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- Comment on Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025 2 days ago:
Not Valve, they were busy working on HL3.
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 2 days ago:
I’d be very nervous: Did I place enough try/catch blocks in my lol.py?
Are all the passwords correct before I run it on stage?
Is this endpoint to delete an email correctly spelled out?
Does the WiFi of the conference allow connecting to these domains?
So many things could go wrong.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 3 days ago:
Wow, this is astounding. I don’t love windows, but last time I used it it was at least reliable enough that you could work on it with little problems. If they lose that, then there’s little more value that windows still brings to the table, except software which is only developed for windows.
- Comment on Solder-It-Yourself DDR5: Russian modders pitch the Idea of making their own RAM 1 week ago:
I see! Then as far as I can tell this is viable for your own use if you already have tools and knowledge on how to solder ICs. Plausibly it is not economical for any person to do. I guess you could do it for profit, but margins may be quite low if you account for time; but I may be wrong on this.
- Comment on Chocolite 1 week ago:
British food Is not a race, just terrible food nobody should have ever come up with.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 week ago:
Still using dual SIM in Europe. While EU policies made it so that you can use a European number throughout Europe with basically no real added costs, country specific numbers are still required for a bunch of bureaucracy
- Comment on Days after Christmas are confusing 1 week ago:
What do you mean? The 2 weeks surrounding Christmas are just cooking and eating. Meeting people to cook together, meeting people to eat together. Visiting distant parts of the family you only see once a year and eating together. Visiting friends you only see once a year and eating together. I mean, chocolate is good; but there’s way too many dishes you want to eat that you likely don’t have enough vacation days to prepare them all. Then it becomes a point of optimization and huge discussions regarding what to prepare for lunch and dinner, attempting to make it so that none of the 15 people at dinner had already had that dish in those days or were planning to have it on another day. This is clearly impossible and that is where the real importance and respect of a person amongst the group of people he’s meeting becomes evident as he will muster support towards the dishes he was proposing by parts of the other people.
Well, I’m cooking dinner tonight for a few people; respect is very high: in fact yesterday I just said I’d cook something and nobody actually asked what I’d cook. I don’t know yet what to cook. A couple days ago with one of the people in there I made risotto, I’d rather not repeat. I guess we could go for a pasta to keep it moderately simple as they work tomorrow morning and we don’t have much time, but I’ll accept suggestions.
- Comment on MongoBleed explained simply | MongoDB exploit 1 week ago:
Hey Mongo, store this stuff; trust me it’s 1 MB. In case it turns out it is not, just give me 1 MB worth of your data.
Thank you very much.
- Comment on Solder-It-Yourself DDR5: Russian modders pitch the Idea of making their own RAM 1 week ago:
I mean, this is understandable. But how much are you actually saving to justify the extra work? How many ICs can you burn and still be saving money?
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 1 week ago:
I do agree: Debian can be a bit tedious to set up and upgrade at times. It would not be my choice if you had to install a Linux distribution for the first time with no help. But, if you were able to set it up then you’re good, no reason to change now.
- Comment on Apple will let iPhone users in Brazil get apps and services outside of the App Store 1 week ago:
Android is trying to block anything which is not the play store as well…
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 1 week ago:
Don’t know where all that research driven approach led us… USB-A worked perfectly, nobody ever had a problem with it; except having to turn it around a couple times to figure out how to plug it (which could be solved with a coloured dot on plug and cable). USB-C had the advantage of being a little bit smaller, but it sucks in any other aspect. While I might have broken a couple USB-A cables and plugs in my life, I do not expect an USB-C cable to last much longer than one year.
- Comment on Apple will let iPhone users in Brazil get apps and services outside of the App Store 1 week ago:
Cool stuff, this proves it is possible. Let’s require it worldwide.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 2 weeks ago:
Well, if that’s the case you do the job in the way you yourself judge best. Maybe that tool is good at some tasks and you apply it to that. Bill Gates will be sad for a couple months and then likely forget about the expectations which had been set and you yourself got a stable job with a safe position for years to come.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 2 weeks ago:
No, you go to your manager and be like: your machine to make C code into rust code does not work. If you want to keep the pace of 1M loc per month and keep your boss happy I need double pay and 10 people working on it at all time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I guess the size is good to me for reading. I guess the kindle and kobo I used to have were even smaller than that. For reading books that’s quite good to me and I never felt I needed something larger.
However, when I tried to read PDFs I had lots of problems. The readers either would show the full A4 page in the screen, which would make it unreadable, or show just a piece of the page and it would then be difficult to pan. I remember I had tried using some tools which would break up the PDF pages into pages which would be visualizable in such a screen, but that did not work too well especially when reading articles with two column layouts.
Ideally articles would be available as ePub, but that’s quite rare. The main point would be: if I get one such tool to read articles I can dedicate it to just that. But, I need it to be easy for such purpose: I don’t want to be panning up and down a page all the time. I don’t know whether that is possible and how that could work however, because indeed resizing is not one of the objectives of PDF.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 2 weeks ago:
Well, in that case they’re overstating their capabilities. Which is not too surprising.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Hello there, just scrolling through and I saw your comment. You seem to know a bit about this topic. I’m currently thinking of buying a reader as I lost mine some time ago. I used a kobo and a kindle in the past and didn’t see much difference. However, this thing about reading papers seems really cool. I have tried in the past reading PDFs on those readers without much success.
Do you think you have good options for reading articles/manuals? Consider I end up printing about 50 pages a day in articles I read. If I can turn that into something digital that’d be cool.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 2 weeks ago:
I mean, if this is true and it works it is not too far fetched. You’d mostly be checking that tests still make sense and that they pass.
Microsoft scientists have worked on a tool that automatically converts some C code to Rust.
- Comment on Fantastic 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure that onion did not cook 5 hours. Just cook it 5 hours and the plastic will go away.
- Comment on Platypuss 2 weeks ago:
Great depiction of peptide based protein inhibition.
- Comment on lets fucking go 2 weeks ago:
Is tobacco advertising allowed in the USA?
- Comment on Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026 2 weeks ago:
I mean, the only thing I buy online is plane tickets. And I really hate buying plane tickets. At my work I have to go through a travel agency, and I do like sending them an email which is I have to be in this place in the period X with 2/3 days flexibility. I want to get there before hour X and I want to be sleeping near this place. Then they reply with 3/4 options of which I choose one.
If the AI was able to do that and I don’t have to check all possible flights and all the fares and which one is cheap and so on… I’m cool with that.
Besides that, I doubt AI will be able to buy pants from homeless people I cross in the streets.
- Comment on Nanobots will be used to attack people, rendering guns obsolete 2 weeks ago:
Chemical weapons appear as a much better option than viruses. Enemy is there, drop a nervine agent and everyone is dead. Wait for a while and you’re free to advance.
Viruses in much more difficult to operate: infect someone somehow - I guess a bomb or something like that could be used as well. Wait several months so that enemy actually gets infected on large scale, but not too long because most of them won’t be dying anyway and soon back to battlefield. In the meantime vaccinate the whole of your invasion army. Start producing massive quantities of vaccines just in case it spreads to your own country somehow and you’ll have to treat your own population.
Assuming you were able to create both the virus and the vaccine within the period the war lasted, it may give you some bit of advantage during a period of 1/2 months or something like that. Good enough if you’re able to win the war in such period, but if you’ve got that kind of money to spend I’m sure you’ve got way more efficient options.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’d be confused as to how it would work since most of the fediverse is accessed through webpages or APIs. How do you E2EE for whichever device will connect?
If I really want I can send the key to a friend I guess, but getting that to work on the various devices I may use seems a difficult task.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 3 weeks ago:
So, you’re telling me magnetic taps is not our real end solution? I’m not buying your new fancy ideas.
- Comment on Authentism 5 weeks ago:
I’m sure there was a good reason to make this. I just can not imagine what that reason would be.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Don’t know about the small window thing. We had turkeys for a while, but to be fair it was more about domestic animals than food source. Those things would get huge. I remember once some friends were coming to visit at night and seeing them on the roof got scared and ran off.
- Comment on Labcoat! 1 month ago:
TIL animals may be allowed in chemistry labs. But then again, still remember my professor’s being very clear that mouth pipetting is bad idea, to then show us how to do it just in case.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 1 month ago:
It’s clearly a move to make torrent for movies unviable and get funding from Netflix.