jorams

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by jorams 5d ago
> I’m pretty sure Kagi’s entire pitch is that they’re an alternate and original dataset. Theirs is the only search engine whose data isn’t based upon google or bing’s databases. It's not. In addition to their own indexes the results
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by jorams 23d ago
> Performance is similar to when I self-host Forgejo on a dedicated VPS where I'm the only user, which is super fast. I don't mean to be negative, but that's probably because it's pretty much the same thing. Codefloe
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by jorams 1mo ago
If they're not using your software they're not your users. You seem to be treating this like a commercial endeavor in which you have much to gain from adoption by nontechnical people. I don't really see why though. It looks
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by jorams 1mo ago
The reason this seems so weirdly hard is that you're not supposed to be doing it. You provide sources and instructions on how to build them, and then your job is done. Users can follow those instructions. If you want to you can also bu
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by jorams 1mo ago
Box.net launched first, but they didn't introduce file synchronization, the core value proposition of Dropbox, until mid 2010.
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by jorams 1mo ago
> woah 4 years is considered obsolete? No, this device was only discontinued this year, you can still buy accessories and it still receives software updates. It just turns out their software has flaws that break the update process after
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by jorams 1mo ago
It's https://rachelbythebay.com/ and doesn't seem to be down.
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by jorams 2mo ago
While I understand and perhaps even agree with the semantic argument, the reality of the web is that this will be abused. A sane implementation for a browser would be for an action button with method="get" to get basically all o
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by jorams 2mo ago
SBCL works fine on Windows. It used to display a warning about fragility at startup, but that was removed in version 2.0.3, 6 years ago, after already being obsolete for quite a while. CCL isn't very actively maintained and currently d
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by jorams 2mo ago
Have you tried podman with the crun OCI runtime and `--annotation=run.oci.handler=krun`?
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by jorams 2mo ago
Yeah that seems like a weird way to end an article that includes this paragraph: > Fly Machines and our Platform As A Service features aren’t going anywhere. But Sprites was the product of a tiny skeleton crew inside of Fly.io[†], and no
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by jorams 2mo ago
> As far as Jellyfin is concerned, your files must include a tag of the form S__E__ somewhere in the filename. Being located in a folder called "Season 2" with names like "11 - name of episode" won't work. I mean
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by jorams 2mo ago
> There is meta-programming with annotations: There is, but your example is not valid. You can't use short function syntax in constant expressions, it has to be an explicit `static function`. The reason for this, IIRC (I can't
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by jorams 2mo ago
> So what happens if we look only at small carts, where the entire order is just 2 or 3 items? How is this the last thing in the article? The sole example given of a "funny" combination (apples and condoms, weirdly bad exampl
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by jorams 2mo ago
> Blank the page immediately with "document.body.innerHTML=''" before the page replacement That's what the "document.body.style.opacity = 0;" is for. Though I agree emptying out the body is probably bet
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by jorams 2mo ago
> Every post about programming languages seems to mention Rust. Even C++ articles bring up Rust, and Zig articles bring up Rust. "Even C++" makes no sense. That's exactly where you'd expect it to be mentioned becaus
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by jorams 2mo ago
> Anyway, let's try to discuss something more technical: I'll note that this is followed by an entirely non-technical statement of opinion.
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by jorams 3mo ago
The company seems to be primarily in Germany (Aachen), with headquarters/holding company just across the border in The Netherlands (10km away in Lemiers, right on the border). That region is pretty economically integrated and I believe
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by jorams 3mo ago
You call it "boring advertising on consumer apps", but that's exactly where all the shady stuff keeps happening.
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by jorams 3mo ago
A private company doing DARPA-funded research.
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by jorams 3mo ago
There's really only a conflict between A and the rest, and that's because A is a lie. It's not a good thing, if it were they wouldn't have to say B and C. They can try to do better and be hopeful, but they also fucked up
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by jorams 3mo ago
Yes, that is exactly what a reasonable outcome looks like when the seller doesn't want to increase the price to levels their target customers can't afford. Some people won't be able to buy, but that is because of luck and not
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by jorams 3mo ago
It doesn't work on bus, metro or tram, which GVB operates, but it does work on trains from all operators, not just NS.
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by jorams 3mo ago
Sourcehut supports Mercurial, if the email workflow is your cup of tea. There's also Heptapod, which I believe is a fork of GitLab with added Mercurial support. I'm not aware of any Tangled or Radicle-like initiatives supporting i
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by jorams 3mo ago
> I rent their 20GB VRAM instance GEX44, for which they now ask a 500 euro one-time setup fee Along with the increase in monthly prices they've dropped setup fees back to more approachable levels, though not as low as they were a ye
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by jorams 3mo ago
Hetzner doesn't offer dedicated servers in the US. They operate two of their own data centers in Germany and one in Finland. In the US and Singapore they offer only cloud servers, running on hardware in others' datacenters.
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by jorams 3mo ago
Packages in the AUR have some number of maintainers. When a maintainer no longer wants to maintain the package they can disown it, and when all maintainers do so the package becomes orphaned. An orphaned package can then be adopted by any u
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by jorams 3mo ago
> Guess I'll be switching to a new OS this weekend across multiple machines. This is a bit of an odd response. Arch very explicitly separates the AUR from everything else and doesn't make it easy to work with, because its sec
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by jorams 3mo ago
It's a bit buried, but it does: > In contrast to conventional radial flux motors, the electromagnetic flux in an axial flux motor runs parallel to the axis of rotation. The key components are arranged in a disc‑shaped layout: two ro
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by jorams 4mo ago
My favorite example of bad Netflix subtitles is Suits (2011). The music during the intro is the same throughout the series, from the song Ima Robot - Greenback Boogie. The English subtitles for the lyrics are wrong every single season, and

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