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by tombert 6mo ago
Yeah, that's what I've been thinking. If we charged twice as much money per kilowatt-hour for datacenter electricity compared to residential, it feels like the net revenue for electricity could be roughly the same to the power co
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by tombert 6mo ago
Personally I haven't felt like Typescript has bought me enough over JavaScript to use it in contexts that I don't have to. I have to use TypeScript for work, and it's "fine", but I guess I haven't found that it
573.
by tombert 6mo ago
Let's see; I keep so many projects going concurrently that I have to go look through my git history :) I'm presenting at LinuxFest this year, so I'm currently in the process of wrapping up my slides for that. They're tu
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by tombert 6mo ago
I almost never bother theming things on my computer; I usually don't really care about how things look and I can't be bothered with it. I have two exceptions to this: NeoVim and tmux. tmux in particular looks very ugly out of the
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by tombert 6mo ago
I uploaded a picture of my growing bald spot (sigh…). The only thing they were able to see was the EXIF location data, which I already knew about. I am sure something involving my face would be more scary but I kind of don’t want to provid
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by tombert 6mo ago
Again, even if I agreed with your take on immigration, it’s in no way equivalent to the guy with the nuclear codes actively avoiding the constitutional framework. Feel free to keep going on about how horrible illegal immigration is if you w
577.
by tombert 6mo ago
I didn't say that. I said it's not the same an elected official actively defying and trying to weaken constitutional law. I'm not sure what kind of whataboutism gymnastics you're trying to pull.
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by tombert 6mo ago
It's weird, because when working on a big project, taking a break for a week or two, and returning to it, I will find a bug and will see hundreds of lines of code that are absolutely terrible, and I will tell myself "Tom you know
579.
by tombert 6mo ago
I’m not sure what to tell you if you don’t understand the difference between an elected official actively and purposefully defying the constitution in order to directly weaken our institutions, and people wanting our immigration laws to be
580.
by tombert 6mo ago
Ok, judging by this job posting [1] it looks like Spotify uses Java as well. [1] https://www.lifeatspotify.com/jobs/senior-backend-engineer-a...
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by tombert 6mo ago
It does not appear that this administration particularly cares about whether or not they're allowed to ignore laws.
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by tombert 6mo ago
I've had wifi drivers not work with fresh installs of Windows as well, so that's hardly a unique Linux thing. I've also had to reboot Windows into special modes because apparently a driver from a Broadcom WiFi card was "
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by tombert 6mo ago
Why does garbage collection make it unsuitable for production use? A lot of production software is written in garbage collected languages like Java. Pretty much the entire backend for iTunes/Apple Music is written in Java, and it&#x2
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by tombert 6mo ago
I feel like "pain" is a strong word here. It was a book spoiler. I wasn't laughing at people being punched or hurt or anything. I acknowledge it's a dick move, but it really is just a spoiler for a book, not exactly li
585.
by tombert 6mo ago
I actually liked reading and I was a nerdy kid. To be clear, I never actively participated in the spoiler stuff, just read about the reactions. I mean, keep in mind I was fourteen when this happened, and fourteen year old boys are very ofte
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by tombert 6mo ago
Reminds me of the Snape Kills Dumbledore spoiler initiative that happened in 2005, where people would drive around bookstores with people yelling in line and spoiling it. Admittedly, kind of a dick move, but I have to admit I did find it ki
587.
by tombert 6mo ago
Like most Microsoft products, Windows is a tool that benefits mostly from aggressive early marketing and successfully convincing everyone that they need this product, and by the time everyone realizes how terrible the product is it's
588.
by tombert 6mo ago
Thank you for saying something I've been saying for awhile: Linux definitely has jank, but I'm not convinced it's more janky than Windows. I think people are so used to Windows' awfulness that they kind of forget about h
589.
by tombert 6mo ago
I’ve noticed that a lot of newer releases, particularly TV shows, are not getting Blu-ray releases.
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by tombert 6mo ago
Yeah as I said, I doubt they’re going to send the FBI after you if you’re just ripping for your own backups; I think they care a lot more about people putting it on ThePirateBay or something.
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by tombert 6mo ago
Oh I don’t think it’s ethically wrong in the slightest. If you own the DVD you have given the copyright holder due compensation; I think it’s ethically fine to make a backup of media that you legally purchased. I was just saying that I don’
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by tombert 6mo ago
> if you have the DVD its legal to make a backup digital copy. Is this actually true? I thought there was inherent illegality to cracking the DRM on DVDs. Granted, I doubt anyone is going to come after you for making a backup of a legiti
593.
by tombert 6mo ago
I think legislation like this is much more about making sure that they're never even considered by the big AI companies. OpenAI and Anthropic, when looking to build a new center, will see that there would be headaches trying to get a
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by tombert 6mo ago
This certainly seems less awful than the typical C building process. What I've been doing to manage dependencies in a way that doesn't depress me much has been Nix flakes, which allows me a pretty straightforward `nix build` with
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by tombert 6mo ago
Tangential, but I read his New Kind of Science book. It's an interesting book, but I found the first chapter to be pretty amusing. The first chapter is so completely self-aggrandizing about how this book will change your life and the
596.
by tombert 6mo ago
My first software job, I was a junior person, and every Friday, we would have The Merge, where we'd merge every SVN branch into trunk. We always spoke of it like it was this dreadful proper noun, like Voldemort or something. The junior
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by tombert 6mo ago
Thanks for reading the post! I have been looking into the Concurrent DOS 286 and FlexOS lineage. Since there is still some level of commercial usage of it, it seems like people are a big more reluctant to talk about it in any capacity.
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by tombert 6mo ago
Makes sense, I haven't used the software in quite awhile.
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by tombert 6mo ago
If I recall correctly, the Fossil SCM uses SQLite under the covers for a lot of its stuff. Obviously that's not surprising considering its creator, but hearing that was kind of the first time I had ever considered that you could transl
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by tombert 6mo ago
I have been spending an inordinate amount of time trying to find the owners of the old Digital Research "Concurrent DOS" operating system. There's a lot of interesting turns in the search and it's been fun to document.

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