softfalcon

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by softfalcon 10d ago
This is why I like fountain pens… I regularly write down the things that are important to me. Things I need to do, ideas I want to ponder on, people I need to remember or get respond to. Writing is learning. Writing is understanding. I have
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by softfalcon 12d ago
Sharing my small bit of wisdom about burn out: Burn out isn’t caused by putting in too many hours at work. It’s a symptom of forcing yourself to do work you don’t align with. Forcing yourself to care about KPI’s and goals you don’t give a h
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by softfalcon 1mo ago
That sounds very interesting to hear about! What diminished the day-to-day difficulty for you? Is it because the ecosystem became more mature, or did you "crack the code" for how to interface with everything you needed from your p
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by softfalcon 2mo ago
Except for a large part of Europe, the relative humidity is quite high. So, they're suffering more than most. I say this as someone who once lived in a desert and is well accustomed to 40-50 C summers.
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by softfalcon 3mo ago
Yeah, that's also a very good point. I imagine they're going to need to support that use case indefinitely. Hence their edge/IoT line of managed switches.
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by softfalcon 3mo ago
I agree with you that you can't rely on hydro alone to power your country. It also seems like you're trying to be reasonable and suggest that any new nuclear production in your country needs to be done as ethically and environment
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by softfalcon 3mo ago
I tend to agree with you. In my opinion, as long as the majority of their profits come from people continuing to buy the self-host devices, it is fairly unlikely they'll ever stop offering those devices. Why change a working business m
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by softfalcon 3mo ago
I have heard others say the same as you about Ubiquiti devices. I genuinely curious what bottlenecks you've hit. I've only been using Ubiquiti as a pro-sumer, but it has held up well for my use case of Plex and little game servers
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by softfalcon 4mo ago
I’m confused. Docker Desktop isn’t supported on Linux? I just followed Docker’s docs [0] to get Docker Desktop installed on Ubuntu. Maybe I’m missing some specific point you’re making about some lower level detail, but they support and have
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by softfalcon 4mo ago
Yes, this is correct. When you put the CD into a regular player, a strikingly beautiful (but monotonous) woman’s voice would say: “This CD is made for the Turbografx game system. Please place it into the CD drive on your Turbografx to play.
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by softfalcon 4mo ago
Still own multiple TG-16’s. The CD-ROM attachment plus Ys: Book I & II was a modern technical marvel at the time. Hearing full hi-fi stereo anime rock and roll instead of chip tunes blew my mind back in the day.
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by softfalcon 4mo ago
As someone who owns a SNES and a TG-16, I think I disagree. The TG-16 graphics really pop compared to the SNES. The SNES can only render 256 simultaneous colours. The TG-16 could do twice that at 512. Its video processor was also full 16-bi
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by softfalcon 5mo ago
I keep hearing about natural gas and on-site power for these data centres. I'll believe it when I see it. There are already have a couple in Calgary and they're hooked directly to the grid. The cost of electricity for the city sho
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by softfalcon 5mo ago
The data coming from the University of Calgary about the data centres they're building in Alberta, Canada seems to indicate that they're using evaporative cooling, which is very expensive water wise. The bigger concern though, is
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by softfalcon 6mo ago
This... so much this. > too many SKUs and models - it takes a paragraph to figure out how 2 Dell laptops from the same release year differ. And yet, I just watched a YouTube video where a "PC guy" was like, "adding the Neo
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by softfalcon 7mo ago
Are you absolutely sure they don't want us to add the capacity for them with a pathway for further government subsidies? Almost everything in tech has been subsidized in one way or another via tax avoidance schemes or outright lobbying
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by softfalcon 7mo ago
> I'd expect something more like a callback where you would specify how your input gets written to a buffer Yes, and this is the way it works JS currently. The reason I'm commenting is because it appeared folks were advocating
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by softfalcon 7mo ago
So... have we now confirmed that the only thing preventing us from running macOS off our iPhones is a software limitation? (I'm being facetious, if the hardware was open, someone would have already written a custom boot loader for this
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by softfalcon 7mo ago
Thanks for this. I was feeling similarly reading the original post. I was trying to keep an open mind, it's easy to be wrong with all that's going on in the industry right now. Thanks for clarifying some of the details back to wha
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by softfalcon 7mo ago
Interesting, thanks for the info, I'll do some reading on what you're saying. I agree, you're right about JS having issues with hiccups in the UI due to scheduling on a single process thread. Makes a lot of sense, cool that t
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by softfalcon 7mo ago
I think we're having a completely different conversation now. The parent comment I originally replied has been edited so much that I think the context of what I was referring to is now gone. Also, I wasn't talking about building n
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by softfalcon 7mo ago
What happens when I send an extremely high throughput of data and the scheduler decides to pause garbage collection due to there being too many interrupts to my process sending network events? (a common way network data is handed off to an
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by softfalcon 7mo ago
> Adding types on top of that isn't a protocol concern but an application-level one. I agree with this. I have had to handle raw byte streams at lower levels for a lot of use-cases (usually optimization, or when developing libs for
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by softfalcon 7mo ago
This reminds me of the Unreal Tournament: Xan episode from the Secret Level series. Link for those curious or confused as to what I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F-rAW3vXOU Forcing AI to fight in an
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by softfalcon 7mo ago
Ah, yeah. I see what you're saying. That is more of an open vs proprietary platform problem. I am fairly sure that nVidia intentionally wants to keep addressable memory as a feature only for CUDA (among many other features). Having CUD
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by softfalcon 7mo ago
I also want what you're describing. It seems like the ideal "data-in-out" pipeline for purely compute based shaders. I've brought it up several times when talking with folks who work down in the chip level for optimizing
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by softfalcon 7mo ago
> My method was simply to think. To think hard and long... This method never failed me. I always felt that deep prolonged thinking was my superpower. I might not be as fast or naturally gifted as the top 1%, but given enough time, I was
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by softfalcon 8mo ago
I don't mean to come across as far too cynical, but in what world has a software license ever stopped the greedy and powerful from pillaging the IP of other people smaller and weaker than them? In my opinion, libertarianism in software
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by softfalcon 8mo ago
Exactly
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by softfalcon 8mo ago
Sounds like the system is working as intended... Not trying to be glib here. This feels like the embrace, extend, extinguish pattern that we jokingly used to think was only Microsoft. It is now becoming more and more obviously the modus ope

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