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mrobot commented on fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' github.com/sharkdp/fd... · Posted by u/tosh

mrobot · 6 months ago

Has anyone made an awk replacement? I find awk get's really annoying and ugly really fast, as things become even mildly complicated.

I feel like awk could be so much better.

mrobot commented on Apple's Software Quality Crisis eliseomartelli.it/blog/20... · Posted by u/ajdude

cosmic_cheese · 6 months ago

Linux is better than Windows on most counts for sure, but I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to use it full-time without making significant concessions on preferences about how desktop environment stuff works. If you’re someone who grew up on Macs there’s almost nothing in the Linux desktop space that tries to replicate that set of patterns… it’s all Win9X-type taskbar setups, mobile-type setups (GNOME, Pantheon), old niche *nix setups (e.g. WindowMaker), and of course minimal tiling WMs. There’s no clones of Mac OS of any flavor.

I’m proficient with more or less every modern desktop and can get by on any of any of them if I have to, but being happy doing so is another matter.

mrobot · 6 months ago

I went from daily driving mac and being very used to the desktop environment, and i am really hating everything i've tried in Linux.

Why is there no macOS clone for Linux? Since there is not, maybe now would be a good time for a project to start.

mrobot commented on Apple's Software Quality Crisis eliseomartelli.it/blog/20... · Posted by u/ajdude

mrobot · 6 months ago

My canary was the iOS 18 update on my iPhone SE 2nd generation.

In all my years of using iOS, i never had long pauses, but switching between safari and other apps i sometimes had pauses around 10 seconds. Maybe it is the SwiftUI change; i'm not sure.

I did upgrade to the SE v3 and haven't really seen many pauses. But i am not a power user by any means and was seeing the problem often, along with some other glitches.

Just to be clear: it wasn't like the applications were lagging, it was as if the entire OS was crawling.

mrobot commented on All Kindles can now be jailbroken kindlemodding.org/jailbre... · Posted by u/lumerina

Zambyte · 7 months ago

I am replying from my Daylight Computer. Happy to answer questions about it.

https://daylightcomputer.com

mrobot · 7 months ago

Have you tried the remarkable and if so how does it compare? I don't think the remarkable 2 was anywhere near 60fps. But i think you can put nixos on it.

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mrobot commented on RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 is now available frame.work/gb/en/blog/ris... · Posted by u/WithinReason

mrobot · 7 months ago

They put the old (55WH vs the newer 61WH) battery in the shell -- Framework you cheapos! I guess they are trying to get rid of the old, smaller batteries.

Also, word of warning just don't apply the 3.08 bios update if you have a 12th gen. I've had nothing but problems with the 3.08 bios update without real remediation from framework. Really, don't perform this upgrade without doing a thorough review of the support forums regarding the issues people are having.

There was a blog post about the BIOS update that i found here on this site, but i'm having trouble finding it for reference now. Someone had the same issue as i have where sometimes my system just won't boot (no video and error sequence) unless i remove or re-add a memory module. Not that fun.

mrobot commented on Medicare Pays Different Prices for the Same Drug wsj.com/health/healthcare... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

mrobot · 9 months ago

medicare.gov has an estimator in its plan comparisons. You put in your prescription drugs and it tells you how much it will cost for the year for different part D (drug coverage) or part C (medicare advantage + prescription drug coverage) plans.

Do no use it. It's always wrong. It can completely mess up your whole year. I once picked the cheapest advantage plan based on that and it was completely incorrect, i ended up paying outrageous prices.

You have to actually look up what each plan says in its terms (what tier is my drug and how much do i pay for that tier) and calculate a cost for the year. You can find negotiated prices for the pharmacy / company pairing at q1medicare.com. Or you can call the sales department of the different advantage or part D plans.

mrobot commented on U.S. military makes first confirmed OpenAI purchase for war-fighting forces theintercept.com/2024/10/... · Posted by u/kawera

mrobot · 10 months ago

Does the paywall on the archive page mean we cannot archive theintercept? : https://archive.is/Lqfyr

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mrobot commented on Koka: Strongly typed functional-style language with effect types and handlers koka-lang.github.io/koka/... · Posted by u/nateb2022

mrobot · 2 years ago

I was confused because the reference counting in the "Why Koka" part (section 2) of the book [1] seemed mismatched, so i looked it up in their reference counting TR [2]. It turns out it uses a seemingly novel approach to reference counting where any function you pass a reference to is responsible for decrementing and possibly freeing that reference. If you need to pass a reference to two functions you have to dup it once.

This makes it possible for fold to free all the Cons cells as it is mapping over it. The reuse analysis is cool, too, with in-place updates of structures that won't be referenced again.

[1] https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html [2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/perceus... (see section 2.2)

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KarmaCake day191November 26, 2013View Original