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Same here, have used trunk for over year and find it very easy to work with. I use it with egui and it has made distribution of my stuff really easy.

I didn’t know about this new graphic novel. That’s cool, I’ll probably buy it. The book about Mechner creating PoP was very inspiring too.

Yes. Also, one of the pearls of wisdom gained with age is that young people will inevitably overestimate themselves. So all OP’s cleverness was at the time probably received with a mixture of annoyance and sympathetic chuckling. I know that’s how I feel when the next 25 year old tries to sell me some profound insight that’s been repackaged by consultants and gurus for 40 years. But it’s fine, enjoy your youth and make your discoveries. We all have to, it’s what makes life fun.

At least they own it when writing that ‘building a local music player relying on web technologies for audio playback wasn’t a great idea.’ Looks like a lot was learned and that’s really what this kind of project is for isn’t it? There’s not really a paucity of music players around…

Anyway, I have some hope that gpui will eventually be the framework that brings more people into the Rust gui space.

Can you explain what this alludes to? Him lobbying for AI regulation that incidentally positions his company as the de facto standard?

I can somewhat relate as I’ve suffered a brain injury. It was similar in that I couldn’t continue to go full tilt everyday. In my mind all my success was based on that: working all the time. Turns out I was wrong; I still make a living but am much more prudent about what I spend time on.

Anyway. After reading all the philosophical quotes etc I felt bad when you ended with this:

>> Despite my injury, I still try to maintain a bulletproof growth mindset. I constantly ask myself why I shouldn't make more money every month.

My friend, even if there is anything to Carol Dweck (severe criticism is warranted there), this is the servant mindset that you just wrote about. Make more money for what? You can’t take it with you when you die and it will not make you happy in ill health.

Oh and you’re right about there not being any moral epiphany or reward in ill health. It just sucks. Feeling good is the opposite: it’s just good. There is nothing else.

They could just pass the browser a blocklist?

Totally agree. I’m working for a company right now that put off ‘refactoring’ their tangle of spreadsheets and database query export ‘pipelines’ for over a decade. We are hemorrhaging money right now because it does not scale. And you won’t notice that until it all breaks down.

Now you have effectively created bottlenecks for all critical processes because simultaneously working on spreadsheets is about the most dangerous thing you can do. Data integration becomes a perilous and time consuming affair; there’s no easy way to guarantee conformity between spreadsheets.

You paper over these problems with more code than you ever would have had if you switched to the proper tools earlier.

Lol that’s precisely what it is. It redistributes the cost of accidents. Across all its members, paid forward.

Just don’t get insurance and nothing of yours will pay for anything belonging to anybody else.

On top of that, Onedrive is the worst of the lot at handling collisions in files. I routinely find that files I work on using two machines in my office (gbit uplink) get garbled. To the point where neither has the latest changes, they’re just gone. Absolutely terrible.

Very possible. I’ve suffered a brain injury that has made me more aware of this kind of discontinuous input. It is definitely more taxing for the brain.

LED lights with poor drivers are a rudeness to me now.

In that case I’d say it’s far more likely he suffered tremendously from the position he found himself in and wanted to end his life to stop his suffering.

But my money is on Boeing having leaned on him to such a degree that he saw no way out.

It sounds like a dream job, but I’m sure that’s the nostalgia talking. And of course you have to wonder: could I rewrite this in Rust over a weekend?

I’d say the ship is in port but ready to sail. Before this does anything you have to provide your own API key. So it’s off by default. It’s just the button that is there.

I’m interested in this because lately I’ve been using an rpi4 with Surge XT, a great open source softsynth. The sound engine itself is not cpu bound in most scenarios. The pi can be brought to its knees with a lot of voices and effects but that is to be expected.

What baffles me is that it randomly drops a ton of UDP packages, fails to read/write disk and randomly experiences high load only to quiet down later. Basically it seems like it really sucks at i/o. Might there be a benefit to using FreeBSD in this scenario?

Yes. The aluminum chassis is basically a heat sink. The underside of the M1 Air heats up when the soc is under load. Cooling that spot will help cool the soc.

Well put. Following that line of thought I’d say that by now crypto has shown that you can never trust a system, in the end you have to trust the people behind it. I find people to be more trustworthy when they go to jail if they do wrong.

One day a publisher walks into the studio and says: we’re shipping in 6 months. We need cashflow now, if we sell well you’ll have time for a patch before we start on the DLC.

In my European country there is a somewhat common view that there are other kinds of work that also need doing. For instance, taking care of the young and elderly is often done by women in their ‘own’ time. When paid, this is considered work. When unpaid, it is not. However the net benefits to the community are more or less the same and the work needs doing. It may be that society is actually better off when people are wealthy enough to allocate resources to unpaid labor as needs demand.

Holy cow imagine if the interface to handle documents would be the interface people already know. I’m not even joking, this is a brilliant idea.

Our company has people working in Moodle constantly. I’m sure 50% of their time is spent clicking though menus. There has to be a better way.

Local / online hybrid LLM’s could replace googling and Apple is in a great position to provide them. The scary question is how they will monetize this.

“I was extremely worried about downgrading to a phone from four years ago, but it turns out I’m totally fine (…)”

Whenever I read stuff like this I really wonder who these people are. Are you using your phone to host your billion dollar AI startup? To fold enzymes in real time so you can finally put an end to some disease? What do you worry about (extremely!) when you consider an older phone?

Well of course it has to register the keystrokes first. And only when it knows which key you struck can it produce that Dolby Surround spatially consistent clack.

I’m super productive when I’m relaxed, happy and working on something I value. When I’m feeling depressed, I just can’t. It took me a while (10+ years) to learn how to feel my emotions and take them into account when trying to understand my own behavior.

True, but because there are many ways to satisfy the borrow checker it is very easy to arrive at needlessly complicated solutions. Idiomatic solutions on the other hand aren’t always obvious.

Yes, I agree. Usually these posts rely on a very deterministic ontology to make logical ‘frameworks’ stick. The word framework here is a huge exaggeration for what is essentially a single question. The question is made to seem very interesting but only because there is huge uncertainty in providing any answer.

I still find this type of post interesting in a bizarro kind of way. It’s funny how people try to struggle against all the unknowns in their lives and force life into the shape of an engineering problem. I notice it’s usually younger people doing this, maybe before too many illusions of control have been wrested from them.

There is a perfect equivalent in ‘hoe is het?’ or ‘alles goed?’ Those are mostly used as a syn/ack-phrase so to speak.

I bought a used HP Microserver gen 8 last year. Cost maybe 100 euros. Dual core, 8 gigs of RAM, raid controller, dual Ethernet and ELO (which is better than I expected). It only uses 10 to 25 watts depending on load. I run arch on it (yes…) because it’s a distro I’ve used since 2006 and I know my way around. I dislike gui tools.

On top of arch I have a qemu vm that serves Postgres and grafana. There’s some python scripts that gather data from my solar array and other personal stuff.

Oh and I have a home assistant docker instance. I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. It’s a little fiddly.

This machine also has a VPN connection to the web that I occasionally use on other machines via ssh.

And here we have the person who knows how to graft one onto the PCB. Is that possible?

It works well enough for me, can’t say I’ve really looked back since I signed up.