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Yeah? Well, y'know, that's just like, ah, your "opinion" man...
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gjvc··on Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
"fewer"
gjvc··on Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release
until the next one
gjvc··on macOS needs its grid back
Snow Leopard was peak OS X
gjvc··on ninja is always recompiling everything
(at least) version 1.13.2 is broken (as currently in debian unstable)

get the latest version from git, fixed by https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/pull/2764

gjvc··on Ferrari bungled the design of its first EV
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ChrisArchitect
gjvc··on Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ChrisArchitect
gjvc··on Prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ChrisArchitect
gjvc··on WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ChrisArchitect
gjvc··on Claude Code – Everything you can configure that the docs don't tell you
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ChrisArchitect
gjvc··on Claude Code – Everything you can configure that the docs don't tell you
weak, even for you
gjvc··on The Ask
liberal
gjvc··on Building durable workflows on Postgres
"public" is not a database, it is a schema within a database.

apropos bad naming, postgresql authors are not forgiven for naming all the databases on a single host a "cluster". I mean __really__.

gjvc··on The Ask
and you are a fool
gjvc··on The Ask
are you high / in wonderland?

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.” ― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/grol/alice/glass06.htm

gjvc··on The Ask
that does not in any way make it correct
gjvc··on The Ask
QUESTION / REQUEST / REQUIREMENT -- all nouns.

Not "Ask". "Ask" is a verb.

gjvc··on The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble
"Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better" -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
gjvc··on Jira Is Turing-Complete
Jira is the best way to destroy morale.
gjvc··on Sp.h is the standard library that C deserves
DJB was saying similar things in the 1990s -- eg https://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt
gjvc··on AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise
witness the first signs of AI fatigue
gjvc··on Don't hijack my mouse pointer
remind me...
gjvc··on Debian must ship reproducible packages
"fewer" when the measure is discrete, "less" when it is continuous
gjvc··on Debian must ship reproducible packages
"overstate"
gjvc··on Show HN: Rust but Lisp
you ain't seen nothin' yet.
gjvc··on Long short-term memory (1997) [pdf]
what is it with latex-created .pdf files of that era which so often seemed to have bogus (embedded) fonts somehow?
gjvc··on Less people are having babies in Canada and the US and the govt is out of ideas
"fewer"
gjvc··on Zig → Rust porting guide
Doesn't matter if it's "experimental", it's a dumb experiment that shouldn't exist.

Do you think the same about bitcoin? Where do you draw the line as to what programs are allowed to be written?

gjvc··on Why won't SQLite give back my disk space?
daft
gjvc··on GCC 16 has been released
are you using

    -static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc

?
gjvc··on Networking changes coming in macOS 27
also known as "prescient"
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