ye-olde-sysrq

5 ms·

1.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
prior to this, bandcamp was owned by Epic and lord only knows why they bought them or what their bigger plan was. i also have no idea how much they staffed up under epic rule since they went from a small business to being owned by the fortn
2.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
Let's be real, fiat currencies are essentially backed by Uranium 235 and defense industry engineering capabilities. (both as it relates to turning the U235 into large amounts of energy in a small amount of time and producing other thin
3.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
I know you're not posting in good faith but I do want to underline two things, in case anyone else is reading this who is similarly dismissive as OP: - they did kill her - she was clearly not a witch, given that they do not exist And g
4.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
I've posted something to this effect before but I'll post it again. I'm terrified someone is going to enshittify bandcamp. I used to be a huge what fan, primarily for discovery. Never would've known I liked atmospheric b
5.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
VC can be a great way to break into markets that just have inherently large moats or barriers to entry. Stripe is an example: you can code all you like but you literally can't move money without going through a ton of very annoying (to
6.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
KSP1 was made by a bunch of scrappy lovable indie devs making their first game (iirc Squad's team was a marketing company prior to this?) in a LCOL area funded by dreams and whatever $10 early access sales they made on steam, with no-o
7.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
OpenOffice is a zombie living on the old name alone. LibreOffice is the "new" (it's like over a decade old i think) current one and e.g. ships preinstalled on big ubuntu images, for instance.
8.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
OSRS also moved to oldschool.runescape.wiki and AIUI jagex pays for their hosting and provides some kind of content access to make updating/syncing easier. Plus they have RuneLite cooperating with crowdsourcing things like droptables a
9.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
KSP2 isn't an enshittification play, imo. It's literally just bad project management. I'll list their sins from my armchair: - remaking a beloved, established game that has a prodigious base of features and extremely extensiv
10.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
Look at the reviews for KSP2. This is not even one of the larger problems with the game. They released into EA with terrible, nearly unplayable performance... on an RTX 4090! a $1600-2000 GPU that at the time was difficult to obtain even
11.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
On the days you don't commute, you could plug your foreman grill into a wall socket and sit in a chair staring at the wall for the same length of time to simulate the same effect.
12.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
>I didn't say it schedules platform threads, but JVM has many other performance issues with its GC/object identity/lock monitoring model, which makes it harder choice for ultra-high performance apps, so virtual thread sche
13.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
>Also, my belief is that JVM itself adds lots of overhead. The JVM has ~nothing to do with the scheduling of platform threads >and there any benchmarks saying it is couple hundred threads, and not 100k threads?.. It depends greatly on
14.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
I think the best argument you could make to say steam is a monopoly is to say that their plan is roughly: 1. Make a platform gamers love to use so much that they will still use it even if other stores are literally giving the games away for
15.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
Excellent! With virtual threads, all the blocking code I wrote is efficient now :) Less-joking: I'm so excited for this to start getting adoption. For a pre-release/preview feature, Loom already has SO much traction, with most m
16.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
>> So maybe building greenfield projects also makes you better at maintaining existing projects? Only to an extent, i think. > I've had a lot of problems with people who (seemingly) only have experience maintaining projects. A
17.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
I wrote a TUI before for work, entirely of my own volition and for my own near-exclusive consumption (it was theoretically for anyone, but I'm the only person who would've had a reason to look at it - we were a fairly silo'd
18.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
I felt like it was okay-ish given he immediately qualified his own, nearby hometown with the same descriptor. I think it changed the effect from discriminatory to almost a term of chagrined endearment which lent weight to his subsequent com
19.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
A big problem with computing in space is the radiation environment. To be quite frank, it's absurdly hostile. IIRC the voyagers have very little computing power (so, few things that can malfunction) and even then they run three proce
20.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
Sure - I think there's a hair to be split here where we could argue that weaponizing anti-circumvention logic in GPLv2 is generally in the spirit of the GPL as a whole, but then also say they in GPLv3 we decided to remove it because wh
21.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
RMS even describes the GPL's weaponizing of copyright against itself as a "judo throw" in his writings. The intent there is very explicit.
22.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
I've used ubuntu server for over a decade. I moved servers to debian and enjoyed it. My laptops have always been Arch.
23.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
Yeah this was the comment I was coming to look for. I saw a couple sentences that made me go "hmm" but the one that I copied into my clipboard to post about was: "Arrays, however, have a property called length, which can be q
24.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
If this inflation is the price of liberty for Ukrainians and the price of independence from a dictator for Western Europe, then I am willing to pay that, personally. I just don't think Ukraine explains that much beyond natural gas pric
25.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
Yeah, there's definitely counterexamples. I thought of East India too. I really wonder what operating a huge company like that looked like in an era where the fastest way to transport messages was to have fresh horses pre-positioned ev
26.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
> If you are used to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do, you might find this idea strange at first. Should this be that far-fetched though? That employees might not be simple thralls of the capitalist, whose agency
27.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
You could also just use some known, boring technology. I was using Java Swing in 2016. It was rock-solid and unchanging. It will outlive me. Nobody is going to touch it again (all the churn is now in JavaFX). And yet! It even got HiDPI supp
28.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
This looks really cool. In the past I used lanterna ( https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna/tree/master ) to develop a text UI for a critical process at the trading firm I worked at. It was essentially a process t
29.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
It could be that this is showing drying up of future (or near-term future) possibilities that this is a high-growth company. If investors were predicting they'd be growing at a certain rate (and a higher rate commands an exponentially
30.
by ye-olde-sysrq 3y ago
I actually used Jetty for a recent project because they were one of the first to integrate support for running handlers on virtual threads.

More ›