy, and
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
I'm a recently retired software nerd who got into reading 19th century literature. I was greatly inspired by characters in these novels, most of whom had the advantages of a classical education, and I lamented how poor my own was. One
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
> LLMs have been an absolute game changer for me who is a hobby classicist but also knows how to build software. Definitely! I myself have been having a lot of fun[0] recently using LLMs to enrich one of my favorite beginner Latin reader
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
In my cynical view, herder now seems to be an attempt to commercialize tmux by adding superficial polish. I am wary of VC backed developer tools that seek to innovate in well established open source niches. Herdr by default is mouse focused
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
Radix enim omnium malorum est cupiditas. Enshitification is sure to follow in one guise or another.
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
I started treating my developer workstations like cattle. With a press of a button I can turn a vanilla Ubuntu 22.04.04 server install into my happy-place developer environment. Tools, code, browser -- everything set up exactly the way I wa
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
So in case you're worried about watching a 35 minute video and wishing you hadn't, here is what I think is an interesting observation that the speaker starts coming around to at around the 7 minute mark. Why does software suck? Ma
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
I almost exclusively write in cursive, so I don't have any personal experience, but I assume the only real difference is in how often you pick up the pen, so my guess is that it should be roughly the same.
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
The muscles in your hand and fingers are small and tire pretty easily. The muscles in your arm and shoulder are bigger and can do a lot more work. Back in the day, folks who were taught "business cursive" like the "Palmer Met
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
One day there will be a decent TV that can be relatively easily hacked to run on open source firmware. My wife and I are moving soon, and I'm happy we've decided not to have a TV in the new place. Neither of our current LG TV&#x27
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
"Writing for money and reservation of copyright are, at bottom, the ruin of literature. No one writes anything that is worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject." -- Arthur Schopenhauer If you find this

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