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I imagine that there are hundreds of us with very similar stories! I absolutely banjaxed our Windows partition after installing Mandrake or Suse or something on more than one occas…

This is an incredibly silly thing to say. If someone makes a knife that is terrible at carving wood or cutting food but is the perfect shape for, say, clitorectomies... then maybe …

I never listened to the podcast, but I see where you're coming from and thanks for doing it anyway. Twenty years ago I was in university and had a Debian install on a cheap-ass Ace…

CachyOS is not an immutable distro.

In the terminology of the article - which I enjoyed and recommend that you read when you get time - these friends of yours are not 'poor', they are 'broke'.

> This is, currently, mostly regulatory. Yes, in the absence of any regulations at all it would still take time to plan, build, and commission Choose one. In fact, don't. Just buil…

Absolute bullshit title. The USA has stopped making one-cent coins, and they don't even call them pennies in any meaningful way. The "last-ever" penny will not be minted until that…

Now assume there were no such regulations and factor in the time it takes to actually plan, build, and commission a new power station and associated grid infrastructure. I'm not su…

Name one.

There is something about an argument made almost entirely out of metaphors that amuses me to the point of not being able to take it seriously, even if I actually agree with it.

This, as a few other commenters have mentioned, is a terrible article. For a start, the article does not mention any other database. I don't know how you can say something is read …

Not directly related to this new Atuin feature, but I need to vent: Last week I was trying to `find` something in some directories, failed, `cd`d to my home directory and instincti…

If you think the Dutch are Nords, then I would ask you to learn more English.

More awkward for Sony, maybe, as this is showing more support for PSVR2 than they have in a while.

> What do you mean by Cooler? Raspberry pi doesn't need a fan. From the official website: > Does Raspberry Pi 5 need active cooling? > Raspberry Pi 5 is faster and more powerful th…

Broadly Uneconomical Large Language Systems Holding Investors in Thrall.

> I see what your saying but I would argue that vibe coding an ODE solver is an incorrect use of the tool. Agreed. No true Scotsman would use the tool this way.

> Many people are seeing huge gains in coding productivity with AI. I don't want to speak for the person you replied to, but I think that their main point is... are they? I see lot…

Last year I decommed our last couple of servers that ran processes configured using runit. It was a sad day. I first learned to write runit services probably about 15 years ago and…

I think this is the most reasonable take I've seen here. As my sibling comment mentions, people are already doing this. I think that - if anything - my point is that this is being …

> We're fundamentally talking about different activities here. It seems so, and I think your example underlines this: > Lamar Jackson doesn't get to choose who he plays against in …

> this is really ignorant of how modern gaming and matchmaking works. If you listen to the people complaining about cheating... it doesn't. > I don't care how much of a social butt…

Was going to post this on a now-deleted comment about anticheat being a hard problem, so popping it here because it might be relevant: Anticheat is only hard because people are loo…

I think the correct solution would be to make parents responsible for actually using those controls, as they always have been for controlling a child's access to such materials in …

I loved reading about something similar that popped up on HN a wee while back: https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/