I never understood the pearl clutching that happens over code. If I leave a comment describing something as weird, and the original author gets offended somehow, that simply isn’t my fuckin problem.

The lack of cache on the Celeron CPUs really hurt performance, even if you could overclock. And if you ever touched swap on the spinning rust, it only compounded.

I hope it’s faithful. The anime was super disappointing.

It got so big so fast. You’re absolutely right. The movie Antitrust (basically a david/goliath allegory between FOSS and Microsoft) came out in 2001! Linux and FOSS had become mainstream enough to end up in a hollywood movie where even the onscreen time of the computers showed legit shells and stuff. Now Linux literally runs on billions of devices, and powers the backend of a majority of companies. Even Microsoft did a 180(-ish) and maintain their own distro for their cloud shit, made .net cross platform to run on Linux, etc.

Doing a stage 1 gentoo, or LFS can be tedious but fun. When CPUs were a lot slower, getting the whole distro compiled under all of compiler optimizations that you could muster would actually make a difference in terms of performance.

Right? I started futzing with different distros (all two/three of them, lol) in the mid to late 90s. Had zero clue how new all of this stuff actually was at the time. It felt like a super power to run something other than DOS/Win9{5,8}/NT4. No stupid software keys. Could easily run network services, etc.

It is shame how lame 4chan has become. Like, this little kernel was probably only in a large pile of shit and so digging wasn’t that bad. But now, I feel like there is a sign that says there is a corn kernel in this diarrhea lake, but the sign is lying.

The 2020s are great and can recommend. The M2026W I have still works great when we occasionally need to print something like a shipping label.

This is dumb. (I’m not insulting your typing style, it’s my signature snark style.)

No, please don’t share this. This is not science, this is trash masquerading as science. This is merely the author’s subjective experience with a bunch of kooky ideas and analogies that just make zero sense. There was no real methodology. No control groups. No actual measurements.

Here is a excerpt of this shitty paper demonstrating this:

“The subject engaged in several months of training. By analogy, if the human brain is considered as a computer, at the initial stage it functions like a CPU with a 2KB cache.After a certain period of training, the CPU is strengthened and the cache is expanded to 3KB ; with further practice, both are enhanced, with the cache reaching 4KB, and eventually to 5KB as the duration of learning increases. With daily practice, this capacity grows gradually, though the rate of improvement and the resulting outcomes vary across individuals (in this case, the subject’s IQ was above 140).”

This weird ass naked assertion with no supporting evidence is so completely wrong on so many levels I don’t even know where to begin. The brain is not a computer. CPU cache in such tiny amounts on a modern processor is laughably out of touch and makes it obvious the author is talking out of his ass. The self-brag on his IQ in parentheses is just icing on the cake of this narcissistic rambling.

“Well don’t look at me. I was in ops”

Fuck yeah! This is awesome. I really liked Milan when last I visited but the cars were a real vibe killer.

Or, just maybe, centering your entire transit system around cars is just a bad idea. Quit letting billionaires with car businesses sink your high speed rail projects. Invest in segregated bus/tram/cycling lanes. Fix your shit zoning around parking minimums and shout down the NIMBYs for higher density housing. Whining “just one more lane, bro” and “we just need to do car centric transit better” is hilariously bad when so many densely populated urban areas exist that have solved these problems.

“The subject engaged in several months of training. By analogy, if the human brain is considered as a computer, at the initial stage it functions like a CPU with a 2KB cache.After a certain period of training, the CPU is strengthened and the cache is expanded to 3KB ; with further practice, both are enhanced, with the cache reaching 4KB, and eventually to 5KB as the duration of learning increases. With daily practice, this capacity grows gradually, though the rate of improvement and the resulting outcomes vary across individuals (in this case, the subject’s IQ was above 140).”

What a bunch of nonsense. This isn’t science. No control group. No real study or evidence. And this is purely the authors subjective experience. Wouldn’t surprise me if this was LLM tripe, too.

But then how would the fascists get to claim they are the majority?

Don’t let your dreams be dreams, future bro to birds

CICO all the way. And yeah, the trick is always figuring out what is sustainably doable long term. And that usually means lifestyle changes.

Luckily my supervisor is awesome and agreed to give me cover for skipping it.

What a relief!

“I’m a private person and don’t feel comfortable sharing. Thanks for the invite, but I’ll be turning this meeting down. Feel free to reach out if you have any work related discussions in which my opinion would be valuable. I have lots of ideas for improvement for cross-department collaboration that I would be willing share.”

For a country that specifically cut off their own nose with Brexit because of immigration, they sure like to listen to a dirty foreigner bitch about their government.