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by tombert 1mo ago
I have gotten in arguments about these Flock cameras, because people will use the "if you're not doing anything wrong you got nothing to worry about" defense. Basically the entire point of the fourth Amendment (and sort of th
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by tombert 1mo ago
I have the exact same anecdote; it makes me wonder if this is a common enough use case that a small language model could be trained and run locally for these kinds of “configuration bullshit problems”. I feel like a very large percentage of
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by tombert 1mo ago
I have to admit that I'm pretty impressed that GOG has managed to convince a lot of the big brand-name players, (including Sony! [1]) that a DRM-free way of distributing games can be viable. If there's no DRM then there's no
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by tombert 1mo ago
Valve is also pretty amenable to adding third-party games to the box as well. It's trivial to add games from GOG using Heroic and play them alongside regular Steam games. My main "game console" is a NixOS box running Jovian,
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by tombert 1mo ago
I feel with Rust I try and avoid re-allocations in most cases anyway, so I'm not sure that musl's allocator being slow would significantly affect performance (though I haven't benchmarked it). I feel like part of the appeal o
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by tombert 1mo ago
I am kind of obsessed with keyboard shortcuts, ever since discovering Vim a million years ago. The Vim shortcuts are burned into my brain. I've found that that itch is pretty much entirely solved by Sway (especially since it supports
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by tombert 1mo ago
> make a mouse you can't use while charging it I'm not one to usually defend Apple-ism, but it always felt that this was such a nothing-burger. The mouse charges in like fifteen minutes and lasts for weeks. I don't have a
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by tombert 1mo ago
Same. I don't really like country music, but Dolly always seemed somewhat down-to-earth and pretty decent.
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by tombert 1mo ago
I'm sure there are edge cases for stuff I haven't tested, but I've written many lines of TLA+ with the generated bindings and it seems to work fine as far as I can tell. The model-checker appears to work as expected. Granted,
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by tombert 2mo ago
I don't think I disagree with any of that. TLA+ is a relatively simple language so I think it's a good candidate for this kind of stuff; most of the stuff in the generated LSP also just proxies straight to the official command lin
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by tombert 2mo ago
I know some people hate on it, but I genuinely think that NIO is pretty good just in general. It actually kind of annoys me; I feel like most Java code I've had to debug/maintain is slow and terrible because most Java engineers la
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by tombert 2mo ago
Tangential, but I've found something LLMs are actually ridiculously good at is making LSP servers. I couldn't find good TLA+ bindings for Neovim, so I got Claude to hack together an LSP server for it [1]. It works shockingly well
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by tombert 2mo ago
I thought by the near-unanimous distaste for IIS we would have learned our lesson about making Microsoft products a central part of infrastructure, but evidently I was wrong. I shit on Microsoft a lot here, but it’s not because the workers
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by tombert 2mo ago
I am not going to use two separate browsers purely so that a larger percentage of my time is spent in Firefox. That’s not a solution; the solution is to fix Firefox. I would rather spend 100% of my time in Firefox but that’s not doable rig
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by tombert 2mo ago
Regardless of whose fault it is, it still makes the browser unusable for me.
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by tombert 2mo ago
Can’t speak for all users, but at least as of about six months ago, there appears to be a bug in Firefox in NixOS where the shader cache doesn’t appear to be able to write properly, and as such video acceleration doesn’t work. It became mo
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by tombert 2mo ago
I've applied to Jane Street dozens of times, interviewed twice, and have always been declined. Obviously I'm not entitled to a job, so no hard feelings on that, but it's a little sad because I have always been a big functiona
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by tombert 2mo ago
We are at an impasse here, because I do not accept the premise that the leetcode tests realistically gauge competency or serve as an effective filter. In your hypothetical the implication is that the leetcode would be effective at removing
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by tombert 2mo ago
> It's not that hard to study the leetcode books. Doesn't the prize of a top shelf salary make it worthwhile? It's a good investment in your career You are arguing two different points here. I am, generally speaking, reaso
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by tombert 2mo ago
> I haven't heard of any interview method that wasn't roundly condemned on HN. Sure, but none have been more thoroughly condemned (and correctly) than the idiotic leetcode whiteboard challenges. > And you wouldn't be wa
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by tombert 2mo ago
I don’t agree with this at all. A lot of the decisions that define us for our entire life are made when we are at our dumbest, or at least most impulsive: our teenage years. I, like many (most?) teenage boys, really wanted girls to like me,
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by tombert 2mo ago
Agreed. I am not going to say that I didn’t work hard for whatever success I have, but I was very lucky to have good parents who cared about making sure their kids were successful, and friends who didn’t really peer pressure me to do anythi
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by tombert 2mo ago
All this proves is that BigCo puts a lot of value in these idiotic leetcode tests. It doesn’t imply at all that it gets rid of “obvious frauds”, and in fact seems to suggest the opposite given that someone was able to “ace” the test just b
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by tombert 2mo ago
I have given dozens of interviews at big companies and small companies and medium companies so I am not speaking out of my ass. These leetcode tests are not good filters, nothing is “surprising” me. Generally they are just wanky bullshit fr
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by tombert 2mo ago
> Such test filter out the obvious frauds. I know everyone says that, but I really don't think that they do a good job filtering out shitty engineers. I have worked with plenty of incompetent people who managed to get past the leet
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by tombert 2mo ago
It's not just "ads" and "bloatware". Recent updates have broken notepad and calculator.
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by tombert 2mo ago
Just because some of Windows 11 was released before Claude Code doesn’t mean that the really shitty stuff from the last year wasn’t vibe-coded garbage.
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by tombert 2mo ago
I suspect the massive shitshow of Windows 11 and all of its failings is a result of large quantities of vibe code being merged into the OS. People are noticing.
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by tombert 2mo ago
I don't think Oracle will die, but even entertaining the hypothetical I suspect that some other organization (e.g. Apache) would pick up and maintain a fork.
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by tombert 2mo ago
Even still, it's 2026, I don't really think "has 5G" is considered a luxury feature on a smartphone. I'm sure that the Pine folks have very good reasons for not having 5G support, but those reasons don't really

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