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selfhoster commented on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/pentagrama

skrtskrt · 4 months ago

In my experience Ubuntu has the worst issues with displays of any distro.

To be fair I stay away from NVIDIA to, I would probably run a separate headless box for those GPU workloads if I needed to

selfhoster · 4 months ago

> In my experience Ubuntu has the worst issues with displays of any distro.

In my experience, it has zero issues. I use nvidia binary build. I have since 2006 through various nvidia GPU's.

selfhoster commented on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/pentagrama

elif · 4 months ago

Every time I praise WSL on hn I pay the karma tax but I will die on this hill. WSL is more powerful than Linux because of how easy it is to run multiple OS on the same computer simultaneously. It's as powerful as Linux with some janky custom local docker wrappers for device support, local storage mapping, and network mapping. Except it's not janky at all. It's an absolute delight to use, out of the box, on a desktop or laptop, with no configuration required.

Edit: for clarity, by "multiple OS" I mean multiple Linux versions. Like if one project has a dependency on Ubuntu22 and another is easier with Ubuntu24. You don't have to stress "do I update my OS?"

selfhoster · 4 months ago

> WSL is more powerful than Linux because of how easy it is to run multiple OS on the same computer simultaneously.

I do that with KVM too, and each has their own kernel, not one shared kernel made and controlled by one vendor.

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selfhoster · 4 months ago

Am I the only one who would like the option to run some Android games on Ubuntu? I like the Java version of Minecraft but worry it may be discontinued some day and the Bedrock edition doesn't run on Linux.

Well the Bedrock edition runs on Android, which uses the Linux kernel. Seems like getting Android games to be officially supported on Linux would be great, how about it Google?

selfhoster commented on Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling thenewstack.io/java-at-30... · Posted by u/chhum

w10-1 · 4 months ago

Java is a great success story. Though, to be fair, James Gosling was the spark but has not been the steward.

Even as early as Java 1.1 and 1.2 he was not particularly involved in making runtime, library, or even language decisions, and later he wasn't the key to generics, etc.

Mark Reinhold has been the hand's-on lead since 1.1, first integrating early JIT's, HotSpot, the 1.2 10X class explosion, and has been running the team all the way through Oracle's purchase, making the JVM suitable for dynamic language like Kotlin and Clojure, open-sourcing, moving to a faster release cadence, pushing JVM method and field handles that form the basis for modern language features, migrating between GC's, and on and on.

As far as I can tell, everything that makes Java great has come down to Mark Reinhold pushing and guiding.

selfhoster · 4 months ago

> Java is a great success story. Though, to be fair, James Gosling was the spark but has not been the steward.

That's like saying Linus was only the spark for git because he spent two weeks hacking it from scratch.

The whole world uses git now.

selfhoster commented on Will AI systems perform poorly due to AI-generated material in training data? cacm.acm.org/news/the-col... · Posted by u/pseudolus

SpicyLemonZest · 4 months ago

For example, I just asked o3 "how many Is are in antidisestablishmentarianism", and this was its train-of-thought output:

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The user wants to know how many “I”s are in the word “antidisestablishmentarianism.” They probably mean the letter "I" in lowercase, though the question was a little broader with "Is."

I’ll treat it case-insensitively and count the total occurrences of the letter "i" (both uppercase and lowercase). I can count them manually now, or use a tool for faster analysis.

Analyzed word = "antidisestablishmentarianism" word_lower = word.lower() word_lower.count('i')

5 The user asked how many "I"s are in "antidisestablishmentarianism." I’m taking it to mean whether it’s counting "i" or "I", and I’ll consider them as the same for simplicity. So, I’ll count the 5 occurrences of "i" in the word. I manually broke it down and verified there are indeed five "i"s, so the final count should be 5. Pretty straightforward, now that it's all clear!

Done

There are 5 “i”s in “antidisestablishmentarianism.”

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You can come up with complicated definitions of "core reasoning" where this doesn't count, and I understand there's great demand for such definitions, but this clearly satisfies common-sense understanding of the term.

selfhoster · 4 months ago

Then I guess Ubuntu has had reasoning for several decades:

    sudp
    Command 'sudp' not found, did you mean:
      command 'sudo' from deb sudo (1.9.9-1ubuntu2.4)
      command 'sudo' from deb sudo-ldap (1.9.9-1ubuntu2.4)
      command 'sup' from deb sup (20100519-3)
      command 'sfdp' from deb graphviz (2.42.2-6)
    Try: sudo apt install <deb name>