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by spudlyo 3d ago
https://fabulae.orbilii.com - A Latin language audiobook containing both volumes of A.D. Godley's "The Fables of Orbilius" which are entertaining intermediate Latin stories written at the turn of the 20th century
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by spudlyo 5d ago
> For swap, the best advice is to disable swap on your desktop, unless <8GB RAM. That maybe reasonable advice if you never intend to hibernate your desktop. I like to shut my desktop down when I'm not using it, and it's nice
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by spudlyo 7d ago
I agree that there are people who can see the potential of these tools, and are enthusiastic boosters, yet are still unable to realize the benefits for themselves for whatever reason. I feel like these people are somewhat rare, and labeling
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by spudlyo 10d ago
I don't know if shorter would have been better. Would that have meant omitting the bit contrasting Harry Truman and Donald Trump? For me, that bit alone was worth reading to the end. I should probably pick up a biography of Truman, I
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by spudlyo 13d ago
Years ago, when I worked at Stripe (which had a somewhat unique and inventive lexicon) it was a common term. “Is this jank load-bearing?” someone might ask.
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by spudlyo 18d ago
There is a thriving and vibrant terminal ecosystem out there, with Ghostty, Kitty, Herdr, Tmux, and others leading the way with all kinds innovations and features. I can't imagine how a closed SaaS / freemium, telemetry sending, l
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by spudlyo 22d ago
Improve the speed of APFS. Like try forking off a job to create a bunch of git worktrees in on APFS vs EXT4 -- it's significantly slower. Deleting a ton of files, cloning repos, hardlink performance, etc; APFS performance is poor compa
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by spudlyo 25d ago
I'm not sure how this kind of software gatekeeping squares with our new glorious future where everyone is happily running bespoke vibecoded applications tailored specifically to their needs. I bristled a bit at the scalpel "you do
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by spudlyo 26d ago
I've noticed that too with Sol (xhigh) it starts with pretty good architectural goals, but really get lost in the weeds with certification and validation. Like it won't trust native tools like (in my case packer, Ansible, gcloud)
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by spudlyo 27d ago
> I have a hard time believing anything of value, anything worth copyrighting, could be entirely generated by AI. Perhaps you're not stretching your imagination enough. What if an expert novelist used an AI like it were a fancy auto
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by spudlyo 29d ago
Tried to buy old DDR4 memory recently? I've been revitalizing some old laptops, and I foolishly paid nearly $200 for a Crucial 32GB Kit of DDR4 PC4-19200.
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by spudlyo 1mo ago
This is LE;DU: low-effort, didn't upvote.
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by spudlyo 1mo ago
The headline comes from the most recent post in the thread from Eli Zaretskii: > Thanks, this is now installed on the master branch, and I'm therefore closing this bug. Good news! This will enable a bunch of future in-buffer graphic
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by spudlyo 1mo ago
Two years down the line I suspect "persons" won't working directly on code bases they hate. Two years from now, I'd wager that even today's most ardent AI critics will be using them for dirty jobs -- like refactorin
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by spudlyo 1mo ago
Nice! I love all the Latin audio, although most of it is well above my level. I'm always pleased to hear well-pronounced Latin with elision and prodelision. Do you know how the audio is licensed? I'd love to have my own copy, and
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by spudlyo 1mo ago
I'm a recently retired software nerd who got into reading 19th century literature. I was greatly inspired by characters in these novels, most of whom had the advantages of a classical education, and I lamented how poor my own was. One
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by spudlyo 1mo ago
> LLMs have been an absolute game changer for me who is a hobby classicist but also knows how to build software. Definitely! I myself have been having a lot of fun[0] recently using LLMs to enrich one of my favorite beginner Latin reader
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by spudlyo 1mo ago
In my cynical view, herder now seems to be an attempt to commercialize tmux by adding superficial polish. I am wary of VC backed developer tools that seek to innovate in well established open source niches. Herdr by default is mouse focused
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by spudlyo 1mo ago
Radix enim omnium malorum est cupiditas. Enshitification is sure to follow in one guise or another.
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by spudlyo 1mo ago
I started treating my developer workstations like cattle. With a press of a button I can turn a vanilla Ubuntu 22.04.04 server install into my happy-place developer environment. Tools, code, browser -- everything set up exactly the way I wa
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
So in case you're worried about watching a 35 minute video and wishing you hadn't, here is what I think is an interesting observation that the speaker starts coming around to at around the 7 minute mark. Why does software suck? Ma
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
I almost exclusively write in cursive, so I don't have any personal experience, but I assume the only real difference is in how often you pick up the pen, so my guess is that it should be roughly the same.
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
The muscles in your hand and fingers are small and tire pretty easily. The muscles in your arm and shoulder are bigger and can do a lot more work. Back in the day, folks who were taught "business cursive" like the "Palmer Met
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
One day there will be a decent TV that can be relatively easily hacked to run on open source firmware. My wife and I are moving soon, and I'm happy we've decided not to have a TV in the new place. Neither of our current LG TV&#x27
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
"Writing for money and reservation of copyright are, at bottom, the ruin of literature. No one writes anything that is worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject." -- Arthur Schopenhauer If you find this
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
It's like the frog prompting the scorpion not to sting him as they cross the river. Or like when image models used to routinely draw human hands incorrectly and you'd see these "prompt hacks" that would essentially be st
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
I was about to complain at you for jumping to conclusions, but your cited example contains two emdashes and a nested "it's not X it's Y". It certainly looks like slop. In my own writing I'm increasingly conscious of
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
> Anyway, this should be a little more of a deeper discussion than a forum comment. You should turn this into a post of its own, it's probably the most insightful thing I've taken away from this entire conversation.
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
I think that just enables xterm mouse support, and allows for various mouse key bindings in tmux. I think the deal is that it's turned on by default, and lots of the UI elements by default are configured with mouse bindings. Not just s
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by spudlyo 2mo ago
The example I saw of "mobile support" was connecting via a mobile terminal emulator. I don't see how that is any different than using tmux with the same mobile terminal emulator.

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