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My Windows 98 install got ten times faster when I went from 32 MB of RAM to 48 MB of RAM. A fresh boot of my Windows 98 install at the time, once everything was loaded and settled,…

If only society paid the cost of mental health in increased counselling that money would go a lot further.

Knowing that our competitor is trying to poach one of our clients away by promising a new feature could be very useful to us. Likewise, knowing that a competitor is at risk of losi…

In Firefly (as in Rust) you can define fields as Optional, so you can do Option[String]; that lets you say "this variable is a String but it might not be here". That lets you then …

The way our Claude Codes are configured at work is pretty nice. There are directory patterns it can't access, like .local or .config, so when it needs to it creates a throwaway scr…

This is a complex task, and I want to avoid blatant self-promotion, but there are solutions that people are building which allows you to give a degree of freedom to your agents but…

"Uh oh, this is a problem. Welp, I'm outta here, good luck."

MySQL installed with skip-networking was very common, but as soon as you need to access it over the network (e.g. when you move from one box with MySQL and PHP to one for each) the…

All of your complaints sound like someone who is projecting American values and behavior onto another culture. > Or new local businesses cannot start because they can't buy propert…

Or come to downtown Vancouver. I live in a small apartment, but within four blocks I have a community centre with gym, a pharmacy, a post office, a grocery store, a small bakery, t…

The article also mentions that a ton of even worse ads were posted between when they contacted Meta and when they were ready to go live with the article, and some of the offending …

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Is that memory increase seen in peak usage or average/idle usage? For file servers, I could be willing to give up 350 MB of memory temporarily for large-scale indexing and thumbnai…

Yes, which means that we can easily see that capitalism does not optimize for a better world or a more practical market or a better product, but instead optimizes for extracting th…

Carrying a blank phone is much less suspicious than carrying a locked phone that you then trick border officers into wiping all the data off of. I agree that it's legally irrelevan…

This works, thanks!

Noticed that when I build this it ends up with direct linking against a half-dozen libraries it doesn't actually use, at least on Ubuntu. Fixed it by replacing the linking commands…

My only complaint is that the backlight behavior has like a dozen different settings, none of which are "off". There's "on", "flicker", "blink when you hit the key", "ripple out wh…

It does feel hella jank, but it's pretty obvious from the tone of the text that the author is fully aware of that. He went through every available option in order from reasonable t…

It always kind of blows my mind that I keep seeing "smart TVs" which have a bunch of integration options for high-end AV installations (rich people's houses, etc.) but no API that …

This is the issue with these sorts of laws. How do you make it illegal to destroy evidence of criminal misconduct when the destruction of evidence can make it impossible to prove i…

At the same time, it's necessary for societies to grow and evolve. Looking back 250 years and saying "This isn't how THEY would have done it" is not always the correct perspective.…

IMHO because it means that Signal stays focused on being a secure messaging platform and not an 'application platform'. Telegram is great because it has bots, etc. but Signal is gr…

Usually "true capitalism" means one of two things: 1. Capitalism where there is no government or regulatory interference, and the "invisible hand of the free market" produces some …

Saw an interesting discussion on how capitalism has existed for as long as markets have existed, including ancient Greece, and how it inevitably leads to wealth inequality, monopol…