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It also isn't a unique thing. See (for example) the entire history of, well, pretty much any country. There is a reason Utopia literally means "no place". * Genocide of the natives…

Pretty sure it is sexually transmissible, so I would not be too sure about that.

Same. Opencode + oMLX (0.3.4) + unsloth-Qwen3-Coder-Next-mlx-8bit on my M5 Max w 128GB is the sweet spot for me locally. The prompt decode caching keeps things coherent and fast ev…

The 8 bit MLX unsloth quant of qwen3-coder-next seems to be a local best on an MBB M5 Max with 128GB memory. With oMLX doing prompt caching I can run two in parallel doing differen…

No really, no. the last thing Github needs is yet another vibe coded fork of a mostly vibe coded app in the first place. If I ever get around to vibe rewriting-it-in-go I might sha…

MBP M5 Max. 128GB ram. oMLX. unsloth-Qwen3-Coder-Next-mlx-8bit. opencode with the telemetry stripped out. This seems to be the sweet spot for now for my local dev. Helps me to not …

In my case, "background writes" literally means "do the io.WriteAt for this fixed-size buffer in another goroutine so that the one servicing the blob write can get on with encrypti…

My usecase was building an append-only blob store with mandatory encryption, but using a semaphore + direct goroutine calls to limit background write concurrency instead of a chann…

If the performance charts are to be believed, this has uniformly worse performance in fetching and iterating over items than a boring old b-tree, which makes it a total nonstarter …

That is the most cursed description I have seen on how defer works. Ever.

Microsoft Active Career Copilot 365 ONE, thankyouverymuch.

It took quite a bit of scrolling until I found my old faves of dexed and zynaddsubfx, and I didn't see Helm ( https://tytel.org/helm/ ) at all.

None of the big browsers can be trusted at this point. Firefox is at best the least worst out of the big cross platform browsers.

DOS, early Windows, and early MacOS worked more or less exactly that way. Somehow, we all survived.

No, you cannot. Our abstract language abilities (especially the written word part) are a very thin layer on top of hundreds of millions of years of evolution in an information dens…

Only if you are doing in-place updates. If append-only datastores are your jam, writes via mmap are Just Fine: $ go test -v === RUN TestChunkOps chunk_test.go:26: Checking basic pe…

Before it was an ACID compliant database, it was also the fastest backup solution on the market: https://bofh.bjash.com/bofh/bofh1.html

It isn't even really that -- most CLI tools are single-threaded and have a short lifespan, so your memory allocation strategy can be as simple as allocating what you need as you go…

"I came up with a step-by-step plan to achieve World Peace, and now I am on a government watchlist!"

That sort of thing is why I wrote my own DHCPv4 server that is directly integrated with the core product at $DAYJOB. 10 years ago. Having the DHCP server determine how to handle PX…

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Just need to make sure all your computation is done in a volume with infinite surface area and zero volume. Encoding problem solved. Now then, how hyperbolic can we make the geomet…

I still miss my Trackman Marble FX. Never found a trackball design as elegant and useable as it was. https://www.lenzg.net/uploads/images/Trackman_Marble_FX.jpg

From I Palindrome I, few albums later on Apollo 18: Son, I am able, she said, though you scare me. Watch, said I. Beloved, I said, watch me scare you though. Said she, able am I, s…

Give monthly donations to your local NPR affiliate. Most of them have decently middle-of-the-road biased news, and a few have really good music programming (looking at you, KUTX).