qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yabai+sketchybar make tiling+virtual desktops...at least usable on mac.

Of course, I'd take i3 any day of the week.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Maybe in the before times, but with the LA residents' response to the fascist in chief, I think most of us in San Francisco are honored to share the state, and be confused, with Angelenos.

Just keep the Dodgers in SoCal. This is the Giants' city.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's interesting that, with Python, the reference implementation is the implementation


yeah there's Jython but really, Python means both the language and a particular interpreter.

Many compiled languages aren't this way at all


C compilers come from Intel, Microsoft, GNU, LLVM, among others. And even some scripting languages have this diversity


there are multiple JavaScript implementations, for example, and JS is...weird, yes, but afaik can be faster than Python in many cases.

I don't know what my point is exactly, but Python a) is sloooow, and b) doesn't really have competition of interpreters. Which is interesting, at least, to me.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Did the developer use any version control though? SCCS has been around since the early 70s, RCS and CVS since the 80s. The tools definitely existed.

Also, it was a single dev, which makes SCM significantly simpler!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 17 points 1 month ago

PhDs in many fields, particularly the physical sciences, are funded. Lost wages are real of course, but you can often come out the other side without accumulating any debt.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Coming from Debian, it was...not expected. I understand how and why it happened, but the user experience was surprising.

Debian keeps the previous kernel around, which makes perfect sense to me


in the event that a kernel update borks your system you can just load the previous one. This would probably only happen due to out of tree modules (looking at you, Nvidia...).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Coming from Debian, it was...not expected. I understand how and why it happened, but the user experience was surprising.

Debian keeps the previous kernel around, which makes perfect sense to me


in the event that a kernel update borks your system you can just load the previous one. This would probably only happen due to out of tree modules (looking at you, Nvidia...).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Linux distros can still do...questionable things. In grad school I tried Arch for a bit, and I once was late to a video call because I had updated my kernel but did not reboot. Arch decided that because there was a new kernel installed, I didn't need the modules for the old


but currently running!


kernel, so it removed them. So when I plugged in a webcam, the webcam module was nowhere to be found.

But yeah...somehow, still not as bad as Windows updates.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 48 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Our Internet went out for a few hours today, so naturally my smart switches, lights, cameras, motion sensors, door sensors, and power monitoring... continued to work as of nothing was wrong.

Home Assistant is great, and using local-only devices is awesome. If my smart home stops working it's my own fault, not some 3rd party.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)

OTOH, if you can afford basic necessities, hobbies are just a rounding error on top of them.

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