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New comment by justinsaccount in "GTA 6 will cost $80"

justinsaccount — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:59:44 +0000

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 launch price was $69.99. in 1994.

That's $159.89 in today's dollars.

New comment by justinsaccount in "Steam Machine launches today"

justinsaccount — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:01:27 +0000

> You can't use many of the features it's capable of in gaming mode

It is trivial to switch between gaming mode and desktop mode. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here.

New comment by justinsaccount in "Bun Has Been Converted to Rust. Now What?"

justinsaccount — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:00:47 +0000

> The Zig implementation that powered Bun is gone.

The Zig implementation is literally still there.

You can make predictions of what might happen in the future, but hard to take the rest of the article seriously when it has the basic facts wrong.

New comment by justinsaccount in "Stop Ruining It"

justinsaccount — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:58:00 +0000

Wait, the example held up for "Stop ruining it" is a company that sells snake oil audiophile bullshit?

New comment by justinsaccount in "Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team"

justinsaccount — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:17:37 +0000

that quote seems to be a bit of an oversimplification to the point of being completely wrong.

> Without them, your system accepts arbitrary data from the public network.

Neither of these features change if you are accepting arbitrary data from the public network. They limit what an exploited process can do. It's explained properly in the 'Security' section, so I'm not sure where this came from.

New comment by justinsaccount in "MiniStack (replacement for LocalStack)"

justinsaccount — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:14:35 +0000

I ran into the same thing with Kinesis. The Kinesis API has strict limits on batch size, message size, and rate limiting. Any client writing to Kinesis must deal with all of these constraints and handle errors properly.

I briefly looked at localstack to see how they implemented the Kenesis api and other than a `KINESIS_ERROR_PROBABILITY` option to simulate rate limiting, they did not implement any of the constraints.

New comment by justinsaccount in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

justinsaccount — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:20:15 +0000

> none of my dockers

Containers ran using docker are called containers, not dockers.

New comment by justinsaccount in "Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory"

justinsaccount — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:36:20 +0000

One interesting thing with zram (which OS X also does by default) is that certain memory leaks... effectively don't. I have a little raspberry pi where I have zram enabled. If I make a string in python and keep appending 'a's to it, eventually zram just soaks it up:

  $ zramctl
  NAME       ALGORITHM DISKSIZE  DATA COMPR TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
  /dev/zram0 zstd          3.8G  2.3G 13.2M 17.2M       4 [SWAP]

2.3GB of 'a's that gets compressed down to 20MB.

New comment by justinsaccount in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

justinsaccount — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:14:55 +0000

Did you consider clicking the "Click here for more information" to learn what the reason was?

New comment by justinsaccount in "Ian's Shoelace Site"

justinsaccount — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:44:35 +0000

The end result is the same as the regular way of tying it. perhaps you are doing a https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/crossedianknot.htm by mistake

New comment by justinsaccount in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

justinsaccount — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:45:33 +0000

> Stop trying to make everyone act like you act.

Yeah! Telling people what to do is rude!

> Anyone still using Linux on the desktop in 2026 should switch

Oh.

New comment by justinsaccount in "Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison"

justinsaccount — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:53:37 +0000

I have a few older models lying around too, there's some other minor benefits as well:

  * They have full sized HDMI ports 
  * They will happily run using any random old USB charger and not overheat.

New comment by justinsaccount in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

justinsaccount — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 04:56:55 +0000

That sort of mechanism is not a "joke" and is often used for trademark/legal reasons, not technical ones.

New comment by justinsaccount in "I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero"

justinsaccount — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:09:48 +0000

If the effectiveness of mining is represented as profit divided by the cost of running the infrastructure, then a CPU that someone else is paying for is worth it as long as the profit is greater than zero.

New comment by justinsaccount in "Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable"

justinsaccount — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:49:22 +0000

> It seems like AV stuff used to be so simple.

> without a bulky expensive receiver box

A "receiver" has been one of the standard options for making bookshelf speakers work for more than 50 years. A receiver is also not expensive. You can get a basic used one for under $100. I paid $30 for a perfectly working 5.1 Denon receiver with HDMI.

Your problem is that you aren't even using "Modern" AV stuff. If you were, your speakers and TV would both have HDMI Arc ports. Arc has been a thing since 2009.

> That's harder than it sounds though because you have to navigate the menu blind using short and long button presses with the one button.

Or you could unplug it and plug it back in.

New comment by justinsaccount in "VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits"

justinsaccount — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:46:24 +0000

Not that simple.

If they added latency to all packets then London would still have the lowest latency.

New comment by justinsaccount in "Advent of Code 2025: The AI Edition – By Peter Norvig"

justinsaccount — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:20:13 +0000

Odd that it came up with

  pattern_start = 1 if half_digits == 1 else 10 ** (half_digits - 1)

when

  10 ** (half_digits - 1)

is fine.

New comment by justinsaccount in "Steam Machine"

justinsaccount — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:49:55 +0000

You seem to be forgetting the framework desktop which is very similar in form factor to the new steam machine: https://frame.work/desktop

New comment by justinsaccount in "Tailscale Peer Relays"

justinsaccount — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:59:25 +0000

run `tailscale status` and ensure that your local machines are connected to each other `direct` and not using a relay.

New comment by justinsaccount in "CDC File Transfer"

justinsaccount — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:14:53 +0000

The most common use for rsync is to run it over ssh where it starts the receiving side automatically. cdc is doing the exact same thing.

You were misinformed if you thought using rsync required setting up an rsync service.