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“Can God microwave a burrito so hot that he himself cannot eat it?”

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It think they drew the wrong conclusions.

It’s not the high income-countries that are spearheading this decrease. It’s the high cost of living-countries.

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I’ve been daily driving it on some devices for maybe 6 months.

My only showstopper was input-leap, but I have not had to use it for two months. So I’ve gone all-in since. It works better in every sense - except for the input-leap thing.

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Cool.

Last I checked kwin was still waiting for some protocols to become available. I’m sure it’ll be good to go if and when I need another Mac on my desk to synergize.

There was another server that already supported wayland/gnome, but the scrolling was too wonky for my nerves.

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SIDPlay did something similar on the Mac.

It has the neat built-in feature of rsyncing the high voltage SID collection to your computer.

However, if you deleted your local copy of it and tried to re-sync it’d update (with deletes) against / instead. Bye bye files.

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That’s true for diesel. First gen bio-diesel was hydrophilic to make that even worse. Absolutely fill up the tank before leaving it over winter.

Gasoline keeps evaporating and essentially only breathes out until the tank is empty.

How to drop files from Android to home server?

I’m looking for an easy way to upload files from my Android smartphone to my home server. is there a - ideally dockerized - solution for that? Some simple web GUI where I can click on “Upload” and the files will be saved to a certain directory on my home server?...

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I use syncthing. Share from any app, land on that directory on your server.

What field do you work in, and how many digits of pi do you use?

This article says that NASA uses 15 digits after the decimal point, which I’m counting as 16 in total, since that’s how we count significant digits in scientific notation. If you round pi to 3, that’s one significant digit, and if you round it to 1, that’s zero digits....

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Mostly I’ll just go with M_PI.

355/113 = 3.14159292035398 is close enough for my needs.

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PeerTube uses Webtorrents to offload hosting of hueg files.

Odysee uses something similar to do the same. (At least they claim to, but last time I took a dig at it it seemed to be hosted “regularly”)

Spotify famously had their own p2p-thing going in their desktop apps in the early days. Saved them a pretty coin back when hosting was expensive.

Coming to a browser near you is IPFS.

Older Computer Programmers & Engineers

Lately, I was going through the blog of a math professor I took at a community college back when I was in high school. Having gone the path I did in life, I took a look at what his credentials were, and found that he completed a computer science degree back sometime in the 1970s. He had a curmudgeonly and standoffish...

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It feels like many positions today don’t deal with things that you couldn’t learn in a 6 month boot camp aimed at a particular stack.

I did my computer engineering degree in the early 2000s, and we still had a lot of those early day concepts. All from digital electronics, to processor and compiler design. Lots of focus on the formal methods to prove the correctness of software. Plenty of programming paradigms. None of my professors had a degree in CS. There was no CS when they were studying. They all had math degrees and a love for logic and automata theory.

I can’t say that I’ve actively used it outside of academia, but I think that it has set me up to be a life long quick learner of everything happening in this fast-paced field. Most roles might be working with high level languages today, but those roles wouldn’t exist unless capable people build the compilers, drivers and hardware.

The field needs people who will comb through specifications instead of searching stackoverflow to figure out things. (I guess asking ChatGPT or copilot are the new stackoverflow)

I have a guilty pleasure in old things. The Computer Chronicles have all their episodes on youtube, and their analysis of the news in the 80s have held up remarkably well. I’ve also been reading Hollingdale’s Electronic computers. Computers are still just Von Neumann architecture no matter how many abstraction layers we build on top of it.

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That we do abortions for fun.

I mean, I do do abortions for fun. But not because I’m an atheist.

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We had computers at home when I was little. Vic-20, C64, PCs.

But, of course I wanted a NES like all the other kids. Or a Megadrive/Genesis. But, no, computers are for work. We don’t do video games.

So, I’ve had to make up for that by having a collection of all the consoles I never had. I’ve had a good run doing software development the last two decades, so I’m financially comfortable. I’ve recently taken the plunge into becoming an indie game developer. So, I guess the joke’s on both me and my parents.

My gaming collection currently has a VIC-20, C64, plus/4, A600, A1200, NES, master system, genesis, WiiU, switch, Gameboy, GBA SP, DS, 3DS and PS Vita. And a miyoo mini, retroid pocket 3+ and a gpi case for emulation.

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I probably spend the most time with the C64. Mostly for watching or coding demos, so I know it quite intimately at this point.

The NES is the most recent. The miyoo gets a lot of playtime on the toilet.

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I recommend wormhole.app for the purpose. Drag, drop, leave the tab open.

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I think that limit (previously 5GB) is for files that they’ll store for you. Larger transfers are P2P only.

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The article states that part of the compensation was stock and stock options. Likely incentive programs from previous years that finally paid off.

edit: looks like spez got 600k salary, and the rest of the compensation is solely based on the stock’s performance… and he can’t cash that out unless someone is willing to buy all that reddit stock.

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On the other hand… consider if your cat had walked over the keyboard before it rebooted and replaced it all with hhhhgggggggggggggggggggghgf before it auto saved and replaced the document. Would you still be an advocate for auto save?

It sucks to lose work, but this is clearly a user error.

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Do you remember when Microsoft tried to patent sudo?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

How can i learn hindi in under a month ?

I am planning to go to india for studies (and maybe job ) but to do that i have to pass an exam . Don’t get me wrong i am not excepting to ace the test by studying under a month ( while studying a whole lot of other subjects too ) I just want to (barely) pass . And i suppose living there would require hindi aswell because most...

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Pimsleur courses were the best tool I’ve used for learning languages on my own. I haven’t tried the apps, but your local library might have books and CDs. I got mine from the high seas.

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Why does a 13-year-old have access to guns?

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I don’t think there’s an age limit for hunting in my country, either. I did have a couple of shotguns for the purpose.

To get a license for them I had to pass an exam identifying all game, even by silhouette. And I had to pop in for a quick interview at the police station before applying for a weapon’s license.

I feel like those hoops would filter out 95% of those looking to get weapons fpr illicit purposes. In the case of a handgun, you’d need to show a long-lasting interest in either range shooting or hunting game that hide in dens.

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It feels like a common and repetitive theme that doesn’t bring much discussion to the table. I might be an old grumpy fart, and I probably would’ve done the same posts back in 1997 when I left Windows NT 4.0 in the rear view mirror.

I’d much prefer to keep the discussion on Linux and not other operating systems. I enjoy AmigaOS and MorphOS as well, but I can’t recall anyone every comparing those to Windows on the forums.

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I took the dogs for a walk. Gas stations and 24/7 pubs were open.

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Sounds like you’re looking for EncFS.

It’ll leak the size and structure of whatever you have there. Filenames and content are encrypted.

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You can. In practice

If you have two or more network adapters in your computer it can do network address translation to share your connection with your other devices that would use private IP addresses. If one of those network adapters is WiFi, your computer can act as a wireless access point.

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I guess I’d sail my late brother’s yacht for a season before I sell it. Could be nice to explore a new area without having to spend weeks on getting my own (bigger) yacht there.

I’d also inherit a couple of airbnb rentals, so I guess those would be business as usual. There’d be a couple of family houses to sell as well, I guess I’d invest those back into rentable real estate.

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My 350€ three-year old phone has an SoC with 12GB of RAM.

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Seems unreasonably slow to me that xterm would take a second to start. My two computers running kernel 6.7 are slow than the machine in the test, both have BTRFS on LUKS.

I tried a cold start of xterm on my older thinkpad with an NVMe drive at ~0.3s.

A cold start on my desktop (also NVMe), 0.08s.

I’m unable to reproduce. I wonder if he might’ve had a fresh install with some background operations grinding on, or some indexing going on.

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I was torrenting porn with good speed.

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I’ve discovered OneShortEye. He covers the speedrunning history of old point-and-click adventure games. I’m not particularly interested in speedrunning myself, but I’m just amazed at all the things I’ve missed in games that I’ve spent so many hours on. And the production quality is just insane for a one-man-show.

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I think it’s a bit more invasive of a browser to inject shit depending on the sites I visit.

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Why call them settlers instead of invaders or squatters?

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Do you have an iGPU as well?

If that’s the case, the mx150 needs to copy over the framebuffer to that one when you use the internal display. Performance can improve with an external display, but don’t expect wonders.

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BBSes are making a comeback. This time over telnet. They’re just as great as they used to be.

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In my part of the BBS-world telnet is the only option. I’m a C64 guy, and a TCP stack is memory hungry enough for 64k of RAM.

But yes, encrypt when available.

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I’ve played Rebel Inc, so I know how to do it.

Don’t bribe too many people. Build infrastructure and social programmes. Train local forces to destroy all insurrections.

In my experience it takes more funding than you have to keep the population at ease.

Are attention spans actually shortening?

So a view I see a lot nowadays is that attention spans are getting shorter, especially when it comes to younger generations. And the growing success of short form content on Tiktok, Youtube and Twitter for example seems to support this claim. I have a friend in their early 20s who regularly checks their phone (sometimes...

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Sounds like you have short attention span.

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You’ll get at least one frame of added latency in the very best case when using original hardware on an LCD. Combine that with a TV that does its own processing and emulation and you’ll have some noticeable input lag. And yes, I know most TVs have a game mode.

Interlacing when doing sprite multiplexing looks shittier on an LCD, too. Unless you do blending at the cost of an additional frame of latency.

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The experience is pretty similar.

The main selling point for me is that jellyfin is free open source software and completely self-hosted.

I don’t remember the tipping point even I left Plex, but I recall them injecting some live channels I had no interest in on the default screen. They do track everything you watch, so at the end of the day you and your data is the real product that they’re dealing with

Edit: I think the tipping point was even their password database leaked. Also, I was frustrated that I couldn’t watch content on my local network just because my internet was down.

What do you think of framework and their methods? (frame.work)

We are not sustainableAnd neither is any other device maker. This industry is full of “feel good” messaging, but generates 50 million metric tons of e-waste each year. We believe the best way to reduce environmental impact is to create products that last longer, meaning fewer new ones need to be made. Instead of operating on...

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I recall the fairphone 2 being touted as an open platform with support for ubuntu touch, phosh and more. There’s not a word of that with the current lineup.

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My car is in the shop for some tricky troubleshooting.

I’ve been doing my weekly grocery shopping with my foldable bike and dog trailer. I live in a rural area, so it’s a bit of a trip. I don’t particularly enjoy it, especially the hauling the load home. It would probably be bearable with a bit of electric assist on the bike.

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Ubuntu touch supports it decently

Do you pirate? And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?

Well, my friend, he’s kinda poor he can’t afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates. He pirate books, audiobook and videos and other stuff. Sometimes he buys books he likes a lot out of loyalty to the author (yeah, I don’t understand it either), he likes to read physical books, but yeah, if he hates the...

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Copying is not theft. Stealing a thing leaves one less left. Copying it makes one thing more; that’s what copying’s for. Copying is not theft. If I copy yours you have it too. One for me and one for you. That’s what copies can do. If I steal your bicycle you have to take the bus, but if I just copy it there’s one for each of us! Making more of a thing, that is what we call “copying”. Sharing ideas with everyone. That’s why copying is FUN!

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I pirate metric shitloads of movies and series. I don’t pirate music or games (much).

I watch maybe 5-10% of what I download. That’s probably true for the games I buy as well.

The reason is part convenience. I probably listen to royalty free 95% music of the time, but for the other occasions Spotify has anything and everything I want to listen to. I can’t beat that library.

I game on Linux, the Switch and old retro computers. The old retro computers have all pirated games on them, but for Linux and Switch I buy my stuff on the Nintendo shop and Steam. They have everything and it just works.

The video streaming services of today have also taught me that they will pull licenses. When Netflix had a big library I stuck mostly to that, but today it feels like all the good content has been pulled and they mostly just have Netflix originals. So Hollywood has taught me that If I want to watch something, I shouldn’t rely on it being available on my streaming service of choice in the future. I’m not going to subscribe to a dozen streaming services just for the odd chance that I want to watch something particular. I’m going to have my own plex server with everything I might want to watch.

The one show that would make me consider getting a second streaming subscription just to support it is Futurama. But of course, Hulu is not available in my region… so, yarr.

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How’s that working out?

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c/demoscene

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Finland. I’ve been driving for a bit over 20 years. I got my first automatic two years ago. At first I had to focus hard not to look for the clutch when braking - especially if slamming the brakes.

I had to focus a bit when I drove a manual rental van about a year back, but I’m sure it’d come back to muscle memory if I daily drove one for a week or two.

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The post refers to a RISC-V emulator for C64. The Linux kernel booted is RISC-V, so you’d be vim for the same.

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