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New comment by miloshadzic in "The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory"

miloshadzic — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:19:55 +0000

New thing bad

New comment by miloshadzic in "Stack size invisibility in C and the effects on "portability""

miloshadzic — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:29:13 +0000

The spam on that thread is really something.

New comment by miloshadzic in "Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate"

miloshadzic — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 14:05:39 +0000

Yes

New comment by miloshadzic in "Ask HN: Learning about philosophy"

miloshadzic — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 20:51:27 +0000

> Note that philosophy is distinct from the history of philosophy. If you care about what is true, and not the historical development of ideas, there's not much point in reading things written before, say, 1900, or even 1950. So no Hume or Hegel or whatever. In general these texts are poorly written and unclear compared to modern ones. And of course, they can't treat the developments that have taken place in the intervening years. Consider an analogy: you would not read Newton's original manuscripts to learn calculus.

This type of view is extremely common amongst students of analytic philosophy. The "problem" approach to philosophy.

IMO Reading Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Heidegger, etc. and other thinkers deemed outdated and unworthy is absolutely a good use of time for anyone interested in Philosophy. This post is actually the first time I've ever heard anybody suggest not reading Hume.

New comment by miloshadzic in "Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability"

miloshadzic — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 09:47:34 +0000

I seem to perhaps be in the minority here, but I got onto the slow ring just for WSL2 and it has been excellent so far. I am primarily a Ruby developer and things just work.

New comment by miloshadzic in "Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it"

miloshadzic — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:31:45 +0000

How do people still fall for advertorials like this?

New comment by miloshadzic in "Escape from System D, episode VI: freedom in sight"

miloshadzic — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 10:21:32 +0000

Wow I didn't think Gentoo Ricers[1] still existed

[1]: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Ge...

New comment by miloshadzic in "Escape from System D, episode VI: freedom in sight"

miloshadzic — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 08:53:52 +0000

  Dinit has been booting my own system for a long while, and other than a
  few hiccups on odd occasions it’s been quite reliable.

  Ok, compared to Systemd it lacks some features. It doesn’t know anything
  about Cgroups, the boot manager, filesystem mounts, dynamic users or
  binary logging. For day-to-day use on my personal desktop system, none
  of this matters, but then, I’m running a desktop based on Fluxbox and
  not much else; if I was trying to run Gnome, I’d rather expect that some
  things might not work quite as intended (on the other hand, maybe I
  could Elogind and it would all work fine… I’ve not tried, yet).

  On the plus side, compared to Systemd’s binary at 1.5mb, Dinit weighs in
  at only 123kb. It’s much smaller, but fundamentally almost as powerful,
  in my own opinion, as the former.

I applaud the OP for writing a new init system, and in light of that, the few paragraphs above serve as a good counterpoint to everyone writing how systemd does too much, is doing everything etc. In the past several years it really has been insufferable to be in the vicinity of any discussion related to systemd/init systems.

New comment by miloshadzic in "Facebook says a bug caused its iPhone app’s inadvertent camera access"

miloshadzic — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:08:26 +0000

I guess VP of Abuse is just not a good look

New comment by miloshadzic in "Facebook says a bug caused its iPhone app’s inadvertent camera access"

miloshadzic — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 09:24:57 +0000

WTF does a VP of integrity do? Have lunches with the VP of honesty?

New comment by miloshadzic in "Tectonic – TeX/LaTeX Engine in Rust"

miloshadzic — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 07:43:58 +0000

But there are implementations of knuth-plass in js, only they are usually not used, as the speed trade-off is not worth it for the web. If you are only using chromium to render a PDF then the speed stops being a dealbreaker.

New comment by miloshadzic in "Why Are So Many Developers Hating on Object-Oriented Programming?"

miloshadzic — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 21:00:59 +0000

It's pretty easy to write dreadfully unmaintainable lisp.

New comment by miloshadzic in "PulseAudio Under the Hood (2017)"

miloshadzic — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:52:29 +0000

Yes I was a user in the 2000s, I don't remember it being that bad although there certainly were issues.

New comment by miloshadzic in "PulseAudio Under the Hood (2017)"

miloshadzic — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:31:29 +0000

I think reactions like this one, and the tons of crap gnome and systemd devs get are very damaging to the linux desktop community. Criticism is fine, but people are trying to make modern systems with little support. This is hard even for a Microsoft or an Apple, let alone a few paid developers and a a bunch of enthusiast volunteers.

New comment by miloshadzic in "OP-Z Synthesizer"

miloshadzic — Thu, 23 May 2019 07:26:51 +0000

I would never call OP-1 limited. I haven't touched the OP-Z but I doubt I'd think it's "technically limited" as well.

I'd say that the OP-1 is probably one of the better designed musical instruments in the recent past.

New comment by miloshadzic in "Tools for REST API Monitoring in 2019"

miloshadzic — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:19:27 +0000

Another advertorial...

New comment by miloshadzic in "What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance"

miloshadzic — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 14:22:26 +0000

Don't forget Idiocracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGUNPMPrxvA

New comment by miloshadzic in "Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books"

miloshadzic — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 18:30:10 +0000

Here's a rule: read stuff that you think is interesting.

New comment by miloshadzic in "Inter – open source and legible typeface"

miloshadzic — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 14:10:18 +0000

What's considered "ideal" changes. For UI typefaces the medium they're used for has changed (HIDPI screens are the norm now), so it's causing a small renaissance of type design for screens.

New comment by miloshadzic in "Ask HN: How to stop feeling depressed about whether you will be successful?"

miloshadzic — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 22:21:21 +0000

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