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sertsaon GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

Its an editor: https://zed.dev/

sertsaon Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory

M4 Mac Mini w/24GB sitting right here on my desk.

sertsaon The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'

Tangent? - https://www.headless.org/on-having-no-head.htm

sertsaon Bubble Sorted Amen Break

My 14 has the switch. I believe the 15 is when they switched to a programmable "action" button in place of the switch.

sertsaon The past was not that cute

Its generally code for: "Thinks different than I do". What generally follows is a value judgment that lets someone believe they hold a moral high ground that someone else does not.

sertsaon Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027

Lots of rumors about a new Macbook with a Axx chip in the pipe.

sertsaon Cancellations in async Rust

There is a voxel game in Rust, btw: https://veloren.net/

sertsaon Defense.gov Now Redirects to War.gov

It’s from the book “1984”, published in 1949.

sertsaon Apple Debuts iPhone 17

A newish IOT protocol, think Zigbee 2.0 kinda.

https://www.threadgroup.org/

sertsaon Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

Windows has had both ssh client/server for years

sertsaon This Month in Ladybird

If on an Arch based distro, Ladybird is in AUR. Easy to try, compiling now!

sertsaon Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

Maybe this was the better link: https://blog.tjll.net/the-systemd-revolution-has-been-a-succ...

sertsaon Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)

At some point there was a Safari for Windows.

sertsaon Jacksonpollock.org (2003)

Clicking changes the color of the paint. Not clicking would be pretty monochromatic and not very Pollock-y

sertsaon A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work

Was not familiar with the terms C & B - corp. For others in the same boat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_Corporation_(certification)

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/c-corporation.asp

sertsaon Moving CHERIoT RTOS to a tickless model

Pretty sure that most people here know that, so it remains a less obvious yet interesting question (while tangential to the posted article): Are Linux/Windows/Mac tickless?

sertsaon Orwell’s Escape

Thanks! Also read this story decades ago as a young man and it left a strong impression. More then once brought it up as a metaphor in a conversation. For some reason my memory attributed it to Kipling and a few times tried to find it and never could, now I know why, it was Orwell!

sertsaon Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise

Ah, should have guessed this was already being discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810

sertsaon The Geopolitics of Godzilla

For the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyushu_J7W_Shinden

sertsaon Intel 80386, a Revolutionary CPU

Indeed! My first taste of Linux was Slackware on a 386

sertsaon When I stopped trying to self-optimize, I got better

How did I not know about ctrl+r? Feeling slightly more optimized

sertsaon Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere

Or maybe they just think its fun.

sertsaon Astral

Already is a python package named Astral: https://sffjunkie.github.io/astral/

sertsaon Banning words won’t make the world more just

I've never thought of retarded as a putdown, it was just the sound used to describe a certain group of people. Be careful assuming you are in possession of the one true way.

sertsaon Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eyesight

"Hunter gatherers" "profound meaning" was what exactly? Religion? AKA superstition fueled by ignorance, that's an option available to you now.

Really whatever your definition of profound meaning is it is available to you now if you choose to see it. If you are waiting for your context to provide it for you, good luck.

sertsaon Setting the clock ahead to see what breaks

All my home PC's dual booting linux/windows (3 I think) are set to think the hardware clock is UTC. Never had a problem, did that at least 5 years ago.

Now relying on that in a production environment ...

sertsaon Official NORAD Tracks Santa

I'm confused, Norad and Google's tracker show completely different positions and even itineraries. Is Santa really twins?

sertsaon Roman Egypt was a strange province

Oldest continuously inhabited towns in US are pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona

sertsaon 'I took magic mushrooms at 64 and the fog I've lived under my whole life lifted'

For the others like me who didn't know: Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep...

sertsaon Show HN: Campus FM – live stream college and independent radio stations

Works great. Another to add: KDUR https://www.kdur.org/