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BigParm··on Takeaways from the Vision Pro after 6 months
You need to pair the headset screens with something better than a keyboard. I want to lay in bed with my glasses on, all my screens open, let my brain party and let my body rot like in wall-e.

Meta is working on a wristband that let's you do gestures without a camera seeing your hands. But typing really needs to be tactile I think.

Someone needs to put straps on one of those broken-in-half keyboards so I can sit in a sensory deprivation tank with just Vim and Firefox. And cereal and a piss jug. My idea of heaven.

BigParm··on Open source laser microphone picks up laptop keystrokes
Isn't Samy Kamkar the guy behind poison tap? Dude is a G
BigParm··on RP2350
As a layman I don't understand this. Why would we sacrifice half the cores for an architecture choice on the same device? Why not provide 4 cores and settle on an architecture? There must be something I don't understand or some strong use cases I'm not familiar with.
BigParm··on Three month suspension for Python core developer
Introducing the new PSF 1.0 license!

The software herein can be used, without restriction, by all parties who believe only whites can be racist.

BigParm··on Rust went from a side project to the most-loved language (2023)
The public
BigParm··on Medieval
It's madness that they're selling merch around this. I love it.
BigParm··on Show HN: BudgetFlow – Budget planning using interactive Sankey diagrams
Nice use of that diagram type I love it
BigParm··on WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD
Kinda like saying you wish your Lamborghini had a big truck box.
BigParm··on Don't use Vim for the wrong reasons (2020)
I always start with Vim and change when it's no longer cutting it.
BigParm··on Open Source Farming Robot
Lol @ most of you who think this is real. It's a troll post w Sora or something. Turn your fucking brain on. By the time you fuck around with that, you could have done the garden by hand 20 times.
BigParm··on Show HN: notesbash – A notes management TUI written in bash
I'd suggest that the video isn't enough to show what this program does.
BigParm··on Show HN: I cloned HN to make a simple portfolio page
Fun idea I love it
BigParm··on Why do strawberries seldom live up to their promise?
Everything is so financialized that most people will die not knowing what a strawberry tastes like. That's dystopian.

Usually we think private equity sucks the life out of a company, leaving an empty husk. It doesnt end there. They sucked profits out of the flavor of strawberries.

In 30 years the owning class will own everybody's bodily organs, mark my words.

BigParm··on Show HN: webhooked.email (2023)
Can get an email if a bad guy goes in my honeypot
BigParm··on Rust went from a side project to the most-loved language (2023)
Also most loved by the US government apparently. We got a memo about it straight from the Whitehouse.
BigParm··on Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers
Do the mathematicians not prove that this is impossible before we all adopt a cryptosystem? Like I don't think everyone started using RSA on a prayer
BigParm··on Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?
How is there not a standard regulation design
BigParm··on An Interview with Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut (1999)
If you like history, have you read "From the Founding of the City"?

It's slow to start as the Romans fight the same Veientes a hundred times over, but when it's good, it's really good.

The stories are historic so there are realistic lessons in them. It's interesting as a working class person to read how the plebs were able to take some power from the owning class, for example.

The battles are tactical. The heroes are epic. The highs are very high and the lows very low.

Anyways it was preserved on paper 2000 years for a reason. It's unbelievably good.

BigParm··on Every company should be owned by its employees
Something that is naturally selected is not necessarily good. Most of nature is horrible in fact. And everything we do is a fight against nature to make it better.
BigParm··on Show HN: Asstrace – tampering-first strace-like tool
Great name
BigParm··on Show HN: I made a task manager / calendar app to use it with my wife
Damn dude 1000 bucks for self hosting is steep has anyone bought that yet?
BigParm··on Open source AI is the path forward
So we'll have the government bypass markets and force the working class to buy toys for the owning class?

If anything, allocate compute to citizens.

BigParm··on What Is Entropy?
Von Neumann was the king of kings
BigParm··on Show HN: Linux Mint Redesign Proposal
Isn't plasma killing it primarily because of aesthetics? Isn't popOS or whatever popular due to its aesthetics? Elementary OS?

I'll never know if XFCE is any good because it looks like shit.

I don't think that Linux users generally have a fondness for 1990s UI.

BigParm··on Show HN: Linux Mint Redesign Proposal
It looks incredible I love it.

But don't those aesthetics belong to the desktop environment as opposed to the distro? I must misunderstand something somewhere.

BigParm··on Google's shortened links will stop working next year
I host my own URL shortening service. It's 2 data columns in SQLite and a few lines of Javascript.

The reason I host my own is that specifically Google taught me not to trust the longevity of cloud hosted services. So I didn't trust tinyurl.com or whatever to be there in future. Ty Google for confirming the wisdom in that decision.

BigParm··on The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters?
Like what? Kernels and drivers are out of my wheelhouse, I'm just curious.
BigParm··on L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrastructure
The currency only has value because it was purchased indirectly via compute. Just like how dollars became valuable because they were purchased with gold. The cost of gold was mining.

Is Bitcoin inherently worth less than dollars? What about gold? Why?

I don't see how you can make currency valuable unless you pay something for it. So I don't see how dollars are environmentally more friendly than dollars. If that's your point.

BigParm··on Americans' confidence in higher education has taken a nosedive
Educated competent people being paid dogshit is becoming more common.
BigParm··on Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur
I wonder how I can convince people to send me training data. Photo enhancement? Writing review? No, I've got it now. Data storage!
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