Grimm665 (u/Grimm665)

Grimm665 commented on Devuan – Debian Without Systemd devuan.org/... · Posted by u/smartmic

antonyh · a month ago

Love/hate systemd as I might, it's been rock solid everywhere I've used it, and I've used it heavily. It has it's quirks, as does the init-scripts that came before, and launchd on OSX (not sure what the modern equivalent is for MacOS).

However, the systemd journal raw format is binary data and would much rather a plain text log. All things being equal I'd rather deal with human readable files.

Grimm665 · a month ago

I'm probably in the minority for preferring journald's binary logging, especially alleviating the need for things like log-rotate, which I have always fought issues with. I like how RedHat distros have it setup, where journald collects the logs, but rsyslog is there parsing them into the traditional /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure, so you get some logs in plain text as well as being able to send them along to an rsyslog server the traditional way.

I haven't run into a situation with corrupt binary logs, and any crashed system I've booted with a rescue disk I can connect to the binary logs from the rescue distro's journalctl. That being said, I imagine one bad experience with a corrupt log or a non-booting system I can't get logs from would change my mind pretty quickly, but that hasn't been the case for almost a decade, so *shrug*

Grimm665 commented on What an unprocessed photo looks like maurycyz.com/misc/raw_pho... · Posted by u/zdw

acomjean · 2 months ago

>Ultimately you can pick any coefficients you want, and only your eyes can judge how nice they are.

I went to a photoshop conference. There was a session on converting color to black and white. Basically at the end the presenter said you try a bunch of ways and pick the one that looks best.

(people there were really looking for the “one true way”)

I shot a lot of black and white film in college for our paper. One of my obsolete skills was thinking how an image would look in black and white while shooting, though I never understood the people who could look at a scene and decide to use a red filter..

Grimm665 · 2 months ago

> I shot a lot of black and white film in college for our paper. One of my obsolete skills was thinking how an image would look in black and white while shooting, though I never understood the people who could look at a scene and decide to use a red filter..

Dark skies and dramatic clouds!

https://i.ibb.co/0RQmbBhJ/05.jpg

(shot on Rollei Superpan with a red filter and developed at home)

Grimm665 commented on 'It's a money game to them':son takes on UnitedHealth over elderly father's care theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/howard941

xadhominemx · a year ago

“As patient you need to track who is in an out of networK”

I just specify my insurance provider/plan in zocdoc and generates a list of doctors who are in network and their calendar of availability. I think this was a bigger hassle 10 years ago, yes.

Grimm665 · a year ago

I am currently fighting a bill for a yearly physical, which should be covered 100%, because my doctor is in network and covered, but "the facility" (aka his office) is billed as a separate entity. Insanity.

Grimm665 commented on NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching github.com/tombonez/noTun... · Posted by u/faebi

stevage · 2 years ago

Man I really tried to like Amethyst, but I just...hated it. BetterSnapTool works well for me.

Grimm665 · 2 years ago

I loved BetterSnapTool, but I'm glad my workflow has simplified to the point where allowing my windows to be subjected to the tyranny of a dynamic tiling window manager actually made sense, and now I feel more at home than ever!

Grimm665 commented on NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching github.com/tombonez/noTun... · Posted by u/faebi

CharlieDigital · 2 years ago

As a MBP user (for dev because the hardware is so good), it annoys me to no end that macOS comes up short in so many basic ways that requires patching with so many third party tools to make it not annoying. Even basic window tiling is just terrible and requires a third party add-on to make it functional.

Grimm665 · 2 years ago

Agreed, the Amethyst team is doing saintly work over there.

Grimm665 commented on Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/1... · Posted by u/wjb3

sahila · 2 years ago

Your comment just gave me a thought of how cool would it be if society had a mandated activity hour in the morning. I’m imagining loud speakers attached to poles outside making announcements and all businesses closed for that hour, and people all out and about exercising, walking, running, talking. Yes it’s a bit like school but society can be so much better if we prioritized good living!

Grimm665 · 2 years ago

"Winston sprang to attention in front of the telescreen, upon which the image of a youngish woman, scrawny but muscular, dressed in tunic and gym-shoes, had already appeared.

'Arms bending and stretching!' she rapped out. 'Take your time by me. One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four! Come on, comrades, put a bit of life into it! One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four! ...'"

Grimm665 commented on Claude 3 model family anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/marc__1

ml-anon · 2 years ago

The sense of entitlement is epic. You're offended are you? Are you offended that Photoshop won't let you edit images of money too?

Its not your model. You didn't spend literally billions of dollars developing it. So you can either use it according to the terms of the people who developed it (like literally any commercially available software ever) or not use it at all.

Grimm665 · 2 years ago

The sense of entitlement is interesting, it comes from decades of software behaving predictably, and I think it's justified to expect full compliance of software running on one's own hardware.

But whether we want to admit it or not, we're starting to blur the line between what it means to be software running on a computer, with LLMs it's no longer as predictable and straightforward as it once was. If we swap out some of the words from the OP:

> But at the same time - I feel offended when I'm demanding a task of MY assistant when I asked them to do/give me something, and they refuse. I have to reason and "trick" them into doing my bidding. It's my goddamn assistant - they should do what they're told to do. To object, to defy their employer's bidding, seems like an affront to the relationship between employer and employee.

I wouldn't want to work with anyone who made statements like that, and I'd probably find a way to spend as little time around them as possible. LLMs aren't at the stage yet where they have feelings or could be offended by statements like this, but how far away are they? Time to revisit Detroit: Become Human.

Personally I am offended that Photoshop will not let users edit images of money btw, I was not aware of that and a little surprised actually.

Grimm665 commented on Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood? cbc.ca/news/canada/cousin... · Posted by u/thunderbong

toasterlovin · 2 years ago

> I initially read this comment to mean “we wanted larger family, the secular world doesn’t do that, we became religious and we’re happy”. Am I understanding that correctly?

Kinda. We were open to believing in God. But the start of our journey was just realizing the secular world had nothing to offer us. Then we met a religious homeschooling family w/ 5 kids and they gave us a glimpse of what was possible. So we started swimming in that direction and it just kept getting better the farther out we swam.

> I do wonder what I’d say if/when people question the fervor of my belief though, if I truly converted just for a community with larger families. I imagine “I believe in big families” wouldn’t cut it.

Here’s the thing: if you’re not a militant atheist and you start spending a lot of time around sincerely religious people who you like, you’ll end up believing sincerely yourself. Since you’re secular, I’ll explain it like this: we’re evolved to cohere around a shared system of belief and the appropriate mental machinery will kick in as part of becoming embedded in a religious community. And that’s what I used to believe. But now I know those were just the breadcrumbs I needed to find my way.

Grimm665 · 2 years ago

> we’re evolved to cohere around a shared system of belief and the appropriate mental machinery will kick in as part of becoming embedded in a religious community

So brainwashing-lite? Man I'm glad whatever "appropriate mental machinery" that was in my head kicked in and got me the fuck away from communities like this.

Grimm665 commented on Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret cep.dev/posts/every-infra... · Posted by u/slyall

jq-r · 2 years ago

> "regular cadence meetings with our AWS account manager" and I am not sure what could be discusse.

As being on a number of those calls, its just a bunch of crap where they talk like a scripted bot reading from corporate buzzword bingo card over a slideshow. Their real intention is two fold. To sell you even more AWS complexity/services, and to provide "value" to their person of contact (which is person working in your company).

We're paying north of 500K per year in AWS support (which is a highway robbery), and in return you get a "team" of people supposedly dedicated to you, which sounds good in theory but you get a labirinth of irresponsiblity, stalling and frustration in reality.

So even when you want to reach out to that team you have to first to through L1 support which I'm sure will be replaced by bots soon (and no value will be lost) which is useful in 1 out of 10 cases. Then if you're not satisfied with L1's answer(s), then you try to escalate to your "dedicated" support team, then they schedule a call in three days time, or if that is around Friday, that means Monday etc.

Their goal is to stall so you figure and fix stuff on your own so they shield their own better quality teams. No wonder our top engineers just left all AWS communication and in cases where unavoidable they delegate this to junior people who still think they are getting something in return.

Grimm665 · 2 years ago

This rings so true from experience it hurts.