Xymist

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by Xymist 17d ago
The shaping isn't necessarily productive, though. My company has a policy wherein a the dev team are on a rota to assist the support team (and by extension clients) with technical queries. The net effect has been to make me hate custom
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by Xymist 2mo ago
There's really only one acceptable price for an OS, and it's the same as the only acceptable price for a browser or DB - $0.00. The precedent has been pretty solidly set (Linux, FreeBSD, MySQL, Postgres, Chrome, Firefox...) at th
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by Xymist 2mo ago
Which companies are those? My last batch of Levi's moved them into "never again" status - noticeably cheaper fabric than the previous batch, flawed stitching, cheaper logos and tags. I paid more per pair than five years ago (
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by Xymist 2mo ago
Others have covered why that isn't what's being done, but also if it was that would be a _fabulous_ joke.
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by Xymist 3mo ago
If the price of privacy is children, damn the children. We're having fewer (nowhere near few enough, but fewer) of them anyway, they should not be used as a reason to restrict everyone else. Especially as they become that everyone else
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by Xymist 3mo ago
The phrasing they chose is particularly amusing, since it's always false regardless of the day. They could have said "usual service", and left in the plausible acknowledgement of the fact that it's hot, cramped, miserabl
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by Xymist 4mo ago
Yes, ish. Shopping is delivered, cooking is a hobby (or takeaway), cleaning services for a couple of hours a week is often practical even if actually having a full time housekeeper isn't. Convert money from the unenjoyable part into ti
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by Xymist 9mo ago
It's a pretty sensible policy, really. Corollary to Hyrum's Law - do not permit your API to have any behaviours, useful or otherwise, which someone might depend on but which aren't part of your design goals. For programmers i
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by Xymist 9mo ago
16GB is _not_ sufficient if you have Jellyfin or Immich or similar and a lot of media you want to scroll through quickly; I've found I need a lot of ZFS cache for that to be as responsive as I want, even with SSD storage.
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by Xymist 9mo ago
Straightforwardly, nobody with the resources to build and maintain a browser could ever be trusted to do so, as they get those resources from somewhere, and it's going to be somewhere unacceptable (ads, trackers, Google, taxes, selling
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by Xymist 11mo ago
I feel like you're trying to be sarky with the "#winWin", but genuinely yes. If the tradeoff is that someone gets to feel important and have a plaque put up with their name on it, and something good but expensive happens whic
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by Xymist 1y ago
ESP32-C6, and associated dev boards.
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by Xymist 1y ago
This factor (95% of "your audience" not being interested at the time) is the core of why all marketing is unavoidably scummy. I don't want to hear about your product _ever_, except on the day I am looking for a product which
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by Xymist 1y ago
Seagate have an Exos M in 36TB for about £450, so 24 of those could do it. Three vdevs with one parity drive each? Call the project £13k? Not exactly a production grade setup, but it'd do the job and you'll see fewer failures each
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by Xymist 1y ago
This seems entirely sensible to me. If I was offered the choice between doubling my salary or keeping the same one but halving my days worked in a year I wouldn't consider the former for more than about half a second.
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by Xymist 1y ago
Relevant - and old enough that those five years have been successfully granted!
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by Xymist 1y ago
The AI's assessment of him seems somewhat apt, really, even if it doesn't know much about Notion.
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by Xymist 1y ago
Note for people who were interested in these: Wowki want you to pay for their highest level plan to get the thing that is actually useful/necessary - a fully offline and private version that integrates with VSCode. Everything else, as
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by Xymist 1y ago
There is a lesson in these repeated incidents that really needs to be learned by both industry and individual developers - if you intend, when putting the first publicly visible version of a project out to the world, that it might _ever_ be
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by Xymist 2y ago
Why? I'd venture that a plurality, if not a majority, of people who can write well cannot create good digital art, and vice-versa. The use of AI images on a blog post, assuming you're there for the written content, seems at best a
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by Xymist 2y ago
They just shouldn't do that. If they can afford to sell the Ferrari for $20k, they should do so. To everyone who wants one, for whatever reason.
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by Xymist 2y ago
The degree to which a science is valuable is proportional to the degree to which it would keep working if we finally wiped out humans and the goddamned whining stopped. Physics wouldn't notice, sociology would become irrelevant.
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by Xymist 2y ago
It also needs to be able to do this _literally door to door_ and without having to sit next to, speak to, or touch anyone I don't know. Cars are a privacy bubble and a shield, not just a transport mechanism; no form of mass transit wil
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by Xymist 2y ago
I would envision a "spectacular failure" at boiling eggs to mean the pot boiled dry and the eggs caught fire, burning down your kitchen.
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by Xymist 2y ago
The military's difficulties with the hacker mindset and common neurodiverse mindsets goes deeper than "culture". The military wants/needs to be able to give orders and expect them to be followed. An _active rejection_ of
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by Xymist 2y ago
The tricky thing about that (which isn't false, per se) in the context of mental health is that "relieve some self reported symptoms" can actually be sufficient treatment. As with many sorts of pain, if the patient feels bett
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by Xymist 2y ago
Where's the lie? The economy, the system, is a machine. The humans that happen to compose it are by and large either raw materials or wear parts, not output. People can be having an _awful_ time while the system functions beautifully.
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by Xymist 2y ago
Transparent pricing and a free/evaluation tier that is feature complete but scale limited, rather than feature-gated. With that combination I can put together a really tiny "this can do X for us and would cost us Y at our current
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by Xymist 3y ago
My grandmother had (among _many_ others) an aphorism along those lines: "after dinner rest a while, after supper walk a mile". I have no idea where it came from, and was/am unwilling to leave the house and walk a mile in the
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by Xymist 3y ago
Strong disagree that such a responsibility exists. I should be able to open a bank account with _nothing_, save perhaps a _de minimis_ initial deposit (one penny, or similar). I can walk into a shop with a handful of cash, buy an item, and

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