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by solid_fuel | 2025-11-13 00:05:26+00:00
Can you actually do a full root-on-zfs setup with linux these days? Last I heard support wasn't 100% in the ubuntu installer. I recently installed FreeBSD on my new media server box, with the full os being in one ZFS pool spread across 4 disks (raidz1).

This is one of my favorite things about FreeBSD, I love being able to take a snapshot of my system before doing an update.
by waonderer | 2025-11-13 00:05:47+00:00
The coverage area it promises is up to 5 acres. But with only five minutes of flight time and 30 minutes for every recharge, I don't know how long will it take it to actually do the work it promises.

The solution is definitely cool though. I could pay another small drone to track the movement of tornyol's drone and show me how it tracks and kills the mosquitoes.
by randallsquared | 2025-11-13 00:05:54+00:00
The second amendment to the US Constitution doesn't concern itself with home defense justifications, but only with "we need to scare up a military force, right now". The "right way" to forbid tanks and tac nukes as arms that the people can own would have been to amend the Constitution with something that specifies the limits in some way, but instead we got creative interpretations of "shall not be infringed" to mean "can be infringed as long as a law or agency regulation is produced at either a federal or state level". Which is odd, as GP noted.
by varenc | 2025-11-13 00:06:34+00:00
Anything measured by weight is already rounding prices to the nearest cent. If something is $1/lb and I have 0.995 lbs of it, I get charged $1.00 not 99.5 cents. Presumably just rounding to the nearest 5 cents isn't that different.

Of course we don't expect anyone to be charged fractional cents because our currency doesn't support it. So just changing our smallest currency unit from 1 cent to 5 cents.
by Jnr | 2025-11-13 00:07:03+00:00
As a Steam Deck owner since pre-orders, unless the price is extremely high, I am going to get the Steam Machine as well. Kids plug the Steam Deck to TV to do couch co-op gaming even though the resolution is only 720p. So getting a better resolution and performance while still getting access to the huge Steam library and non-steam games (Minecraft, etc.) is worth it. I don't care about the latest AAA titles and FPS shooters, for those I already have a desktop PC.

PS5 is too expensive long term and is not usable for anything else. And when Steam Machine becomes obsolete, I'll probably just use it/gift it as a mini pc/home-server to someone in the family.
by every | 2025-11-13 00:07:14+00:00
I spent much of this afternoon playing xNetHack[1] on Hardfought[2]. My first exposure was 30 years ago to a DOS port laboriously downloaded from a dial-up BBS. No web, no documentation, no wiki[3]. And I've loved every minute of it...

[1] https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Xnethack [2] https://www.hardfought.org/ [3] https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
by BenGosub | 2025-11-13 00:08:06+00:00
Maybe it will help you if you follow a track e.g. algorithms. I lack formal training in algorithms and wanted to focus on this in order to improve my chances of getting a well paying job, but also to improve my thinking and understanding of how programs work.

The way I approach this goal is by shifting my time between reading a book about algorithms and solving problems.
by bokohut | 2025-11-13 00:08:12+00:00
Received an email from our East Coast USA centralized power provider about 2 hours ago now in a very obnoxiously large BOLDED email font stating "Your electricity use is projected to be 35% higher this billing period".

My 'who you know' management people at this power provider have expressed a severe growing backlog of unpaid bills in our talks and as a result they have had to change their policy around cutoffs. More alarming is their need to bring law enforcement with them to residences now for power cutoffs that have reached an unpaid threshold above some normal classification, and yes violence against the power company employees only doing their job is growing given the culmination of economic events creating this situation. Consider your own reaction if you haven't paid your electrical bills for many months and you see the power company pull up to your residence to pull your meter thus leaving you in the dark and cold. Violence against power companies employees is growing although it has not yet reached news worthy status but just give it time.

My opening statement represents the power company's changes to communicate your consumption and how it will impact your personal finances at month's end in order to get in front of all those in society that are reactive, which is most folks. As a highly proactive futurist four years ago now I installed BIPV and batteries taking advantage of the U.S. and Maryland governments monetary kickbacks so while some here see me as the problem my 35% increase this month is minuscule given having nearly no electric bill through PV and significant efficiency improvements to my residence.

Time is one's most valuable asset and many waste their time to then only complain about their situation. I would encourage everyone to get in front of your dependencies and work daily to reduce or eliminate them and this approach will return more of one's time, something that cannot be bought.

Stay Healthy!
by Aurornis | 2025-11-13 00:08:35+00:00
> https://gitlab.com/evlaV/holo-PKGBUILD

So to summarize: Valve provides source code for what they distribute, in compliance with the GPL, but this person went on a personal crusade to demand they open up their private GitLab to the world?

There appears to be some interesting history here, but this takes the cake as the weirdest README I've ever seen in a git repo.

The writing is impenetrably wordy and filled with excessive bolding and parentheticals. It goes completely off track and turns into an extremely long rant that implores the reader to "abstain from procreation", among other things. There are hundreds of links and hundreds of quotes mixed into long-winded sections about the author's self-importance.

Does anyone have a link to a more down to earth, less self-important, and more importantly concise explanation of what's going on?
by austin-cheney | 2025-11-13 00:08:44+00:00
I so completely want to agree with you. If this were anything other than JavaScript agreeing with your comment would be simple.

I wrote JavaScript in the corporate world for 15 years. Here is the reality:

* Almost nobody wants to do it. The people that get paid for it don't want to do it. They just want to get paid. The result is that everybody who does get paid for it completely sucks. Complete garbage, at least at work. There a lot of amazing people writing JavaScript, just not at work, and why would they try harder. Delivering quality at work far outside the bell curve just results in hostility aside for some very rare exceptions. My exception was when I was doing A/B testing for a major .com.

* Since everybody in the corporate JavaScript world completely sucks every major project eventually fails from a business perspective or stalls into lifeless maintenance mode. It just gets too expensive to maintain 5+ years later or too fragile to pivot to the next business demand. So, it has to get refactored or rebuilt. Sometime that means hoping the next generation framework is ready, and the business is willing to train people on it, and willing to go through growing pains. More often this means calling in outside parties who can do it correctly the first time. Its not about scale. Its about the ability to actually build something original and justify every hour productively. I was on both sides of that fence.

* The reason why the corporate overlords hire outside parties to fix problems from internal teams isn't just about talent. Keep in mind it's tremendously expensive. Yes, those people are capable of producing something that doesn't suck and do so faster. The bigger issue is that they will always deliver reliably, because they are executing under a contract with a work performance statement. The internal teams do not have a contract performance definition that will kill their careers or terminates their incomes. They just have to hope the business remains financial solvent so they don't get caught in a mass layoff. This breeds a lot of entitlement and false expectations that seem to grow on each other.

So, yes, in this case it really is about the ability to write code physically. Yes, you need to juggle client nonsense and have soft skills too, but those are layered on top of just being able to write the code. When your options are limited to a bunch of 0s that depend on copy/paste from predefined framework templates you need somebody who can actually justify their existence in a very practical solutions delivery way.
by ricardobeat | 2025-11-13 00:10:12+00:00
> You can’t meaningfully move around or swing your arms fast in any realistic home environment when you’re in full VR. You’re constantly at risk of punching something or breaking something, or both.

You clear the area within the boundaries, leave a little buffer space to the walls, and respect the boundary warnings in game. No problems. You do need a few square meters without any furniture to do this.

Boxing and ping pong feel just as great in VR as they do in AR. It's more a matter of the level of immersion: AR works well for table tennis, but fantasy games are severely limited in what they can do. The most impressive experiences are always in VR - "flying in space" doesn't work while looking at your living room walls.
by tototrains | 2025-11-13 00:11:02+00:00
Typically suspects of crime are arrested, which brings them to a trial (Habeus Corpus) in which that evidence must be presented and assessed, and then a consistent punishment is meted out. What is happening is called extrajudicial murder.

Be aware that the US is constructing casus belli for invading Venezuela, who has the largest proven oil reserves in the world. There is more at play.
by chongli | 2025-11-13 00:11:15+00:00
I'm not the person you replied to but I'll give you my link [1]. At one point I had all species, backgrounds, and gods won but they've added a couple since I stopped playing. My win-loss ratio isn't anything to write home about but in my defence, many of my losses are scum losses (early deaths from messing around and not taking it seriously). When I take the game seriously I can win fairly consistently. The main thing stopping me from having a high win rate (besides not playing) is that I get bored and make careless mistakes.

The reason I don't play anymore is because I find the game pretty boring and overly-long. The most fun part of the game is D1-D10 or so, before you enter any branches. That's the point of the game where your options are very limited so you get a lot more situations where your decisions really matter. After that point in the game your character's power curve tends to leave the game in the dust (when you know what you're doing anyway), so those "critical moment" situations become fewer and further between.

You end up doing a ton of "autopilotting" your way through vast numbers of popcorn enemies, though you can still lose when a critical moment pops up and you're not paying attention. This makes losing feel really bad because the game feels like much more of a test of patience than skill to me (and other even higher-level players who have quit or semi-quit).

I'm currently playing in TNNT [2] because I love NetHack. On its face, NetHack seems way worse than DCSS because it commits all of the sins that the DCSS philosophy reacts to. In reality, I find NetHack more enjoyable to play because it has real character/soul/heart. DCSS has had every single one of its rough edges sanded off, leaving it a rather soulless game.

I also really love Shattered Pixel Dungeon [3], a mobile Roguelike that is now available on PCs as well. It has an active and very attentive, engaged, and smart developer [4]. It is highly approachable and has a UI that works extremely well on mobile (its original platform) as well as PC. It is MUCH SHORTER than most of the big PC Roguelikes but it doesn't compromise on gameplay depth. In practice that means the density of critical moments and meaningful decisions to make is far higher than a game like DCSS.

[1] https://dcss-stats.com/players/ChongLi

[2] https://tnnt.org

[3] https://shatteredpixel.com

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMWQIdfCgQg
by extraduder_ire | 2025-11-13 00:11:50+00:00
They have a history of buying a lot of planes whenever there's a chance to get them cheaper. Typically, they sell planes for more than they cost to buy new.

For the 737 max at least, they built a simulator training facility in Dublin so they could train their pilots faster for when the max returned to flight.

I wouldn't take anything their CEO says at face value though. He's often saying provocative things just to get news coverage (cheaper and more effective than traditional advertising), and admits to that himself.
by SparkBomb | 2025-11-13 00:11:56+00:00
Their previous generation controller wasn't great (I have one). I got it on sale and the haptive stuff didn't work to well IMO.

I have a 8bitdo controller and they are really good. They work perfectly with Debian 13 and probably pretty much every other distro.

https://www.8bitdo.com/ultimate-3-mode-controller-xbox/
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-13 00:12:22+00:00
It's expected never to encounter any other object in all eternity. Unless of course someone deliberately aims for it. I heard once it will eventually lose it's form entirely and just drift through space as a melted lump of metal. For some reason that reminds me of Red Dwarf.

We are going to lose it before long i wonder if it will be possible to find it on a future date in theory.
by totallymike | 2025-11-13 00:12:39+00:00
They are still considered a paper of record, but I chose to use a hypothetical outfit because I don’t love the Times myself but I believe the argument to be valid.

I’m not interested in arguing about whether or not they deserve to fail, because that whole discussion is orthogonal to whether OpenAI is in the wrong.

If I’m on my deathbed, and somebody tries to smother me, I still hope they face consequences
by queenkjuul | 2025-11-13 00:12:49+00:00
Apple loves to change which tools they ship, too, it at least have for the last few years as system updates were routinely breaking our build scripts at work, mostly when Apple would replace a GNU tool with a BSD tool without warning i think.

I agree though, Finder is a joke, the macOS system preferences has gotten incredibly cluttered and hard to use, the ever stricter code signing and download-opening restrictions are frustrating, and i can't even just install and run the docker CLI--docker on Mac requires Desktop and commercial use of Desktop requires a license.

All 3 systems have things about them that annoy me, but I'm with you that Mac is my least favorite. And it kinda sucks because the global text shortcuts (command-arrow, command-delete etc) are really handy and hard to replicate on other systems, and at least traditionally it's been a very pretty and well integrated desktop, the system itself just drives me up a wall.
by EasyMark | 2025-11-13 00:12:59+00:00
that's fine, I like putting things on my laptop that I'm enthusiastic about like earth day or zig or whatever. People can like it or not. I suppose of my CEO told me to rip them off I would, otherwise it's harmless. I won't put political stickers on though. I keep religion and politics strictly away from my work life, and walk away if that's the direction a conversation turns. I'm sure there are people at the office who think I'm a die hard conservative, and other that are 100% sure I'm a far left commie, because I simply peace out on political discussions.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-11-13 00:13:01+00:00
Yeah, my nix-darwin config is pretty nice and perfectly hermetic and reproducible, save for a now-growing list of casks in my brew.nix that looks like this:

> 1password # breaks in nix, must go in /Applications folder

> softwareB # not available in nixpkgs

> softwareC # available in nixpkgs, but because nixpkgs maintainers are hardline purists it takes 15 minutes to compile from source and ain't nobody got time for that

> softwareD # ostensibly available in nixpkgs, but the package is completely broken (more general case of 1password)

Why not wrap the binaries yourself in flake.nix you say? Well, sure, would love to, if it wasn't such a pain in the ass to do so for each one and keep them up to date.
by cesarb | 2025-11-13 00:13:32+00:00
> There's also the issue that these things have to compete with what's available now. [...] But it'll never be a full-time replacement, because the modern 4k displays I have are substantially clearer.

What's available now might vary from person to person. I'm using a normal-sized 1080p monitor, and this desk doesn't have space for a second monitor. That's what a VR headset would have to compete against for me; just having several virtual monitors might be enough of an advantage, even if their resolution is slightly lower.

(Also, I have used old-school VGA CRT monitors; as could be easily seen when switching to a LCD monitor with digital DVI input, text on a VGA CRT was not exactly sharp.)
by Aloisius | 2025-11-13 00:15:11+00:00
> (this is why dimes say 'One Dime' on them instead of 'Ten Cents'.

No, it's purely stylistic. We tend to spell out denominations on coinage and "dime" is just the American spelling of disme, meaning a tenth.

The capped bust dime from 1809-1839 had "10 C." rather than "One Dime". Similarly, the capped bust quarter said "25 C." instead of the modern "Quarter Dollar", the half dollar said "50 C." rather than the later "Half Dollar" and the half dime said "5 C." rather than the later "Half Dime."

Most of the 18th century and early 19th century coinage, besides half pennies and pennies didn't have their denomination written on them at all.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-13 00:15:15+00:00
Before you can demonstrate your skills on the job - you have to get the job.

Most of the 2.6 million+ developers in the US don’t have “interesting jobs” nor do they care if their jobs are “interesting”. They work to exchange labor for money to support their addiction to food and shelter.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-un...

If you look at the requirements for most jobs they want you to have $x number of years of technology $y. When every job application gets 100s of resumes, employees can be picky.

Besides, every technology has its foot guns, ecosystems, way of doing things and people who think they can just pattern match based on what they know are often the most dangerous.

One example is that I’ve seen people who know relational databases, optimization techniques and normalization try to pattern match their understanding of OLTP databases when using OLAP databases like Redshift and Snowflake and it being a complete disaster.

See also people who don’t understand how to do a single table design with DynamoDB.

In my particular niche (cloud + app dev + customer facing consulting) , I knows AWS inside and out and have used more AWS services than you can imagine in the past 7 years in a production capacity [1] and I’m currently a staff level developer at a consulting company (full time), the only company that would (has) looked seriously at me to do consulting outside of working with AWS is ironically enough - Google.

But they have the bandwidth to let me ramp up. When I have one open req, why would I hire someone who needs to ramp up on AWS when I have a dozen applicants with experience? Why would I put myself at a disadvantage?

A company would be absolutely insane to choose me over someone with experience with Azure, or GCP as a staff consultant over the probably dozens of applicants they have with that particular skill if they were an Azure or GCP shop.

When my current company hired me, they were short staffed and gave me a week to onboard and flew me out to a customer site to do support a large sales contract. They hired me because I could hit the ground running both technically and without “consulting training” like AWS had.

[1] seven years of experience between 2 working at a startup, 3 working directly at AWS (Professional Services) and two working as staff consultant at a third party company.
by kazinator | 2025-11-13 00:15:21+00:00
In common anecdotal experience with disassembling code, it is very common for data areas interspersed with code (like string literals) to disaassemble to instructions, momentarily causing the human to be puzzled: what is this repetition of five "or" instructions doing here referencing registers that would never be arguments?

The reason is that the opcode encoding is very dense, and has no redundancy against detecting bad encodings, and usually no relationship to neighboring words.

By that I mean that some four byte chunk (say) treated as an opcode word is treated that way regardless of what came before or what comes after. If it looks like an opcode with a four-byte immediate operand, then the disassembly will pull in that operand (which can be any bit combination) and skip another four bytes. Nothing in the operand will indicate "this is a bad instruction overall".
by verdverm | 2025-11-13 00:15:37+00:00
both the old & new interfaces to Jenkins are riddled with bugs, work seems to be maintenance mode, across the plugin ecosystem too

If you are talking about Jenkins-X, that is a different story, it's basically a rewrite to Kubernetes. I haven't talked to anyone actually using it, if you go k8s, you are far more likely to go argo
by stmw | 2025-11-13 00:15:42+00:00
Yeah, don't think this was an equal 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 partnership, but in various written histories there is Apple engineering involvement:

"So, with the goal of maintaining RS/6000 software compatibility, a team of architects from IBM, Apple, and Motorola set out to refine the architecture ... IBM and Motorola, with Apple engineering participation, have put into operation a new design center to develop future PowerPC microprocessors. The Somerset Design Center is a 37,000 square-foot facility located in Austin, Texas, staffed primarily by Motorola and IBM with approximately 300 engineering professionals. The design center is presently working concurrently on three separate PowerPC microprocessors." (https://www.thefreelibrary.com/History+of+the+PowerPC+archit...)

The intro to PowerPC Architecture book includes the following:

"We would like to acknowledge Keith Diefendorff, Ron Hochsprung, Rich Oehler, and John Sell for providing the technical leadership that made it possible for the group of architects, programmers, and designers from Apple, Motorola, and IBM to produce an architecture that met the goals established by the alliance these companies formed.

Many people contributed to the definition of the architecture, and it is not practical to name each of them here. However, a core group worked long hours over an extended period contributing ideas, evaluating options, debating costs and benefits of each proposal, and working together toward the goal of establishing a competitive architecture for the member companies of the alliance. This group of dedicated professionals included Richard Arndt, Roger Bailey, Al Chang, Barry Dorfman, Greg Grohoski, Randy Groves, Bill Hay, Marty Hopkins, Jim Kahle, Chin- Cheng Kau, Cathy May, Chuck Moore, Bill Moyer, John Muhich, Brett Olsson, John O'Quin, Mark Rogers, Tom Sartorius, Mike Shebanow, Ed Silha, Rick Simpson, Hank Warren, Lynn West, Andy Wottreng, and Mike Yamamura."
by throw20251110 | 2025-11-13 00:15:58+00:00
> Think about it this way. Let's say this were a book store selling illegal copies of books. A very reasonable discovery request would be "Show me your sales logs". The whole log needs to be produced otherwise you can't really trust that this is the real log.

Your claim doesn’t hold up, my friend. It’s inaccurate because nobody archives an entire dialogue with a seller for the record, and you certainly don’t have to show identification to purchase a book.