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by pdpi 3d ago
"That front page" isn't the front page, it's the release notes for version 7.0.0. The actual front page has "The Package Manager for Everywhere" as its subtitle (and that exact description as part of its <ti
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by pdpi 3d ago
But then why bother with having a display at all?
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by pdpi 3d ago
I was actually thinking the exact opposite. The big “tail” on the original gives you something to build an enclosure around, and the ports are all on the face opposite the display. That shape makes it easy to 3d print a mount for a 10” rack
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by pdpi 4d ago
> Also I don't think AMD and Intel is capable "to step in" to replace them. It's kind of weird. nVidia kind of has the PC market cornered, but AMD has had the last couple of generations of Xbox and Playstation. Also,
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by pdpi 5d ago
Eh, seems perfectly believable to me, I've seen exactly that dynamic in several engineering orgs — the top-down comms is "more metrics, more alerts, more everything", while the bottom-up comms is "current alerts are low-
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by pdpi 6d ago
Mini-B cables can be somewhat hard to find.
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by pdpi 6d ago
There's two ways to approach this — build tooling for existing Rust developers to get them to adopt the Microsoft stack, or build tooling for existing Microsoft stack developers to get them to adopt Rust. I'd argue that the former
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by pdpi 9d ago
Great game, too, with some truly surprising features (like Verilog export)
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by pdpi 12d ago
That's a needlessly snide take. Any device inside my network that talks to the outside world is a potential vulnerability. TV manufacturers aren't exactly known for their stellar development practices, and dodgy apps on TVs are be
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by pdpi 14d ago
This is one case where Rust benefited from C++’s experience — move by default with opt-in clone/copy is IMO the better setup.
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by pdpi 15d ago
You can see that there is demand for a product (and, therefore, make that product), while misestimating the scale for that demand. It's what leads to failed products (when you overestimate the demand), and Apple has had a few of those.
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by pdpi 17d ago
I'm not saying the scrutiny on US models is unwarranted. I'm saying that open-weight models are the perfect trojan horse, so giving those models a pass on that same level of scrutiny (irrespective of provenance) is just begging to
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by pdpi 17d ago
Giving open weight models more leeway “feels” right, but it’s a massive self-pwn based on the mother of all back doors. It’s a little bit like saying “sysadmins need work visas and vetting, but this guy works for free, so just give him root
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by pdpi 17d ago
Seems to be anti-pattern #4: If you build it, they will come. His description matches yours almost word for word. > The founders automatically assumed that if they had the vision and one customer wanted it, many others would https:&#x2F
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by pdpi 17d ago
> This feels like the explanation for the Wii U, despite Nintendo obviously not being a startup of any kind. This is a particularly interesting example, because they followed up with the Switch, which is, in some ways, the diametric oppo
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by pdpi 17d ago
Yeah, I could've been clearer. VGA displays are something of a dying breed, and HDMI is the single likeliest interface you might find on a random newish display, so there is a market for absolute cheapest, most basic HDMI output device
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by pdpi 17d ago
16 * 1024 * 1024 / 1920 / 1080 = 8.0909, so you have enough VRAM for double-buffered 24-bit 1080p, with a bit to spare. For pure software rendering, that's good enough!
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by pdpi 17d ago
Does it help to point out that the water path looks suspiciously like the day/night line on a map? Like this: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5477/
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by pdpi 22d ago
And the older Anscombe's Quartet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet
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by pdpi 22d ago
I've been using ImHex[0] for this purpose, to pretty good effect. [0]: https://github.com/werwolv/imhex
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by pdpi 22d ago
I built a new PC about two years ago, and I probably got it at the last possible opportunity for a while. CPU and motherboard have come down by maybe £100 in between the two of them, but a 7900 xtx (or any other 24GB GPU) for under £1,000 n
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by pdpi 1mo ago
I'd argue that women can be bros too, especially when using the word in this sense.
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by pdpi 1mo ago
To be clear, they're not literally "charging only", AIUI they're spec-compliant cables with USB2.0 480Mbps and power delivery, and they're allowed to not have the four SuperSpeed wire pairs. They're still usefu
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by pdpi 1mo ago
I literally spent more than an hour yesterday debugging issues with USB-C cables that I wasn't aware were charging only, and this shows up today... Better late than never, I suppose, and definitely worth my ten quid.
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by pdpi 1mo ago
This deserves elaborating on, because it's pretty cool. Rust has two behaviours around overflow. In debug builds, it panics, in release builds it wraps. IMO wrapping is a reasonable-enough behaviour to avoid UB in release builds, and p
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by pdpi 1mo ago
The SBC in question here is the Raspberry Pi — Sonic Pi was one of the early pieces of educational that made up the RPi ecosystem, and Sam Aaron was sponsored by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to write it.
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by pdpi 1mo ago
It doesn't have to be Shakespeare, but hopefully everybody agrees that writing at Shakespeare's level is indeed hard. I agree that writing good (but not great) or even just ok literature is still hard, but that invites a bunch of
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by pdpi 1mo ago
Speaking/writing English is easy. Writing literature at the level of Shakespeare is hard. Writing educational content that makes hard concepts accessible like Grant Sanderson is hard. Likewise, coding is easy. It's just writing, a
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by pdpi 1mo ago
No, the concept the author is talking about is the Jevons paradox, just like the title says. The law of demand frames demand as a function of price and utility — demand is monotonically non-decreasing with utility (the more useful it is, th
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by pdpi 1mo ago
Yes, him.

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