theevilsharpie

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by theevilsharpie 14d ago
I have tried to use Pinta at several independent points in time over the past 10+ years, and every time I have tried it, it has been so buggy as to be practically unusable. It's a shame. It would be the perfect application for my basic
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by theevilsharpie 27d ago
> Stand-alone bottom-up observations (even if valid) obscure the fundamental problem that AI (or "AI" if you like) is inducing systemic change across human civilization. Students have been cheating and taking shortcuts on their
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by theevilsharpie 28d ago
There was nothing unofficial about it -- Windows 2000 had full, official DirectX support parity with Win9x. Windows XP is where Microsoft themselves pushed the consumer market onto the NT line, but Windows 2000 was fully functional as a con
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by theevilsharpie 1mo ago
> You can't build most web apps' unique visual style in any other platform. Every native UI framework I've ever used allows drawing directly to a canvas, and can have literally any visual style that can be created with pix
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by theevilsharpie 2mo ago
> I really miss netbooks. They were an amazing moment for Linux. No surprise Microsoft killed them. As far as cheap, low-spec, disposable laptops go, Chromebooks are the spiritual successor to netbooks.
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by theevilsharpie 2mo ago
I have user account on my personal Google Workspace domain that is used purely for superuser access (my day-to-day account doesn't have special access). I recently had to log into it for the first time in a few years to make a config c
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by theevilsharpie 3mo ago
I can't speak for Firefox, but Google Chrome (and presumably anything Chromium-based) has working hardware-accelerated video on AMD and Intel GPUs. It does admittedly take some effort to set up; I assume Google is hesitant to enable it
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by theevilsharpie 3mo ago
From the article: > I work at Red Hat. Mostly on AArch64 support in several projects. So an ARM developer, working for a major Linux distro vendor and trying to dogfood their work, used the closest thing to an ARM workstation that Linux
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by theevilsharpie 3mo ago
> We used to do that too from the late 1930's to the late 1970's, which is why we were the dominant industrial power in the world at that time as well. I think there's another world event that happened in that time span th
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by theevilsharpie 6mo ago
> Canonical announced that they are no longer using Debian as a base, but the unvetted packages compiled and uploaded by random people on Snap. Citation very much needed for this claim.
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by theevilsharpie 6mo ago
A lot of professions have terms of art that can be interpreted incorrectly or be viewed as odd by laymen. "Individual contributor" is no different. Maybe it sounds weird to you, but it's a well-understood term in the manageme
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by theevilsharpie 6mo ago
This is a pretty odd take, from my perspective. If one of my direct reports came to me and said they were interested in working on, say... AI observability (replace with whatever interests you), and that was something I had any influence ov
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by theevilsharpie 8mo ago
Fractal still sells a Serenity workstation[1], but it's essentially an off-the-shelf AMD Ryzen-based system, installed into a Fractal Design Define 7 Mini case, with a Noctua tower air cooler and case fans replacing the stock cooling.
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by theevilsharpie 8mo ago
More recent revisit: https://www.phoronix.com/review/snapdragon-x-elite-linux-eoy... TL;DR: It runs, but not well, and performance has regressed since the last published benchmark.
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by theevilsharpie 9mo ago
I have used Terraform, Puppet, Helm, and Ansible (although that's not strictly declarative), and all of them ran into problems in real-world use cases that needed common imperative language features to solve. Not only does grafting t
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by theevilsharpie 10mo ago
> Sure, but lts often doesn't work for other use cases like gaming. For example the experience on lts with this year's AMD gpus will be extremely poor if it works at all. I'm using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with a Radeon RX 9070 XT
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by theevilsharpie 10mo ago
> Have you ever had to maintain a software project with many dependencies? If you have, then surely you have had the experience where picking up the project after a long period of inactivity makes updating dependencies much harder. Where
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by theevilsharpie 10mo ago
> You are probably using some annoying pedantic definition of unstable. Most people mean it to mean “does stuff crash or break”. English has a specific word for that: reliable. Pedantry aside, having a complex system filled with hundreds
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by theevilsharpie 10mo ago
> Arch being unstable is a myth. Arch follows a rolling release model. It's inherently unstable, by design.
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by theevilsharpie 10mo ago
Debian -- probably not, but Ubuntu has numerous variants whose primary purpose is providing a different desktop experience, and a SteamOS-like variant would fit in perfectly with that.
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by theevilsharpie 10mo ago
> the kernel might still be good but the userland is just awful in every way imaginable The Windows kernel is also falling behind. Linux is considerably faster for a wide variety of workloads, so much so that if you're CPU limited a
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by theevilsharpie 10mo ago
There's nothing about 4K videos that needs an SSD, an OLED display, or any particular video codec, and "large-scale internet infrastructure" is just a different way of saying "lots of high-bandwidth links". Hardware
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by theevilsharpie 10mo ago
Dial-up modems can transfer a 4K HDR video file, or any other arbitrary data. It obviously wouldn't have the bandwidth to do so in a way that would make a real-time stream feasible, but it doesn't involve any leap of logic to conc
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by theevilsharpie 11mo ago
> Besides, the gaming industry keeps shooting themselves in the foot by only supporting Windows (Mac is a thing too). That is slowly changing, but so many game devs are drinking the Microsoft koolaid they don't even consider using a
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by theevilsharpie 11mo ago
I have seen no credible explanation on how current or proposed technology can possibly achieve AGI. If you want to hand-wave that away by stating that any company with technology capable of achieving AGI would guard it as the most valuable
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by theevilsharpie 1y ago
> I still say that x86 must run two FPUs all the time, and that has to cost some power (AMD must run three - it also has 3dNow). Legacy floating-point and SIMD instructions exposed by the ISA (and extensions to it) don't have any be
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by theevilsharpie 1y ago
Intel has only about half of the server market at this point, and that's with their products priced so low they're nearly selling them at cost. The margins on their desktop products are also way down, their current desktop product
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by theevilsharpie 1y ago
If we're comparing incompatible platforms, then the Apple M4 Max's iGPU is weaker than the Playstation 5 Pro's AMD iGPU in everything except for memory capacity. Intel has a competitive iGPU in the low-power mobile space. The
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by theevilsharpie 1y ago
Turning a machine off loses any existing application state, and requires both applications and the OS to be re-launched. When I put a machine into standby, I want it to go in a standby state, and then stay there until I explicitly wake it
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by theevilsharpie 1y ago
> Publishers could just put "Guaranteed playable until 2026-07-02", and then extend those games that are profitable. A one-day warranty would almost certainly run afoul of the EU's merchantability laws. Edit: Misread the d

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