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jabbywocker··on Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic
In the reference video you posted he literally states that the FreeBSD version was less stable than Linux, that he experienced repeated game crashes in FreeBSD, that frame rates would drop 50% without explanation and that the overall experience was better on Linux than FreeBSD or Windows.

It should also be noted that it’s also not native on Linux either as he’s using Wine on both Linux and FreeBSD

jabbywocker··on Please just try HTMX
>Where do I add the JavaScript for that? Is it raw, inline, or are we back to packages and bundling and a build step?

That’s really your call to make. I’ve never went the full build step with it, but I’ve only built some internal dashboards and crud apps with it.

jabbywocker··on Please just try HTMX
As the CEO of HTMX I can assure you that you’ve only scratched the surface of the HATEOAS doctrines
jabbywocker··on Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
Maybe I read it wrong but I took it as him saying women are “naturally” less interested in STEM not that they are less capable in the area.

And I’d say that misogyny falls under “sexist” in the list of problematic stuff

jabbywocker··on Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
The Reddit link didn’t load for some reason and the other day be didn’t include anything racist, homophobic or transphobic. What it did cover is definitely a simplistic view ignoring the cultural nuances that might lower women’s participation in stem, but I’m not sure I’d classify it as sexist.
jabbywocker··on Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
Don’t follow him much but do you got any links discussing Blow being sexist, racist, homophobic, and transphobic?
jabbywocker··on MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies
You aren’t refuting a negative because the statement isn’t “they are unrelated” the statement is “(with current information) there is nothing suggesting they are related”

If you’re close to the situation, and have a substantiated reason to believe the claim that there’s no current information suggesting they’re related is inaccurate, you should be able to back that up. Except we both know you can’t, because you’re attempting to refute something that wasn’t actually said.

jabbywocker··on Useful patterns for building HTML tools
There’s nothing to really get. There’s no deep meaning to the numbers or the comparison
jabbywocker··on Useful patterns for building HTML tools
Maybe you’re ignoring the context that he’s replying to the author and saying “only” because he’s comparing his 53 with the author’s 150+
jabbywocker··on macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt
I’m not saying a Mac Pro with expansion slots, I’m saying a Mac Pro whose marketing angle is locally running AI models. A hungry market that would accept moderate performance and is already used to bloated price tags has to have them salivating.

I think the hold up here is whether TSMC can actually deliver the M5 Pro/Ultra and whether the MLX team can give them a usable platform.

jabbywocker··on macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt
Yeah outside of TSMC, I don’t see them ever going back to having a hardware partner.
jabbywocker··on macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt
There’s been rumors of Apple working on M-chips that have the GPU and CPU as discrete chiplets. The original rumor said this would happen with the M5 Pro, so it’s potentially on the roadmap.

Theoretically they could farm out the GPU to another company but it seems like they’re set on owning all of the hardware designs.

jabbywocker··on macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt
I’m expecting Apple to release a new Mac Pro in the next couple years who’s main marketing angle is exactly this
jabbywocker··on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
You’re 100% correct companies can’t survive by being a niche market choice. The options are complete global market saturation or failure.

/unjerk out of all the potential mindsets to inherit from the US, the “corporate maximalist” frame of reference is one of the dumbest we have to offer

jabbywocker··on Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched
His pedantic point is that due to the way the original question was written, the answer is “yes” regardless if you object or not.

The question was “isn’t that the state with license plates that say ‘live free or die’?” And even if you get a license plate that doesn’t say it, NH is still the state with those plates

jabbywocker··on Programming peaked
It kind of does, no one repeating it ever thinks they’re the weak men creating hard times
jabbywocker··on Programming peaked
Then she ends up taking the blame for causing lots of headaches from people that can’t parse context
jabbywocker··on Codeberg is down
Codeberg will never make it now, thomas has formed his final opinion
jabbywocker··on Mozilla's latest quagmire
lol
jabbywocker··on Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
For GitHub specifically? This world. This is a useful feature
jabbywocker··on Zed is our office
Same with corporate open source
jabbywocker··on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
I think it’s his personal opinion, so no need to provide a citation.

But don’t let that stop you from starting your diatribe

jabbywocker··on Zed is our office
Same thing could happen with non corporate open source
jabbywocker··on Zed is our office
Mitchell has released libghostty which is the core terminal features for this type of embedding
jabbywocker··on Learn Prolog Now (2006)
you don’t solve it by brute forcing possible solutions until one sticks
jabbywocker··on Learn Prolog Now (2006)
It’s almost like you’re proving the point of his reply…
jabbywocker··on Learn Prolog Now (2006)
Completely missing the point on purpose?
jabbywocker··on Writing your own BEAM
No I understand clearly, it’s a weasel word and I dislike it. You use it to mask a personal attack (calling him an “ass”), shun behavior, and avoid the actual conflict of directly addressing what was said. Its annoying passive aggressive bullshit verbiage.

Calling out “gatekeeping” is virtue signaling at its very core.

jabbywocker··on Writing your own BEAM
> You're looking at where I told someone not be rude

That’s just it, you didn’t tell them not to be rude. You hid behind nebulous shunning of “gatekeeping”.

>I want them to recognize that a lot of qualified people don't in fact already know that specific thing

Again, you didn’t actually do that though, did you? Instead you used the term colloquially meant to signal they are creating a “hostile” environment

> Also, if you're calling out personal attacks, the way they used the word "disgraceful"

I’m distinctly not calling out personal attacks, I literally just gave you a thumbs up for doing it instead of taking the virtue signaling finger wagging approach you previously used.

jabbywocker··on Unexpected things that are people
Thats exactly my point, you do not have to use the exact same term for both types. You could literally just use “person” and “corporation” as wholly distinct terms with overlapping rights afforded to each and avoid the edge case semantic arguments that create legal situations that the majority takes issue with.
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