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You got lucky, mine didn't even start up, even after overnight charging, batteries have such short lives these days.

I don't know what the deal is with Linux and cameras. I've got Fedora installed on this old Retina MBP and apparently Linux somehow stopped supporting the built in webcam. I've nev…

I love it. Claim gets made, it's pointed out that there's no evidence for said claim, claim gets justified anyway with some version of "it's logical / rational / stands to reason."…

Ah! You're right, I had read somewhere that he'd implemented his own X windows but I suppose I was mistaken.

Vidar wrote one in pure Ruby. https://github.com/vidarh/ruby-x11

When has Linux ever been a "complete OS designed to work as a whole"? The Cathedral and the Bazaar was written 29 years ago.

What do you need your tiny routers to do?

My Gen Y brain can do this no problem, and I'm among the oldest of the generation. Anthropomorphizing is fun!

Author's criticism is valid. Using LLMs, like using search engines before them, is a skill. You have to know what to ask and what to accept as a valid answer, what to push back on …

... it always has been? It's youthful exuberance that can pretend it was ever anything else.

Sounds like someone who has never touched grass. ;-p

You'd be amazed at just how much tolerance human guts can develop for this kind of thing. I recall reading about a hunter-gatherer tribe the discoverer ran across just going to tow…

I'm seeing tons of blog posts which seemingly amount to having AI write code. It would have never occurred to me to repeatedly invoke an LLM to do what a simple script could, but I…

Ask someone to name all fifty states, see how far they get. Then start naming places and ask if they're a US state or not. One of these tasks is far more likely to get a 100% hit r…

I was hired once to be the Rails guy on a team of competent web developers, that didn't know Rails. I spent two years slowly ironing out issues with the codebase. By the time I was…

Very interesting work! I put some effort into getting it to work with models my hardware can actually run well and they just fall over immediately. gemma4 12b runs like molasses on…

Has anyone come up with a decent harness for small local models, say, gemma4 e4b? I'm trying to roll my own but man, the capability gap is real.

The school bully rarely has a great life after high school. In this case, the bully ended up working for them.

A much better answer to the question "why not just use Tailscale?" is that critical functionality only is available with cloud hosting, self-hosted headscale just doesn't offer a u…

> Piketty, no conservative, has argued that UBI fails to address root structural problems: “unequal access to education and health, low-paying and low-productivity jobs, malfunctio…

Ruby's YJIT compiler does compile ahead of time, the details are in the link provided. On the first run it will, if feasible, compile blocks of frequently executed code and stow it…

Ruby is compiled, it JIT compiles the code, in theory it should be on par with go once the compiler works out all the code paths, in a long-running application, you should expect t…

I choose it because I know and love it. If I gotta go figure out what the bot did, I'd much much rather try to figure out its ruby than anything else. On the browser plugin I'm mak…

> I guess it's hard for boomers to avoid posting their typical knee-jerk reactions publicly. I use the phrase "there's a boomer in every room," to describe the phenomenon. Always t…

The curse actually feels more relevant to me to ruby rather than lisp.