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ryanmcbride

2,340 karma · joined March 27, 2013

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/undefineded; my proof: https://keybase.io/undefineded/sigs/wII9X72gdfGtbiVgv564O8nXPbhc40O8FJ2D7dijWZk ]

absolutely nothing I say represents my employer, like duh, I'm a drone not the ceo.

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ryanmcbride··on The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally
I respect you not linking the website to farm clicks. That said, drop the website link please.
ryanmcbride··on Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)
Personally I believe being an asshole to people is doing something wrong.
ryanmcbride··on Write code like a human will maintain it
I never ran into it making commits before but when I tried Fable it made a bunch of commits signed by Claude, but then in the next prompt I just said "don't make commits anymore" and it was like "okay" and saved its own little md file and it hasn't happened sense.

I want to be clear that I'm not saying this to discredit the people saying they can't get claude to stop making its own commits, I'm just adding data to the "wow this is inconsistent" collection.

ryanmcbride··on Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip
I always just find stuff like that charming. I love seeing relics of the time in which something was made. I love seeing dated pop culture references, it's one of my favorite things about engaging with old media.
ryanmcbride··on Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland
must be nice
ryanmcbride··on Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland
yes but things on the ground are exposed to significantly more dirt and critters than things suspended off the ground.
ryanmcbride··on Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland
I know there's profit in solar, but the game is rigged to favor oil and gas so that's still more profitable for the people who make the decisions.
ryanmcbride··on Small Penis Rule
No, it's cultural-other pareidolia
ryanmcbride··on Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland
Which is just odd to me because why are we holding one of the cleanest means of generating electricity to a higher standard than like, coal and oil? Why does solar have to have 0 footprint when everything else gets as much of a footprint as it wants? (I know the answer is profit)
ryanmcbride··on Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland
Exactly. For example, I think the lifted solar panels that have been popping up over parking lots are a perfect win-win. Cars get shade, power gets generated, it's out of the way of most day-to-day threats, and if they have to do repairs, it's just blocking off part of a parking lot instead of a major thoroughfare.

If there's a single downside I'm not sure what it is.

ryanmcbride··on Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland
there may be solutions to it but there are just already existing places to put solar panels that don't even require coming up with solutions.
ryanmcbride··on Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland
I'll never understand why people latch onto these kinds of solar "solutions" in search of problems. Like that solar roadways fiasco a decade or so ago.

Just normal-ass solar is already safe proven and effective. Why do we need to remix it when there are still so many easy wins to be achieved?

ryanmcbride··on Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research
God that's sad. We really can't have anything nice.
ryanmcbride··on Show HN: Inkwell – An RSS reader for e-ink devices
probably just a spammer
ryanmcbride··on Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
No because I believe you CAN reason a person out of a position they reasoned themselves into, but if they hold a position that they DIDN'T reason themselves into, THEY have to do the reasoning.
ryanmcbride··on Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
I always interpreted it more as saying that the person has to reason themselves out of their position.

A similar saying that I think I picked up here would be, "I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you."

ryanmcbride··on Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast
Everyone should do their best to take down or disable every one they see in my opinion.
ryanmcbride··on US allows Anthropic to release Mythos to 'trusted partners'
it's actually the entire party that's propping him up. If it was just trump he would be living on the street.
ryanmcbride··on Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)
You really thought you ate with this huh
ryanmcbride··on U.S. science is in chaos
I'm sorry but this is so naive
ryanmcbride··on Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)
Yup. Unfortunately landlords have plenty of time to lobby against things like this while the rest of us are busy contributing to society.
ryanmcbride··on Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)
unsurprisingly I also have that as a hobby
ryanmcbride··on Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)
I've been collecting physical music my whole life and there were times that I tried to get everything on CD, times I tried to get everything on vinyl, times I've tried to go fully digital, and the pattern I've fallen into now in my late 30s is buying music on whatever medium was popular when it came out.

I've now got a pretty mixed collection of records, tapes, CDs, digital music, and even a rockbox modded ipod. An added facet of fun for me when I find new music is to decide what the most thematically appropriate format to own it is.

For example I own the CD for Imaginal Disk by Magdalena Bay because there's a CD in the art, and it feels like a very 00s album, but for vaporwave I almost exclusively buy cassettes.

ryanmcbride··on Siri AI
This is completely unrelated to the topic at hand, but what iot blinds do you use?
ryanmcbride··on I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab
It will never make sense to me why KVMs are such a hard problem to solve. It seems like something we should have a good answer for by now but we still really just don't without dropping hundreds of dollars, and even then it still feels like a crap shoot.
ryanmcbride··on I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling
I don't think they're talking about learning greek or latin before english, it sounds like they're talking about putting more time into learning etymology which is incredibly useful.
ryanmcbride··on Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
If it was profitable for them to fix it they could probably fix it immediately. They don't care because it's no longer profitable for them to provide excellent service.

They only care about providing a service that is just good enough to keep enough people from jumping ship.

And the cool thing is that damn near every company on the planet is doing the same thing right now so even if you DO jump ship you aren't guaranteed anything better, just shitty in different ways.

ryanmcbride··on It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop
I've always interpreted "Year of the Linux Desktop" as a personal journey, like Hot Girl Summer. It's not about the year that there's a watershed and suddenly everyone is rolling custom distros, it's about an individual's journey with discovering and trying Linux. Every year can be the year of the Linux desktop if you believe!
ryanmcbride··on I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline
I think about this a lot but I also kind of feel like I'll never truly be able to retire in a way that matters.
ryanmcbride··on US's big bet on quantum computing may not be legal
Yup. There is no authority that is going to swoop in and hold them accountable, there is no legal recourse to be had from any court currently in existence. No one is going to save us but ourselves.
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