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by stock_toaster 7mo ago
He also (presumably) doesn't have to worry as much about money as many OSS folks might, so dual licensing (as a means to keep working on the OSS version while also making ends meet) is likely not something he would consider. He also st
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Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful(rakhim.exotext.com)
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by stock_toaster 7mo ago
Indeed! I was about to post something very similar. Glad I scrolled down a bit.
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by stock_toaster 7mo ago
I imagine it will take a while to turn a ship this big, even if they are willing (yet to be seen).
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by stock_toaster 7mo ago
I thought it was mostly rolled back for domestic R&D as part of the terribly named OBBBA. [1]: found a ref https://www.bnncpa.com/resources/one-big-beautiful-bill-act-...
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by stock_toaster 8mo ago
With this administration? Color me unsurprised.
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by stock_toaster 8mo ago
> On what OS are you using these settings? Linux. I also don't typically run any individual workload that would consume all system ram. Not loading a giant scientific model into memory all at once for fast processing or anything lik
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by stock_toaster 8mo ago
Agreed. Now that one more company has announced a big (40%!) headcount cut, other CEOs will feel like it is ok to do so now too (someone else stuck their neck out first, safe to pile on, "every one else is doing it", etc). I expec
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by stock_toaster 8mo ago
On systems with 32/64/128 GB of ram, I'll typically have a 1GB or 2GB swap. Just so that the system can page out here and there to run optimally. Depending on the system, swap is typically either empty or just has a couple hu
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by stock_toaster 8mo ago
Maybe roads would last longer if we weren't all being forced to buy super heavy SUVs just so automakers can skirt emissions and fuel economy requirements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPm4de6-eTg
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by stock_toaster 8mo ago
I you fancy needing a GUI, rancher desktop is decent.
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by stock_toaster 8mo ago
If they can resell them abroad at a higher price than locals can pay? Then, all of it.
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by stock_toaster 8mo ago
odin - jangafx’s embergen[1] jai - thekla’s new game, announced but not yet released —- order of the sinking star[2] [1]: https://jangafx.com/software/embergen [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Or
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by stock_toaster 8mo ago
> I'll want to communicate something to my team. I'll write 4 bullet points, plug it into an LLM, which will produce a flowing, multi paragraph e-mail. I'll distribute it to my co-workers. They will each open the e-mail, s
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by stock_toaster 8mo ago
Same here. In addition, I feel like there has been an overall drop in software quality along with the rise of AI driven code development. Perhaps there are other driving factors (socioeconomic, psychological, etc) and perhaps I am misattrib
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by stock_toaster 8mo ago
In retrospect, it is wild how good/successful google was 17-20 years ago!
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by stock_toaster 8mo ago
memcached is multithreaded, so it scales up better per node. memcached clients also frequently uses ketama consistent hashing, so it is much easier to do load/clustering, being much simpler than redis clustering (sentinel, etc). Mcrout
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by stock_toaster 8mo ago
zulip seems to me like it would be a better solution to me (open source, self hostible, familiar paradigm, etc), but then again, I think _anything_ would be better than teams... so more power to them!
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by stock_toaster 8mo ago
Most people are just highly resistant to change, even change for the better.
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by stock_toaster 9mo ago
There are some alternate domains listed on wikipedia [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive
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by stock_toaster 9mo ago
> Remember that every K-12 student for the last decade is getting it done on the cheapest low bid Chromebook possible. > They are true pieces of shit, too-down managed by barely qualified people… I feel like this is even underselling
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by stock_toaster 9mo ago
> The one use case where a DB backed queue will fail for sure is when the payload is large. For example, you queue a large JSON payload to be picked up by a worker and process it, then the DB writing overhead itself makes a background wo
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by stock_toaster 9mo ago
Could also be packaging issues. Kde has been pretty stable for me on debian 13.
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by stock_toaster 9mo ago
Thanks, steve!
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by stock_toaster 9mo ago
One problem with this is it often leads to a missing stair[1] syndrome for new users not knowing whom to block and finding the place overall too toxic. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_stair
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by stock_toaster 9mo ago
_IF_ true, this seems like it would also be a big deal for both electrical grid infrastructure (load smoothing), and laptops.
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by stock_toaster 9mo ago
plenty of other issues though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999 https://www.sophos.com/en-us/blog/brave-ceo-apologises-for-a... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news&#
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by stock_toaster 9mo ago
Depending on what you are doing, if you don't fancy Gimp, then maybe one of: Krita, Darktable, Inkscape?
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by stock_toaster 9mo ago
At this point it is really only just a vehicle to drive more traffic to office365 (or whatever weird name microsoft is calling it this week).
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by stock_toaster 10mo ago
Exactly what I was wondering. I guess it depends on how much he does or doesn’t “donate”.

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