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by dancek 8mo ago
This seems correct to me. Of course you'd need to build a CPU emulator to run CPU code. A single GPU core is apparently about 100x slower than a single CPU core. With emulation a 1000x slowdown might be expected. So with a lot of handw
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by dancek 1y ago
The article talks about 26M requests per second . It's theoretical, of course.
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by dancek 1y ago
Awesome work! Thank you for showing it to the world! I've considered writing a network stack myself. It's much more complex than most people can imagine. We have great tooling for TCP and that makes people believe it's simple
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by dancek 1y ago
Does Asahi Linux now run efficiently? I tried it on M1 about two years ago. Battery life was maybe 30% of what you get on macOS.
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by dancek 1y ago
https://github.com/mystor/git-revise is great for just this. Of course there's also `git commit --fixup=<commit>` and `git rebase --autosquash` if you don't want to install extra software. But the ergon
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by dancek 1y ago
> But as people are predisposed differently, either advice might make sense in different circumstances. This is a very good point. Life is a balancing act. Different people may need the opposite advice. Or you may need the opposite advic
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by dancek 1y ago
I wrote a quick and dirty bash script that launches a tmux dashboard for a legacy linux server. The team has been happy with it. It does seem like an evolutionary dead end to be honest, but it was very quick to set up. Note that the dashboa
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by dancek 1y ago
I have a client that actively asks me to use AI more and more. They expect to get better quality code faster, ie. to reduce costs. (That's not my experience but that's beside the point).
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by dancek 1y ago
The author didn't submit it to HN, so criticizing it being on HN seems unfair to me. It's a cool piece of alpha-quality software. It may or may not be meant to be used, that's beside the point. As I see it HN isn't a pla
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by dancek 2y ago
In Finnish (spoken in another Nordic country) it's plural "legoja" / "legot", with the singular only used as attribute, e.g. "legoukkeli". It's been this way at least since the 80s.
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by dancek 3y ago
That's indeed the biggest flaw in the Github PR model. I've been hoping for a gerrit-like code review experience in a Github alternative for years. I'll be sure to try Radicle.
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by dancek 3y ago
Years ago I made an ANSI art viewer with modem speed emulation. It has an outdated mirror of https://16colo.rs/ so most ANSI art that's ever been published is viewable. See e.g. curl ansi.hrtk.in/ungenannt_1453.an
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by dancek 3y ago
That's an understatement. According to that data, the most dangerous cars are infinitely more dangerous than the safest cars (205 driver deaths per million registered vehicle years vs. 0). Even more interestingly, the fifth safest car
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by dancek 4y ago
That is quite a depressed take on life. Many people find all of life good. Why not set up your life so you can cherish every moment?
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by dancek 4y ago
I highly recommend trying BQN [0]. It's a lot of fun indeed. It retains the array programming paradigm but modernizes a lot of things -- and has excellent documentation (but not much in terms of ecosystem, yet). The main implementation
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by dancek 4y ago
For these kinds of things, there's a wiki nowadays: http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Main_Page It's a very welcoming scene. Highly recommended, though I'll warn you that sizecoding can be an addictive hobb
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by dancek 4y ago
Would we mental workers dread reading how physical workers fight exhaustion by doing crosswords?
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by dancek 4y ago
I wouldn't call it make-pretend when you can drop electronics in any supermarket and they'll take care of recycling. I don't have statistics but anecdotally people here in Finland seem to recycle electronics as intended.
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by dancek 4y ago
Real-mode assembly is even more fun. I highly recommend something like http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Getting_Started if you're into that sort of thing.
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by dancek 4y ago
The even older DCT3 generation of Nokia phones worked much better than Symbian ever did. Nokia 6210 is still a great phone if you only need to call and receive SMS. But anything with a color display from that era is really showing its age b
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by dancek 6y ago
Yes, obviously there's no way to tell what proportion of users think the same way. > they strip away features that existed before, and completely ignore and talk down to users who tell them that the feature is very useful and much w
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by dancek 6y ago
You can even use the same .jnewsrc for multiple NNTP servers, so just running `NNTPSERVER=some.url slrn` works for me. But I'm hoping for a way to use multiple servers without re-launching the client. EDIT: the subscribed groups need t
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by dancek 6y ago
I've heard this from a couple of power users before. But maybe GNOME does not optimize for power users?
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by dancek 6y ago
When you have enough users, any change will make hordes of them unhappy, just because 0.01% is already a horde.
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by dancek 6y ago
> dictatorial power over 100s of users GNOME has tens of millions of users. I do understand your sentiment. I don't like GNOME myself. But there are alternatives. If you don't like it, try using something else, contributing pat
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by dancek 6y ago
This sounds like a great UI for reddit and I'm surely going to try it out! I'm not very familiar with NNTP though, so I have a couple of questions. 1. Is mapping subreddits to the global namespaces a good idea? If I were to read N
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by dancek 6y ago
It's not very active (and I'm not active there either), but tildeverse has its own NNTP server. https://news.tildeverse.org/
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by dancek 6y ago
IMHO you could just use # Page title # 1. First heading and go from there. The format is meant to be human-understandable, not machine-readable. But your point is a good one, and made me wonder how the documentation of Gem
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by dancek 6y ago
True, text/gemini is not really suitable for UIs. I did write a wiki engine where the editing is done with sed commands and all responses are text/gemini. It works but people used to modern web apps are not going to love the UX. Y
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by dancek 6y ago
> what little it's saying doesn't need to be said, of all times, right now. The philosophy of life and death needs to be considered and discussed especially when humankind is faced with difficult choices of life and death. The

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