znpy

so I'm not sure if this would have helped.

maybe not on cpu but surely on memory

lovely, thank you!

Yeah but it's an established playbook nowadays.

You go against the established leftist narrative? You get called all the possible names: ethnonationalist, fascist, nazist, racist, whatever.

It got stale and it's giving a lot of people fatigue, even more so considering that we all lived in a shared reality and we can all see that the narrative around immigration does not survive the basic reality checks.

Weird to see the author spending 0.01 on their website and $99+tax on the text editor.

i've since been switching to zyxel gs1900-* switches (up to 48 ports with openwrt)

I’m sorry what? You can run openwrt on that line of switches?

I just have a 24-port one at home running stock firmware…

Startup got 10% faster on Linux but otherwise, barely anyone noticed.

Just that?

I was expecting more from that rewrite. Maybe Rust is not so worth it after all.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

- https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national...

- https://unabombermanifesto.com/

Communicating professionally and coming across as polite are not mutually exclusive.

Stackoverflow was not the K&R.

The default wifi in almost all of the laptops and netbooks of the time sucked. It wasn't unique to netbooks.

Not really. Proper laptops had intel centrino wifi which worked decently well with binary blobs and atheros cards needed no binary blob at all and worked out of the box.

Even if the pleasantries/signature were edited out of your question, is that so bad?

Yes.

Erasing the personal touch out of someone’s writings is erasing them.

Ironically, erasing that kind of stuff is likely very good good for training large language models.

but exclusive to the newbie participants who found themselves blocked for asking questions. They slowly killed the site in this manner.

i got stung by exactly this.

i saw some of my early questions rewritten because some idiot mod that had not touched grass in a while thought that some words were better suited for stackoverflow.

and don't get me wrong: i'm not talking about profanity, n-word or racial slurs, derogatory terms or other controversial words. it was quite literally stylistic and tone changing.

dumb example: i like to end my posts with something like

   thanks in advance,
   -- 
   znpy

I'm so glad stackoverflow died and I don't miss it at all.

My thoughts is that we should not underestimate Oracle ‘s lawyers.

They were already painfully slow when they were new

Mostly, yes. I had an acer aspire one d250 (similar specs to that in the article) and i worked mostly okay under linux for light development work, meaning i was in high school doing java development with emacs and running apache ant by hand.

Other than that yeah they were painfully slow.

Also i bought a similar machine at a flea market for like 20€ and was sorely disappointed to find out it had a Broadcom wifi chip which is a pain to work with and i’m not really interested in buying an atheros card for another 20€.

Is AWS in their "move fast and break things" era ?

Cool! I used Versant at work between 2016 and 2019!

Object databases routinely go away and routinely come back.

Ten years ago I worked with a database called Versant OODBMS (from Actian). I was a junior sysadmin so i was essentially administering it at a very surface level but skimming the documentation (and trying some of the samples) it was very cool that you could pick essentially any random class, implement an interface (and hence a few method) and that was it, you had a database-serializable object.

The main issue was really scaling out (as in, multiple machines) but otherwise was a really great database.

there is another like that reaches similar deviation, but negative (~ -3.5 degree celsius).

it doesn't say what year is that though.

Yeah it’s one way to look at it for sure…

there is even a debian variant using a BSD kernel.

it's dead as of july 2023: https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ :

The development of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has officially terminated as of July 2023 due to the lack of interest and volunteers. You may find the official announcement here[1]

here[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/07/msg00176.html

BSD was sort of an equal target under KDE, but GNOME prioritized Linux pretty hard and had a lot of fans.

oh boy its' much worse than that: KDE/GNOME were already largely precarious before that.

The whole Xorg thing was really dependant on gpu drivers and the story between linux gpu drivers and *bsd gpu drivers was so much different. Having the BSDs be fairly different didn't really help (eg: only FreeBSD had official nvidia drivers, albeit proprietary).

Gnome did take a lot of backlash and Gnome essentially became a meme at some point ("what's the use case for that?")

Gnome did take a strong dependency on systemd (both gnome and systemd are developed by Red Hat, btw).

And Gnome also did push a lot for wayland (that wasn't implemented on the various BSDs for a long time).

I haven't checked in a while, but I think Gnome is wayland-only nowadays ?

Ultimately, the real issue with KDE/GNOME and the BSDs is that the BSDs are largely irrelevant and essentially only relevant for some specific use-cases where desktop usage is not involved.

I go back to take a look at the BSDs every now and then and frankly it really looks like that mindset has stayed, somehow.

Generally speaking the BSDs seems really fork-a-phobic and it kinda shows given how little dynamism is there in the development those systems.

Even the Solaris derivatives have a faster tempo.

I think de Raadt and OpenBSD are hugely overrated and some takes are as dumb as the one in the post.

OpenBSD is only secure because because it does pretty much nothing and does it very slowly (its firewall just recently broke the 4gbps firewalling capabilty, for example) but somehow a cult has formed around it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Social media mostly polarise people (both women and men, in different ways) and generally speaking what you post will be used against you at some point.

So yeah, no wonder that social media is dying. People are just catching up to the fact that the best way not to lose is to just not play the game.

Lay down roots, be part of a community, have meaningful connections.

My parents live in southern Italy, in the same small town my mother is from and the small town my father is from is like 5-6 km far.

Every time there is some kind of event (eg: somebody’s parents passing away) it so hearth-warming to see people come together and try and be close to people they’ve known all their life (60+ years).

I moved to a large town nowadays for work and i have a bunch of superficial connections, my peers lament pretty much the same.

I can see why somebody would like to stay 40 years in the same place.

Most religions do. For example I don’t think islam has a much better view of unmarried and kidless people.

Heck, there's a whole semantic parsing engine buried within (CEDET), which nowadays is pretty much unused

In fairness that used to be common to have in most IDEs.

I don’t know if it’s still the case but i remember that the first java language server was spun off the Eclipse’s java semantic parsing engine.

Back in the day when i had a windows laptop for work you could just download the windows binary distribution of emacs and run that, has something changed?

I'm hesitant to leave Claude Code behind for something new.

Codex and Claude Code are not mutually exclusive, you can use both.

My guess is that with non-left political movements on the rise better surveillance tools were needed to prevent them from winning the elections around europe.

I really don’t but any other reason, as other tools (legal and technological) are already in place.

Is this another llm-driven rewrite?

I wonder how many "unsafe" blocks are in there...