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miloshadzicon The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory

New thing bad

miloshadzicon Stack size invisibility in C and the effects on "portability"

The spam on that thread is really something.

miloshadzicon Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate

Yes

miloshadzicon Ask HN: Learning about philosophy

> Note that philosophy is distinct from the history of philosophy. If you care about what is true, and not the historical development of ideas, there's not much point in reading things written before, say, 1900, or even 1950. So no Hume or Hegel or whatever. In general these texts are poorly written and unclear compared to modern ones. And of course, they can't treat the developments that have taken place in the intervening years. Consider an analogy: you would not read Newton's original manuscripts to learn calculus.

This type of view is extremely common amongst students of analytic philosophy. The "problem" approach to philosophy.

IMO Reading Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Heidegger, etc. and other thinkers deemed outdated and unworthy is absolutely a good use of time for anyone interested in Philosophy. This post is actually the first time I've ever heard anybody suggest not reading Hume.

miloshadzicon Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

I seem to perhaps be in the minority here, but I got onto the slow ring just for WSL2 and it has been excellent so far. I am primarily a Ruby developer and things just work.

miloshadzicon Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it

How do people still fall for advertorials like this?

miloshadzicon Escape from System D, episode VI: freedom in sight

Wow I didn't think Gentoo Ricers[1] still existed

[1]: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Ge...

miloshadzicon Escape from System D, episode VI: freedom in sight

  Dinit has been booting my own system for a long while, and other than a
  few hiccups on odd occasions it’s been quite reliable.

  Ok, compared to Systemd it lacks some features. It doesn’t know anything
  about Cgroups, the boot manager, filesystem mounts, dynamic users or
  binary logging. For day-to-day use on my personal desktop system, none
  of this matters, but then, I’m running a desktop based on Fluxbox and
  not much else; if I was trying to run Gnome, I’d rather expect that some
  things might not work quite as intended (on the other hand, maybe I
  could Elogind and it would all work fine… I’ve not tried, yet).

  On the plus side, compared to Systemd’s binary at 1.5mb, Dinit weighs in
  at only 123kb. It’s much smaller, but fundamentally almost as powerful,
  in my own opinion, as the former.

I applaud the OP for writing a new init system, and in light of that, the few paragraphs above serve as a good counterpoint to everyone writing how systemd does too much, is doing everything etc. In the past several years it really has been insufferable to be in the vicinity of any discussion related to systemd/init systems.

miloshadzicon Facebook says a bug caused its iPhone app’s inadvertent camera access

I guess VP of Abuse is just not a good look

miloshadzicon Facebook says a bug caused its iPhone app’s inadvertent camera access

WTF does a VP of integrity do? Have lunches with the VP of honesty?

miloshadzicon Tectonic – TeX/LaTeX Engine in Rust

But there are implementations of knuth-plass in js, only they are usually not used, as the speed trade-off is not worth it for the web. If you are only using chromium to render a PDF then the speed stops being a dealbreaker.

miloshadzicon Why Are So Many Developers Hating on Object-Oriented Programming?

It's pretty easy to write dreadfully unmaintainable lisp.

miloshadzicon PulseAudio Under the Hood (2017)

Yes I was a user in the 2000s, I don't remember it being that bad although there certainly were issues.

miloshadzicon PulseAudio Under the Hood (2017)

I think reactions like this one, and the tons of crap gnome and systemd devs get are very damaging to the linux desktop community. Criticism is fine, but people are trying to make modern systems with little support. This is hard even for a Microsoft or an Apple, let alone a few paid developers and a a bunch of enthusiast volunteers.

miloshadzicon OP-Z Synthesizer

I would never call OP-1 limited. I haven't touched the OP-Z but I doubt I'd think it's "technically limited" as well.

I'd say that the OP-1 is probably one of the better designed musical instruments in the recent past.

miloshadzicon Tools for REST API Monitoring in 2019

Another advertorial...

miloshadzicon What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance

Don't forget Idiocracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGUNPMPrxvA

miloshadzicon Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books

Here's a rule: read stuff that you think is interesting.

miloshadzicon Inter – open source and legible typeface

What's considered "ideal" changes. For UI typefaces the medium they're used for has changed (HIDPI screens are the norm now), so it's causing a small renaissance of type design for screens.

miloshadzicon Ask HN: How to stop feeling depressed about whether you will be successful?

Get off Hacker News

miloshadzicon I still love Kierkegaard

so you program in prolog or coq when you really need to get stuff done?

miloshadzicon Confession as an AI researcher; seeking advice

Most-upvoted reply is excellent.

miloshadzicon Readers on food inequality in eastern Europe

Had no clue this was "a thing". I didn't buy it because "I can't believe we're importing garlic bla bla bla...".

miloshadzicon Readers on food inequality in eastern Europe

The problem there is that the best produce gets exported. I've seen garlic from China in supermarkets for example.

miloshadzicon Is Rotten Tomatoes Killing the Movie Industry? No, Bad Movies Are

spiderman wins

miloshadzicon Best Linux Apps for Advanced Users and Hackers

Nice advertorial

miloshadzicon Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint of AI (1969) [pdf]

"Silicon Valley’s amorality problem arises from the blind faith many place in progress. The narrative of progress provides moral cover to the tech industry and lulls people into thinking they no longer need to exercise moral judgment."

Morality and the Idea of Progress in Silicon Valley http://berkeleyjournal.org/2015/01/morality-and-the-idea-of-...

miloshadzicon Ask HN: What about a platform for hiring teams instead of individuals?

There aren't many permanent arrangements in software.

miloshadzicon How Aging Research Is Changing Our Lives

Hell

miloshadzicon Emil Cioran: Anti-philosopher of Life and Death

I like your views on philosophy, and I recently read and liked that Hadot book. I'm guessing that you studied philosophy formally, but I'm curious, what do you do now? (My email is in my bio if you want to continue off HN)