theandrewbailey

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by theandrewbailey 3d ago
I work in e-waste recycling. Most of the PCs and laptops I see are corporate IT decommissions. Most of those have i5 CPUs, and only a handful are i7. Few are cruel enough to afflict their wage slaves with an i3 or less.
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by theandrewbailey 4d ago
Maybe this can be a Comic Sans alternative.
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by theandrewbailey 5d ago
> Till date, there's not been an official Linux desktop build of Microsoft 365, and seeing how Microsoft currently operates, I don't expect one to appear anytime soon. No one expected SQL Server on Linux, and nobody asked for E
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by theandrewbailey 6d ago
My first programming job was an internal line of business application at a mortgage vending company. There was an uncomfortable amount of time wasted waiting for someone to do something in ClearCase so I could commit. I've turned down
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by theandrewbailey 7d ago
I haven't been professionally responsible for code since before AI started eating everything, and haven't touched AI in the meantime. Is this representative of the BS that everyone else here puts up with on a day-to-day basis? Did
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by theandrewbailey 7d ago
What a blast from the past, and one of the classic evergreen articles. The blockquotes made me depressed: > People are not in control of the technology that surrounds them For a few years back then, the pendulum was moving towards person
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by theandrewbailey 8d ago
I would make a quip about game devs will soon be making games for people who don't play games, but I think that's been happening for a while.
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by theandrewbailey 8d ago
Or worse: hardware as slow as any average, bloated Electron "app".
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by theandrewbailey 8d ago
I work in the refurb department of an ewaste recycling company. I had a TV on a roller stand come in some months ago. When I turned it on, I realized that it wasn't any ordinary consumer-grade TV, but a commercial grade one. It lacked
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by theandrewbailey 10d ago
These days, swapping to disk means your SSD wears out and dies faster. That's very much an issue.
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by theandrewbailey 10d ago
Talk to a lawyer about that firing. You might have a case.
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by theandrewbailey 10d ago
That's a suspicious number of em-dashes for something that's allegedly against LLMs.
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by theandrewbailey 10d ago
I'm a big fan of this format. It sounds great at 96kbit, and is in every recent browser[0]. There's good software support outside browsers, too. [0] https://caniuse.com/?search=opus
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by theandrewbailey 12d ago
> CERN engineers had considered moving to CentOS Stream as a more natural pathway but ultimately they say "the straw that broke the camel's back" to abandon Red Hat Enterprise Linux for their industrial accelerator-control
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by theandrewbailey 12d ago
I can confirm this. I also add interactive-widget=resizes-visual to prevent keyboards from causing style recalculation and reflow of a page on every animation frame, to keep things smooth.
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by theandrewbailey 13d ago
> The winter season is the most high-energy part of the year and usually the one that interests most people. Maybe for Europeans. Hurricanes and tornadoes are rather high-energy weather events that favor warmer seasons and North America.
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by theandrewbailey 13d ago
It's sad that Tuta has fallen for Big Tech newspeak. Once upon a time, we installed stuff on our devices. Calling it side -something makes it seem frowned upon, which plays right into Google's hand.
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by theandrewbailey 13d ago
Steam says hi: https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/ Though one could argue that Linux GPU support is as good as it is because of Steam.
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by theandrewbailey 13d ago
Depends on how much one trusts whoever's running fraser.name. Is it more or less than Verisign?
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by theandrewbailey 13d ago
Based. If an employer wants me to install something, I'll ask them for a phone to install it on.
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by theandrewbailey 13d ago
Earlier this year, I went to a concert that required the Ticketmaster app. I searched desperately for an option to print off a paper ticket, but didn't find one. I enabled the Google Play features in GrapheneOS to install it, and I hat
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by theandrewbailey 14d ago
I was thinking this. Zstd is widely supported in browsers, over 80% right now and will increase over time: https://caniuse.com/?search=zstd
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by theandrewbailey 14d ago
I guess it would take a PhD in AI to run enough agents to cram 20 years of work into one week. The token cost must be brutal though.
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by theandrewbailey 15d ago
Looks like I might start using Aptoide again. I was using it back when I was running de-Googled LineageOS. What's the consensus on it vs. Play Store or F-droid? https://en.aptoide.com/
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by theandrewbailey 16d ago
If we had that, many people would yearn for a cambrian explosion of diverse software running in unique niches trying out different ideas.
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by theandrewbailey 16d ago
> Sometimes it feels like we never left 2020. There's still a part of me that thinks 2020 will be the bright shiny future that will solve all our problems, but the other parts know that 2020 showed us that we live in the dark future
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by theandrewbailey 17d ago
Are you trying to say that's bad writing? I think it's a good metaphor for a documented phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_collapse
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by theandrewbailey 17d ago
No. I keep my browser to about half of my 27" 4k monitor.
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by theandrewbailey 18d ago
Bug: this blog has no max-width. Lines of text will grow infinitely long with width.
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by theandrewbailey 19d ago
Here I was thinking it will be somewhere between next-generation Nvidia chips, and inability to get ROI before the end of relatively quick GPU depreciation schedules.

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