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I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
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akvadrako··on Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
I had this symptom due to having an SSD without a RAM cache, which caused the latency of disk access to rise to seconds under heavy paging, effectively freezing the computer. Enabling the kyber IO scheduler, tuned for responsiveness over throughput, solved it for me.
akvadrako··on Software Engineering fundamentals matter more
You also cannot move most Ikea furniture without it falling apart, so taking it apart is actually the least damaging option. (Some of the higher end lines are okay)
akvadrako··on The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
This is a very common effect and I don't want to be defending LLMs here. But I've seen the same study with CLIs - people using them feel more productive but take longer than using GUIs.

What I want to say is that it's very situational and it's likely good to focus on the average. Using LLMs as docs are bad when good docs exist, but if you aren't sure if they do, it's a gamble. A much better approach would be to have somebody pre-create and edit the docs with an LLM for each service with bad docs.

Only when your situation isn't covered would it make sense to create new docs.

akvadrako··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
It's true the comments get it wrong. But their main point stands; they shouldn't use AWS.

It's also true that most companies which AWS does target shouldn't use it either, unless you have a good reason why ( like you need data centers in every continent or to quickly scale to 10+ thousands of cpus ).

akvadrako··on Mozilla Thunderbolt
It's not an Apple thing, though they may have adopted it first.

Basically every high end laptop comes with TB4 or 5 ports.

akvadrako··on German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad
Most states default to registering you when you get a driver's license, but you can opt-out. Some are opt-in.
akvadrako··on Why are we still using Markdown?
YAML is actually very complex, to the point that basically nobody implements the full YAML 1.2 spec from 2009 (https://matrix.yaml.info/), while 1.1 contains footguns like `country: fr` and `country: no` parsing issues.

Though I agree simple usage is good enough in practice, there are a lot of edge cases that can cause subtle bugs.

akvadrako··on My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix
I had AppleCare when my keyboard failed. They blamed it on me because of an dent about 1mm wide I never noticed on the back corner.

So you just get screwed twice.

akvadrako··on Migrating to the EU
Lack of records isn't the issue. You authorize mailbox's servers to send on behalf of your domain. Then they let anyone with a mailbox account set the from to your domain.
akvadrako··on Migrating to the EU
I use mailbox for the past few years and I think it's the best option out there. But they have one major issue, which is that anyone can impersonate your domain:

https://userforum-en.mailbox.org/topic/anti-spoofing-for-cus...

akvadrako··on What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)
Things like that existed in the category of accelerator cards. Xeon Phi (Knights) is one example, focused on core count. Some from HP have soldered on SSDs too. You also had blade servers which is more focused on that use case, though that's going out of style.

I don't think PCIe is really a good fit for general CPU tasks. You need big heatsinks and power and can't fit that much RAM on board.

akvadrako··on Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)
Its easier to connect to existing sessions in your main browser.
akvadrako··on Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English
I don't see how it's different. You could always describe what you want to a team lead or consultant and pay them to build it.

That's still the best way to turn a spec into a program and comes with all the downsides it entails.

akvadrako··on Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
I don't notice it at all, on my laptop or phone. Even when having one monitor 60 and one 120 next too it.

Only when looking at demo pages to show off high refresh rates can I tell.

Though what I do notice is replacing the mouse with a higher polling rate from 125Hz to 250Hz.

akvadrako··on Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability
I don't know why you say that. I've measured Linux sleep power consumption for Lenovo and ASUS laptops over the past 10 years and S3 and si0x come pretty close.
akvadrako··on Sizing chaos
I assume you are talking jean sizes, which might be related to inches in some historical sense, but now it's more abstract.

However dress pants, sports pants and everything that isn't pants is just as bad as for women.

akvadrako··on Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor
Can't you avoid the OSD if you control it with DCC?
akvadrako··on Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing
Seems they come with 200gbit ports so it takes 20 minutes to fill memory.
akvadrako··on I'm returning my Framework 16
500 nits is not really good enough for laptop that you might use outside.

Luckily they are still improving and we now have Tandem OLED with about double that.

akvadrako··on GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst
And if not mise, just a Makefile, shell scripts or custom docker images. Then you can run and develop them locally.

GitHub actions has some rough edges around caching, but all the packaging is totally unimportant and best avoided.

akvadrako··on GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
They are usually shaped to fit in exactly the space available to maximize capacity. Standard cell sizes wastes space.

Besides it's pretty easy to get custom battery pouches made.

akvadrako··on The HTTP Query Method
Servers can support it but not browsers.
akvadrako··on Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
That doesn't match what I see. Shops don't issue an invoice until the product ships, well after payment.
akvadrako··on I can't recommend Grafana anymore
Victoria metrics which has similar database design to clickhouse is good for metrics.

But it doesn't have a complete dashboard UI like Grafana.

akvadrako··on The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
I find it quite hard to follow PRs when there is a lot of rebasing. I don't really find separate non-time-based commits useful.

So I agree but unfortunately it's the norm and policy for some clients.

Git-absord by default doesn't squash the fixups though, it creates new ones with special tags for easy rebasing later.

akvadrako··on The Internet runs on free and open source software and so does the DNS
That hasn't been true for at least 15 years. I was a k-root DNS operator then, and we ran several software stacks on each cluster in case one had a bug.
akvadrako··on Radios, how do they work? (2024)
You can operate abroad with General in most countries.
akvadrako··on Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
This subthread is about a poster's claim above that every page would be in RAM if you have enough, "hot or not", not just the working set.
akvadrako··on Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
Only if you have more RAM than disk space, which is wasteful for many applications.
akvadrako··on Are hard drives getting better?
It doesn't matter but you can just go look.
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