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Despite the high idle, Haiku was really impressive. Had all of my staples (vim, tmux, git, ssh), recent versions, in their package manager, and it worked beautifully. Stable, rapid booting, responsive.

I think the biggest problem with many of the non-Linux open source kernels these days is high idle CPU consumption — on both real hardware, and under virtualization.

Did latest OpenBSD & Haiku recently under KVM. Idle OBSD was using around 20% CPU to do nothing. Haiku, 30%. And it’s not just a virtualization thing. Thinkpad battery test yielded similar results.

Apparently RedHat killed X11 so Kovid could go re-implement it on top of VT220. Ugh.

IYKYK. Zero rice. Zero rizz. Sort of person who does things like this would have at least a little rice. Look at Tsoding’s i3status to see what I’m talking about.

Most (if not all) of this video is AI.

Dramatic swings like the ones we are experiencing are -- in the long run -- not good. Altman is the mis-allocation. It's like fiber in the late 90s. To be the firstest with the mostest, they are paying tippy-top prices (with other peoples' money) for something that could be done at 1/2, 1/4, 1/10... the cost a year later. There are so many potential scenarios ending a price collapse. Product ends up in warehouses, sold for pennies on the dollar, or in landfills. Suppliers go from record profits to bankruptcy.

And worst of all, most house slaves in this country have their pensions tied up in the limited number of funds offered by their company -- most of which automatically feed into this mis-allocation. The employee is powerless to opt-out of it without sacrificing his company match and/or vestiture.

I use suckless terminal because the entire terminal is 4888 lines of C (including comments). Builds immediately. Starts immediately. Does everything I need it to do.

Have several running; resident set size between 10MB and 19MB.

https://st.suckless.org/

Sounds more like #YesAllBrahminMen to me.

Oncology is mostly a scam.

As a card-carrying member of the "fuck off we're full" club, excellent.

Modern chunk generation is enough to make even a dual Xeon sweat. Doing it on a fanless ARM board would have sucked even if he did manage to ship.

This talk about "the future" is nonsense. UI is art, not engineering. What some love, others will inevitably hate. This is where unix/linux is light-years ahead of the competition. Unlike Windows/OSX/iOS, you can make your own mixtape.

That, and Steve Jobs died a long-ass time ago. The hand-wringing over "config files" in the age of qwen3 you can run on a 10-year-old GPU is no longer as relevant as it once was. Language got us this far. The checkboxes and picklists of PARC were a detour that is now (thankfully) in our rear-view mirror. Config files are awesome.

t. i3 user

TLDR; Paid shills argue with other paid shills over each other’s creative accounting.

Douglas Englebart once mentioned that with tools we'll be using for the rest of our lives, most learning curves (even the steep ones) are going to be "worth it" as long they are accompanied by a proportionally steep increase in power. Meanwhile, the average UX person's idea of "modernizing" -- more often than not -- boils down to flattening learning curves. If anything, the UX world's use of the word "modernize" as a synonym for "improve" betrays their philosophical bankruptcy.

If Englebart was right, then the open source desktop is already light-years ahead. It is the only place that provides the option to pick, choose, mix, match, & experiment. That, and the steep-curve GUI needed in one line of work may end up being entirely different from the steep-curve GUI needed in another. The move to "unify" desktop & mobile in the browsers & window managers (free or proprietary) is a glaring example of how one one size does not fit all. I cannot tell you how many people outside of our circle still mourn the loss of scrollbars.

Their whole operation seems like some sort of five-eyes information proboscis. If AI is putting them out of business, good.

The emotional reaction comes from a deep-seated evolutionary survival mechanism that has served mankind well to present day. Uggo fuck club tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about these people, and more importantly, their thoughts & perceptions. If you join uggo fuck club, your perceptions are off. Why should I value this guy's perceptions & prescriptions relating to ML when he can't even swing the right ones over his own BMI?

Deprecation of SPICE was news to me. Issue thread on the removal:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2030592

Whether RH paid $100M for this well poisoning, or however much more/less it pays its staff developers to do the same (i.e. wayland, systemd...), the effect is the same: more churn & instability in the Linux space.

redhat spice driver was always touch and go — like every other linux well poisoning they do.

x11rdp has been good to me.

Epstein class pays a "journalist" to lie, so that one day, you will have no choice but to purchase their drivable iphones.

Personal experience is opposite. Doing stats on millions of rows in any SQL is a one-liner. Working with more than a few screenfuls of data in Excel is a misery.

> only optimal use

Since free relational DBs like sqlite & mysql came along, only optimal use I see of spreadsheets "in the wild" now is psychological (i.e. real-time "massaging" of the numbers to overcome objections). For things that are more objective, we have so many superior options. Not just databases either. Jupyter & various other REPLs are also great.

I don't have an opinion on pro/anti feminism. I have a big opinion on paid mass manipulators -- especially ones being paid with public funds. It is outrageous --- that they steal our money, then have the gall to propagandize us with it. That they had her operate out of Europe also illustrates how they managed to work around Smith-Mundt at the time.

This is only half right. The capitalists loved feminism. Biggest expense of many businesses is labor. Double the labor pool, labor cost plummets, & profits skyrocket, so of course the capitalists at the CIA appreciated Steinem, and vice versa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem#CIA_ties_and_le...

Would add that Alan Greenspan made a similar remark about his consulting firm. How he hired as many women as he could, since he could get sharp ones at a considerable discount.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5432331

Mixing binlog formats across replicas sounds like user error to me.

Comparing Wayland anything to OSX-like "it just works" is bizzaro-world-tier delusion.

I'd prefer it if they did not prepare people to destroy civilization to further pad some decrepit boomer's already ample pension. It's not like you can take it with you Paul.

We should have known better than to put the nerds in charge -- too focused on their spreadsheets and making the big number go up, while completely ignoring the calamities they have wrought upon both the people and their environs.

From the demos & article, looks & sounds more like proto-web hypermedia than operating system. Even if it had succeeded, it would have grown the same way WHATWG grew (i.e. like cancer).

IMHO, seems like a terminal case of NIH.

Assholes like this were all for the police state back when it was up to stop-the-spread “contact tracing”, real-time “fact-checking” my private messages, arresting people for facebook posts, and transing your kids.

Now that the red pedophiles are in charge instead of the blue ones, he changes his tune.