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I run Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my 8GB VRAM GPU for 3 weeks now and its been blowing my mind how good it is (coded multiple tools that I use daily, setup CI/build scripts for several proj…

I hung on to hg all the way until bitbucket forced migration to git. I still dislike git, but I dislike perforce much more. I guess I just wanted to say I hate perforce lol

Accelerando has prophecies that are coming true and it's scary. Spoiler warning in case you want to read it. The first part's main character basically has the future version of ope…

Me three. I thought it was an attempt at humor, but I got to the end and didn't find a punchline? I learned Windows programming from his book, I'm sort of shocked he doesn't seem t…

I thought about doing this for a while, I was a Flash gamedev as an indie then professionally. Back then, once Flash projects start to scale up to get more commercial/competitive, …

I'm spending some time in a developing country ripped into shreds by constant facebook vectorized fabricated news that all people here believe without ever questioning the source o…

I recently did a higher education contract for one semester in a highly coding focused course. I have a few years of teaching experience pre-LLMs so I could evaluate the impact int…

A long time ago when I was in University, I was a volunteer in the Ubuntu group. In addition to evangelizing Linux/OSS, We were trying to convince our University to switch to opens…

IMO things never go back to what they used to be, but they will certainly never stop changing. I do not for a second believe that the doom-scrolling brain-rot phase will not pass. …

I feel the same. I was in Kuwait city a few days ago and decided to learn their public transport system which is buses only but was pretty extensive and abundant with good google m…

As an indie game developer the idiots who made this decision do not represent us and are completely detached from actual game production over the last 3 years. For those who might …

I share an opinion with Nick Bostrom, once a civilization disrupting idea (like LLMs) is pulled out of the bag, there is no putting it back. People in isolation will recreate it si…

What a lunatic loop this is. AI takes human jobs, then AI injects ads hoping humans with jobs can make it money. Amazing equation slow-clap

This is a very confusing blog post. I found myself looking for ChatGPT markers because it doesn't make sense to say: omg zig is so much cooler than C here's why, then start listing…

I didn't know what this referred to but reading some of the examples in the paper.. oh man I hate this thing with a passion. It's not just Persians but Arabs in the gulf culture to…

Ha ha very funny from no-evil-google. The worst most misbehaving apps I've ever had the misfortune of using came from their app store. The best apps I use regularly are from F-Droi…

100% agree. Mini PCs in my opinion are the only modern PCs designed to stay on for decades. Sort of like those old server towers with SCSI drives that still run many legacy online …

From the perspective of someone who just moved from a developed to a developing city, please don't get a dog out of giving up. Have/adopt a child instead. Dogs/cats are indirectly …

I have the boox nova 3 color that I bought on impulse and immediately thought I should return but ended up liking it and a big part of that was how good the PDF reader was and the …

I have more than 10 controllers spanning most gaming systems, the only one that consistently runs out while playing is the ps5 one. They could have added a few more 100mAs to make …

Never played EVE, but in X2 The Threat, the internal scripting system was exposed to the player in the game ui to allow scripting anything in the game you want. I ended up writing …

Before Mars is a viable colonization destination, we need to build a good size habitat that's fully or almost fully self-dependent in one of our many oceans that make up most of th…

My theory: if someone in academia claims X is impossible, X is now much more likely to occur sooner than expected.

On paper, I'm younger than most of these but I've lived in a closed-in country under an authoritarian regime that actively blocked technology from getting in as it saw free informa…

So if I was a dominating business, and you're an opensource more ethical solution, all I need to do is make a generous donation to you and publicize that I did, then people like yo…