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blinkingled commented on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe   noheger.at/blog/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/happosai
Saline9515 · a month ago
Linux isn't in position regarding display/UI. It doesn't handles HiDPI (e.g 4K) screen uniformly, leading to a lot of blurry apps depending on the display abstraction used (Wayland/X11) and compositor (GNOME, KDE, etc, all behave differently).

Let's not even talk about the case when you have monitors that have different DPI, something that is handled seamlessly by MacOS, unlike Linux where it feels like a d20 roll depending on your distro.

I expect most desktop MacOS users to have a HiDPI screen in 2026 (it's just...better), so going to Linux may feel like a serious downgrade, or at least a waste of time if you want to get every config "right". I wish it was differently, honestly - the rest of the OS is great, and the diversity between distros is refreshing.

blinkingled · a month ago
I am a full time KDE/Arch user and since Plasma 6 haven't had any HiDPI issues including monitors with different DPI or X11 apps - of which there are very few nowadays.
blinkingled commented on Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again   popularmechanics.com/cars... · Posted by u/2OEH8eoCRo0
blinkingled · 3 months ago
> Tesla’s fix will involve an additional redundancy to keep the lightbar affixed to the windshield, should the glue fail.

Good news - it only affects 6000 vehicles with the optional lightbar which is dealer installed. Bad news - Tesla finds it ok to let its dealers do glued lightbar installations and can't really fix the glue failing part so they are adding redundancy.

blinkingled commented on Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)   blog.cloudflare.com/intro... · Posted by u/Garbage
stingraycharles · 3 months ago
What makes you think you can download it and use it yourself? This is just CloudFlare discussing their internal tech stack.
blinkingled · 3 months ago
I meant the I have no interest in knowing anything about any company's internal tech stack and also no interest in tying my application to one company's internal stack. Much of it sounded like lock-in to me.
blinkingled commented on Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)   blog.cloudflare.com/intro... · Posted by u/Garbage
blinkingled · 3 months ago
Stopped reading at proprietary. Seriously why would I care tying my app to something proprietary and have no way out of it?
blinkingled commented on Corrosion   fly.io/blog/corrosion/... · Posted by u/cgb_
tptacek · 4 months ago
It's not a "differentiating feature"; it eliminated a scaling bottleneck. It's also a decision that long predates Corrosion.
blinkingled · 4 months ago
I was referring to the "HTTP request in Tokyo to find the nearest instance in Sydney" part which felt to me like a differentiating feature- no other cloud provider seems to have bidding or HTTP request level cross regional lookup or whatever.

The "decision that long predates Corrosion" is precisely the point I was trying to make - was it made too soon before understanding the ramifications and/or having a validated technical solution ready? IOW maybe the feature requiring the problem solution could have come later? (I don't know much about fly.io and its features, so apologies if some of this is unclear/wrongly assumes things.)

blinkingled commented on Corrosion   fly.io/blog/corrosion/... · Posted by u/cgb_
blinkingled · 4 months ago
> The bidding model is elegant, but it’s insufficient to route network requests. To allow an HTTP request in Tokyo to find the nearest instance in Sydney, we really do need some kind of global map of every app we host.

So is this a case of wanting to deliver a differentiating feature before the technical maturity is there and validated? It's an acceptable strategy if you are building a lesser product but if you are selling Public Cloud maybe having a better strategy than waiting for problems to crop up makes more sense? Consul, missing watchdogs, certificate expiry, CRDT back filling nullable columns - sure in a normal case these are not very unexpected or to-be-ashamed-of problems but for a product that claims to be Public Cloud you want to think of these things and address them before day 1. Cert expiry for example - you should be giving your users tools to never have a cert expire - not fixing it for your stuff after the fact! (Most CAs offer API to automate all this - no excuse for it.)

I don't mean to be dismissive or disrespectful, the problem is challenging and the work is great - merely thinking of loss of customer trust - people are never going to trust a new comer that has issues like this and for that reason move fast break things and fix when you find isn't a good fit for this kind of a product.

blinkingled commented on We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler   blog.cloudflare.com/how-w... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
gok · 4 months ago
The real lesson here should be that doing crazy shit like swizzling the program counter in a signal handler and writing your own assembler is not a good idea.
blinkingled · 4 months ago
This^. Keith W on Dtrace blog said it a decade ago https://wesolows.dtrace.org/2014/12/29/golang-is-trash/

I like Go but I don't really like their NIH / replace everything with our stuff stance - esp on system tools like assemblers and linkers.

blinkingled commented on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account   theverge.com/news/793579/... · Posted by u/josephcsible
blinkingled · 4 months ago
Bye Microsoft - I'm already on Linux on all my desktop and workstation machines and working on migrating off of the MacBook Pro.

It's only going to get more and more unpleasant in the commercial desktop OS landscape - need to start contributing money and effort to few OSS projects to keep the dream alive.

blinkingled commented on Structured Procrastination (1995)   structuredprocrastination... · Posted by u/ipnon
Cthulhu_ · 4 months ago
This is great if you have that freedom, but the person that wrote the article needs to do tasks for their job; other people depend on it. Same with me and my job, I am paid to perform a specific task at the moment. Same with people in a family situation, you can't procrastinate daily routines like picking your kids up from school... which leads to procrastinating about everything else because you have something coming up later so you can't hyperfocus on something else.
blinkingled · 4 months ago
Yeah, what I do is make use of the freedom fully when I can and that way it's like I have fulfilled my quota for procrastination and it's easy sailing for the stuff then I need to do :D - complicated and works for me but YMMV. Feels intuitive to me lol.
blinkingled commented on Structured Procrastination (1995)   structuredprocrastination... · Posted by u/ipnon
blinkingled · 4 months ago
If you truly enjoy the procrastination as opposed to fighting it or distracting to another thing - sooner or later you'll want to do the thing you were supposed to do.

Try that out. There is a reason why you don't want to do something and that fundamentally has to do with your mental relationship to the task - the repetition fatigue, the way you think and feel about it etc. needs a reset and enjoying the idle procrastination time gives you that.

IOW Zen mantra - when you procrastinate just procrastinate without resistance.

u/blinkingled

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