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New comment by vondur in "NixOS is making me less afraid"

vondur — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:00:47 +0000

I have to agree, I've been using Fedora Bluefin and had some issues and Claude was able to troubleshoot it all. Would have taken me a bunch of time to untangle it myself.

New comment by vondur in "M7.6 Earthquake in Panama"

vondur — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:03:24 +0000

Looks like it was centered away from densely populated areas. Still pretty big.

New comment by vondur in "Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai"

vondur — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:11:29 +0000

Enantiomers and Diastereomers are one of the more interesting and challenging things in Organic Chemistry. It also makes carbohydrate chemistry challenging in Biochem.

New comment by vondur in "Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market"

vondur — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:05:26 +0000

The sack of Constantinople was 30 years into the future after this expedition. But yes, after the fall of Constantinople in 1204, it never was able to recover its former power. Manuel I Komnenos really blew it with the decision to anger the Venetian's.

New comment by vondur in "On social reality in China"

vondur — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:02:36 +0000

Just like with most Empires, that wealth was heavily concentrated with the rich and powerful, a very small group of elites.

New comment by vondur in "Shimano Bicycle Museum Review"

vondur — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:34:41 +0000

I like the Shimano MTB stuff, usually I'm all in on the XT level stuff. I did have some XTR cranks back in the day, but they had this cool dark grey color. I especially like the XT disk brakes and their clipless XT trail pedals.

New comment by vondur in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

vondur — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:30:48 +0000

This is the info that people should be looking at. Building these facilities takes time. I'm guessing they are thinking that demand is not going to decline anytime soon to justify this buildout. EDIT both SKHynix and Samsung are also expanding their DRAM production lines and new plants. So they are all working on adding new capacity.

New comment by vondur in "Why Doesn't Anyone Want to Fix One of America's Scariest Roads?"

vondur — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:37:20 +0000

Mountain driving can be scary if you are driving too fast or in bad weather. We have the Angeles Crest and Angeles Forest highway here in SoCal which is windy and has steep cliffs. Every weekend people come out with their motorcycles and sports cars and try to turn it into a race course. I remember years back a carpool van with people commuting to Cal Tech from Palmdale went over the side killing the passengers. It was during the winter and it was foggy and may have been icy too.

New comment by vondur in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

vondur — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:56:09 +0000

It’s amazing how much more land in the central coast area is now dedicated to growing grapes.

New comment by vondur in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

vondur — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:00:56 +0000

Many other people drive more than you do.

New comment by vondur in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

vondur — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:10:59 +0000

Man going from a Windows environment all the way to NixOS is quite the change isn't it? Probably good if NixOS can get more attention and easier to use. I see a lot of hype for it, and then people seem to give up as it can get pretty gnarly with some of the configuration. I'm a fan of something like Fedora Silverblue with the immutable OS setup.

New comment by vondur in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

vondur — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:53:55 +0000

No thanks, I pay too much in taxes as it is. California has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

New comment by vondur in "UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told"

vondur — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:52:38 +0000

Really, what kind of damage? Granted their cuisine isn’t the best, but it’s hardly damaging.

New comment by vondur in "Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived"

vondur — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:15:33 +0000

My father in law did database programming for small businesses using FoxPro. It was pretty cool, it created the executable and you could host it on any Windows file server IIRC. I think it also may have had some server functionality built in too. Anyways, it was fast if the database was designed correctly and allowed for easy setup at the clients offices. I think before that he was using a product called Clipper.

New comment by vondur in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

vondur — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:47:14 +0000

Yeah, I kept getting a notification about purchasing and extended warranty for my AirPods, which was annoying because it shows up in the same place as OS updates.

New comment by vondur in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

vondur — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:13:25 +0000

No, I watch video of cars coming into the shop and the models from the Midwest are usually in pretty rough shape due to all the corrosion from the salt on the roads. And brand doesn't seem to matter.

New comment by vondur in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

vondur — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:12:14 +0000

Ha, I watched some guy on Youtube who bought a carwash. It's seems like a decent way to basically make some money with not a ton of work. Plus, you can get a lot of money as cash too, makes it easy to not report as income, which I bet a lot of their owners do.

New comment by vondur in "I hate you Microsoft"

vondur — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:55:58 +0000

It looks like your license only allows for the web version, so your university probably isn't spending that much for it. You'd get the same message on Windows too.

New comment by vondur in "Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA"

vondur — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:02:31 +0000

Every developed country is going to push for their own homemade chips. Japan used to make Sparc CPU's back in the day. Probably many others I'm not aware of.

New comment by vondur in "US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons"

vondur — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:17:37 +0000

I've assumed that they put weapons on satellites as soon as it was possible.