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binarin··on Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time
For my personal computers I was actually buying Windows licenses up to and including Windows 10, but now I switched to alternative acquisition methods again, and mostly run Windows in VMs with GPU pass-through and disabled networking. Just an honest relationship - they don't respect me, I don't respect them.
binarin··on Tk9.0: CGo-free, cross platform GUI toolkit for Go
CGo compilation can be insanely slow.
binarin··on Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan - spent the most time reading it and got the most value from it. This book series is my device for the language learning. It was translated into Russian so painfully slow I've just forced myself to read it in English, learning the vocabulary and grammar on the way. Later I did it intentionally with Dutch, and now I'm going to do the same with Spanish.

It's so big you can reread it as many times as you want and still be surprised by the details you no longer remember. In the end I've read it 2 times in Russian, 3 times in English and 1 time in Dutch - and I'm not going to stop.

binarin··on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore
CAD is exactly what I'm using VMs with GPU passthrough for, and it's working briliantly there. The advantage is that most of these VMs have no internet access at all (they only see a single SMB share on the host) - so most of the security and privacy issues are just non-existent.
binarin··on The Soviet 1801VM2 LSI-11 Processor (2021)
Yeah, it should be "single-chip microprocessor" (ОМП / однокристальный микропроцессор).
binarin··on When I stopped trying to self-optimize, I got better
Erlang
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