J_McQuade

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by J_McQuade 3mo ago
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 th
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by J_McQuade 8mo ago
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,
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by J_McQuade 10mo ago
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 ga
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by J_McQuade 10mo ago
CachyOS is not an immutable distro.
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by J_McQuade 10mo ago
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'.
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by J_McQuade 10mo ago
> 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
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by J_McQuade 10mo ago
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 Ki
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by J_McQuade 10mo ago
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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by J_McQuade 11mo ago
Name one.
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by J_McQuade 11mo ago
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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by J_McQuade 11mo ago
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.
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
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 ti
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
If you think the Dutch are Nords, then I would ask you to learn more English.
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
More awkward for Sony, maybe, as this is showing more support for PSVR2 than they have in a while.
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
> 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 mo
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
Broadly Uneconomical Large Language Systems Holding Investors in Thrall.
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
> 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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by J_McQuade 1y ago
> 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,
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
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
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
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 g
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
> We're fundamentally talking about different activities here. It seems so, and I think your example underlines this: > Lamar Jackson doesn't get to choose who he plays against in the NFL; if he wants to win the Super Bowl h
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
> this is really ignorant of how modern gaming and matchmaking works. If you listen to the people complaining about cheating... it doesn't. > I don't care how much of a social butterfly you are, you are not going to get 99 f
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
Was going to post this on a now-deleted comment about anticheat being a hard problem, so popping it here because it might be relevant: Anticheat is only hard because people are looking for a technical solution to a social problem. The actua
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
I think the correct solution would be to make parents responsible for actually using those controls, as they always have been for controlling a child's access to such materials in other media. For example, if you have a stack of explic
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
I loved reading about something similar that popped up on HN a wee while back: https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
It's only genocide if it happened in Europe in the 20th Century - otherwise it's just a sparkling ethnic-cleansing.
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
Alright, this is genuinely helpful. The main argument in favour of DEI is a cartoon about apples. We're all doomed, I guess.
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
"if"
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
I feel called out - I have read and learned from 4 of the things on that list. I am also really bad at C, though, so "Can confirm", I guess?
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
More people need to hear this. Similar argument when they tried to stop China from buying certain types of silicon - "Oh well... anyway!". I am not American, nor am I Chinese. Both of those countries have the capability to make en

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