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The beaglebone family of SBCs were specifically designed to fit inside altoids tins

There's a funny story in his memoir where he got cast as Gurney Halleck when Lynch saw Patrick in old man makeup in a theater production and had no idea who he was when he showed up for the part.

Correct.

Wikipedia is not for primary sources to write in. "I know things!" is not an acceptable source.

Why is libghostty better than alacritty?

Although not necessarily advertised as such, I've been successfully using alacritty in several projects injecting terminals into things both serious and silly.

It takes about a decade to bring one up and during EVERY wave of a booming memory demand supply crunch there has been a subsequent round of major bankruptcies from suppliers who decided to scale and had no demand when they finally got online.

Supply is not elastic and responds very much slower than demand. There's no conspiracy or corruption needed for this result.

The ~$1T/y AI capex isn't remotely sustainable. Memory fab capacity will go up, AI datacenter provisioning will go down, prices will become reasonable.

plenty of things should have a mandatory sort of twenty year supportability warranty. not necessarily free repairs but an enforceable promise that a thing / "ecosystem" can be used for a reasonably expected lifetime

for a thermostat that's measured in decades

one if the problems being the freedoms companies can be bought for the purposes of being destroyed

If they sold a modern "iPod Classic" with a clickwheel and headphone jack, there would be a small but devoted community.

I have a whole section in my global AGENTS.md about how python sucks to influence agents to not use it for anything performance sensitive.

My favorite improvement example was something a bit of a slog was taking 20 minutes in python, I told the agent to rewrite it in rust and the result was 300,000 times faster... 20 minutes to ones of milliseconds. Obviously not just a python problem but better solutions just seem to fall out of Rust and Python is just slow.

A good 4TB SSD was $1000 the last time I checked. The "throw more resources at it" attitude makes all but very top tier equipment kinda useless for many cases.

I had to abandon several projects until I bought a significantly beefier computer because of disk space, which is ridiculous. A lot of it was rust target directories taking up tens of gigabytes.

It is getting progressively more difficult to set up a new Windows laptop without a cloud account. Currently it's a pretty esotaric command line prompt if you know the keybinding to get a terminal open.