tmtvl

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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Yep. I tried paying with my card on Steam and it showed me a QR code and I was like 'what do you want me to do, hold my card up against the screen so it somehow magically makes the transfer happen?'. There simply isn't an alt
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
I've got 'sl' set to 'ls "$@" | rev'.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Ironman Linux.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
It disgusts me that there's no consumer protection law against 'if you want to use our service you must have an Android or iPhone'. Blue Bikes (rental bicycles) also have this problem and there it's possibly even worse b
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
"Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Sam Altman. The lawnmower doesn't hate you"?
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Going from gigajoules to terajoules.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Yeah, turns out that feature is gated behind javascript, which is unfortunate. The website works pretty well otherwise.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Until Vindarel gets the TLS working there's also a direct URL: (< https://simple.photo/vindarel/c352e2c0177b24786fb40041657485... >). It's a bit of a shame that there's no indication to what applicat
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Well, the P in PEMDAS stands for 'brackets'. The clearest example, even though it's rather uncommon: a := x ** y ** z (and that's hoping the language does the OOE for exponentiation arithmetically correctly) versu
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Leaving aside the fact that you have at least 4 (EDIT: 5) mistakes in that code, I find it less readable than the Lisp equivalent. The brackets reinforce the structure imposed by the indentation and help me keep track of order of execution.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Lisp is versatile as all get-out, so you can program however you want. For example, we can roll like it's 1969: (prog ((a 0) (b 1) (c 0)) (declare (type Fixnum a b c)) :fb-start (print a) (incf b a)
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
There is a language issue: carpenter is used as synonym of woodworker. It's like someone who doesn't know anything about computers using the term 'memory' to mean storage rather than working memory (i.e. RAM).
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
The term 'Cowboy coder' has been around for some time. Everybody's favourite unreliable source of knowledge has issues dating back to 2011: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_coding >
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
OpenSUSE has the whole OpenQA thing (< https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests >), although I think bugs may occasionally slip through the cracks. I tend to bounce back and forth between Arch and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (currentl
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
As I remember it there was a time when Ruby and Python were the two big up-and-coming scripting languages while Perl was in decline.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
While I don't share this cynical worldview, I am mildly amused by the concept of a future where, Warhammer 40,000 style, us code monkeys get replaced by tech priests who appease the machine gods by burning incense and invoking hymns.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Go wasn't around when D was released and Java has for the longest time been quite horrible (I first learnt it before diamond inference was a thing, but leaving that aside it's been overly verbose and awkward until relatively recen
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Is it worse to apologize to one who doesn't want you to do so, or to not apologize to one who _does_ want you to?
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Depends whether you go with Tumbleweed, Slowroll, or Leap. I believe the Kernel Of The Day repository is only available for Tumbleweed. By 'latest' kernel you did mean bleeding edge nightly builds, right?
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
I seem to recall Jitsi working pretty well.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
I don't know for certain that it can compile and run SQLite, but the smallest C compiler I know of is SectorC: < https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html >
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Hot seat multiplayer games?
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Did you deliberately leave out Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, or did you just forget it exists?
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
You're thinking of Unstable (Sid). It's also not like Arch or Tumbleweed because it gets locked down during release freeze and then gets a ton of updates all at once.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
I'm fairly certain that the GNU/Linux percentage dropping has more to do with the Simplified Chinese and Russian language percentage rising. I.O.W. more Windows than GNU/Linux users joined.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Not every compiled language has a de facto standard compiler, but with SBCL Common Lisp compiles pretty quickly. The Pascals (and Delphi) also tend to have rather fast compile times. I believe Jai is supposed to compile quickly but I'm
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by tmtvl 9mo ago
Because FP is useless so there aren't any practical examples. ...but all kidding aside, I kinda feel like an astronomer talking to an astrologer when it comes to this stuff. Like I'm scanning the night sky with my telescope while
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by tmtvl 9mo ago
Don't forget about branch prediction (GCC may have __builtin_expect, but that's not standard C).
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by tmtvl 9mo ago
I will give Claude Code a trial run if I can run it locally without an internet connection. AI companies have procured so much training data through illegal means you have to be insane to trust them in even the smallest amount.
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by tmtvl 9mo ago
Setting up ollama is 2 steps: 1. yay -S ollama 2. sytemctl enable --now ollama How is llama.cpp infinitely more easy to set up?

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