eager_eagle
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- Comment on Help with understanding memory usage discrepancy 1 day ago:
yes, the system will likely use some swap if available even when there’s plenty of free RAM left:
The casual reader1 may think that with a sufficient amount of memory, swap is unnecessary but this brings us to the second reason. A significant number of the pages referenced by a process early in its life may only be used for initialisation and then never used again. It is better to swap out those pages and create more disk buffers than leave them resident and unused.
Src: www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/…/understand014.html
In my recently booted system with 32GB and half of that free (not even “available”), I can already see 10s of MB of swap used.
As rule of thumb, it’s only a concern or indication that the system is/was starved of memory if a significant share of swap is in use. But even then, it might just be some cached pages hanging around because the kernel decided to keep instead of evicting them.
- Comment on Help with understanding memory usage discrepancy 1 day ago:
if my system touches SWAP at all, it’s run out of memory
That’s a swap myth. Swap is not an emergency memory, it’s about creating a memory reclamation space on disk for anonymous pages (pages that are not file-backed) so that the OS can more efficiently use the main memory.
The swapping algorithm does take into account the higher cost of putting pages in swap. Touching swap may just mean that a lot of system files are being cached, but that’s reclaimable space and it doesn’t mean the system is running out of memory.
- Comment on The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants 2 days ago:
I disagree. What I could hack over a weekend starting a project, I can do in a couple hours with AI, because starting a project is where the typing bottleneck is, because of all boilerplate. I can’t type faster than an LLM.
Also, because there are hundreds of similar projects out there and I won’t get to the parts that make mine unique in a weekend, so it’s the perfect use case for “vibe coding”.
- Comment on Self-Hosted Document & Budgeting Automation: Paperless-ngx, Firefly III, and n8n – Good Idea? 2 days ago:
potentially relevant: paperless recently merged some opt-in LLM features, like chatting with documents and automated title generation based on the OCR context extracted.
- Comment on CES 2026: Meet Tiiny AI, a pocket-sized AI supercomputer 5 days ago:
it’s larger than one, also likely larger than nvidia Jetson and some firewalls out there. The record is for the smallest PC capable of running a 100B model LLM locally.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 1 week ago:
“Just pour money and we’ll solve these little problems, trust me bro, just a few trillion more, we’re almost there” vibes
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
Other timezones
- Comment on Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app 1 week ago:
It makes sense for it to be there
- Comment on Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation" 1 week ago:
No, this is about adding guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the kernel. The tailwind conversation was on making their documentations more accessible to AI tools.
- Comment on Code is a liability (not an asset) 1 week ago:
because it does make prototyping/MVP faster, and unfortunately it’s difficult for some to see that having no human who can actually understand the codebase is a terrible idea in the medium and long term
- Comment on Code is a liability (not an asset) 1 week ago:
But if you are looking for a job that AI will definitely create, by the millions, I have a suggestion: digital asbestos removal.
already happening
- Comment on Code is a liability (not an asset) 1 week ago:
more managers should be aware of this
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 1 week ago:
based
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
“Anywhere you have your password manager” is useful
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 4 weeks ago:
Zen has also committed to not include AI features
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 4 weeks ago:
It could be considered biochemical warfare
- Comment on Where do you store your bind mounts? 4 weeks ago:
along with the compose.yaml file, unless I need it in a different drive for any reason
- Comment on Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability 4 weeks ago:
almost as if using a memory safe language actually reduces the CVEs related to memory
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 5 weeks ago:
btw, the prices of managed runners is going down, not increasing
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 5 weeks ago:
ah right, my bad
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 5 weeks ago:
fwiw, you can self host a GitHub actions runner
- Comment on How do you manage your home server configuration? 5 weeks ago:
I’m the only user of my setup, but I configure docker compose stacks, use configs as bind mounts, and track everything in a git repo synchronized every now and then.
- Comment on chat is this real 5 weeks ago:
it’s true, I was montana
- Comment on Introverts Rock 1 month ago:
joining the creepy team this year
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 1 month ago:
it sounds like it could be a blue collar job though, as remote is not even entertained
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 1 month ago:
yeah, can’t take it seriously when they can’t even differentiate your and you’re
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 1 month ago:
a million for a company is not that much though
- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 1 month ago:
nope, just look at their username
- Comment on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung 1 month ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’d say that discord is more harmful than github as information goes there to die. It’s a waste of everyone’s time: people helping need to repeat the same things all the time, and people seeking help can’t find shit.
