MarkSweep

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by MarkSweep 13d ago
I'm not defending the use of money; I think it's questionable. It's still a home lab by my definition: it's computer stuff that costs less than a sports car in your home.
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by MarkSweep 13d ago
The second sentence of the article: > We have a number of these now and have been running our RDMA network backend for the 8x NVIDIA GB10 cluster for several months now, using one. I have a friend who uses something similar for his 4 NVI
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by MarkSweep 18d ago
As someone who used to have a WoW problem and now and then relapses, it tickles me the same way Cookie Clicker does. It’s nice to see number go up. Back when I was playing with my friends and the game was a little harder (BC & WotLK), t
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by MarkSweep 20d ago
A noble goal. Last I heard the best bet to gete a physical Suica card is to get the Welcome Suica. It is available at a few airports and a few large train stations: https://www.jreast.co.jp/en/multi/welcomesuica&#x
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by MarkSweep 21d ago
It’s not about the LLM usage. It was such a dumb construction: > <totally vague statement>. This matters. Like, just because you say something matters does not make it true. Explain your case and then make predictions about the imp
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by MarkSweep 21d ago
Thanks for sharing the link. I think it provides a lot of reasons why installing Omarchy or opening a pull request would be a waste of time. I can’t fix fundamental design flaws in a PR. I don’t want to try to fix apps written in Bash and Q
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by MarkSweep 21d ago
It’s a bit more than Arch. There are a bunch of programs written in shell and QML/JavaScript. I guess at least they are using memory-safe languages, but shell scripts make it easier to write the type of shell-injection bug mentioned in
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by MarkSweep 1mo ago
The author states: > every single one of my blog posts argues a point. I never publish a post that just gives some scattered thoughts on a topic, or a post that only says “yes, I agree with this other article”. What’s wrong with posting
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by MarkSweep 1mo ago
It was removed in 2025 sometime between May 7th and September 11th: https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://www.nsf.... Maybe its removal is related to this: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by MarkSweep 2mo ago
Russ Cox created libtask, a similar library that runs on multiple UNIXes (UNIXEN?). Based on the COPYRIGHT file, it may be based on libthread. https://swtch.com/libtask/ It’s a great little library. Very easy to read a
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by MarkSweep 2mo ago
Split Fiction has a couple of mechanisms that make it accessible for people who are not experienced gamers. There is a general "reduce damage done by enemies" setting that make dodging attacks unnecessary. If you get stuck on some
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by MarkSweep 2mo ago
Wake from that nightmare and wrap your angle brackets with MCP so you can start hallucinating: https://github.com/AustinWise/mcp2ws (This program is for comedy purposes only)
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by MarkSweep 3mo ago
Some other interesting tools in the space. Rust is using a tool called Josh to sync commits: https://josh-project.dev The blog post from the Rust people: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/06&#
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by MarkSweep 3mo ago
I wonder if they don’t include all the application compatibility stuff in LTSC. It would be a good way to make the version work for its intended purpose (as part of a larger appliance or industrial tool with purpose built software), while m
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by MarkSweep 3mo ago
I think for a very specific audience the article is useful: an English speaker who is in the first month of learning Japanese and is having trouble understanding the basics of Japanese verb conjugation. If you are not in that target audienc
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by MarkSweep 3mo ago
There is https://ianbarber.blog/feed
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by MarkSweep 3mo ago
> people who block everyone out by default, passively and indiscriminately, contributes to social rust rather than trust I'll turn this around: when I see people wearing headphones on the train or the bus, I appreciate that they res
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by MarkSweep 3mo ago
You say “as long as it's not clearly harassment” as if that is uncommon. Outside of giving directions at train stations, the times when a stranger has started talking to me in public have been almost universally negative. Often times i
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by MarkSweep 3mo ago
That's funny about your last line about Messenger. When I was at Facebook in 2020 and 2021 I thought the "Lightspeed" version of Messenger [1] was something of an engineering marvel. Specically the way it was centered around
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by MarkSweep 3mo ago
They had almost $9 billion in cash on hand at the end of April 2026. And net income of $2 billion. So they afforded it pretty easily. https://investor.salesforce.com/financials/quarterly-results...
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by MarkSweep 4mo ago
And a lot of the time pressing back will take you to some other article on the website instead of where you came from. Because the site used history.pushState in JavaScript to manipulate your history.
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by MarkSweep 4mo ago
I suspect you are right that LLM-generated software will likely negatively impact people's lives. The flip side of this is there is going to be a lot of software generated that would have never been possible before. And for some use ca
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by MarkSweep 4mo ago
To make this more concrete, the Chromium source code browser has a subset of the functionality of the internal Code Search tool. For example, you can left click on symbols to go to reference and right click to find all references: https:&#
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by MarkSweep 4mo ago
To put a name to it, “biphasic sleep” used to be more common: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieva...
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by MarkSweep 4mo ago
Eh, at least for people consuming .NET apps compiled with NativeAOT, the experience is similar. Applications can be compiled as a single file with no dependancies. A hello world in .NET is half the size of one in Go: https://gith
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by MarkSweep 5mo ago
I understand the stated reasons and disagree with their conclusions. It seems like a lot of extra work on the part of the Zig developers to have to reverse engineer undocumented interfaces. There is potentially extra work for the Windows de
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by MarkSweep 5mo ago
The best statement of whether or not calling functions in ntdll is here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/k... > documentation for the WDK and Windows SDK recommends that applicat
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by MarkSweep 6mo ago
> I wonder how much of this problem was caused by lack of adequate documentation describing how an installer should behave, and how much was developers not reading that documentation and being content when it works on their machine. Ther
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by MarkSweep 6mo ago
In addition to reason in the article, one thing I’ve noticed among some executives and product managers is their experience using LLM coding tools causes them to lose respect for human software engineers. I’ve seen managers lose all respect
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by MarkSweep 6mo ago
There is a middle ground between using XML and imperative code for representing tax forms. Robert Sesek’s ustaxlib [0] uses JavaScript to encode the forms in a way that is reasonably statically analyzable. See the visualizer [1]. My approac

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