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New comment by alexvoda in "Asahi Lina Pausing Work on Apple GPU Linux Driver Development"

alexvoda — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:56:38 +0000

Notably, even if Phoronix disabled the comments, they have not administered any consequences to the main offender

New comment by alexvoda in "Why don't Europeans buy more American cars?"

alexvoda — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:19:26 +0000

Unlike other American brands, Europeans were for a time quite willing to buy a certain brand of electric vehicles until CEO & POTUS Elon Musk decided to go the way of a certain 1930s German dictator that brings bad memories to Europeans.

New comment by alexvoda in "How about trailing commas in SQL?"

alexvoda — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 09:18:47 +0000

There is PRQL and a few others. There is also JOOQ which does transpilation to and between various SQL dialects (sadly open core with a small core). Also, some databases like ClickHouse are implementing alternative languages like PRQL and Kusto natively.

New comment by alexvoda in "CDC data are disappearing"

alexvoda — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:07:42 +0000

In those "newer designs" there is no electoral college. Also various alternative electoral systems have been tried. The winner-takes-all system of the US is known pathological and inevitably results in a two party system. Democracies in Europe most often result in many parties and a necessity to form coalitions. Ireland even goes as far as using IRV and STV.

New comment by alexvoda in "Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets"

alexvoda — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 23:09:12 +0000

Trump did this last time too. Is there a difference in the level of preparedness in archiving data compared to last time? If so, in what way is it different? Is there institutional or independent preparedness?

New comment by alexvoda in "2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past"

alexvoda — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:53:10 +0000

Does that(the patronization) happen frequently? I far more frequently witness people lionizing people of the past in all sorts of benign and malign ways.

New comment by alexvoda in "Yggdrasil Network"

alexvoda — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 12:35:53 +0000

What are the reasons that make mesh networks scale poorly?

New comment by alexvoda in "Ask HN: Would you recommend a framework laptop"

alexvoda — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 11:49:19 +0000

I second this recommendation. Framework laptops are great but they are not without issue (firmware updates have been lagging, battery life is fine but not great). They are a great longlasting purchase that you can keep upgrading. But they are not without quirks.

But to me it looks like you just want a laptop that does it's job reliably and have a limmited budget.

New comment by alexvoda in "Ask HN: Would you recommend a framework laptop"

alexvoda — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 11:42:54 +0000

No you didn't. You can get it prebuilt.

New comment by alexvoda in "Ask HN: Would you recommend a framework laptop?"

alexvoda — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 11:41:38 +0000

You certainly have plenty of disposable income and lack of environmental care to just buy parts without checking compatibility and then just trash everything. Don't diss the entire field of custom PC building just because you got it wrong once.

Also as, machinestops said, you can get the Framework laptop prebuilt.

New comment by alexvoda in "Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128"

alexvoda — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:02:35 +0000

And WSL.

New comment by alexvoda in "Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128"

alexvoda — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:00:11 +0000

And we have also learned to use taxonomies and hierarchies and sets. Therefore the intersection between the set tv stations and the set ad companies is the set ad-funded tv stations. Ad-funded tv stations are a subcategory of the larger ad companies category.

New comment by alexvoda in "Meta has suspended my Facebook account"

alexvoda — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:56:50 +0000

Use this opportunity to remind your friends to download a backup of all of their facebook data.

New comment by alexvoda in "The problem with the Darling 58 genetically modified chestnut tree"

alexvoda — Wed, 29 May 2024 06:51:07 +0000

All of what you said goes against common knowledge of the history of the vaccine. You will have to provide solid sources for your claims in order to not appear as a conspiracy theory peddler.

What you mentioned in the first paragraph is not vaccination, it is called variolation. It predates vaccination by a large margin and was far more dangerous.

New comment by alexvoda in "An infinite canvas for code exploration"

alexvoda — Tue, 07 May 2024 16:47:59 +0000

I was just about to post the same information. Sad to see the concept never caught on. I really liked using Debugger Canvas on VS2010 even if it was somewhat buggy.

New comment by alexvoda in "Caniwebview.com – Like Caniuse but for Webviews"

alexvoda — Tue, 07 May 2024 16:15:08 +0000

Yet another person who does not understand what free speech means.

Proprietary platforms moderating user content on themselves is not an infringement of the users free speech rights. Proprietary platforms are not public spaces, they are private property and guests (users) have to abide by the house rules or be kicked out.

New comment by alexvoda in "FyneDesk – Linux desktop environment in Go"

alexvoda — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:21:48 +0000

In X and X intrinsincs everything was a window including every widget.

New comment by alexvoda in "Why is software quality worse than a decado ago"

alexvoda — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 22:45:57 +0000

I think the article is an unsupported pile of red herrings even though I think apparently the software "quality" has indeed gone down, non-uniformly.

The simple explanation for that is that you, the user, are not the customer. A lot of software today simply does not need to cater to the needs of the user because the user has no choice in using the software or not. This is either because of network effects, monopolies, DRM or simply not having the decision power within a hierarchy. Even if software development practices are better than ever, the software developers are less aligned with software users than ever. It is an increasingly adversarial relationship.

It is not quality that has gone down, it is an alignment problem.

New comment by alexvoda in "Friends don't let friends export to CSV"

alexvoda — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 09:02:39 +0000

I am not in that universe, on the contrary I try to stay as far away as possible. And I agree with you. However I think the everything-done-in-OLD-Excel universe is worse. Some people will be terminally stuck in Excel but at least they can use new Excel capabilities instead of being stuck with the Excel of 20 years ago.

So why remain stuck importing CSVs into Excel when you can use Power Query to import Parquet. Why remain stuck using VBA in Excel when you can use Python in Excel.

I do not think an Excel user can be convinced to move to things like Jupyter, R, databases, etc. since they won't even make the jump to Access but maybe they can be convinced to use modern features of Excel.

New comment by alexvoda in "Friends don't let friends export to CSV"

alexvoda — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:03:15 +0000

Isn't that what HL7 stands for? Hell Layer 7 as in the seventh circle of hell.