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Touche··on Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years
Poor sleep is a widespread problem and very few of those people are cognitively doing it intentionally as some sort of "tradeoff". The number of people "grinding on a startup" is tiny compared to the population of people who suffer from this problem. Instead it's caused by things like general anxiety, too much screen time before bed, or not having consistent sleep schedules. And other health related reasons that compound the problem.
Touche··on The case for physical media ownership
I had a FreeNAS I bought around ~2010 and didn't use it for a couple of years at one point and when I went to use it again I could no longer update it, which meant I was on an ancient version of FreeBSD and none of the modern software ran on. So this literally happened to me already.
Touche··on The case for physical media ownership
Then you need a NAS, a backup process (backing up large collections of movies to S3 is actually pretty expensive). You need to keep your NAS up to date. You need to install / configure Plex, oops that's closed source now, uninstall that and get Jellyfin. Eventually your NAS hardware will be outdated and you'll have to get a new one and migrate your files over.

Even for technical people this is a pain over time. Nothing like just having a disc that can last 50+ years if properly stored.

Touche··on Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
Why would "right mouse click" be part of a protocol?
Touche··on Oh My Zsh adds bloat
I'll go a step further, you probably don't need zsh at all. Once you install Starship there's not much difference if you just use bash.
Touche··on Google is dead. Where do we go now?
I don't know why people are down-voting it. You might not like it, you may not think it's good. But this is absolutely happening and there's a lot of data out there about it.
Touche··on Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph
Why is that preferable to just pivoting?
Touche··on Cassette tapes are making a comeback?
I've read this but I don't get it. Why can't those parts just be 3D printed on demand?
Touche··on Cassette tapes are making a comeback?
CDs skip very easily so they're not good for portability. So that limits their use to in the house, and they're you're competing with vinyl. Cassette fill a niche in the nostalgia world being something you can more easily use on the go.
Touche··on Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph
I don't understand how people use these tools without a subscription. Unless you are using it very infrequently paying per token gets costly very fast.
Touche··on Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph
So the point of this is to clean the cap table, right? Current investors aren't getting a stake in the new company?
Touche··on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
One great thing about Forejo is that you can have a FreeBSD builder and on GH you cannot, have to spin up a slow VM.
Touche··on Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD
Also framework laptops work (mostly): https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/freebsd-on-framework

Even if true, not having great support for laptops doesn't mean "no one uses FreeBSD". Obviously it's supported by essentially all server hardware and is used there, as well as many routers and the Playstation.

Touche··on The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf]
I feel like the existence of LuaJIT made is seemed like standard Lua was slow, but that's far from the case.
Touche··on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
The fact that you're familiar with the Coke controversy proves the point. Before they were rare and memorable. Now it happens ever other week. Bots are intentionally driving division.
Touche··on Serverless Horrors
Why would they need to delete storage, they could just not accept past the cap.
Touche··on Serverless Horrors
Everything on AWS can deny a request no matter what the API happens to be
Touche··on Serverless Horrors
Everyone who makes this argument always assumes that every website on the internet is a for-profit business when in reality the vast majority of websites are not trying to make any profit at all, they are not businesses. In those cases yes absolutely they want them to be brought down.
Touche··on Serverless Horrors
The difference is this actually happens, a lot, unlike your straw man. It happens enough that there's a website dedicated to it.
Touche··on Show HN: I built a service to run Claude Code in the Cloud
It's not "exactly" that.
Touche··on Cursor CLI
I use lazygit for that. But any diff tool you like will work.
Touche··on Cursor CLI
They don't have arbitrary access over your file system. They ask permission for doing most everything. Even reading files, they can't do that outside of the current working directory without permission.
Touche··on Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately
They might not be capable of ingenuity, but they can spot patterns humans can miss. And that accelerates AI research, where it might help invent the next AI that helps invent the next AI that finally can think outside the box.
Touche··on Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately
Yes, general means you can present it a new problem that there is no data on, and it can become a expert o that problem.
Touche··on Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately
Yeah I agree, this idea that people won't change jobs if they are on the verge of a breakthrough reads like a silicon valley fantasy where you can underpay people by selling them on vision or something. "Make ME rich, but we'll give you a footnote on the Wikipedia page"
Touche··on Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately
Because it's valuable training data. Like how having Google Maps on everyone's phone made their map data better.

Personally I think AGI is ill-defined and won't happen as a new model release. Instead the thing to look for is how LLMs are being used in AI research and there are some advances happening there.

Touche··on Introducing tmux-rs
This person built a really cool project and documented how and you're throwing negative predictions about it for no reason. No one is down voting your opinions on OpenBSD
Touche··on Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)
You can use podlet to convert compose files to quadlet files. https://github.com/containers/podlet
Touche··on Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative
I use Jellyfin in this way. You can also use it with music apps like Symfonium for Android, and you can play on a Sonos via DLNA.
Touche··on Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
Love this. So many in the archivist community are only interested in preservation and don't care at all about making the material accessible. Love to see a project like this prioritizing the latter.
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