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by tombert 3mo ago
The issue is that an internal investigation is not an impartial source. I agree, in this hypothetical if there's no evidence the that the CEO committed a crime he/she shouldn't go to jail. But considering that "internal
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by tombert 3mo ago
Agreed. It's also very low effort and as such I'm ok with the redundancy.
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by tombert 3mo ago
I don't think this bothers me. The only reason that I do the disk encryption is so that I don't have to worry about people going through my laptop to steal tax documents and/or credit card stuff when I sell the laptop. I of
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by tombert 3mo ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but I am curious as to why you think that? What makes NT a "better kernel for consumers". I have some opinions on that but I don't want to bias your answer.
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by tombert 3mo ago
I mean, sure. OR, we just treat the Win32/Win64 API as the standard ABI for cross-platform stuff (that can't easily be done in the web with WASM) and then use Wine/Proton. Then everything is FOSS and portable and free and do
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by tombert 3mo ago
Yep, exactly the same experience as me. The fact that everything is declarative and revertible means that I'm much "braver" than I would be with virtually any other Linux. An example I have given before, but there was a weir
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by tombert 3mo ago
I really wanted the official Ubuntu phone to catch on. I gave to the IndieGoGo for it but sadly it wasn't funded, so I installed Ubuntu mobile on a different old phone (a OnePlus One I think?) like a decade ago. I thought it was very
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by tombert 4mo ago
Yeah, and I think they made it seem like it was going to be this revolutionary FPS, when it was basically a "B average" one. If you go in with basically no expectations to the PC version, I actually do think it can be a bit fun.
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by tombert 4mo ago
It's been on my list, but I haven't read it yet. I also stalked Scott Miller from Apogee Software to ask him how accurate Masters of Doom was, and he told me to checkout the book "Shareware Heroes", as he claims it'
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by tombert 4mo ago
I do find it amusing, since I really don't think Daikatana is that bad . It's not great, but at least with the PC version I think there's some fun to be had. It was just way over-budget and overhyped with an extremely ques
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by tombert 4mo ago
One of my favorite non-fiction books is Masters of Doom. I have no idea how accurate it is, but I did leave with the impression that John Carmack is an amazingly smart guy, who also has the potential to be a colossal asshole. I was only fi
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by tombert 4mo ago
> When using draw.io I’d suggest exporting to PDF instead of PNG so you keep it as vector graphics. I had trouble getting that working (admittedly years ago) and as long as you have a high enough resolution people can't really tell
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by tombert 4mo ago
Tangential, but how has the publishing process been for Typst? I'm looking to write a paper on a recent project, but most of the places I've seen to submit has asked for TeX. I greatly prefer Typst because of the ridiculously fas
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by tombert 4mo ago
This is cool! I know people like it, but I hate writing TikZ manually, to the point that I've mostly moved most of my technical-ish drawings to draw.io/diagrams.net, and then just export to a PNG. I feel like it's inelegant,
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by tombert 4mo ago
Reading their IPO prospectus seemed to imply that they planned on getting 100% of the entire AI market. Considering how far behind Grok is (revenue-wise, but also quality-wise [1]), that seems very unlikely to me, and while this might be ov
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by tombert 4mo ago
It's not Microsoft exclusive, but they are over-represented even in the group of "big evil tech companies".
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by tombert 4mo ago
I got rid of all my QQQ, which was substantial, but I didn't convert all my vulnerable portfolio because I wanted to minimize how much I pay in taxes. I now use the Interactive Brokers MCP to make a "pseudo QQQ" which has all
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by tombert 4mo ago
It was insane to me that a company that had less than thirty-billion in revenue was valued at more than a trillion. I'm not sure how the People in Charge didn't call bullshit.
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by tombert 4mo ago
I think it's much simpler. A lot of funds are tied to things like the NASDAQ-100, which SpaceX figured out how to get fast-tracked for. Once it's officially on the NASDAQ-100, stuff like QQQ has to buy it, whether or not people
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by tombert 4mo ago
It's not exactly new for Microsoft to slide themselves in somewhere and become the "standard" before anyone has really thought about how terrible their products are.
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by tombert 4mo ago
I don't have the NVMe cache but I too have quite a robost ZFS array on NixOS. I feel less guilty about running it now since it is powered almost exclusively off solar in my backyard :)
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by tombert 4mo ago
I always forget that these things aren't for me. My immediate thought is always immediately "just build your own NAS with a vanilla Linux box and set up Samba or something because then you can make it however you want". But
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by tombert 4mo ago
I threw twenty bucks into DeepSeek just to see how it compared to Claude. Pretty well, actually! It wasn't quite as good (at least with the coding tasks I threw at it), but it was so much cheaper per-token that it almost doesn't m
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by tombert 4mo ago
It is a little impressive how actively bad they are at this. I haven't had that much respect for Elon since he called the cave diver a pedophile, but something I didn't realize until the 2025 administration started is how lazy
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by tombert 4mo ago
I always kind of thought that the "it was meant to be marketable, not funny" thing was a cope, in the same way that Tommy Wiseau says that The Room was always meant to be a comedy. People would say that the cat who hates Mondays a
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by tombert 4mo ago
I think a hundred million is probably a bit optimistic. That said, I would be surprised if he's not at least a multi-millionaire.
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by tombert 4mo ago
They gave away Death Stranding awhile ago, and I hear that one is good, which I don't dispute given its Kojima origins. But Kojima games require me to be in a very specific mood and I have been trying to work my way up to it.
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by tombert 4mo ago
I play Brotato fairly often. I am not sure I have played any of the other free games I’ve gotten though.
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by tombert 4mo ago
Never diagnosed, if I am. Hardly scientific but I took one of those online tests and it said I was not, but it wouldn’t surprise me if I am at least a little on the spectrum.
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by tombert 4mo ago
If I were offered a dump truck full of money from a casino in order to help the casino optimize their gambling, then I think I would have enough restraint to say no. I say this because I did turn down a very lucrative job opportunity at an

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