bpye

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by bpye 6d ago
> Conversion of legacy nontrivial C++ code bases into Rust (or anything else for that matter) feels like it should be one of the "Millenium problems" for AGI. Whilst I have no doubt that LLMs will be useful here, I still have r
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by bpye 11d ago
Are there DP-HDMI adapters that work with HD audio bitstreaming and VRR? Different use case, but I've not had much luck finding good options.
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by bpye 12d ago
I pay just for individual with its 60GB, it really hasn't been an issue.
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by bpye 15d ago
What do you use on Android instead of Google Maps, OsmAnd or something else?
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by bpye 23d ago
Is there a better way to get started with Emacs than the built in tutorial? I've tried a couple times (due to increasing annoyance with VS Code), but have struggled to get to a point where I feel productive enough.
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by bpye 1mo ago
Not just SSDs, HDDs are also way more expensive. End of 2024 I bought 4 14TB drives for ~$250 CAD each, $400+ for even a refurb drive now. The possibility that these fail does concern me.
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by bpye 1mo ago
I have a Z Flip 7. The Z Flip 8 is practically indistinguishable except for the SoC where they've gone from an Exynos to a Snapdragon.
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by bpye 1mo ago
Most provinces and territories have a minimum wage above $16/hr, so this cannot be true.
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by bpye 2mo ago
NetBSD supposedly supports 486, I don't think you're going to have much luck with USB there.
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by bpye 2mo ago
You've seen RAM slots go bad? DIMMs can also fail! I'd much rather replace a bad stick than a whole motherboard/device.
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by bpye 2mo ago
The linked article on the same blog on building a tower of optical drives is also quite interesting: https://goughlui.com/2026/03/15/project-building-an-optical-...
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by bpye 2mo ago
They don't document the hardware, but it is possible to run unsigned code on the SoC - that's how the Asahi Linux project is able to exist.
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by bpye 2mo ago
Is there evidence that it is actually a better agent though?
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by bpye 2mo ago
I guess you can try Windows next - https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs
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by bpye 2mo ago
If you run ZFS with an LTS kernel you're pretty much fine. Yes new Linux releases will break existing ZFS releases - but the LTS tree is in support for long enough that this is never an issue.
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by bpye 2mo ago
I'm still running an old Gen 8 MicroServer. Modern drives can actually saturate the SATA controller, and because it only has a single PCIe slot I can't add both a 10Gb NIC and a storage controller - I went with the 10Gb NIC. It wo
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by bpye 2mo ago
> and while this made sense when drives were expensive I don't have the answer to the latency question, but HDDs have shot up in $/TB over the last couple years too. They are once again kind of expensive.
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by bpye 3mo ago
Pipewire will quite happily pipe through audio without resampling if it is the only source on a system. You can see this by running pw-top and using speaker-test with various sample rates.
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by bpye 3mo ago
When I looked at this before I found https://github.com/kuruczgy/x1e-nixos-config - reasonable though not 100% support. I believe Ubuntu also has semi official X1 elite support, no idea if they're working on the l
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by bpye 3mo ago
ACPI does exist for Aarch64, but is only really used for Windows client devices, and server hardware - though I think the Ampere hardware in the article would use ACPI not DT. If you want to run Linux on one of the modern Qualcomm Windows l
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by bpye 3mo ago
> The maths there is pretty undeniable, but it is not where I'd make the split. Having a machine that can run some modest local LLMs, like the Gemma 4 12B, is really worth it. Seems like a GPU with 12GB+ VRAM is going to be a much m
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by bpye 3mo ago
Will they..? It seems equally (or perhaps more) likely that we'll increasingly see vibe coded browser or Electron based applications as the bar is now lower to build such a thing.
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by bpye 3mo ago
That's just the SDK - which does include the game code but not the engine. Xash3D is the reverse engineered engine alluded to above.
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by bpye 3mo ago
> and also recently broke and fixed setting manual speed on DDR5 memory with ECC enabled (basically any setting higher or lower than 5200mhz or something was ignored). Do you know when this was fixed? I recently updated my B650D4U and en
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by bpye 3mo ago
My wired Etymotics work 100% of the time without issue. It still feels (to me) that in many cases Bluetooth earbuds are solving an issue that doesn't exist.
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by bpye 3mo ago
The EU referendum in the UK was non binding, did not force the use of Article 50, and did not mention leaving the single market or customs union.
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by bpye 3mo ago
If they do, Reform would almost certainly form government on a minority of the vote. Brexit was a yes/no question.
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by bpye 3mo ago
> Which is pretty much aligned with what more level-headed people predicted would happen, if my memory is correct. Of course this was painted as "project fear", and Michael Gove famously said that people had had enough of exper
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by bpye 4mo ago
The Steam Deck price in Canada went up by something like 50% yesterday also - it's now over $1100 for the 512GB OLED, up from just under $700.
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by bpye 4mo ago
> The best camera is the one you have with you. This is why I ended up picking up an (admittedly quite expensive) Ricoh GR IV. It's tiny enough to take with me everywhere, has a modern APS-C sensor and great IBIS.

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