I don't remember all of my frustrations, but I remember having a lot of trouble with snap. Specifically, it really annoyed me that the default install of firefox was the snap version instead of native. I want that to be an opt-in kind of thing. I found that flatpak just worked better anyway.

I almost tried making the switch to arch, but I've been pretty happy running debian sid (unstable) since. The debian installer is just more friendly to me for getting encrypted drives and partitions set up how I want.

It's not for everyone, but I like the structured rolling updates of sid and having access to the debian ecosystem too much to switch to something else at this point.

I use sway with a radeon card for my primary and have a secondary nvidia card for games and AI stuff.

It has its warts, but I love my debian+sway setup

You're really going to make me clone a project locally to do a search. I just end up using google to search github. It's so stupid.

https://esd.wa.gov/employer-requirements/layoffs-and-employe...

> Spence, in October, had acknowledged mistakes surrounding the app's release and said that he and seven other company leaders would forgo their bonuses.

People out of a job because of you and you're gonna forgo your bonuses.

> Spence, whose total compensation was $5.19 million in fiscal 2023, took a roughly $72,000 cash bonus.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1d3b356/my_new_favori...

[–]Timzhy0 3 points 7 months ago

Btw I think one can go a step further than the author, there is no need to keep two explicit ExprRef baked in a binary node (lhs, rhs). You can exploit locality, basically the AST, seen it the LISP way, is just an arbitrarily nestable list, where elements are atoms or other lists. Hence all you need to know is where each list ends (and if it's an atom you can assume it spans one node) and actually one bit to know if it is the last entry in the list is quite ergonomic as well (because then you can distinguish whether moving next slot in the AST means there is a sibling). Basically it's easier to keep it sync while constructing and takes up less memory per node. I pay 40 bits per node, stored interleaved for best cache locality (some unaligned accesses but I think it's still worthwhile), 8 bits for the tag, 32 for the data, if data is bigger, 32 is an index into some auxiliary segment (basically a ptr).

The argument is rather pedantic to me since the word Sun comes from the old English, Germanic, and European, whereas Sol comes from the Latin, Helios from the Greek, svár Sanskrit, etc. They are all valid names for our local star.

You get what you put into it no matter where you go.

"Contemplate the twelfth figure of the Tarot-Keys, remember the grand symbol of Prometheus, and be silent. All those Magi who divulged their works died violently, and many were driven to suicide." -Éliphas Lévi

How does xbox-exclusive releases fit in with this goal? Are are just playing word games where you mean you'll release a bunch of indie and old games to more platforms while restricting new games?

I am not making a judgement whether or not the merger should go through, but I would love that the result to be the end of deliberate platform exclusive titles

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-08/-thursday...

Those at the bottom bring supplies to the top and maintain it.

Those at the top are tasked with seeing what is coming and making Wise decisions.

Those at the top forget about the needs of the bottom and instead focus only on vertical expansion.

Eventually the summit grows taller than what the base can sustain.

Then the workers at the bottom abandon the base.

The tower left unmaintained, collapses.

If you assume that 'nothing' is what cannot exist, then everything becomes a matter of scale and instrument sensitivity

Reason is that which can be known and where it ceases becomes Faith. They are separate parallel structures, to mistake one for the other is folly.

We know that everything we can see originated as a single point of one uniformly distributed substance.

We know that everything we can see will return into one uniformly distributed substance (Heat and red-shifted light).

Belief is Necessary to fill in the gaps between creation cycles (Or its rejection entirely).

A beautiful way of signing off reminds me of Bowie's Blackstar album.

"Something happened on the day he died. Spirit rose a metre, then stepped aside. Somebody else took his place and bravely cried, "I'm a black star, I’m a star’s star, I’m a blackstar"

-David Bowie

Russia is bombing Ukrainian communication towers, spreading malware, coordinating attacks, in an active unprovoked invasion.

From my perspective, I see one country invading another country saying "If you try and stop us then we'll nuke the world."

That is not how nuclear deterrence has worked in the past and if it not challenged then it will become the norm. Call their bluff. Hope that it is a bluff, because if it isn't, then it only will delay the inevitable until we are all in a worse bargaining place.

To let evil flourish while you sit and do nothing is the same as doing evil. If we all die, then let us die doing what is right, in good conscience, protecting the vulnerable, upholding civilized order.