J_McQuade · HackerTrans

قبل 13 يومًاdiscuss

I imagine that there are hundreds of us with very similar stories! I absolutely banjaxed our Windows partition after installing Mandrake or Suse or something on more than one occasion. I learned a lot about Linux, but probably more about the importance of backups haha.

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قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

This is an incredibly silly thing to say. If someone makes a knife that is terrible at carving wood or cutting food but is the perfect shape for, say, clitorectomies... then maybe that tool is bad and we should probably stop making it.

Yes, people choose to make it and people choose to use it. But, like... stop those people, right?

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قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

I never listened to the podcast, but I see where you're coming from and thanks for doing it anyway.

Twenty years ago I was in university and had a Debian install on a cheap-ass Acer laptop and I managed to get exactly two and a half games working under Wine: the first two Fallouts and about three hours of Civ IV before crash. Getting games to run at all was A THING so a podcast for that makes a lot of sense.

Today I have a full-time job and deleted the Windows partition from my expensive PC about three years ago... pretty much every game I've ever wanted to play since then has just WORKED. Better than on modern Windows, even. Not a lot to talk about there, I guess.

One thing I wish is that Valve could publish a 'Proton spec' that people could build against to ensure compatibility, but I imagine that that this would be an IP nightmare.

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قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

CachyOS is not an immutable distro.

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قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

In the terminology of the article - which I enjoyed and recommend that you read when you get time - these friends of yours are not 'poor', they are 'broke'.

J_McQuade

قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

> This is, currently, mostly regulatory. Yes, in the absence of any regulations at all it would still take time to plan, build, and commission

Choose one.

In fact, don't. Just build a new power plant and plug it into the grid. Go on, I could do with a laugh.

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قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

Absolute bullshit title. The USA has stopped making one-cent coins, and they don't even call them pennies in any meaningful way.

The "last-ever" penny will not be minted until that final coin has been minted by:

The United Kingdom

Gibraltar

Man

St Helena & Ascension Island

Guernsey

The Falklands

and probably a good few of others I've forgotten. Like Jersey.

J_McQuade

قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

Now assume there were no such regulations and factor in the time it takes to actually plan, build, and commission a new power station and associated grid infrastructure. I'm not sure that your distinction matters in any real way.

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قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

Name one.

J_McQuade

قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

There is something about an argument made almost entirely out of metaphors that amuses me to the point of not being able to take it seriously, even if I actually agree with it.

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قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

This, as a few other commenters have mentioned, is a terrible article.

For a start, the article does not mention any other database. I don't know how you can say something is read or write heavy without comparing it to something else. It doesn't even compare different queries on the same database. Like, they just wrote a query and it does a lot of reads - so what? There's nothing here. Am I going mad? Why does this article exist?

J_McQuade

قبل 10 أشهرdiscuss

Not directly related to this new Atuin feature, but I need to vent:

Last week I was trying to `find` something in some directories, failed, `cd`d to my home directory and instinctively hit up-arrow+return to run the search again. At some time prior to this, Atuin had stopped recording new entries without my notice. Want to guess the last entry that Atuin did record?

Go on. Guess.

Yep.

`rm -rf *`

In my home directory.

Luckily I have backups of everything important and didn't actually lose anything, and I'm mainly posting this here as a funny anecdote. But - still - after getting myself set up again I have yet to reinstall Atuin.

J_McQuade

قبل 10 أشهرdiscuss

If you think the Dutch are Nords, then I would ask you to learn more English.

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قبل 10 أشهرdiscuss

More awkward for Sony, maybe, as this is showing more support for PSVR2 than they have in a while.

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قبل 10 أشهرdiscuss

> What do you mean by Cooler? Raspberry pi doesn't need a fan.

From the official website:

> Does Raspberry Pi 5 need active cooling?

> Raspberry Pi 5 is faster and more powerful than prior-generation Raspberry Pis, and like most general-purpose computers, it will perform best with active cooling.

J_McQuade

قبل 10 أشهرdiscuss

Broadly Uneconomical Large Language Systems Holding Investors in Thrall.

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قبل 11 شهرًاdiscuss

> I see what your saying but I would argue that vibe coding an ODE solver is an incorrect use of the tool.

Agreed. No true Scotsman would use the tool this way.

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قبل 11 شهرًاdiscuss

> Many people are seeing huge gains in coding productivity with AI.

I don't want to speak for the person you replied to, but I think that their main point is... are they?

I see lots of articles about huge increases in productivity, but I think it's fair to argue that we've yet to see the huge increases in useful products that would surely (we hope) result from that if it were true.

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قبل 11 شهرًاdiscuss

Last year I decommed our last couple of servers that ran processes configured using runit. It was a sad day. I first learned to write runit services probably about 15 years ago and it was very cool and very understandable and I kind of just thought that's how services worked on linux.

Then I left Linux for about 5 years and, by the time I got back, Systemd had taken over. I heard a few bad things about it, but eventually learned to recognise that so many of those arguments were in such bad faith that I don't even know what the real ones are any more. Currently I run a couple of services on Pi Zeros streaming camera and temperature data from the vivarium of our bearded dragon, and it was so very easy to set them up using systemd. And I could use it to run emacsd on my main OpenSuse desktop. And a google-drive Fuse solution on my work laptop. "having something standard is good, actually", I guess.

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قبل 11 شهرًاdiscuss

I think this is the most reasonable take I've seen here. As my sibling comment mentions, people are already doing this. I think that - if anything - my point is that this is being done, but separately to the social element. You could get a hundred PhDs to look at the data and identify a cheater, but what you really want to avoid is someone that 9/10 people don't want to play with... and only the players can really tell you who that is. Data from the PhDs would help, though!

I've not really thought about it so deeply until right exactly now (thanks, all!), but I think doing so might have led me to a very unpopular opinion - I might be prepared to say that this problem can't be solved in an anonymous environment. Unless you have a reputation to ruin (or, say, an xbox account to lose), then being outed as a cheater costs you nothing. Again, this is incompatible with a lot of current multiplayer modes - and most of what I love about PC gaming - but, ultimately, I'd rather be judged by my peers than a rootkit.

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