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Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
A barbarous Floydian slip.
Comment · 7 months ago
YES! Snap drove me to debian sid and haven't looked back. Snap is probably fine, but don't force me to use it.
Comment · 7 months ago
I had used ubuntu back in the day, and when I came back to linux a bit ago I immediately installed it again.

I don't remember all of my frustrations, but I remember having a lot of trouble with snap. Specifically, it really annoyed me that the default install of firefox was the snap version instead of native. I want that to be an opt-in kind of thing. I found that flatpak just worked better anyway.

I almost tried making the switch to arch, but I've been pretty happy running debian sid (unstable) since. The debian installer is just more friendly to me for getting encrypted drives and partitions set up how I want.

It's not for everyone, but I like the structured rolling updates of sid and having access to the debian ecosystem too much to switch to something else at this point.

I use sway with a radeon card for my primary and have a secondary nvidia card for games and AI stuff.

It has its warts, but I love my debian+sway setup

Comment · 1 year ago
Was pretty effective using as a propaganda tool to get a candidate of the owner's choice elected. I don't see any reason to assume that wasn't the intended goal from the beginning. No reason to assume that won't be how it is used in the future.
Comment · 1 year ago
I was pretty flabbergasted when I realized that if not logged in, I could no longer search a repository for code references.

You're really going to make me clone a project locally to do a search. I just end up using google to search github. It's so stupid.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I believe there was a bill that addressed this, but if failed shortly before the TikTok stuff.
Comment · 1 year ago
> The company said it would cost between $20 million and $30 million to fix these issues and decided to cut about 6% of its staff.

> Spence, in October, had acknowledged mistakes surrounding the app's release and said that he and seven other company leaders would forgo their bonuses.

People out of a job because of you and you're gonna forgo your bonuses.

> Spence, whose total compensation was $5.19 million in fiscal 2023, took a roughly $72,000 cash bonus.

Comment · 1 year ago
I thought a reddit comment on this article had an interesting point:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1d3b356/my_new_favori...

[–]Timzhy0 3 points 7 months ago

Btw I think one can go a step further than the author, there is no need to keep two explicit ExprRef baked in a binary node (lhs, rhs). You can exploit locality, basically the AST, seen it the LISP way, is just an arbitrarily nestable list, where elements are atoms or other lists. Hence all you need to know is where each list ends (and if it's an atom you can assume it spans one node) and actually one bit to know if it is the last entry in the list is quite ergonomic as well (because then you can distinguish whether moving next slot in the AST means there is a sibling). Basically it's easier to keep it sync while constructing and takes up less memory per node. I pay 40 bits per node, stored interleaved for best cache locality (some unaligned accesses but I think it's still worthwhile), 8 bits for the tag, 32 for the data, if data is bigger, 32 is an index into some auxiliary segment (basically a ptr).

Comment · 1 year ago
I don't think you should feel any pressure to change it. The Solar System belongs to the writers just as much as it does to the physicists and unless your target audience is specifically physicists, then the average visitor of your site will be more likely a consumer of sci-fi than a practitioner of physics.

The argument is rather pedantic to me since the word Sun comes from the old English, Germanic, and European, whereas Sol comes from the Latin, Helios from the Greek, svár Sanskrit, etc. They are all valid names for our local star.

Comment · 2 years ago
Astrologically, Gemini is associated with Communication. Specifically social, superficial, quick, back and forth communication. The sign is ruled by Mercury which is associated with Intelligence and being the messenger of the Gods. Mercury is often depicted with winged shoes as the planet itself is the fastest moving planet, orbiting the sun every 88 days. Mercury is considered to be dualistic (The Twins) and also rules the sign of Virgo, an earth sign that is associated with more deep cold analytical categorization.

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