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by chrchr 1mo ago
I vividly remember the months after AMD64 came out when tech companies were dumping their specialty RISC server hardware (mostly Sun, but some other stuff too) and replacing them with commodity AMD boxes. It was felt like a monumental shift
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by chrchr 4mo ago
Interestingly, this device uses a totally different mechanism than classic trackpoints. Where true trackpoints use a network of strain gauges on the PCB, this is a 3D hall effect sensor and a spring. A trackpoint has only an imperceptible a
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by chrchr 5mo ago
Yes, but on the other hand, there's https://www.reddit.com/r/ididnthaveeggs/ , which collects cases of home cooks making inadvisable recipe substitutions and then complaining to the recipe creators that the r
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by chrchr 6mo ago
It's funny that they call it "reverse game theory", like it's a new thing, when it's actually just regular game theory.
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by chrchr 7mo ago
Amazon developers use similar devboxes. I think it is mostly so that developers can use a production-like Linux environment with integrated Amazon dev tooling. You're not required to use a devbox, but it can be easier and more convenie
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by chrchr 8mo ago
"Everybody on earth knowing that beauty is beautiful makes ugliness." That resonates with so much of the discussion on this site. We're all trying to make good technology that helps people! Why does it so often fall short?
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by chrchr 9mo ago
But your friend is wrong. She does know at least one person who comments on online forums. I bet she knows more too.
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The AI History That Explains Fears of a Bubble(time.com)
3 points by chrchr 9mo ago|0 comments
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DankLinux Repository(danklinux.com)
3 points by chrchr 9mo ago|1 comments
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by chrchr 9mo ago
DankLinux provides packages for the Niri scrolling Wayland compositor and related tools, targeting popular mainstream distros: Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, and Ubuntu. Niri and related tools are still too bleeding-edge to appear in Debian or U
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by chrchr 11mo ago
There's more than one way to do it, but the very normal UX is that you can just scroll through the diff file-by-file and stage/stash/drop each hunk individually by placing your cursor over it and issuing the appropriate comma
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by chrchr 11mo ago
I played the map mode and got a map, with labels!
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by chrchr 11mo ago
Anyone interested in zippers, or, more significantly for this website, how new technologies are invented, adopted, and mature, should read "Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty" by Robert D. Friedel [1] YKK is kind of one of the hero
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by chrchr 11mo ago
I did something like this for Python [1]. The application I worked on at the time had a feature allowing users to import and export their data as a JSON document, and users often had enough data to make this cumbersome, especially with seri
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by chrchr 1y ago
I had a surprising interaction with Gemini 2.5 Pro that this project reminds me of. I was asking the LLM for help using an online CAS system to solve a system of equations, and the CAS system wasn't working as I expected. After a coupl
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by chrchr 1y ago
I also switched from PaperWM to niri, and I was reluctant to do it, because I really liked not having to configure several different little apps to get a working desktop environment. GNOME comes out of the box with an app launcher, a basi
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by chrchr 1y ago
The reason to use a factory instead of 'new' is that a factory can vary the return type, unlike a plain constructor. You need a factory when, based on the constructor parameters or the system configuration, different classes of ob
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by chrchr 1y ago
Outside of maybe NYC, taxi service in the U.S. was totally unreliable before Uber/Lyft. It's not even a matter of price. It's so much easier to get a ride now in most of the country. I don't think AirB&B really impro
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by chrchr 1y ago
Part of the answer to this puzzle is that your dishwasher itself is a robot that washes dishes, and has had enormous impact on blue collar jobs since its invention and widespread deployment. There are tons of labor saving devices out there
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by chrchr 1y ago
I added oklab to emacs's color module. I initially intended to use it to make better procedural themes, but I haven't gotten to that yet. In any case, emacs version 30 has color-oklab-to-xyz and color-xyz-to-oklab functions that w
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by chrchr 1y ago
This approach is, arguably, more readable because it relies on a simple left-to-right evaluation. Programmers don't have to recall the complex, though often familiar, rules of operator precedence.
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by chrchr 1y ago
That doesn't explain why there's a market for "Yes". For "No" to be worth 3% instead of 0%, there must be people who think "Yes" will in some way be worth 3% or more.
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by chrchr 1y ago
Right! The explanation in the article -- that "no" holders will need to sell to buy other things before the market resolves, pushing the price up -- doesn't make sense to me. Sure, maybe the price goes up shortly before the m
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by chrchr 1y ago
Any of those "AI companion" apps can do this very well, or so I have read!
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by chrchr 1y ago
I don't know what third candidate you think could have beaten both Trump and Harris in a three way race. "Someone else" is always a popular choice until the someone else turns out to be RFK Jr. or Vivek Ramaswamy or Kanye Wes
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by chrchr 1y ago
"More of the same" would have been infinitely preferable.
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by chrchr 1y ago
Had the Democratic Party's nomination won the election the worst outcomes of the second Trump presidency would have been prevented. You can blame the campaign and the primary voters and the party or whatever, but ultimately the general
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by chrchr 1y ago
It's gorgeous. Thanks for making and sharing it!
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by chrchr 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
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by chrchr 1y ago
Zoom should be investing in teleprompters. It's 80 year old technology at least and is a much less intrusive way to solve the eye contact problem.

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