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by tombert 7mo ago
I'm aware, but that's not usable yet in any real sense. I'm glad we're getting another engine and it would be cool if it becomes competitive with the other. I'm just saying that Presto was already competitive with
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by tombert 7mo ago
I'm honestly not sure. I'm sure my dad Googled something to use it as an excuse to not change. As I said in a sibling comment, I think they really just don't want to change and they are looking for excuses; I suspect even if
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by tombert 7mo ago
They've never used Winboat (or anything Linuxey really), so it's definitely not a fault with Winboat itself. Honestly I think they really just don't want to change and they're trying to look for ways out because they kno
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by tombert 7mo ago
You get used to it, honestly. I really don't think that the Nix language is nearly as bad as people say it is once you get used to it, and I've been using NixOS since before ChatGPT was released so I've gotten pretty ok with
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by tombert 7mo ago
The easiest one I've set up was ClearOS. I was happy enough with OpnSense but when I upgraded a network card I had issues with driver compatibility because of the FreeBSD core. ClearOS being Linux it worked out of the box, and gettin
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by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah, I'm using a mini PC with a thunderbolt 10GbE card. According to my Kill-a-watt, most of the time it hovers around 10 watts of power. Not as low as something like a Raspberry Pi but within my pain threshold. Though that said, ev
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by tombert 7mo ago
I use a 10GbE switch that was retired from a datacenter, so the switching is as good or better than most things. It wasn't expensive, I think I paid less than $70 for it. As far as network routing is concerned, I haven't been abl
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by tombert 7mo ago
Seems like now is as good a time as any for people who know how to do this to build their own routers with Pfsense, Opnsense, ClearOS, or one of the many other firewall/router distros out there. You can get an old desktop or laptop tha
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by tombert 7mo ago
I mean, at least their software used to be pretty good. The Windows NT kernel is arguably a better design than Linux. I complain about NTFS now , but thirty years ago it was better than most other filesystems. And Windows NT at least did
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by tombert 7mo ago
Excel is the biggest blocker for my dad, and why I keep losing the argument to get my parents to move to Linux or Mac. Pretty much all their other stuff is stuff that either works fine on Linux or is just in the browser anyway, but the only
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by tombert 7mo ago
I think the fact that he wasn't content with learning enough is likely why he did so much amazing stuff. A lot of people would have been content enough to have invented Quicksort, but Hoare went on to make CSP, Hoare Logic, UTP, and a
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by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah, if the Opera corporation gave a blessing to use the leaked code then that would be great; I'm not going to look at it until I know for sure I'm not going to be sued. It's too bad, I hate that we basically only have two
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by tombert 7mo ago
I am sure that there are reasons that they cannot easily do this, but I really wish that they'd open source their Presto browser engine now that they've moved to Chromium anyway. I always liked the way that classic Opera made web
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by tombert 7mo ago
My phone camera is often just a very utilitarian thing, like taking a picture of a receipt and stuff like that. When I do take pictures for fun, it's almost always just a selfie to send people when I'm on vacation. I don't re
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by tombert 7mo ago
I was trying to get Claude and Codex to try and write a proof in Isabelle for the Collatz conjecture, but annoyingly it didn't solve it, and I don't feel like I'm any closer than I was when I started. AI is useless! In all se
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by tombert 7mo ago
I have been working on a ray-caster for the NES [1]. Ray casters are fun because they aren't that computationally expensive, so it can be a fun way to bolt on 3D to a system that really doesn't support it. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by tombert 7mo ago
I had a recruiter on LinkedIn reach out recently who sent me a PDF of a job that they thought I might be interested in. I read through it, and the job seemed fine, but on the very bottom it said "people who went to a mediocre school ne
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by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah, I figured that contracting is probably the only way I'll break in. I haven't ruled it out, though I really hate working for consultancies like that. Maybe I should just get my mom to write them a note explaining how clever
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by tombert 7mo ago
That's literally the opposite of what I said if you read the second paragraph. I understand that ultimately I have to deal with the consequences of the group's action, not just mine. If the group decided to elect a convicted frau
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by tombert 7mo ago
Is there a fourth way of doing it by befriending a random person who already works there and can get shoehorned in? Probably not, I'm sure they care about the pedigree more than basically anything else. I send an application to RenTec
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by tombert 7mo ago
I've just grown to really respect older people who manage to stay excited and optimistic. It's so much easier to become a cynic, and I think it required effort on their end to try and be a positive person.
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by tombert 7mo ago
This is kind of why I ultimately find cynicism to be inherently lazy. This is coming from a very cynical (and often lazy) person. It takes no effort to be cynical, I can tell myself "everything sucks and I shouldn't care because n
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by tombert 7mo ago
The overrated and very annoying "sun", the so-called "star" that our planet goes around has been going unquestioned for too long! Many people have been asking for a long time, perhaps even before Obama, to remove the sun
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by tombert 7mo ago
> Besides, what's wrong with shared memory? I generally think that it's bad to share memory for anything with concurrency, simply because it can make it very hard to reason about the code. Mutexes are hard to get right for any
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by tombert 7mo ago
The author mentioned in a sibling thread that the advantage is that they could be separate executables, which is admittedly a little neat. If processes don't need to share anything then there could be a performance advantage to having
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by tombert 7mo ago
I'm just a regular intelligence, and sadly it appears I can't possess those things either; I've tried to break into the finance world [1], and I've learned that despite fifteen years of software experience, it doesn&#x27
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by tombert 7mo ago
Mapping out the actual "ethics" of the J6 people has been difficult for me. It butts up against how I generally define "good" and "bad". For an easy example, a guy murdering his wife for the insurance money is
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by tombert 7mo ago
It's certainly an interesting idea and I'm not wholly opposed to it, though I certainly wouldn't use it as a default process scheduler for an OS (not that you were suggesting that). I would be very concerned about security st
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by tombert 7mo ago
Sure but that's true of threads as well. The advantage of having these threadprocs is that there can be zero-copy sharing, which isn't necessarily bad but if they aren't copied then B could screw up A's stuff. If you&#x
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by tombert 7mo ago
Ownership is a little different; there are a lot of jobs in BigCos where they don't own the company but still basically only serve to blather half-truths to the employees. My dad used to have a boss that he pejoratively nicknamed &quot

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