Wojtkie

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by Wojtkie 8d ago
$2000?! I know this is mostly sticker shock, but I wasn't expecting this price. Looks like a cool device though.
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by Wojtkie 5mo ago
Yeah, the COSMIC lack of polish caused me to jump to CachyOS.
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by Wojtkie 5mo ago
I did something similar with an LED display on my computer case. The display required a proprietary UI program from the manufacturer to display GPU/CPU temps which unfortunately only worked on Windows. Since it needs sensor data, WINE
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by Wojtkie 5mo ago
Yeah, doesn't this reek of the Dotcom era where non-digital companies would just slap (.com) at the end of their name for the stock boost?
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by Wojtkie 5mo ago
Is that why Anthropic recently gave out free credits for use in off-hours? Possibly an attempt to more evenly distribute their compute load throughout the day?
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by Wojtkie 5mo ago
The advice to work on your own "shed" has really helped with my burnout during this AI age. I got into technology because I liked coding, building, and tinkering with systems. LLMs are great at coding and getting basic pipelines b
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by Wojtkie 6mo ago
Couldn't you technically crawl all these blogs for their "blog's I'm reading" and create a social graph? You could start vetting based on how often other blogs link to that one, sort of like an impact factor in rese
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by Wojtkie 6mo ago
I am also going to call out House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. It's a really interesting book that explores a house that is slightly larger on the inside than the outside. It explores a lot of liminal spaces and has a really inter
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by Wojtkie 6mo ago
Microslop strikes again! AI implementations have really distilled all the shitty business practices tech companies have been doing into highly visible missteps. It is interesting watching all these large companies essentially try to "s
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by Wojtkie 6mo ago
You need a social hobby. If you like gaming, go find a game night at a game store near you. If you want to feel some purpose, look up some volunteering opportunities at churches and homeless shelters. It's really important to stay acti
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by Wojtkie 6mo ago
I really don't like the patterns listed in the link. I'm going to use this just to get the LLMs to stop sounding so "corporate".
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by Wojtkie 7mo ago
This is pretty much how every performance review I've had in the past 5 years has gone. Even up to my VP it's considered pretty useless. I'm not sure where it actually gets used by HR, but I'm sure it's selectively
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by Wojtkie 7mo ago
My org just moved to Gitlab because of the GH actions problems.
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by Wojtkie 8mo ago
This is interesting. I started teaching myself Polars and used Claude to help me muscle through some documentation in order to meet deadlines on a project. I found that Claude wasn't too great at first at it and returned a lot of hallu
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by Wojtkie 8mo ago
The neurotransmitter model of mental illness is largely incorrect. It's much more complex than just "Depressives have less serotonin, therefore lets give a reuptake-inhibitor to keep serotonin in the brain".
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by Wojtkie 8mo ago
One thing to note too is the game can be beaten in the first 10-15 minutes or so without any glitches. You just need to have figured out the grand puzzle of the game. I found that really unique and interesting, like the solution was always
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by Wojtkie 8mo ago
I'm currently on Pop, but have an install of Cachy ready once I have some time and a stable connection. My main gripe of Pop (other than the COSMIC issues) was mostly audio issues with how they set up PipeWire and regressions with some
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by Wojtkie 8mo ago
How much of this is actually due to the recipient of the information being low-intelligence? If we use Communications theory for this (SCMR Model), having an intelligent sender and content won't do much use if the receiver of said info
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by Wojtkie 8mo ago
It doesn't help that it seems like society has been trending to reward individuals with a lack of shame. Fortune favors the bold, that is. Think of a lot of the inflammatory content on social media, how people have made whole careers a
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by Wojtkie 8mo ago
Does this mean the execs are now also under the UCMJ?
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by Wojtkie 8mo ago
I am not sure how common it is nowadays, but a more recent example of an Anchoress is Nazarena of Jesus. Born in 1907, she joined the Camaldolese in the 40s and lived as a recluse until her death in 1990.
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by Wojtkie 8mo ago
Oooh, I am Baader-Meinhofing hard. I went down a rabbit hole on the Anchorite life after reading about Paul of Thebes.
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by Wojtkie 8mo ago
I think it is really telling of the quality of the UI when the best way to use it is after enabling a bunch of accessibility settings. I found the Liquid Glass color background effect make some websites unusable on Safari due to the backgro
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by Wojtkie 9mo ago
Historically consumer access to security/privacy tools has always been something the govt has wanted to restrict or prevent entirely.
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by Wojtkie 9mo ago
Yeah it wasn't ever sane. It was just harder to onboard and you were still interacting mostly with people you knew. Now it's worse because you'll hardly ever interact with people you know.
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by Wojtkie 9mo ago
I bet c-suite uses Mac
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by Wojtkie 10mo ago
Written in '05 and still very poignant. I'd love to see a follow-up of this article updated for how it's changed 20 years later. Seems like the scale and decentralization has changed the most.
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by Wojtkie 10mo ago
RDR2 works great on my AMD Linux machine.
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by Wojtkie 10mo ago
Yeah, same here except in Retail. All the hiring is in the Indian campus where they can pay junior devs 11/hr compared to the 80/hr billed by Kforce, InfoSys, et. al.
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by Wojtkie 11mo ago
Yeah, it's kinda crazy people are brushing over the security issues. The nostalgia is huge, I get it, but Flash was terrible for browsing the internet at the time.

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