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spyremeown··on Command line functions around OpenAI
Spoilers: the future is actually kinda just ok-ish. GPT is used in almost all professions but akin to Google. Nothing really changes, we come back to these threads and articles every couple years to look back and realize how plain stupid and hopeful humanity really is sometimes.
spyremeown··on OpenSUSE Linux gains momentum
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The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site. ```

That's weird.

spyremeown··on We updated our RSA SSH host key
Jesus Christ, what a bunch of incompetent morons, really. I honestly hope they get sued to oblivion with this. M$ and GitHub are having their way with everything lately, this is the first of many mishaps that are bound to happen we put so much trust in one company.
spyremeown··on A CPU is a compiler
Any recommendations of books on compiler optimizations?
spyremeown··on So you've installed `fzf` – now what?
Alright, you convinced me. Damn great article!
spyremeown··on Louis Rossmann could sue John Deere for GPL violation [video]
Why are you confrontational? Maybe he does.
spyremeown··on Louis Rossmann could sue John Deere for GPL violation [video]
>He can't since he is not the copyright owner of the GPL software.

Isn't the whole point of the GPL that the user has rights to the software?

spyremeown··on Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowledge?
You are confusing "expertise" with "foundational knowledge". Databases, concurrency programming and network programming are all outside the realm of CS. They're specializations of Software Engineering.
spyremeown··on Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook
It's a user space process... it won't ever crash the kernel. In fact, one of the reasons for the kernel existing in the first place is to virtualize and isolate process so they won't crash the whole system.
spyremeown··on Reverse-engineering the multiplication algorithm in the Intel 8086 processor
Count six. I'd buy it in a beat.
spyremeown··on An experiment in elastically scaling a thread pool using a PID controller
Maybe a bit off-topic, but oh boy I wish every project had a README like this one. It actually explains how things work instead of the usual "RTFC" (Read The F Code) approach.
spyremeown··on Touchpad Blocker: Disable touch-pad while typing
>touchpad in my T440

I absolutely hate the T440 touchpad. Lenovo had the almost perfect design for that time with the T430: just make it bigger and out of glass, with physical buttons on the top. But no, "let's f** everything up", said some shitty designer.

spyremeown··on How Python virtual environments work
Question: what makes you choose LXC over Docker?
spyremeown··on cat mario.nes | nc play-nes.org 4444
That's like those objected-oriented programming examples you get in college, from professors who learned in the 90s and literally think in terms of "modelling" real objects with OOP.
spyremeown··on Europe pushing for lunar time zone
I'll send good vibes to that one guy from tzdata who'll for sure maintain a Lunar Time Zone database and literally everyone in the globe will rely upon it.

edit: Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert, you're The Dudes, dudes.

spyremeown··on Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs
So, the Web3 won't be blockchains and whatnot: it's actually custom generated content. I... don't really like it.
spyremeown··on Qualcomm CEO says he’s expecting Apple to use its own modems in iPhones in 2024
They're also the reason behind the shitty Arm PCs. I despise Qualcomm.
spyremeown··on EasyOS kirkstone 2.0 release – lightweight Linux from the guy behind Puppy Linux
>Easy will work on an old computer, as long as it has a 64-bit x86 CPU
spyremeown··on EasyOS kirkstone 2.0 release – lightweight Linux from the guy behind Puppy Linux
As a professional Yocto-guy-developer-maintainer-dude, I've always wanted a lightweight distro built with Yocto for the desktop. This seems to fit the requirements pretty well! I'd love to pair this with some light and portable notebook.
spyremeown··on What's new in C# for Godot 4.0
I, for one, am very glad Javascript wasn't chosen as a scripting language.
spyremeown··on Bitnami ARM containers available at Docker Hub
IIRC Docker with the whole binfmt_misc and qemu schmuck only supports building v8 images.
spyremeown··on Show HN: Parallax wallpaper engine for Linux and Windows
Super neat. Congratulations, OP.
spyremeown··on Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars
You're almost getting it. So, so close.

>Good public transit is unfortunately the exception in many places and not the rule.

Then let's make it better! :-)

spyremeown··on Kubernetes as a platform vs. Kubernetes as an API
One of the things I hear the most about Kubernetes is the complexity. Honestly, it's not that complex from an user perspective. It's not much more complicated than Docker, really. It's also super nice to just write two yaml files and have everything running nicely with rollouts, auto-scaling, node pinning etc. It just works and I never have to even think about the internals (although I took the time to learn most of them).

Adding: heck, I'll run a single node k3s on my computer (which takes one (1) command) instead of using docker-compose just because I like it better than compose.

spyremeown··on Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars
>But we need to understand. There are cases where the car is a must. Unavoidable. Imagine having toddlers, having to do heavy groceries, and living in a place with difficult landscape or challenging weather. Imagine having a neurological disease or some other disability.

Bud, nobody is taking the car away from those kinds of use cases. It's very clear for most people that cars are necessary in those situations, and that's fine. What we're demonising is the car as the only way to go about getting from A to B. If you watch some of the urban planning videos on the topic, or lurk the r/f*cars subreddit you'll quickly see that most people also* want to make the driving experience better! And by better they don't mean to build one more lane, but sensible infrastructure that makes sense for everybody, not just the cars. The whole point is about inclusion: why isn't using a car unavoidable?

spyremeown··on Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public school teachers
>Teaching is not a particularly high skill or difficult job.

Even though I disagree with you I can see where you're coming from with this sentence, but: the impact is HUGE. The impact of good teachers on society cannot be overstated. It's an amazing ROI and everything we can do to further the education of humankind is worth doing.

Programming (mostly) isn't that hard as well, compare software engineering with electronics engineering, for example, but the impact is huge: that's why you're probably well paid to do it and your company makes your life really easy, with all the bells and whistles to make you happy.

spyremeown··on KiCad 7.0
As an EE I can vouch 100 times for Phil's Lab. He really knows his stuff and honestly is as close to the actual job as it can get.
spyremeown··on Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France
Mitnick was (is) great at social engineering. This dude is just an a-hole.
spyremeown··on Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France
Definition of a script kiddie with too much time on their hands... I hate people like him. Could've done something good with his life (like getting into info/cybersec!).
spyremeown··on Merging with diff3: the “three-way merge”
Try any of the recommendations here (my poison is Meld). It's actually one of the few tasks where I really, really do prefer a GUI over text.
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