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by wbkang 1mo ago
This is equally as biased as those who claim AI can just code all night autonomously for you. You don't have to use it to generate "fully LLM-generated PRs". It's true GitHub is flooded with poor-quality LLM slop, but th
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by wbkang 2mo ago
It’s all relative. It’s cheap if you think about spinning up new processes to run one off commands. It gets very expensive when you have to spawn it hundreds of times per second, and it can waste cpu cycles that could be used for query proc
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by wbkang 8mo ago
This resonated with me a lot, thank you. It more or less matches what I have experienced, and it’s good to see someone write this down in a fairly balanced point of view. My favourite parts: > My job is to figure out the set of software
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by wbkang 1y ago
I read your issue, and it's not so different from `sudo rm -rf /` as opposed to an actual design flaw.
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by wbkang 2y ago
This is from more than 25 years ago, there has been big changes since then.
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by wbkang 2y ago
It sounds like Stockholm to me ;) I don't think you _need_ the index to make partial commit work. I've used Mercurial first so I know "hg commit -i" exists. Even if the staging concept is clear to someone, git cli termin
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by wbkang 2y ago
Disabling swap on windows means all of your applications virtual memory has to fit in your physical memory. In Windows any unused virtual memory still needs space in RAM or, it has to have space in the page files. Right now if I look at my
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by wbkang 2y ago
This is the correct answer that needs to be at the top. No swap doesn't mean OOM killer magically kicks in earlier. It just means the anonymous memory has no where to go and your executable pages get evicted and then you are really hos
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by wbkang 2y ago
I feel like the typical Google answer to this would just be to shut down your account D: fingers-crossed that it doesn't happen
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by wbkang 2y ago
Sony WF-1000XM3,4 had fairly easily replaceable batteries, but they regressed with the latest XM5. iFixedIt covered it here https://www.ifixit.com/News/79140/sony-just-nerfed-their-mos... I am still using the XM3
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by wbkang 3y ago
Are there any open source printers? I know that 3d printers have many open source designs and they perform ok.
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by wbkang 3y ago
I don't have solid data but for "core" mature software written in c/c++ like browsers and Linux, I feel like I see far more high profile security bugs from the lack of memory safety rather than something like "Linux
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by wbkang 3y ago
SMS OTP sucks but this isn't it. Receiving text abroad is free with almost all carriers including Rogers.
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by wbkang 3y ago
It's an unreliable and jarring experience, I had to give up on it. The app gives no indication when the synchronization would happen, and doesn't explain why when it does not work.
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by wbkang 3y ago
The vanilla interface often allows what's right depending on the context (e.g., if an unnamed return value is passed in, it can be move constructed, otherwise it can be copied). I saw some code bases provide an override for a const ref
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by wbkang 3y ago
It's still a valid point. Is it ok to take 15% more if you make more money? Does the marginal cost of supporting an app _increase_ as opposed to stay the same or decrease?
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by wbkang 3y ago
This is not an informed comment. New immunotherapies for cancers are real. It's just that they are very expensive. But it's not right to claim they are very far or imaginative.
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by wbkang 3y ago
I don't think so, but it's difficult to find an actual reference. For sure it does overcommit like crazy. Here's an output from my mac: % ps aux | sort -k5 -rh | head -1 xxxxxxxx 88273 1.2 0.9 1597482768 316064 ?
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by wbkang 3y ago
I saw the same eclipse when I was on a plane from Rome to Seoul. I don't remember it too well anymore but really cool experience.
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by wbkang 3y ago
This is the first time I hear Linux has better fractional scaling than Windows. Is this because of Wayland or something? Windows always had reasonably good fractional scaling story. Wanted to hear why you think Windoes fractional scaling is
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by wbkang 3y ago
It's called "device encryption" which seems to do the same thing and they allow it for Windows 10 home. It's confusing.
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by wbkang 3y ago
Axillary in English also means "of armpit"
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by wbkang 3y ago
Strictly speaking that's not true and, it's not fair to call it a dumb article. Corporations are supposed to what's best for the shareholders. Milton Friedman equated it to maximizing profit, but it's not necessarily so.
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by wbkang 3y ago
I am referring to not being logged into Apple ID.
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by wbkang 3y ago
You get a badge for the "System Settings" app for both on macOS & iOS. It's very distracting because there is no way to dismiss it, I had to unpin them from the dock.
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OS Detecting QMK Keyboard(wbk.one)
2 points by wbkang 4y ago|0 comments
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by wbkang 4y ago
I also explored why Ruby is so hard to learn for people like me on my blog [1]. I totally agree with you. I had to use Ruby at work and I really struggled to grok it. I've picked up many programming languages in my career but Ruby was
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by wbkang 4y ago
Honestly, I think xpra is probably the best open solution you will find. It does have (too) many knobs to configure so it takes time to try out different codecs and settings to find a sweet spot using their session info toolset. And the mai
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by wbkang 4y ago
It's not a "clear alternative" when Apple doesn't even allow you to mention that. There are other reasonable alternatives such as letting developers mention the alternative payment methods as long as they explain what th
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by wbkang 4y ago
Yeah I had to invent my own. On Linux I used cron + email. You can setup postfix such that you use your personal gmail or whatever, then you will be able to do "echo message" | mail -s youremail.com to send an email. They (big ema

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