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mey commented on 79% of OpenBSD kernel source is AMD DRM marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc... · Posted by u/cnst

snvzz · 24 days ago

Belongs in userspace. Absolutely not the kernel.

But we can't seem to move past archaic UNIX architecture.

mey · 23 days ago

While there are issues with Window's WDM (badly writen drivers abound), it really should be looked as a model.

_but_ that would require a stable ABI. Which is specifically called out as not desired here https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/stable-api-nons...

There are valid concerns, but the analysis doesn't lay out the issues with the current design either making it a one sided review.

mey commented on United Airlines grounds flights after system meltdown allchronology.com/2025/08... · Posted by u/rectang

goalieca · 24 days ago

> “This is exactly what happens when billion-dollar companies refuse to modernize,” one aviation analyst tweeted. “You wouldn’t trust a 30-year-old car to drive cross-country. Why are we trusting it to fly planes?”

While i sympathize, the world does rely on high quality 30+ year old software. I think it's time, as an industry, to stop seeing software as disposable and start designing for longevity.

mey · 24 days ago

I don't disagree with the point, but I question if that person is an aviation analyst, considering commercial airframes will go up to 30 years. As others in this thread have mentioned, it's about maintenance.

Except maintenance of software looks more like continuous architectural review and operation of an electrical grid. Calling it maintenance is a little narrow.

mey commented on I'm switching to Python and actually liking it cesarsotovalero.net/blog/... · Posted by u/cesarsotovalero

deepsun · a month ago

I have way more experience with Python than Java. In at least 4 companies (including Google that I wouldn't call a javashop) we used mainly Python.

Still I believe Java is a better application language. Python is a better scripting language (replacement for Bash). Small apps tend to be easier on Python, but large apps are way easier on Java, both for syntax (types) and ecosystem (libs).

mey · a month ago

That is general take as well. A lot of small apps/simulators are in python. Ops scripts tend to be python. Java for the core/data. Refactoring/tooling is easier in Java when you are dealing with a 100k codebase imo. Typescript always.

Seen plenty of coding horrors in both ecosystems...

mey commented on Santa Ragione says Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia 'without justification' gamedeveloper.com/busines... · Posted by u/saubeidl

mdiesel · 2 months ago

If they provided a plausible way to sideload then they'd be on stronger grounds. It's the same as Stop Killing Games. Apple shouldn't carry the burden of hosting forever, but equally they can't just make something disappear forever.

mey · 2 months ago

Apple should commit to a support life cycle on the front end then. You are being sold this product with support for a minimum of 'x' time frame. You are not 'buying' this.

Ideally what Stop Killing Games would like is game preservation, but at minimum we need honesty/transparency about product market places. I finally know what my minimum OS lifecycle is for my Pixel phone, and I can make a comfortable purchase decision based on that.

Even Steam isn't immune to this, it simply has an good track record relative compared to most other platforms.

Apple took a ~30% cut of the sale of the product. That should calculate into it's servicing of the product. To Ross Scott's points (and many others), if you have a perpetual service but a onetime/lifetime payment, the business model will eventually not net out.

mey commented on Most people who buy games on Steam never play them howtomarketagame.com/2025... · Posted by u/3Samourai

ASalazarMX · 2 months ago

Correlates with my experience. Sometimes sales are so attractive you buy several games for cheap, or even an entire franchise, but playing them all can take enough time that another sale comes again. Red Dead Redemption 2 has been collecting digital dust in my library because I'm still playing Fallout 76. I stopped buying more because it feels wrong.

mey · 2 months ago

Ditto. I have several games in my backlog that I got on deep discount, but need serious time commitment to play. It's going to take me a little bit to play Witcher 3, Disco Elysium, or the entire Mass Effect trilogy. Also there is a certain time horizon on steam that play time wasn't tracked. I am pretty sure I played Half Life 2, since that's why I have a steam account in the first place.

Edit: You may not want to know if your steam account is old enough to drink...

mey commented on Peasant Railgun knightsdigest.com/what-ex... · Posted by u/cainxinth

generalizations · 2 months ago

If I were the DM, I'd allow it.....but the players have to roll for each commoner sequentially to see if they can do their part. And the rolls get harder.

If they want to spend 3hrs making increasingly hard rolls as the pole speeds up, more power to 'em.

mey · 2 months ago

Yup. Each peasant after say the first 4 give me a DC check that gets harder to catch/pass the projectile down the line. If you need to be a 3rd level monk to potentially catch the missile, and not even rethrow the missile unless you get the damage to zero, this isn't getting up to any dangerous speed before hurting someone in the line. At least under my ad-hoc ruling.

mey commented on Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a '70s artist who became a hero to 'garbage men' nytimes.com/2025/06/14/ny... · Posted by u/samclemens

nkrisc · 2 months ago

Like a pizza party, the benefits of maintenance can be hard to quantify, but the costs are easy to quantify.

How do you quantify incidences that didn’t happen because of proper maintenance? Did you maintain more than necessary to achieve no incidents?

Middle managers are a reflection of leadership.

mey · 2 months ago

I have learned over my career that I can't dictate culture. If I attempt to, I will go insane from the stress, because it always comes top down. I try, I give feedback, I do what I can, but these choices are systemic. You can shelter yourself, peers, and team from some rain, but not the ocean.

mey commented on FFmpeg merges WebRTC support git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffm... · Posted by u/Sean-Der

RedShift1 · 3 months ago

That's impossible, VLC supports everything. If VLC doesn't support it, it doesn't exist.

mey · 3 months ago

XAVC HS 4k 10Bit HEVC 4:2:2 on Windows.

Plex and ffmpeg, perfectly fine. VLC is not a fan.

mey commented on Fighting unwanted notifications with machine learning in Chrome blog.chromium.org/2025/05... · Posted by u/feross

mey · 4 months ago

Has anyone come across a notification they found _useful_? (Aside from the recent April fools xkcd one).

Seems like you don't need an ML system here, just an expert system, which is just, always reject.