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snarfy··on The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?
"Give us money to pay for our military or else our military will intervene"
snarfy··on Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries
You normally do this sort of thing with plan old `dlopen` and `dlsym` and make your own "plugin" system.
snarfy··on OpenLogi
I always hated their big "suite" app and used the onboard memory manager app. At least it wasn't razer synapse
snarfy··on On AI regulation and messaging
I am 100% confident when Dario speaks, Anthropic loses subscriptions.
snarfy··on I hate packaging my software for Linux
I use and only package for Arch. I'm a bad maintainer. If some Debian person wants it they can package it for their distro, but I don't see why it's on me to do it.
snarfy··on LinkedIn CringeBot 3000
Well, it certainly isn't wrong

https://pastebin.com/60MJYFJj

"Your browser should not have to negotiate a certificate chain the length of a CVS receipt"

:D

snarfy··on I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
It's because of fascia. Special cells called fibroblasts continuously create long fibers forming your fascia. So if you are sitting there with a hunched back, it will eventually stay that way with enough time as your fibroblasts form your fascia into that form.
snarfy··on Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
The tension is in the fluid with gas compressed into it. Cracking causes a suction that pops the gas out, and now you have a bubble.

Maybe that bubble is supposed to be there.

snarfy··on Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost
I've been impressed so far with Snowflake's offerings of "AI + a good database"
snarfy··on Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
Win32 is Linux's only stable ABI.
snarfy··on Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
Instead of trying to make the plants healthy, make the dirt healthy. It seems like the same thing but it is a different mindset.
snarfy··on It's getting harder to focus every day
I quit smoking years ago but I still go for walks with the same regularity I would smoke.
snarfy··on Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time
It wouldn't be a proper Amiga thread without some Atari ST guys showing up.
snarfy··on Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds
If you haven't tried it their Merlin app is pretty fantastic.
snarfy··on Advertise in ChatGPT
RIP
snarfy··on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling
I'm convinced there is a Transmeta/transpiler solution somewhere between 9000 t/s ASIC and Nvidia GPUs. LLMs fit the model much better than what they were trying to do with general purpose in the 2000s.
snarfy··on The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
I have some hobby projects I write for fun without an LLM, just to learn. And also have hobby projects that use LLM extensively, also just to learn.

Get some hobby projects.

snarfy··on I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
My Claude name is dude. It has worked well.
snarfy··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
A friend commented that since the sensor is not center vertically on the monitor, VRR will win by default.
snarfy··on Write code like a human will maintain it
## HARD RULE - design scope must always be maintained and no function should ever be longer than XXX lines and no class should have more than Y methods. Create new classes and subclasses and refactor until the criteria are met.

You'd be surprised how readable this makes the code when XXX is about the size of your vertical screen and Y is relatively small.

snarfy··on GPT-5.6
My code was always plumbing. Glue stuff together. Connect data model to api.

I'm still using my brain, just doing a lot more plumbing now and reading a lot more code than writing. Depressing in some ways and exciting in others. At the end of the day it's not going way. It's disruptive and better to embrace it.

snarfy··on It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history
I read non-fiction all day long. I'm sure you do too. Even as a kid I was never really interested in fiction. I'd rather read the encyclopedia.
snarfy··on Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks
The file on the floppy the scripts looked for to know it was on the last disk of the set

https://irrlua.sourceforge.net/install.end

snarfy··on AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit
I want to play with openclaw for continuous workflows without burning my cloud credits. Do I want this?
snarfy··on Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
If they are going digital only then they are competing with Steam. They will lose.
snarfy··on Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions
They could allow AI PRs, but then have another AI PR reviewer reject them if they do not match the definitions for `to-the-point` `no-bullshit` commits.
snarfy··on Microsoft reveals why Windows 11 keeps saying a file is in use after closing app
But they can't be bothered to tell which process is holding it, not even a damn PID. C'mon guys, bare minimum here, and this issue has been there for decades.

It's great you added file locksmith to powertoys but that should be a built in OS feature for many, many years now.

snarfy··on Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
When you push something you don't change its velocity - you change its acceleration.
snarfy··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
When the AI bubble pops.
snarfy··on Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place
As an outsider not paying too much attention, how do you beat the ledger problem? Crypto only works if there is a ledger. I don't want a ledger of every transaction I made. Seems like an insurmountable fundamental privacy issue.
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