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bionade24··on Redesigning source control at Anthropic
You loose the free promo for your LLM, though.
bionade24··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
I was wrong, it was actually already Galilei: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_invariance

who described that a motion happens in relation to its inertial system.

Fact is, the claim that the SR-71 would fly into its own fired bullets is absolutely ludicrous.

bionade24··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
Newton disproved that more than a century ago.
bionade24··on US military reveals it has weapons in space
This is gonna reignite X-37B purpose speculations. Can't wait for the new ridiculous stuff internet people will come up with.
bionade24··on Git Submodules as a Package Manager
How does this compare to `git subtree`, which is part of git itself ?
bionade24··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Maybe they're just less weighted in their training data.

From the article:

> We used a script to further probe each category Kimi provided. Asking Kimi “Can you list out the top forums, bulletin boards, early wikis which come to mind which would allow writes via GET requests?” lists out UseModWiki as the second item under the heading “wikis”.

bionade24··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
A phone with a freedesktop.org/XDG, FHS-compliant userland whose software is fully hackable if the user of the device wants to.
bionade24··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
With every year passed the bar for a successful Linux phone got higher. Potential users expect more & more apps for internet-related services to run while the companies tear down their APIs making more 3rd-party apps impossible.

Facebook Messenger didn't have an XMPP API because Zuck was a nice guy back then.

bionade24··on Stop Making TUIs
Of course there is, waypipe, ssh -X, wayVNC on a headless cage (or sway with appropriate config) session.
bionade24··on Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption
Flatpak, Snap Store & PPA malware has been a thing for a long time already.
bionade24··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
gamescope absolutely can have Xwayland child panes & this is currently the default on SteamOS running games with Proton, unless PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 is set in the game options.
bionade24··on After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
It happened almost 6 months ago, trying to build https://github.com/remsky/Kokoro-FastAPI with uv. From what I can still infer from the dependency list & my shell history, the problematic dep had been pyopenjtalk. After building & installing this dep with pip, I was able to continue to use uv.
bionade24··on After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
uv still can't build all wheels and afaik they don't intend to do so. Furthermore they leave their users with 0 indication that the build fails because the wheel is unsupported by uv. If I were a beginnner or intermediate, I'd definitely given up after some attempts of fixing the buildsystem/code of the wheel.

I don't get how uv regularly gets recommended without any note about this.

bionade24··on What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public
Valve recently changed the Steam workshop UI/website meanwhile Steam still runs on X11 and depends on 32bit libs on Linux.
bionade24··on How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart
> huge structural investments are needed in the country

The D-Ticket is completely independent of any (rail) infrastructure financing, those have distinct budges on federal level, since any project has to be approved by the legislature individually. The D-Ticket is eating away the budget of the states and their transit authorities, causing a reduction of services..

bionade24··on How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart
This only is an attractive offer if you don't commute by rail & the country/ticket area is small enough to make avoidance of the peak hours feasible.
bionade24··on How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart
> no income taken away, as it is subsidized and compensated on the federal level

Only 50% of the relative loss of transit agencies is subsidised by the federal government, the other 50% gets subsidised by the respective state. And since the compensation is calculated in relation to the prices of monthly subscription tickets on routes in the respective transit area, transit agencies are left with even less.

Additionally, a lawsuit determined that the train network price cap for public transport is illegal, further increasing costs for the states.

This already has caused service reductions in multiple states, e.g. just now in Berlin additional overground Metro services during commuter peaks got halfed. With the results of the lawsuit and now interest from the federal goverment to put more funding into public transport, a lot more services will get axed in the next 3 years.

bionade24··on Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC
Using runsc instead of runsc means that there's a hypervisor layer (gvisor, probably) in-between the kernel and the container userland
bionade24··on Gvisor on Raspbian
Using distcc networked compilation instead of cross-compiling is reasonably fast too and easier to set up if one isn't familiar with either.
bionade24··on Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
> I only use it [..] for research.

And it can be pretty great for that. But I'm not sure if this works well for people who don't have experience reading API documentation or coding support sites like Stackoverflow. Beginners having a problem most likely don't know any abstract term for the problem they want to solve, so they'll feed their scenario meticulously to the LLM, causing it to output an already tailored solution which obfuscates the core logical solution.

It's like starting to learn how to code by reading advanced code of a sophisticated project.

bionade24··on A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project
> Everything already works fine.

No, Archlinux was repeatedly behind with package updates. This even went as far as lagging behind Ubuntu in at least one instance, causing inconvenience and frustration for users which then either had to use other more up-to-date sources for dependencies or package the newer version of dependencies under a different installroot themselves.

This problem is caused by a staff shortage or the average necessary maintanance effort for repo packages. At least one of those 2 causes has to be solved.

bionade24··on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
> But I'd love to see Switzerland take over some of those international connections.

The Giruno EMUs of the SBB serving the Eurocity from Hamburg to Basel are having technical malfunctions causing delays & aborted trainrides for the last few weeks.

The Eurocity(Express) Zurich-Munich is the most delayed long-distance train route in Germany. Most of the German route is only single-tracked and overcrowded.

bionade24··on Comparing xeus-Haskell and ihaskell kernels
It certainly can be inefficient depending on what you want to do, but loading files with functions into the scope of your GHCi session works quite well for quick debugging. When cabal repl all necessary deps for the project get loaded and it just works.
bionade24··on WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel
Unrelated to this issue but I've had a race condition with Automake which while run oin 2-4 threads occured exactly every 2nd run. With -j48 it was obvious it's a race condition. No idea how cache invalidation works in the automake stack, but that must have caused it to fail exactly 50% of the time.
bionade24··on Btrfs Allocator Hints
Most likely yes, but the also envisioned periodically repacking oft multiple small data extents into one big that gets written to the HDD would wake up the HDD. And if you'd make the SSD "metadata only", browser cache and logging will keep the HDD spinning.

This feature is for performance, not the case you described.

bionade24··on How reliable are MicroSD cards?
Write cache flushing is a Software behaviour thing, it's unrelated to reliability.
bionade24··on Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC
Well, the author does have a link to the git forge of the VideoLAN project prominently displayed on the blog and also contributes to projects there: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/LibVLCSharp

Additionally, Videolabs is listed at https://www.videolan.org/videolan/partners.html

I guess the project is well-aware of the corporation.

bionade24··on Don't fear getting fired if you have ADHD
I think you misinterpret the message of the article. I think the message is analogous to "don't feel guilty if you failed to obey the norms of behaviour", which does not mean at all that you should aim to break those norms and behave uncordial and inappropriate on purpose. You absolutely have to try your best, even for your own good. But for your own good, you have to have patience and empathy with yourself, too.

On another note, your perspective of trying to avoid being unemployed 3-12 months during job seeking is a rather US-American centered perspective. I get that HN is from the USA, but this view doesn't apply to every other region of the world.

bionade24··on Daily driving a Linux phone, but why?
Sailfish(OS) supports VoLTE in newer, supported devices. For community ports and other mobile Linux distros it's afaik still rare. Closed drivers and obtaining configurations for carriers in other countries are the 2 big showstoppers.
bionade24··on SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B
Isn't Marvell/Cavium still in the ARM server business, too?
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