sukhmel

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Rust dev, I enjoy reading and playing games, I also usually like to spend time with friends.

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sukhmel ,

$40 is now too much for an old but working laptop? That's crazy

The Windows Interface You Didn’t Like, For Linux ( hackaday.com )

If you were asked to pick the most annoying of the various Microsoft Windows interfaces that have appeared over the years, there’s a reasonable chance that Windows 8’s Metro start screen and interface design language would make it your choice. In 2012 the software company abandoned their tried-and-tested desktop whose roots...

sukhmel ,

A bit ironic when Microsoft struggles because someone else keep breaking compatibility. Although I would prefer it to keep trying because that would have been more choice and competition in the mobile OS land

sukhmel ,

Yeah, I had in mind their office they changed every now and then to break compatibility with FOSS office, afaik this is not the only thing they did like that, but support for running old software usually was decent, true

sukhmel ,

Well, it is an image. Technically

sukhmel ,

Wrong country

sukhmel ,

They seem to ask how to phrase the same thing in such a way that you can't come and reply that their tone is condescending.

Much passive, very aggression, I find it hard to side with people this snarky :(

sukhmel ,

Yeah, I can't answer your question either, because I find it may be either hard or impossible to come up with an answer

sukhmel ,

I still think there is some communication issue, but I re-read your original comment and I am quite lost about what your point was: you say Valve is monopoly BUT it's not evil (from another thread you linked) and you don't propose to dismantle it. So, what should the readers do with the newly acquired knowledge?

If you want to warn, then warn directly, if you want to call to action, do so. If you want people to just think for themselves, you will get nothing except people thinking you fail to make a point and arguing with you because they came up with that result by thinking for themselves

sukhmel ,

competitor being so unimportant they can't give things away

What?

Besides, I think part of the issue is that you argue with different people as if they were the same people

sukhmel ,

No, not for pointing out

sukhmel ,

You got the point, but non-profit that doesn't usually exist on the brink of collapse or stops existing entirely

sukhmel ,

So, ceo has 20× the average in their company, wow

sukhmel ,

What did they make?

sukhmel ,

Censoring parts of gameplay as you play would be very impressive, btw. Not in a good way, but impressive, like when I first found out about ISP replacing/adding ads on http pages

sukhmel ,

That's clear, this is just a weird image

Also, I believe they don't really need to have complete control for that, too

Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever ( github.com )

Reddit's API is effectively dead for archival. Third-party apps are gone. Reddit has threatened to cut off access to the Pushshift dataset multiple times. But 3.28TB of Reddit history exists as a torrent right now, and I built a tool to turn it into something you can browse on your own hardware....

sukhmel ,

I have A1 and A2 level in a couple of non-first languages, technically I can speak those, realistically I don't and will not be able to communicate something more complex than ‘here, take a look’

So I don't agree with your absolutistic stance

sukhmel ,

"Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!... HELP IS ON ITS WAY," Trump said in a post on Truth Social, without saying what that help might be

Why do I feel like this is bullshit

sukhmel ,

But people gained a possibility to edit photos

sukhmel ,

Or because their agent wiped all the data on production

sukhmel ,

Looks ethically sourced artisanal lines to me

sukhmel ,

I think, the point is Haskell is more CS theoretical than practical language and anyone who uses it (or any other FP) has never written a single line of production code (the last statement is even in the meme)

sukhmel ,

Yh, y cn sv a lt f spc wtht ths unncssr vwls

sukhmel ,

You've transcended programming

sukhmel ,

I had to leave most of first letters, and sometimes if all vowels are removed there's nothing left

But yeah, we need a committee and come up with a standard for that

Protests erupt in Iran's capital after exiled prince's call; internet cuts out soon after ( apnews.com )

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — People in Iran’s capital shouted from their homes and rallied in the street Thursday night after a call by the country’s exiled crown prince for a mass demonstration, witnesses said, a new escalation in the protests that have spread nationwide across the Islamic Republic. Internet access...

sukhmel ,

Reminds me a bit of how a prince inherited Spain from Franco. The prince in question dismantled the system and they created a democratic monarchy.

He also turned out to be corrupt and shitty, but at least he was not a ruler of the country, so I guess we can expect something good to happen, after all

sukhmel ,

No thinking is not the same as no actions, we had bots in games for decades and that bots look like they act reasonably but there never was any thinking.

I feel like ‘a lot of agency’ is wrong as there is no agency, but it doesn't mean that an LLM in a looped setup can't arrive to these actions and perform them. It doesn't require neither agency, nor thinking

sukhmel ,

You can transpile from C to Malbolge and then run it (this will probably take forever for most of C programs). I thought it can be used for obfuscation, and sure enough Wiki already states that:

Hisashi Iizawa et al. also proposed a guide for programming in Malbolge for the purpose of obfuscation for software protection

sukhmel ,

It's kinda good but also reads a bit like

sorry we got caught we never intended to

sukhmel ,

Oh, this perspective didn't occur to me, it makes everything so much worse 😅

sukhmel ,

Maybe ‘feh-teh-peh’, but yeah, sometimes I see ‘an’ or ‘a’ where I don't expect them and am left wondering about mysterious ways of the English language

sukhmel ,

Having a rationale is good, contradicting real use-cases is not so much. I met validations that are constructed without a lot of cases in mind lots of times. My favourite one was assuming the zip code is always 5–6 numbers, which is not always the case in length and in some countries it's not numbers at all, and that was a logistical company that was supposed to know things well

sukhmel ,

It the video the guy makes unfolding motion 25 times in 20 seconds. If your phone is rated for 10k folds you can get at least 2.5 hours of gameplay from that /s

sukhmel ,

Agree, this is just same symptoms of the same attitude

sukhmel ,

And that caveat also comes with a discount, I heard Quest sells for less than it costs to produce.

I never wanted to get Quest even if the price was good, I hope I will be able to get the Frame soon 🥲

sukhmel ,

The crime in question: buying from their competitors

sukhmel ,

The bugs are going to be hilarious when the game incorrectly understands what you're looking at, or breaks from looking at something too intensely

sukhmel ,

Yeah, didn't think about that :( but I imagine the descriptions are still going to be fun, like ‘things don't behave when I stop looking at them’

sukhmel ,

Not sure this pricing crisis will not have an impact on consoles, too

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sukhmel ,

I believe such petty technicalities should not bother the flight of your imagination

but

keep in mind, what has been seen cannot be unseen

What paid software is absolutely worth the money?

For me, that would be Secure CRT. I have yet to find a terminal emulator that matches its feature set. If you regularly manage hundreds of machines using various connection protocols (serial and ssh mostly in my case) It's worth the $$$, and so far there hasn't been any subscription nonsense. I liked using it at work so much I...

sukhmel ,

Because if you keep the subscription, the payment is lower (don't remember, how much lower, half or less), and versions come more often than once a year

It might make sense if you only re-subscribe if something really big changes, which is almost never, I guess

sukhmel ,

Originally I paid because I wanted to support the product, now the product is not as great as it used to be, so maybe there is none

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    sukhmel ,

    Putin likes to get someone old and revered to astroturf for him, like Tereshkova did. This to me looks like someone is trying to use a retired colonel to pretend it's not some oligarchs trying to change the course, but the voice of people and reason.

    sukhmel ,

    I feel pain just by looking at it, definitely an instance of move fast break things bones

    sukhmel ,

    Double edge safety razors: if I had to choose only one, Rockwell 6S is enough, but they really perform different and have different feel. I mostly use four or five on a daily basis, but it is more than necessary.

    Also, fountain pens: it's pretty much the same, TWSBI pen(s) would suffice, but there are too many brands and models with different look and feel, hard to choose only one. Plus in case of pens multiple ones allow for use of different inks at the same time (those I also have multiple compared to the amount that would suffice, even in the same colour)

    sukhmel ,

    Nah, what I meant is that I shave daily, but almost every time I shave with a different razor 😅

    New Runtime Standby ABI Proposed For Linux Akin To Microsoft Windows' "Modern Standby" ( www.phoronix.com )

    An exciting post-Christmas patch series out on the Linux kernel mailing list this morning is proposing a new runtime standby ABI that is similar in nature to the "Modern Standby" functionality found with Microsoft Windows....

    sukhmel ,

    Tbf, these days windows is so obscure, it also sucks for technical people, sometimes it's practically impossible to find where to configure something even if you know it can be configured, even worse if you don't know for sure

    sukhmel ,

    I used X11 on Mint until this November, but only because Wayland is not supported on Mint. I wanted to switch because even if Wayland is not there yet, I believe that it needs more users to switch to polish rough edges faster. And because I know how switching from legacy can take forever if you wait until everything is perfect, I decided to switch to Wayland, it does miss a couple of features I need like programmatic keyboard input but there are workarounds