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New comment by jhoechtl in "Ubuntu 26.04"

jhoechtl — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:52:56 +0000

I find it hilarious how much religion is put into Gnome vs. KDE in this case. I did use both. I honestly have no strong favourite. After that many years of Linux desktop environment DE hopping I came to the conslusion that the DE should get out of your way and allow you to focus on your work.

Both Gnome and KDE support that. Actually Gnome a tad better as it gives you less knobs to turn an waste your time. Accept the defaults and if defaults are bad move somewhere else.

New comment by jhoechtl in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

jhoechtl — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:54:30 +0000

Ladies and gentlemen, last round, free lunch is over.

New comment by jhoechtl in "XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?"

jhoechtl — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:05:38 +0000

Back in the stone ages XOR ing was just 1 byte of opcode. Habbits stick. In effect XORing is no longer faster since a long time.

New comment by jhoechtl in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

jhoechtl — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:29:52 +0000

A delicate topic with many perspectives. Our small families make it possible to devote so much energy to our kids. However autonomy is all so important to become a strong adult later. We deliberately need let go more than we do now.

New comment by jhoechtl in "The Importance of Being Idle"

jhoechtl — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:12:08 +0000

As you mention Lafarge. I think his fallacy and other theorists of its time and school of thinking was mankinds natural sense of enough os enough.

Lafarge wont come true with the quite large inequality of wealth and mankinds appetite for disteactions and general fear of silence and deep contemplation.

In the case of Europe much of generated wealth is wandering abroud (China: goods, US: digital services) so wealth doesn't get enough redistributed but is created somewhere else.

New comment by jhoechtl in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

jhoechtl — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:16:53 +0000

> OpenOffice and LibreOffice already feel irrelevant and dated to begin with.

It is the only non cloud free office solution which is truely free. How can this be irrelevant?

New comment by jhoechtl in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

jhoechtl — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:25:33 +0000

That the elite is poisoning the masses.

New comment by jhoechtl in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

jhoechtl — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:53:42 +0000

Ny that time office will be cloud only.

New comment by jhoechtl in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

jhoechtl — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:11:44 +0000

The dispora means little though, the people in the country count as they live 365 days there without the convenient ability to comment from a distance and they are ones who would have to die for a turnover.

New comment by jhoechtl in "The Om Programming Language"

jhoechtl — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:17:28 +0000

Last commit is from 2 years

New comment by jhoechtl in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

jhoechtl — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:34:57 +0000

Space - no. Moon - yes

Space is cold but has little mass. Either heat can radiated or transfered. To transfer heat, mass which easily absorbs heat is required. The moon might be suitable for that.

New comment by jhoechtl in "The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)"

jhoechtl — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:46:27 +0000

So do your marh then in the roman system and have fun with it.

Enjoy the warmth!

New comment by jhoechtl in "The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)"

jhoechtl — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:44:35 +0000

I think it was Reagan turning all backwards orientated

New comment by jhoechtl in "Unscii"

jhoechtl — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:07:12 +0000

With sixel support finally comming to terminals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel

we are full circle, 40 year later.

New comment by jhoechtl in "100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite"

jhoechtl — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:52:50 +0000

But that wouldn't be cool

New comment by jhoechtl in "JSON Schema Demystified: Dialects, Vocabularies and Metaschemas"

jhoechtl — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:12:00 +0000

I think JSON Schema made the same fallacy as eg. OWL did: The assumption of an open world. 99% percent of the time you want to express "This message should look like this and everything else is wrong". Instead JSON-S went the way to make everything possible at the price of rendering the default unwieldy.

New comment by jhoechtl in "Lenses in Julia"

jhoechtl — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:13:06 +0000

Is Julia a general purpose programming language? I mean I did check the web site which contains a "General Purpose" section, yet the articles seem to center around "scientific applications".

New comment by jhoechtl in "The Green Tea Garbage Collector"

jhoechtl — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:58:24 +0000

Wut? Oh boy https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/gf2p8affineqb

New comment by jhoechtl in "Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing"

jhoechtl — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 08:16:02 +0000

snow is acting as a mirror. Won't have the effect on green gras.

New comment by jhoechtl in "Why we develop EloqDB mainly in C++"

jhoechtl — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:57:56 +0000

I guess the Rust workforce is tiny, opinionated and mentally demanding.