wait what's wrong with kafka?
What's wrong with kafka or what WILL BE wrong with kafka?
Readit Newsitslennysfault commented on IBM to acquire Confluent confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-... · Posted by u/abd12
My "apolitical" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. What an odd word to use in the first sentence of your product description, which also includes the word "open", an inherently political concept in this context.
Did/does Nostr have some cryptocurrency connection or am I thinking of something else?
They explicitly don't have a "nostr coin" or do anything "on chain" which I applaud them for especially since the Venn Diagram of Nostr and the crypto community is basically a circle.
This is also the construction used for FAFO
FA = "try" (as a vulgar slang)
When you de-vulgar/de-slang it it becomes: try and find out
itslennysfault commented on Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/... · Posted by u/walterbell
There is a giant confusing tech stack here, but opening up this simple plain text page resulted in like 100% CPU usage from from gnome-shell when visiting from firefox on a pretty non-customized Ubuntu 24 install.
In the firefox task manager nothing really looked odd, but opening that tab and displaying it is insanely CPU intensive.
Pausing the autoplaying video makes it seem like a sane web page in terms of CPU usage. I'm surprised how much CPU playing that video consumed.
Very odd. This must be some kind of Ubuntu issue. Out of curiosity I tried it in Chrome, Firefox and Safari on MacOS 15.5 and saw very little CPU usage and no difference with/without the video playing. I don't have a Ubuntu Desktop handy to confirm. Looking at the video it's nothing special. Just a fairly small mp4 using a native html5 video element to play it. Really no reason this should be causing issues.
itslennysfault commented on New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes dynomight.net/colors/... · Posted by u/zdw
> If you refused to look at the animation, it’s just a bluish-green background with a red circle on top that slowly shrinks down to nothing. That’s all. But as it shrinks, you should hallucinate a very intense blue-green color around the rim.
I do not believe I have any kind or amount of colorblindness, so imagine my surprise when extremely confused I pulled the image into MS Paint, used the Color Picker tool, and found that indeed, the background has quite a bit of blue in it.
Anyhow, I cannot reproduce the illusion cited. For me the circle just blurs out and I start seeing orange.
Just in case... Maybe you didn't wait long enough? I saw nothing so I came to the comments expecting a lot of others to day the animation is broken. However, it turns out it's a lot slower/longer than I thought. I saw the little bar on the left shrink to nothing and thought that was it and exited, but that's just the start. The full animation is the red circle shrinking all the way until it disappears. There is no illusion until the circle shrinks quite a bit.
I entered an MRI room once when my wife was getting ready to be scanned. I had a metal Cross pen in my shirt pocket. Although I was 10 feet back, the pen flew out of my pocket, across the room, and stuck to the magnet. It was scary.
That's crazy... Did they bill you for the cost of shutting down the MRI and refilling the helium?
itslennysfault commented on How to handle people dismissing io_uring as insecure? (2024) github.com/axboe/liburing... · Posted by u/nromiun
Maybe it is (mine is for sure) but that's a "bitten by the dog once" case.
You got bitten and everyone around you assures you won't get bitten again, but the pain was real and you still have a scar from the event. Why bother or invest risking another bite if there are other places to be which had never bitten before.
Over my career I hated technology 3 times. First was PHP, second was Python during Python 2/3 fiasco and third was CoffeeScript.
Edit: till this day one of my favorite meme is titled "PHP: Training wheels without a bike"
I went through your exact same hate timeline. The CoffeeScript one was so bad that I was REALLY hesitant about TypeScript, but the whole "it's a superset of JS" thing won me over in the end.
I still hate PHP the most, and I very much mean PHP 5 when I say that, and have no idea what happened beyond that, and honestly the scars are so deep I don't care to find out.
itslennysfault commented on Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly refine.sh... · Posted by u/runjuu
> Powered by local AI models
I worry that this will make my writing more likely to fail an AI coursework detector, which could really impact my life. The risk just isn't worth it till someone has tested the output through all the big players (turnitin etc.)
I don't think the risks are high with this. It's not writing for you. It's just correcting your grammar. If you're 99% writing it yourself and just having it highlight grammar mistakes I wouldn't expect it to trigger an alarm....... but I haven't been in school since waaay before LLMs were viable/common. So, maybe it's worse than I think.
itslennysfault commented on Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly refine.sh... · Posted by u/runjuu
Gosh people love complicating things.
You don't need docker (a Linux-only piece of tech) to run a java application. Even though I'm on Linux, and docker experience is waaaaay better here than on any other platform, I wouldn't in my life consider using it to run LanguageTool.
java -cp languagetool-server.jar org.languagetool.server.HTTPServerGosh people love complicating things.
You don't need to fight with installing (the correct version of) java. I wouldn't in my life consider installing java on my OS directly.
For anyone with docker already installed (most people these days)...
git clone git@github.com:gardner/LocalLanguageTool.git
cd LocalLanguageTool
docker compose upitslennysfault commented on Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly refine.sh... · Posted by u/runjuu
Case in point: "Is there a educational discount?" I believe this should say "an educational discount". I wonder if the tool would have caught it.
Did the website originally say this? I just checked and it says "an" now... Perhaps they didn't use their own tool when writing the web copy.