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New comment by connicpu in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

connicpu — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:18:34 +0000

Even in the US, game developer positions tend to pay much lower than the same skills can get you at a "big tech" company.

New comment by connicpu in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

connicpu — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:47:01 +0000

Probably not yet, so far all I've done as an owner was generate an API key and set it up in an integration in Home Assistant so I can track my state of charge over time. I'm sure more software will come!

New comment by connicpu in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

connicpu — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:30:22 +0000

Yes it also has android auto and carplay

New comment by connicpu in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

connicpu — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:28:54 +0000

Volvo is also doing pretty good with offering an official API

New comment by connicpu in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

connicpu — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:02:47 +0000

The fatigue from sleep apnea makes it more difficult to have productive workouts.

New comment by connicpu in "The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention"

connicpu — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:38:07 +0000

Can't speak to how everyone else is using it but at my job we run all of our unit tests under Fil-C as part of CI, in addition to the UBASAN, TSAN, and Valgrind pipelines we already had for them.

New comment by connicpu in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

connicpu — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:56:16 +0000

Nuclear is high capex low opex. It needs such a miniscule amount of fissile material per year, whereas purchasing coal is an eternal ongoing cost.

Just to put some numbers on it, a 1GW conventional reactor consumes about 25 tonnes of enriched uranium per year, while a 1GW coal plant goes through 3.3 million tonnes of coal.

New comment by connicpu in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

connicpu — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:28:39 +0000

Doesn't take long until someone has the bright idea to pipe customer tickets directly into the poorly written internal tool

New comment by connicpu in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

connicpu — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:03:10 +0000

Essentially yes. I'm not gonna pretend it's better or even equivalent but it's not terrible. If you want a car with incredible audio there's plenty of options, but some people don't care and just want the cheapest car possible and they'll listen to music through a bluetooth speaker during their commute.

New comment by connicpu in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

connicpu — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:35:53 +0000

Slate are trying to cut cost everywhere they can to provide the cheapest barebones EV truck possible. My Volvo EX30 also lacks door speakers and while it's not top tier it's fine tbh. Volvo just put a giant speaker bar across the base of the windshield.

New comment by connicpu in "IETF draft-meow-mrrp-00"

connicpu — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:49:55 +0000

Can't let pilots have all the fun

New comment by connicpu in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

connicpu — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:08:46 +0000

Regardless of whatever other things may be better or worse about ipv6, it's still a reality that as we continue connecting more and more devices to the internet eventually ipv4 addresses will become so scarce and valuable that a not-insignificant minority of residential customers will be behind such aggressive CGNAT that the internet will become nearly unusable unless a majority of the services they are using support ipv6.

New comment by connicpu in "Tax Wrapped 2025"

connicpu — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:44:57 +0000

Yep the cap was $176,100 for 2025

New comment by connicpu in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

connicpu — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:53:26 +0000

For me last year was the tipping point, with Windows 10 hitting EOL I refused to move to the buggy mess of 11. All the games I regularly play are now nearly flawless in proton and games that refuse to run on Linux just don't exist for me anymore. Admittedly I already didn't play the kinds of highly competitive online games that like to use KLAC, so might be a tougher sell if that's your jam. Most of my game time goes to FF14 and GW2.

New comment by connicpu in "Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi"

connicpu — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:53:15 +0000

You have to get a dish on a different plan first but then you can switch to standby mode, it's $5/mo. It might not be available if you rent the hardware though, you might have to buy the dish outright.

New comment by connicpu in "Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi"

connicpu — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:36:19 +0000

It would be funny as a project but there's better low speed backup options like a starlink dish on standby mode (500kbps)

New comment by connicpu in "Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code"

connicpu — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:23:50 +0000

A fork bomb can refer to any process that spawns multiple recursive child processes. You don't need fork to spawn more copies of yourself, that is merely the classic Unix implementation.

New comment by connicpu in "Time to Dump Windows?"

connicpu — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:31:15 +0000

Year of the Linux Desktop began for me last year. All the games I play work, and that's mostly what I do at home. Work is also a Linux desktop, because our build system runs there anyways so may as well use it directly (though some still work primarily from windows/mac laptops and ssh into their desktop). Only windows machine I have left is my work laptop because IT doesn't offer Linux laptops, but it's basically just a thin client to access my desktop away from the office.

New comment by connicpu in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

connicpu — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:28:43 +0000

Not hidden from nation states with access to real-time satellite imagery, but more rustic guerilla operations usually don't have such sophisticated access

New comment by connicpu in "Even faster asin() was staring right at me"

connicpu — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:47:55 +0000

Unless your lookup table is small enough to only use a portion of your L1 cache and you're calling it so much that the lookup table is never evicted :)