leoapagano

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by leoapagano 1mo ago
Shamelessly AI generated articles on the front page of a national news site (albeit not a very good one). What has this world come to
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by leoapagano 4mo ago
You can have all the GPUs in the world, and all the AI datacenters in the world, but when we are barreling towards a global energy crisis (first Russia/Ukraine, then the Strait of Hormuz shutdown, and in a few decades we will run out o
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by leoapagano 7mo ago
My nightmare world would be one where we apply "everything else" logic to time. 1 kilosecond: about 17 minutes 1 megasecond: about 12 days 1 gigasecond: about 32 years "Oh man, it's been a hot megasecond since we last sp
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by leoapagano 1y ago
> Last time I saw stats Linux desktop marketshare, somebody said it was up to 6%. That's astonishing. I wouldn't get too excited about that. That might just be because people are moving off of desktops entirely and now only own
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by leoapagano 1y ago
See also: https://infinitemac.org/
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by leoapagano 1y ago
One possible advantage of this approach that no one here has mentioned yet is that it would allow us to put RAM on the CPU die (allowing for us to take advantage of the greater memory bandwidth) while also allowing for upgradable RAM.
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by leoapagano 1y ago
You underestimate the power of the default setting
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by leoapagano 1y ago
Just tried it out - definitely an improvement UX-wise, but it still essentially runs two copies of Firefox rather than only isolating profile-specific features.
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by leoapagano 1y ago
Firefox's "answer" to profiles is to run essentially two (or more) copies of the browser rather than only copying the profile-specific parts of each profile. This leads to a lot of wasted CPU cycles and RAM and is a very subo
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by leoapagano 1y ago
"And good enough is the enemy of society."
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Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993)(simson.net)
98 points by leoapagano 1y ago|45 comments
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by leoapagano 1y ago
Same here - actually, my PC broke in early 2024 and I still haven't fixed it. I quickly found out that without gaming, I no longer have any use for my PC, so now I just do everything on my MacBook.
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The alarm clock that really gets you out of bed in the morning (2021)(projecthub.arduino.cc)
2 points by leoapagano 1y ago|0 comments
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by leoapagano 1y ago
I can't lie, I miss when the only GPT I had to worry about was the GUID Partition Table.
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by leoapagano 1y ago
Centralia, PA has a mine that has been on fire since 1962 and will be on fire for at least another 250 years [0] - the town had to be evacuated in the 80s because it caused people to fall into sinkholes that randomly and suddenly opened up.
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by leoapagano 1y ago
30 years ago, I would have said the same thing. But right now solar is seeing technological advances at an exponential rate, such that by the time we build a nuclear power plant, get it approved, and get it running, solar will be both cheap
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by leoapagano 1y ago
From my experience, I find most of the time the best part about hackathons is not what you create, but who you get to meet/network with. It may just be my uni/age cohort, but most projects I saw at the last hackathon I went to wer
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by leoapagano 1y ago
Ignoring the obvious question of "why does a screen recorder that checks for updates every 5 minutes need to be installed if macOS already has a screen recorder built in"—writing your own (buggy) auto updater for a macOS app, in 2
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by leoapagano 1y ago
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore this truck. But I feel the same way about this truck that I do about the Framework Laptop (having owned one)—cool idea, cool product, but will Slate be around in 5 years to keep making parts and o
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by leoapagano 2y ago
Pardon—what does Wu Tang have to do with Dropbox?
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by leoapagano 2y ago
And if Gentoo's binary support is good enough for even ChromeOS, I'd imagine it'll also work perfectly fine for SteamOS.
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by leoapagano 3y ago
kill-the-newsletter.com is a godsend for stuff like this.