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how much storage and how much do you pay Hetzner?

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Now I'm trying to imagine a staircase with a non-integer number of steps

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Quite a lot of my searches for practical advice (building, maintenance, event planning, shopping etc. etc) have the best hits from forums that on the face of it rarely seem relevant, e.g. forums for bmx bikers or moms etc. Old-school forums with real humans sharing real experiences.

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nah, the thlh stack (tailwind+htmx+lucid+haskell) is much more unpronouncable https://github.com/monadicsystems/haskell-htmx-examples

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And Illich (where the term "tool" is quite broad, including anything from a knife to a highway system):

Tools foster conviviality to the extent to which they can be easily used, by anybody, as often or as seldom as desired, for the accomplishment of a purpose chosen by the user. The use of such tools by one person does not restrain another from using them equally. They do not require previous certification of the user. Their existence does not impose any obligation to use them. They allow the user to express his meaning in action.

Industrial tools deny this possibility to those who use them and they allow their designers to determine the meaning and expectations of others. Most tools today cannot be used in a convivial fashion.

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Good intentions, but these days there's an even bigger threat:

https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115840278905803451

https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116796122687129600

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/03/31/starlink-spra...

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> memory prices coming down

Are they?

I suspect AI labs are buying stuff not just for their own use, but to make local use too expensive to be an option :-( And they can always make the "best" frontier model even bigger (though only fractionally better) so it's always out of reach of local use, while consumer laptops have nearly the same amount of memory they had a decade ago.

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(It's mentioned as an idea in the bottom part of the htmx.org essay)

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> I stress to them that I admire the heroism of their generation in resisting these temptations.

> (I think older generations would do well to recognize this fact.)

That is so, so much better than the default mode of blaming kids for getting addicted to the systems their older generations developed.

https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html is another interesting perspective

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> Today it is a ruin, but one that remains unmistakably alive.

wat? why is it still alive? the paragraph just ended like that, no further explanation? I get the feeling I should not trust these words. (Looking at the pre-2023 articles by the same writer, they are in a very different writing style. Sigh.)

That "ABOVE: aerial view of fortified structure of Sharba" picture though is amazing. Like it was swallowed by the sand, or it's an outgrowth, a welt being covered by a skin of sand.

And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat (foggaras) is intriguing.

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but not Haskell, guess they gave up on picking a string type =P

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ddg says "BASB" could mean "building a second brain", so I guess it's about note-taking

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In my experience, waiters tend to be quite good at splitting bills. I feel like many of them remember what people had, maybe they get good mental maps of seating or person <-> meal type just like taxi drivers used to get good mental maps of London before GPS.

(And printed menus tend to have allergy info too, just like online menus sometimes don't.)

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Just like wolves selected for survival the humans who treated them well and eventually humans evolved to produce oxytocin on petting wolves =P

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OTOH I now have a lot more sympathy for my cpu's, I should give them some slack

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I think you'd get your point across better if you avoid consulting AI to improve your style, may lead to less distracting threads like this.

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could've guessed staying away from xdisp.c was a good idea, cf. the "Buttery Smooth Emacs"[0] post:

> Keep in mind that Emacs xdisp.c tries to support five different toolkits (including two different major versions of GTK) with #ifdefs. There is no runtime abstraction. We define three or four different versions of each damn function. It’s a nightmare.

[0] https://gist.github.com/ghosty141/c93f21d6cd476417d4a9814eb7...

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Alternatively, I might have been even more sick if I didn't take vitamin D!

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Yeah I took vitamin D all through my kids' nursery years, every morning, had strong belief in it.

I still was sick all the time. That combination of not enough sleep (kids crying in the night etc.), work stress and insane amount of viruses from nursery is killer.

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Legally obtaining a book for reading it yourself is different from legally obtaining a book for copying and republishing/reselling. If I buy a book for $5 at a sale I can read it myself or even sell it for $10 on craigslist, but I can't scan it and make a million copies and sell each of those.

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