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clircle

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Professional statistician, amateur computer person.
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clircle··on Continuing our infrastructure updates: What's changing in the coming months
Better title: Reddit plans to disable rss next month
clircle··on Paul Graham on LLMs 'Thinking'
Stupid anthropomorphism that only serves to reduce human accountability.
clircle··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
Cytisine. I buy some on Amazon. Works wonders, no cravings but strange dreams.
clircle··on AirPods 5
I had the Air Pod Pro 1 for many years, but unfortunately lost in an airport. I upgraded to the Pro 3, but the pods are shaped differently and now fall out of my ears. I didn't even research ear fit, not thinking this could be a regression.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256143886?sortBy=rank

clircle··on Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses
I think the advice is the same regardless of AI use: read articles written by authors that have a history of high quality writing.
clircle··on End-to-end infrastructure for training and inferencing open weight models
'inferencing' -- is this a real word? Inference is a good noun. Infer is a fine verb. But Inferencing?
clircle··on Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)
I get that the data science world has moved on to python, but I always felt that R's data.table had the slickest dataframe developer experience. I have toyed with Polars for a few hours, maybe I should give it a better chance.
clircle··on 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
Very neat. What's the power draw on this machine?
clircle··on Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles
efficient mathematics hypothesis? What's that?
clircle··on My Emacs Configuration (Dired)
Thanks, dired-hide-details-mode is particularly neato. I also learned a few things about marking.
clircle··on Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere
My first thought as well. drag-and-drop is also fantastically useful for data you cannot Cut (e.g., moving an email attachment from one draft message to another)
clircle··on In Emacs, everything looks like a service
Emacs users (myself included) would feel less like cramming every aspect of our work into Emacs if more tools embodied the freedom and hackability that comes with using Emacs. It's not that Emacs is better, it's that other tools are more restrictive and not self-documenting.
clircle··on No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026
Cool, I don't have to set my clocks back this December.
clircle··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
Pro motion and battery life for me
clircle··on Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities
Is Gentoo an outlier or do all Linux distributions deal with this problem?
clircle··on Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
I was gaming on Linux when steam first came out for that platform, but there were too many broken games. Tried again with Proton debute, and more problems. I switched back to Win10 for about 5 years on my gaming machine, but the push to Win11 made me want to try linux again for gaming. I installed Guix and Steam, and I am still just floored at how much progress Linux gaming has made in 5 years. Basically every works, and it feels only imperceptibly slower than gaming on Win10. I'm on AMD card, so ymmv!

I'm about to beat Lies of P :)

clircle··on I want to live like Costco people
There's nothing appealing about costco to me anymore. Living is suburban DC... The parking lots are packed and dangerous, there's too many people in the store, the produce quality isn't there, and it takes forever to checkout. It doesn't fit my lifestyle anymore, and I'm the perfect candidate for someone that could benefit from going there once in a while.
clircle··on My .config Ship of Theseus
Here's some good configs

https://github.com/podiki/dot.me (nonguix maintainer) https://codeberg.org/hako/Testament (guix and nonguix maintainer) https://codeberg.org/cmargiotta/dotfiles (good gaming stuff) https://codeberg.org/daviwil/dotfiles/src/branch/guix-home (I modeled off this) https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes

clircle··on My .config Ship of Theseus
Yes, separately. At home i run guix system but at work i use Guix package manager on Ubuntu wsl. My dots are private but Ill share some good repos to learn from when i get back to my desktop.
clircle··on My .config Ship of Theseus
I’m moving slowly in the direction of Guix home for dotfile management, but until it covers all my bases, I’m fond of the gnu stow method
clircle··on PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
+1 for FreshRSS (recommended at the bottom of the PC Gamer article). I just started my mass migration to self-hosting (it's way better in 2026 than it used to be), and I'm very pleased with the FreshRSS webapp and NetNewsWire integration. I consider it a solid hedge against enshittification. I probably won't go full self-hosting, but I'm enjoying the move.
clircle··on Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite
> Synctrain

Good tip, I'm going to check that out!

clircle··on Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite
> overkill for a single personal user compared to a kdbx file on a webdav share.

Maybe. I'm looking into VaultWarden for my personal passwords because keeping a KBDX file up to date on iOS is painful (without a corporate cloud backing).

clircle··on MIT Living Wage Calculator
The standard of living that one could afford with a "living wage" looks to be very very low. Like, 0 vacations and no house low, for my metro area.
clircle··on Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
Neither is xfce
clircle··on Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
I resisted Wayland for a longtime, but I'm sold now that I see how well it does on old hardware.

I have an old Thinkpad. Firefox on X is slow and scrolls poorly. On wayland, the scrolling is remarkably smooth for 10 y/o hardware, and the addition of touchpad gestures is very nice. Yes, there's more configuration overhead for each compositor, but I'm now accepting this trade.

clircle··on GNU Guix 1.5.0 Released
Guix is the combination of so many cool things: declarative OS, lisp programming, hygenic development, bootstrapping. I'm totally sold on Guix, and have been using it on an old laptop for the last few months. I'm looking forward to putting in on my desktop when I have some free time. I love love love having my whole system (and home) instantiated from a small set of text files.
clircle··on I'm addicted to being useful
You need a new job to feel energized again (and so do I)
clircle··on Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs
Is this less buggy than UTM on apple silicon?
clircle··on Making Google Sans Flex
I find the whole “corporate blogging about fonts” subculture really funny
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