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feisty0630··on MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
It really depends on what sort of DAW work you're doing, but you'd be surprised.

I've always found Audio and MIDI processing on a Mac to be a lot more responsive and a lot more resource-efficient on MacOS than any other OS. It's the reason a lot of us ran Hackintoshes back in the day.

For what it's worth, my M3 MBP with 18GB RAM can have dozens of Firefox tabs, virtual machines (some x64, some ARM), editors, terminals, Mail, and Excel open, and you literally couldn't tell it wasn't idling. I've never even heard the fan ramp up.

feisty0630··on GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
It would be interesting to see the breakdown on technical vs non-technical roles. I can't imagine it takes even 50% of that to actually develop the product.
feisty0630··on 245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping
Given that 2.91TB SSDs are a common enterprise size, perhaps they're saying the 1x245TB SSD uses 1/84 the power of 84 2.91TB SSDs ;p
feisty0630··on PyInfra 3.8.0
"I only use tools that my LLM knows how to use" is not the flex that you think it is
feisty0630··on GabeN Is Shitting Yacht Money into Flatpak and You're Still Arguing Init Systems
While TFA is a bit of a disorganised stream of consciousness, I can definitely empathise with the author on the majority of their points. The desktop Linux community is full of people that are, frankly, completely insufferable.

This isn't even isolated to the online world. I still remember when I presented my Honours project for University and the "demo" consisted of a few Debian VMs running on my laptop to serve as a facsimile of a compute cluster. An attendee (a respected industry representative) openly and publicly mocked me for not using RHEL or CentOS - despite the fact I'd already explained the implementation was distro-independent.

There's a degree of smug arrogance that's quite pervasive in tech fields, but the desktop Linux community seems to be an outlier even among that. I'm unsure how much of it is lack of social awareness, or neurodivergence, or what, but it's exhausting and it's a big reason why I (also a desktop Linux user) don't really engage in those communities.

feisty0630··on TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
Do you expect something exclusively trained on them to be any better?
feisty0630··on TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
Interesting that it reads a bit like it came from a Markov chain rather than an LLM. Perhaps limited training data?
feisty0630··on TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
I fail to see how the two concepts equate.

LLMs have neither intelligence nor problem-solving abillity (and I won't be relaxing the definition of either so that some AI bro can pretend a glorified chatbot is sentient)

You would, at best, be demonstrating that the sharing of knowledge across multiple disciplines and nations (which is a relatively new concept - at least at the scale of something like the internet) leads to novel ideas.

feisty0630··on TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
> I would have a chance to get a rudimentary insight on what the world was like at that time

Congratulations, you've reinvented the history book (just with more energy consumption and less guarantee of accuracy)

feisty0630··on FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)
You express a desire for more FreeBSD posts and then immediately wade into all the typical flame-warring that surrounds most BSD/ZFS posts (systemd, ECC RAM), and it's been that way for over a decade at this point.
feisty0630··on Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy
Are you from the middle ages, or are you so out of touch with blue-collar work that you're under the impression the average sewer worker has to manually handle waste?
feisty0630··on Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy
I don't know if you're intentionally being obtuse or you just failed third grade reading comprehension, but can you please go argue with the people actually making these points (rather than me, a random person who has replied to them)?
feisty0630··on Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy
I didn't actually make the point initially. I was challenging the reply's point that:

a) just because some people are miserable at work, doesn't mean we shouldn't care that other people might become miserable at work

b) Someone saying they prefer their food to be made without suffering is clearly a hypocrite in all cases because... there are miserable people in fast food jobs?

I mean... really. Come on now.

feisty0630··on Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy
0.8*harm < 0.81*harm - hope this helps!

Also, the core point is about people being able to find meaning in their work. That you've decided to laser in on this specific point to go on a tangent of whattaboutism is largely irrelevant.

Have a nice day.

feisty0630··on Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy
Are you seriously and earnestly arguing that harm-minimisation is useless and we should all just open the human-suffering throttle, or did you just not think that far ahead?

I am hoping the latter. Being foolish is far more temporary a condition than being cruel.

feisty0630··on Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy
It's not "dumb", you're just presenting a steelman that directly contradicts what the person you're replying to wrote.

You might indeed be shocked to find that not everyone consumes fast food.

feisty0630··on Installing and using HP-UX 9
As soon as Intel killed Itanium, the clock was ticking for HP-UX.
feisty0630··on Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet
It's almost as if different equipment can serve different purposes...
feisty0630··on Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates
There are F500 companies shipping Ubuntu Core on devices that will only permit signed firmware, so I'm not sure your assessment is correct.

https://buildings.honeywell.com/au/en/products/by-category/b...

feisty0630··on About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5
And if drivers followed the Safe Driving Protocol (SDP), we wouldn't need airbags. Real life happens regardless of the imaginary frameworks infosec people dream up.
feisty0630··on Launch HN: Cyberdesk (YC S25) – Automate Windows legacy desktop apps
All of which has nothing to do with OpenAI or Anthropic deciding to use your data??? SOC 2 Type II is completely irrelevant.

You've got two companies that basically built their entire business upon stealing people's content, and they've given you a piece of paper saying "trust me bro".

feisty0630··on Launch HN: Cyberdesk (YC S25) – Automate Windows legacy desktop apps
That's not "verification" by any definition of the word.
feisty0630··on How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment
> Social media may be the actual lead pipes to our empire [1].

In America, the lead pipes of their empire are the literal lead pipes still in use all over the country.

feisty0630··on Docker Compose Isn't Enough
Wait until you find out about 'docker-compose' vs 'docker compose'!
feisty0630··on M-series MacBook SSD storage upgrade (non-official) [video]
It seems like they've just made a board to route all the NAND modules' pins to a connector, and then another board to go back again. There don't seem to be any electronics on the boards other than the modules and a few resistors.
feisty0630··on Singapore OKs 4,300km subsea cable for importing electricity from Australia
But the NT (where the cable is running to) isn't connected to the Australian grid (which is effectively the East Coast, SA, and Tasmania), and there are no plans to do so. The Darwin grid is currently ~4-10% renewables depending on the day.
feisty0630··on Singapore OKs 4,300km subsea cable for importing electricity from Australia
The strangest part of this is that the cable will be run to Darwin, which isn't connected to Australia's national grid.

So the city's electrical grid will be connected to a foreign country 4,300km away before it's connected to the Australian grid (approx. 2,100km away by road).