cowmix

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by cowmix 2mo ago
When the first mentions and prototypes of the Amiga started surfacing in 1984, I began saving my paper-route money to buy one. I finally got it on the first day I could. It was way ahead of its time, but it was also an early lesson in manag
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by cowmix 2mo ago
Well, GPUs sorta went up in the past 5 years.. but nothing like now.
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by cowmix 2mo ago
I got the EVO-X2 for $1,599! In 44+ years of buying computers, I've seen some appreciation, but nothing like this. Going from $1,599 to ~$3,500 in a year is just insane.
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by cowmix 3mo ago
Running CachyOS has overall been great for me in the past year but the AUR supply chain attack (or whatever it was exactly) was a little unnerving.
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by cowmix 4mo ago
You'll overpay -- but not by trillions.
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by cowmix 4mo ago
I bought the Snapdragon Elite X over a year ago based on the promises of Qualcomm to bring solid Linux drivers at some point. Fast forward to today, Linux for that SoC is still a hot mess.
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by cowmix 4mo ago
I use them ALL THE TIME. If anything, I have my 'local remote' in my Syncthing shared dir - its great for sharing code between my dev workstation(s) w/o using Github, etc.
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by cowmix 5mo ago
I got mine almost exactly a year ago - $1699 direct from GMKTEK. To think it retails for 2X that, a year later, blows my mind.
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by cowmix 5mo ago
I was in Warsaw a few weeks ago and ended up visiting that museum almost on a whim, so I wasn’t prepared for the experience. I don’t think a museum has ever hit me that hard — inspiring, gut-wrenching, and unforgettable.
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by cowmix 5mo ago
The “created vs transferred” thing is more nuanced than that. At some point, accumulated wealth becomes power, and that power can be used to pull energy, attention, labor, and public resources out of the system for one person’s agenda. And
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by cowmix 5mo ago
I don’t know who his wealth was transferred from, exactly. But I do know what he’s using it for now: as a gravitational force to unilaterally screw with public institutions and systems the rest of us depend on. Even if you agree with some o
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by cowmix 5mo ago
How are you installing Resolve in Arch? I have not actually tried installing directly (in Arch at least). What problems are you having in the Fusion page too?
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by cowmix 5mo ago
As per my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47765893 I run Resolve under CachyOS using the project I mentioned -- everything works afaict.
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by cowmix 5mo ago
I use this project to run Resolve Free/Studio on Linux: https://github.com/fat-tire/resolve It helps you build and run Resolve in a Docker or Podman container. I’ve personally used it on Ubuntu, Debian, and Arch-b
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by cowmix 5mo ago
I have the same beef with the Signal Foundation. A few years ago, I engaged with the new CEO when she was soliciting donations and asked whether they were going to publish any kind of high-level feature roadmap. I explained that there were
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by cowmix 5mo ago
Usenet is the main reason I started my own ISP in ’93: to have a reliable USENET feed. I loved it then, and I love it now. Even back then, though, it was always under attack by spammers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La
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by cowmix 5mo ago
My favorite example is here in the Phoenix metro area. We had DSL and cable internet pretty early compared to the rest of the country (mid/late 90s), but then things stagnated. Then in 2014, Google Fiber announced they were expanding h
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by cowmix 6mo ago
The best pronoun joke, ever.
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by cowmix 7mo ago
If you don't mind saying, what distro and/or Docker container are you using to bet Qwen3 Coder Next going?
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by cowmix 10mo ago
This is huge. There's been 3rd party Signal library for this for years -- and for some reason I can't determine, the developers have opted NOT to do this.
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by cowmix 10mo ago
In the 80s I read all the comics compilations from the late 50s -> 70s, that was the golden age of the strip. It was an amazing comic and you'll see why all the strips creators since then were inspired by it.
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by cowmix 10mo ago
Yeah, I wonder what gaps in Litellm Proxy made Mozilla want to even do this.
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by cowmix 11mo ago
For all my constant freak-outs about AI in general, it turned out to be a godsend last year when my wife’s mom was hospitalized (and later passed away a few weeks afterward). Multimodal ChatGPT had just become available on mobile, so being
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by cowmix 11mo ago
This post resurfaced a thought I had. MSFT is really, really pushing AI. It would be really cool if someone attempted, with any of the coding models / agents, to recreate Windows from "scratch". THAT would be very interesti
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by cowmix 11mo ago
This is what people like Grover Norquist fought hard to stop. They want every part of the tax collecting/paying process as hard as possible: https://priceonomics.com/the-stanford-professor-who-fought-t...
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by cowmix 1y ago
When I ran the Python Meetup here in Phoenix -- an engineer for Intel's compilers group would show up all the time. I remember he would constantly be frustrated that Intel management would purposely down-play and cripple advances of th
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by cowmix 1y ago
On Snapdragon / ARM Windows, it is the only game in town -- and it works great too!
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by cowmix 1y ago
100% -- firs time I have seen providing a docker compose file is a sign of weakness.
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by cowmix 1y ago
OMG you are right. Look at the Internet for instance.
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by cowmix 1y ago
US academia has a ridiculous amount of institutional entropy” — I wouldn’t count on that saving it. These institutions aren’t built for a top-down attack on the very core of how they operate. They’ve spent decades aligning to how grants are

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