benji-york

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Comment · 8 days ago
Alternate headline: "Public utilities subsidize 19% of electricity charges."
Comment · 15 days ago
As they say, it's more fun to drive a slow car fast, than a fast car slow.
Comment · 15 days ago
I guess this is the ultimate version of "you can't push a rope".
Comment · 1 month ago
After watching the video, I'm not understanding your objection. That's pretty much how the current bidi voice model sounds.
Comment · 1 month ago
I find the framing of distrusting/attacking people because they behave in ways you don't understand somewhat off putting.
Comment · 1 month ago
Any decent human being would have called these Black Hole Suns.
Comment · 1 month ago
`pip install zig` works today.
Comment · 1 month ago
This is true; we should strive for this not to be true.
Comment · 2 months ago
Since the word "draft" was used, it is safe to assume that the message will be reviewed and potentially amended before being sent.
Comment · 2 months ago
The maintainer of top fully-justifies his commit messages, e.g., https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/e6f22569e9db16d...

commit e6f22569e9db16dbef7d9bdee5bb41b8cb7a03ca

Author: Jim Warner <[email protected]>

Date: Tue Jul 23 00:00:00 2024 -0500

    top: attempt once again to allow help text translation
    
    Back when our release 4.0.1 was being readied, sources
    were sent to the TP (Translation Project). However one
    person named Benno Schulenberg refused to release them
    for translation. His stated reason was the top command
    line help text which then finally included long forms.
    
    He demanded that the help text be broken into separate
    strings instead of a single large string. But, all the
    top text (some much more complex) has just one string.
    So that stated reason was, at the least, inconsistent.
    
    [ I suspect the real reason was that Mr. Schulenberg ]
    [ thought that the carefully right-justified English ]
    [ wording would also be required of translations too ]
    
    The bottom line was that Benno took it upon himself to
    change the TP motto from "you code, we translate" into
    "first we tell you how to code and then we translate".
    
    Rather than bend a knee to that despot, I disabled the
    text entirely, admittedly denying users a translation.
    Now, with this commit we enable translatable help text
    but with a hint included to ignore the justified text.
    
    Reference)s):
    . Oct, 2022 - finalized translation exclusion
    commit ab05a3785f29cc4b754e17c53bfb3d8ba054563e
    
    Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <[email protected]>
Comment · 2 months ago
Those are totals, not annual spending.
Comment · 2 months ago
> even if every adult on the planet spent 250$ on AI per year this would still not cover anywhere near what's being invested.

Your math does not make sense. That's something like $1.5 trillion every year. That's no where near what is being spent in AI hardware buildouts on an annual basis.

Comment · 2 months ago
In the short term (assuming no point fixes help soften the shock).
Comment · 2 months ago
Can you get (non-LED) lightbulbs you like online?

No. They are illegal.

Comment · 2 months ago
Iterated games.

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