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strus··on Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
You can make the Linux installation on Apple Sillicon Macs pretty painless nowadays. One terminal command on macOS, reboot to Linux, run one script - voila.
strus··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
You probably also never met Elon. By your logic you shouldn’t use Hacker News just like Twitter.
strus··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
> Now his brain droppings make it into everyone’s feed by default, from what I understand.

You can see only Tweets from people you follow and nothing else. As I said, you are controlling the buttons you push.

strus··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
> And then I avoid them.

Hacker News and basically everyone from YC have an official profile on Twitter: https://x.com/hackernews

strus··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
Sir, you are controlling the buttons you push. I.e. it's up to you who you follow and what exactly you read on Twitter - just like any other social network.

There are news that are circulating much faster on Twitter than anywhere else (for example about war in Ukraine). There are people and companies that post only on Twitter and nowhere else (especially in tech).

strus··on Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work
I am always baffled how many people does not know about Amphetamine.
strus··on Bun support is now limited and deprecated
> If you don’t trust the Bun team when they release a Rust version and give it their stamp of approval, why did you trust them when they released the Zig version two weeks ago?

I think you cannot make this comparison because Rust version wasn’t in fact written by the Bun team. It wasn’t even read by them.

strus··on US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
Home distillation is very popular in Poland too. Risk of getting poisoned from it is near zero in practice. In some parts of Poland there is more home-distilled alcohol bottles at the tables during weddings than commercial ones.

In many European countries you will be offered home-distilled drinks, you would be very unlucky to get anything else than hangover.

The problem is overblown.

strus··on MacBook Neo
> I don't think an apple watch would help there?

You can authorize via Apple Watch everything you can authorize via Touch ID. You get the notification on the Watch, and you need to press the button twice to auth.

I don't remember if it works every time, or only when MacBook is closed and connected to external display/keyboard.

strus··on Helium Browser
> For which country?

At least one of the authors is Russian. They were giving away Helium stickers to “anyone who is in Moscow”, and not many non-Russians are traveling there nowadays.

strus··on Aaron Levie: Startups win in the AI era [video]
Box is relevant in enterprise space. It's a very different business than Dropbox.
strus··on Aaron Levie: Startups win in the AI era [video]
> because you can go further with fewer people

Can you though? From my experience this is just a wishful thinking. I am yet to see actual productivity gains from AI that would objectively justify hiring less or laying off people.

strus··on Safe C++ proposal is not being continued
I don’t think anyone is surprised.
strus··on Local-first software (2019)
Arbitrarily choose an option, but expose the fact that you've auto-resolved a conflict and allow the user to manually re-resolve. This requires even more UI work than option 1.

This is what every "cloud file sharing" provider like Dropbox is doing. If there is a conflict, the version on the server is "the right one", and your locally conflicted file is copied on the side with some annotation in the file name.

strus··on A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)
Software in Japanese cars is terrible from European point of view, yet people are buying them because of the hardware (reliable engines).
strus··on Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
This is great, thank you!
strus··on LARPing and Violent Extremism
Few ambushes and you have the heavy equipment. That's how many Ukrainian volunteer groups armed themselves - on russian forces.
strus··on Mounting your iPhone on your motorcycle can damage its camera (2022)
Most of these points would apply if you use phone in your car for navigation, and most of them are not a real issue (expect being a distraction maybe).

Screen is good enough to be used in a sunny day, phone will easily reach more than 35 degrees if you play a graphics-heavy game, so this is also not an issue, battery with a battery saver mode will easily last for a few hours even if you use Google Maps all the time, and with a good mount there is a zero chance you will drop your phone and break something.

strus··on Tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI
> I've been using Copilot for about a year and I can't imagine coding without it again

I for example used Copilot for 2 months at work and wouldn't pay for it. Most suggestions where either useless or buggy. But I work in a huge C++ codebase, maybe that's hard for it as C++ is also hard for ChatGPT.

strus··on Tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI
If you worry about "staying ahead of generative AI" in it's current state, then I think you are not a good coder and you should learn more instead of worrying about that.

LLMs are only good in writing new code without surrounding context. They are pretty useless in legacy codebases and in codebases with a lot of internal solutions. I've used Copilot for 2 months at work and maybe 10% of suggestions were useful, and from that 10% maybe 10% did not contain bugs.

strus··on Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom
> The phone distracts from the goa

So does life. I think we should lock the children in school from the beginning of the education period, without the access to the external, disctracting life. They can leave when they are 18.

strus··on Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom
> these are children in schoo

Policies apply to secondary education, i.e. high school. You are an adult in higher grades of high school.

strus··on Sourcegraph is no longer open source
I am pretty sure that for most developers open source = source code available, and nothing else.

Anegdotally I have been a professional dev for 10 years and this is the first time I hear your definition of open source.

strus··on Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting in Varna, Bulgaria
> In that case, new developers just don't need to learn the old feature at all

That's not true if you want to be a professional C++ dev - you will encounter projects stuck in older standards, or legacy code written in the age of old standard. In practice you need to know everything from C++98 to the newest.

strus··on The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes
I think Google is scrapping websites, not using the APIs?
strus··on Apollo will close down on June 30th
> when they started enforcing that policy.

I don't have a real name on Facebook not have any of my friends. There are also a lot of fake/troll accounts on Facebook. I don't think they ever enforced that policy.

strus··on Why the Dvorak keyboard didn't take over the world (2014) [video]
I’ve tried Dvorak and Colemak but went back to QWERTY. Whole software world is developed with QWERTY in mind, and it was too much PITA.

Split keyboard (especially with ortholinear, column staggered layout) will give you much more benefit than any alternative layout - and will be much easier to switch too.

strus··on Amazon Backs Out of Climate Pledge, Deletes Shipment Zero Initiative Blogpost
Carrying about climate was the zero interest rate phenomenon.
strus··on Blizzard developers say return-to-office policy 'cost us some amazing people'
It's a much less chance and not comparable at all. Treating job as a family member is also not healthy.
strus··on Blizzard developers say return-to-office policy 'cost us some amazing people'
Your employer will get rid of you in a blink if needed, as current layoffs show, getting too attached to your work is not healthy - no matter how passionate you are about it.
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