TehPers

You’re lucky if the busses even stopped for you where I used to live at. Half the time, they’d see you’re the only one at the stop, then just nope off without stopping.

Why would they order butt plugs? It’s clear their butts are already plugged with how full of shit they are.

The one I work at makes the questions optional at least. And yeah, I’ve taken advantage of that exactly for that reason.

Yeah that particular issue doesn’t bother me much anyway, just delays startup by a second or two.

For the past month or so, I’ve been getting “RDSEED32 is broken” and it seems to be an issue with AMD’s drivers? Either way, there doesn’t appear to be a solution for me outside of getting a new CPU, but it also still boots and works so I’m not too bothered by it either.

But when updates roll around? Yeah, usually a good idea to make a backup before updating. Same is true with Windows, of course, but I already expect Windows to need a reinstall every year or so.

Ever since they bumped the min-spec Mac Mini to 16GB RAM, it has looked like such a great deal. The upgrades are still way too expensive (except RAM now I guess?) but base model is great.

Yes, actually. Data centers are designed to cool down components pretty efficiently. They aren’t cooking the RAM at 500°C.

500°C would be way above the safe operating temps, but most likely yes.

Server memory is probably reusable, though likely to be either soldered and/or ECC modules. But a soldering iron and someone sufficiently smart can probably do it (if it isn’t directly usable).

I haven’t watched a 60m piece in years, at least until now. Now I’ve watched 15m of a 60m piece that I wouldn’t have watched if it aired normally.

Other stories. I believe one was about someone climbing Mt. Everest, for example.

My experience, having actually tried this on a huge codebase: my time was better spent looking at file names and reading source code myself to answer specific questions about the code.

Using it to read a single file or a few of them might go better. If you can find the right files first, you might get decent output.

Spouting bullshit? If so, I agree.

Codebases in the 100k+ to 1m+ sloc can be very difficult for a LLM (or human) to answer detailed questions about. A LLM might be able to point you in the right direction, but they don’t have enough context size to fit the code, let enough the capability to actually analyze it. Summarize? Sure, but it can only summarize what it has in context.

Apple stores are the embodiment of wasted space.

Otherwise, there are ways to use negative space to help direct the user to important information. It’s just often abused to direct them away from it to sell something, sadly.

TLDR: data is something you collect over time from users, so you shouldn’t let the contracts for it mindlessly drift, or you might render old data unusable. Keeping those contracts in one place helps keep them organized.

But that explanation sucks if you’re actually five, so I asked ChatGPT to do that explanation for you since that would be hard for me to do:

Here’s a super-simple, “explain it like I’m 5” version of what that idea is trying to say:

🧠 Imagine your toys

You have a bunch of toys in your room — cars, blocks, stuffed animals.

Now imagine this:

• You put some cars in the toybox.

• You leave other cars on the floor in another place.

• You keep some blocks in a bucket… and some blocks on the shelf.

• And every time you want a toy, you have to run to a different spot to find its matching pieces.

That would be really confusing and hard to play with, right? Because things are spread out in too many places for no good reason.

🚧 What the blog is really warning about

In software (computer programs), “state” is like where toys are stored — it’s important information the program keeps track of. For example, it could be “what level I’m on in a game” or “what’s in my cart when I shop online.”

The article says the biggest mistake in software architecture is:

Moving that important stuff around too much or putting it in too many places when you don’t need to.

That makes the program really hard to understand and work with, just like your toys would be if they were scattered all over the place. (programming.dev)

🎯 Why that matters

If the important stuff is all over the place:

• People get confused.

• It’s harder to fix mistakes.

• The program gets slower and more complicated for no reason.

So the lesson is:

👉 Keep the important information in simple, predictable places, and don’t spread it around unless you really need to. (programming.dev)

I mean, my car is an older Corolla, so almost entirely physical buttons. My phone, however…

Wow, i immediately installed flickboard, thanks!

There have been touch-specific keyboard layouts, but not really for English or other languages with Latin characters. You can probably imagine that CJK touch KBs can be pretty creative sometimes though.

They also just don’t work at all when they get wet. This tends to be a problem when your car is covered in snow and ice, of course.

“It is not up to me to limit my questions, but up to the minister to provide the answers,” he said. “If at some point such an answer poses a danger or leads to espionage, then the espionage is not my fault, but the minister’s, because he has disclosed information that he should not have disclosed.”

So he’s admitting that he’s untrustworthy? Because why else would it not be his fault if not because he is well-known to be untrustworthy?