xyzzy_plugh

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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
This is such a weird blog post. It's full of technical details, but I'm really not sure who they're for. There's nothing particularly novel or impressive. If anything the fact that it took them this long should be embarr
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
I agree. In fact, it's even worse: often times you miss the tradeoffs. With Software in particular, I often encounter designs that copy a pattern from another popular piece of software, but without critically thinking about what the
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
In addition to what the sibling comment wrote, many platforms will let you download the game in advance, and "unlock" immediately at launch. Some people want to be among the first to play, I guess.
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
Using Nix of course. My point is that if you care deeply about what is being installed in the image, size, dependencies, bloat, etc. then perhaps using the NixOS abstraction is the wrong approach. Instead of building "down" by tak
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
Hey Joe, just to pile on... If you had have supported API key scoping then I'd have a ton of businesses/startups running on you. As it stands currently it's difficult for me to recommend you to orgs that are scaling up. Com
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
> we should be able to disable shipping Nix entirely, by setting nix.enable = false. It was at this point I began to question the entire exercise. If you don't want nix to even be installed, do you really want NixOS at all? It would
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
Are you proposing compiling on the target? For a vast number of embedded systems that is not only impossible (insufficient disk and memory) but also incredibly slow. At the end of the day you need some cross compilation just for board bri
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
> At least it doesn't include "goto", though the temptation to do it for the wordplay must have been intense. https://go.dev/ref/spec#Goto_statements
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
What evidence is there that building in public has any impact in traction? I know a founder who has been building in public and it has had zero impact on his inbound.
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
Why?
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
SNI is good, though? I'm curious how you are running into this.
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
No. As much as I would like it to be the case, that is most certainly a poor criteria to evaluate a UI library. Dear ImGui [0] is without a doubt the most prevalent immediate mode UI library. It does not have native accessibility features,
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
I've worked with manufacturers who shipped us binary blobs for their hardware. They are often willing to customize the software for you, but they want to own the modifications, which they can use for other customers. A big part of many
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
> Point being, if you rely on a non standard specification of developer defined wasi api subspec you might as well just go with freestanding. Precisely this. The whole endeavor has been disappointing. I'd love to build support for W
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
> while Canada is facing a number of very real challenges, the government in power is spending its time on internet censorship bills. You could have said this at any point in the last ~15-20 years and it would apply. It's a problem
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
The creator of pgdog is also the creator of pgcat, so I think they probably don't need to do this.
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
There are a significant number of extremely large companies that are wholly interested in such a sub-processor. The tier of data sensitivity is irrelevant. Almost all companies are content to engage with data sub-processors with respect to
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
I'd like to agree but practically there are difficulties enforcing it. Anecdotally I know of some parents having a battle with their local school because their kids have been watching this sort of crap in kindergarten. Fundamentally it
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by xyzzy_plugh 4mo ago
Probably meant KTLO: Keep The Lights On
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by xyzzy_plugh 5mo ago
The "Download for macOS" link is currently a 404: https://dl.google.com/eloquent-mac/eloquent_mac.dmg It's a shame there is not more information on how this app works beyond a textbox.
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Google AI Edge Eloquent(ai.google.dev)
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by xyzzy_plugh 5mo ago
If you're taking offence, then you might be missing the point: > The American tourist used to be regarded as the most obnoxious creature in the world. Loud, naïve, ham fisted, needy. The reason I told you about the opening of this b
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by xyzzy_plugh 5mo ago
The homogenization, and subsequent impoverishment (at least with regards to the quality and diversity) of the world appears to be, sadly, inevitable. It takes real, constant effort to maintain "the old ways" while tradition is so
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by xyzzy_plugh 5mo ago
I agree with your perspective. I certainly agree that swap can be invaluable at times, and is generally a mistake for your run-of-the-mill production services. It's a nice approach particularly because all OOMs become actionable: there
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by xyzzy_plugh 5mo ago
Wow somehow I've never come across this font, and I've done a lot with comic-sans-adjacent fonts. This font, however, is by far the most beautiful one I've encountered yet.
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by xyzzy_plugh 5mo ago
The SF Bay Area has consistently been more bonkers, relatively and absolutely, so I don't think is a substantial contributing factor.
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by xyzzy_plugh 5mo ago
The not-so-top secret way to get rich as a Canadian new grad in tech is to get a job at a unicorn by way of TN status, hop around for ~5-10 years, possibly getting an H-1B, but never pursuing a greencard. Accumulate wealth by any means ne
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by xyzzy_plugh 5mo ago
A key difference is that war planes occasionally want to be able to rapidly change their trajectories. With sufficient thrust you can fly around in a cube.
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by xyzzy_plugh 5mo ago
I've encountered this as well. I'm pretty sure it is unable to produce answers involving some copyrighted works. For example, I was trying to find an old video and it filled in the gaps in my knowledge very accurately, however it
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by xyzzy_plugh 5mo ago
The Go standard library has learned to interpret path variables as well: https://go.dev/blog/routing-enhancements

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