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Yay, localroger!

Best practice for C++ modules: avoid.

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The cost of owning a car dwarfs the cost of an occasional taxi ride.

Building stuff like this is wrong. You should find a different job.

But I'm not having sex with my bank.

I like Amberol's approach - no library management, just use the file-system. I use Picard to organise my music into a sensible directory structure, and so Amberol can see that and play by album or artist. It's really nice.

It's crippled by its ridiculous refusal to see symbolic links. I want to use symlinks to create "playlists", without having to copy music files around, but now, to Amberol, it's as though sym-links don't exist.

I looked into it, and it's down to weird Gnome and Flatpak policies, which are bizarrely averse to sym-links, because they are a "security risk". Yes, that's kind of true if you are root, but who runs their music player as root???

I agree. I've worked on large C++ code bases that use exceptions, and they've never caused us any real problems.

Archive link?

Try anything that's described as "Powered by the Apocalypse". It's an excellent foundation for rules-light role-playing games.

Urban Shadows was my intro into this style of play. Monster of the Week is also very good. But there a huge number of great games out there that are not D&D (which is really a bit clunky and overly complex, IMO).

You just have to make up your own - unless you want to!

How do you get a novel sized file into Claude? I've tried, and it always complains it's too long.

Maybe you're right, or maybe your anecdote doesn't actually invalidate my anecdote.

Everything I have runs AMDGPU.

As I grew older I changed from being a person who never got angry, to having very distressing bouts of rage.

I gave up caffeine, and the rages completely vanished.

Worth a try?

Wayland just seems really unstable to me. I try it occasionally, but glitches, freezes or crashes quickly drive me back to X.

You are talking about modularity of design, not aftermarket repairability.

Are you sure that's what customers want, or maybe it's what dealers want?

The check engine light tells you nothing. It tells your local mechanic nothing. Do you can't get the problem fixed easily or cheaply.

What it does, is force you to take the car to a dealer, who has the specialist, proprietary equipment needed to interpret the fault. And these gatekeepers will charge you a fat premium for that.

So no. I don't think this design choices are driven by a desire to serve the customer.

You should read the wiki article.

Criticising landlords is fine, but words (and phrases) have actual meanings, and the term "rent seeking" has literally no place in a discussion about landlords.

"Rent seeking" has nothing to do with landlords and tenants. It's about buying legislation that forces people to give you money for nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

Tenants who rent property get something tangible in exchange for their cash - exclusive use of the property.

Just because the word "rent" is common to both, doesn't mean they are connected in any way.

His framing of individual-element mindset vs. grouped-element mindset is very clear sighted.

It's what frustrates me so much about Rust - the language puts so much focus and complexity onto something that you shouldn't be doing in the first place: allocating and freeing millions of tiny objects. You end up writing programs that spend half their time allocating, initialising, destroying and freeing elaborate trees of records, and devote half their memory to pointers.

The criterion for "legitimate government" is very well established. It's "has effective control of the territory".

It's a low bar, and clearly one that the current Venezuelan government clears.

Apple giving themselves an advantage in the markets for headphones and watches, because they have a dominant position in the market for phones is a textbook case of monopoly abuse.

They've done extra work to cripple competing devices. It's obnoxious.

It ought to be cheaper at scale. Batteries' cost scales linearly with storage capacity. Cost for a plant like this scales linearly with the storage rate - the compressor and turbine are the expensive part, while the pressure vessels and gas bags are relatively cheap.

The bigger you build it, the less it costs per MWh of storage.

The best thing about using watercourses as your heat source for heat-pumps - the water flow naturally takes away your "colder" output and brings you more "warmer".

Ground source heat pumps are limited because the ground they have chilled stays stubbornly in the same place, so the only way you can extract more heat from it is to make it even colder, which gets less efficient. Watercourses don;t have that problem.

The air temperature isn't relevant.

No, it's all about corporate greed.

Even if all that were true, where is the path to profitability for OpenAI, and all the rest? If they can't pivot to making a profit, then they are going to pop, and their investors will lose all their money. That's the AI bubble... investors losing all their money.

The technology will remain, of course, just like we still have railways, and houses.

So in your opinion, monochrome icons are a sign of laziness, rather than an aesthetic choice. Got it.

Separating interface from implementation of one of the core practices for making large code bases tractable.

Flat, monochrome icons might look nice, but they are only useful if used sparingly.

If you're going to use many icons, then they need to be visually distinctive. That means ditching the flat designs, and embracing colour again.

So childish.