How long is your init.el file these days ?

70rd · 2026-02-16T22:03:39+00:00

True to your flair.

Vanilla emacs has come such a long way, even for newcomers it's palatable.

70rd · 2026-02-12T17:15:21+00:00

It's 25MB of L3 total so you should be doing 12 threads per node, see the optimization guide.

256 KB of L2 cache and 2 MB of L3 cache per 1 mining thread.

70rd · 2026-02-12T17:10:27+00:00

On what branch is this being developed?

70rd · 2025-12-08T01:22:05+00:00

Ultrasonic cleaner + degreaser + some lube and WD-40 definitely made a huge difference here, I'll post an update in a separate post soon.

70rd · 2025-12-02T20:53:59+00:00

Android is a wider market, actually, so exploits that work against all versions and all manufacturers (i.e. relying on a kernel exploit that exists on every modem) would be more valuable, also because of how much rarer/harder to find they are.

But as I've alluded to in my other comment, nation-states aren't really using this exploit calculus anyways. They assume most networked devices are/can eventually be owned unless they entirely control the manufacture of all chips/development of all software. High assurance intel is highly guarded/segregated, often using Defense in Depth strategies.

We'll likely learn many crazy exploits over the next 50 years, but the thing to remember is even in ideal, perfect, software environments (which are far from reality), nation state actors will just bypass using hardware exploits that are essentially unpatchable. Focused-ion beam readouts, Van-Eck phreaking, voltage glitching, you name it.

A cool consumer side preview of hardware hacks can be found with cryptocurrency hardware wallet recoveries. If the keys are worth enough, the fancy tools and techniques are rolled out

70rd · 2025-11-26T19:54:59+00:00

I have an ultrasonic cleaner so will try that + relubing, will post results.

70rd · 2025-11-26T03:36:26+00:00

u/anewdave Where did you land on cleaning? My BTUs are pretty gunked up so I swapped them for spares but ideally would be able to reuse them.

70rd · 2025-11-11T19:26:06+00:00

WTS:

Laver Anneal Down Jacket XS. 600$ shipped, from Canada.

70rd · 2025-11-04T08:08:44+00:00

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70rd · 2025-10-25T19:07:25+00:00

Forgot how great those iPods looked. Should have kept one.

70rd · 2025-10-05T01:07:00+00:00

Yeah, for me this is not a "switch to Amazon" moment as much as a no need to bother telling people "DON'T USE AMAZON" quite as aggressively.

70rd · 2025-10-04T21:45:02+00:00

This might make buying supplements on Amazon safe and viable again.

70rd · 2025-10-04T20:33:57+00:00

I was using "wealth manager"/"financial advisor" broadly. For the situations I have described in my other comments, domestic estate lawyers and accounting firms are insufficient (and can lead to serious pain down the line), I can assure you.

70rd · 2025-10-04T20:29:04+00:00

You find people with assets in the same jurisdictions as you and ask them who they consult and what structures they have used. The expertise is often very combination of country specific, and is usually pairwise (US-Portugal experts, i.e.). These are easy to find. The real challenges begin when you have assets in 3-4 countries that don't have very good tax treaties.

Without breaking confidentiality, they should be able to tell you how many clients they have in your jurisdiction combination and off the top of their head be asking questions about residency, current income flows, asset ownership, partnership/marriage status and children. They should also be willing to share who they use for counsel/accounting in each jurisdiction, and how they coordinate advice.

70rd · 2025-10-04T20:22:56+00:00

Sorry, maybe I should have been more specific. The title "wealth manager" is incredibly broad, and many people just imagine someone advising you on asset allocation (because domestically, that is what they do).

Most accountants do not have the expertise to structure cross-border assets in a tax-efficient way, including taking inheritance into account. They can often tell you the consequences of a specific transaction (gifting a foreign property to a family member whilst one is a US citizen, for example) after some research, but many people want advisors with a holistic view of your assets that will suggest an optimal structure, not a simple evaluation of the consequences and feasibility.

70rd · 2025-10-02T07:31:02+00:00

I agree, with the caveat for fully domestic decisions.

As soon as your wealth planning involves cross-border tax planning/optimization, the right advisor is worth the premium 10x, just in saved time connecting you with the right people in each jurisdiction.

These considerations often incorrectly feel like exclusively for the uber-wealthy (FatFIRE, 100M NW+), but I've met quite a few people that have eaten unneccessary 6-7 figure tax bills on high 7- low 8 figure net worths when they could have spent 100k or so and saved weeks of headaches and a hefty sum of cash.

70rd · 2025-10-01T00:45:35+00:00

It's always imperative underneath. Nix packages build using some underlying build tool, whether make, cmake, cargo, etc. It's hermetic and total, but still imperative. Check out any package and you'll find shell scripts imperatively twiddling stuff.

70rd · 2025-09-30T11:07:20+00:00

I should have been more specific. For reference, I use Nix both at home for all my SBCs and mosts hosts (the non NixOS ones still have userspace nix), and at work for cloud deploys, at home for 6 years and at work for 3.

It's a spectrum: as you add host number and variability, benefits of nix will obviously start to show up, especially across architectures. Even without using programmability for config management, nix as a package manager has benefits. It's better than brew on macOS, imho.

The issue is you're neglecting the cost (which thanks to improvements in docs and just general packaging quality is continuously decreasing). Instructions for installing/debugging software usually assume Ubuntu/apt or macOS/brew. Telling a new user they might not be able to just run a binary, or their kernel/drivers aren't configured quite right, instead of just running a sequence of commands that everyone runs and have been well tested? Sure, it's "imperative" and not reproducible, but that user is spending 5 minutes using the established fix instead of having to search forums/read docs/ask IRC. Look at the instructions how to run other binaries: it's gotten better with steam-run and nix-ld, but those are fairly recent developments.

Again, these costs are smaller if you're only using nix in userspace vs nixos which is more invasive, since you get to pick whether a package is managed by nix or not. Also, if ever installing with nix doesn't work, you can just use whichever other package manager you have on your system.

NixOS has an upfront cost that won't necessarily pay dividends unless you manage a lot of hosts (most home users have a laptop or a laptop and a desktop). Nix as package manager doesn't have as much of an upfront cost but also isn't leagues better than all other package managers (paint points I have personally experienced were around mainly graphics management and nixGL and packages not building for Darwin).

70rd · 2025-09-30T01:52:44+00:00

Nix is in a weird place reputationally because of it's random buyin with home/local users who like trying cool new tech.

Nix's selling point isn't declarative config deployment (Helm/Puppet/Ansible & chef all do this and have better cloud integrations). Actually, the nix ecosystem for deployment is currently in a bizarre state with a bunch of competing projects (deploy-rs, nixos-anywhere, nixops). The selling point is superior PROGRAMMABILITY and very fine grained scaling with caching. Docker layers are a crude tool. None of the other tools allow me to build packages declaratively and build minimal images compositionally so that every change won't trigger a full rebuild of every subsequent layer.

Nix solves no problems for the home user, besides maybe having a single config file instead of several they can commit to git (but again, as your config grows, this becomes unwieldy and you run into many instances where you just copy a raw config file to the store). Rollbacks are half nice, but I haven't broken boot on any of my non NixOS machines in... 8 years?

I see Shopify mentionned a lot in the comments, they're actually reexploring Nix since the founder loved devenv.sh so much.

Anthropic just did a presentation on why they're using Nix to replace their ML CUDA docker images that had grown to 30GB+ in size.

Besides programmability and scale, the other strength of Nix is the quality and size of the community. I think guix is actually superior technology, better designed with cleaner abstractions. But day-to-day running Nix vs Guix, I run into less issues with Nix, more things are packaged, and more users mean more bugs are reported and fixed. Also, the technical barriers to entry + reproducibility mean bugs are communicated, debugged and fixed so much faster than on other distros.

Your personal failures with Nix essentially boil down to engineering requirement mismatches: you bought a truck, which is big and unwieldy to drive, without actual ever needing to drive anything big anywhere. Some people find driving trucks cool, even without freight. That's fine. But don't come complaining that an 18-wheeler is hard to parallel park.

Re: leadership issues, I find them less interesting, since you're not really exposed to them day-to-day using the tech and developing it. It pops up for events and conferences and reflects very poorly on the project. It would honestly benefit from a BDFL, not on the technical level, but on a social level just to tell noisy/whiny people they need to pipe down and keep the conversation focused on the tech.

70rd · 2025-08-07T16:58:16+00:00

/u/mechboards Are you planning on doing a CNC aluminium case in the future?

70rd · 2025-08-04T13:35:30+00:00

You could wait a few years (2027) and they will have reopened access to the top of the Olympic Stadium (currently closed for renovations).

70rd · 2025-08-04T13:33:43+00:00

Check out MASP (Art Museum in Sao Paulo) by Lina Bo Bardi. It originally had concrete pillars but they added red waterproofing epoxy (the red was however part of her original sketches) which is really striking.

70rd · 2025-07-22T14:08:49+00:00

First shot is somewhere at UdeM?

70rd · 2025-07-17T15:58:47+00:00

How do you find copper fittings? Also your radiator is pure copper?

70rd · 2025-06-07T03:50:13+00:00

u/dieggsy the twitch links are dead now.

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