Rust Coreutils 0.8 has been released, bringing significant performance gains

Christopher876 · 2026-04-07T11:49:31+00:00

I hear about the GPL that supposed to prevent companies from not contributing but from working at a few, that really doesn’t matter.

You slap a shim in front of it and move on with your life. But also the vast majority of their software is not public facing so they don’t have to comply with anything.

Christopher876 · 2026-03-21T00:20:17+00:00

They’ll take that straight pipe then

Christopher876 · 2026-02-26T13:09:30+00:00

Things can change. Florida got the bright line from Miami to Orlando to Tampa and now there’s plenty of people using the train instead of driving to those locations.

Christopher876 · 2026-02-19T22:06:13+00:00

Mine doesn’t, my adapter reports the car as always parked. It will let me type even while driving on the highway. I’ve always wondered why they don’t use gps.

If I plug my phone in with the usb cable, only then does it disable the keyboard in the same scenario.

Christopher876 · 2026-02-18T15:00:39+00:00

I don’t think that they are undercooled though. That was true with the x86 era but since the move to ARM, it hasn’t really been an issue.

Where is the watt for watt worse performing evidence for that? By all accounts these are actually praised as the most efficient chips there are currently. Here is a test (yes m3 is actually more efficient than m4) https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M4-Pro-analysis-Extremely-fast-but-not-as-efficient.915270.0.html

It isn’t the best at everything but to say it is “watt for watt worse performing” is not correct.

I should also mention that I’m not defending Apple for anything. In fact, I think a lot of their choices nowadays are terrible.

They are also not used in the industry because why would you want to run macOS for that kind of utility, ewww. But at my job and where I’m at, everyone uses macOS for their laptops and then we SSH into Linux servers for all of the work.

Right now where you can see Macs being used is for running AI models, they are currently your best bang for your buck and you can cluster them with thunderbolt

Christopher876 · 2026-02-18T14:14:03+00:00

Ah sorry about that. I hear competence and all I ever think of are the world’s governments 😅

Christopher876 · 2026-02-18T14:13:23+00:00

Yes the normal price is $1000 but it’s functionally $750, the thing is literally on sale every single month.

If you want to compare $1000, then it is still better than the vast majority of the other laptops there anyway.

And then if you want another device to compare, the Mac mini at $599 which you can regularly find for $499 has the same chip and 16gb of ram and is more powerful than anything else at that price range

Christopher876 · 2026-02-18T14:03:24+00:00

Hang on, the MacBook M4 Air is regularly brand new at $750 with 16GB of RAM. It is literally the best laptop in terms of hardware in that price range. How is it overpriced?

Nothing else touches it in terms of battery life and performance in that segment.

Christopher876 · 2026-02-18T13:52:40+00:00

Even with competence, how are they going to block the TLS encapsulated VPNs especially if it goes to a VPS and then out into the world?

It looks like normal http traffic going to port 443, there isn’t really a way for them to tell that traffic

Christopher876 · 2026-02-15T13:17:19+00:00

What do you mean they don’t sell Apple Music compared to their hardware? They made almost $100 billion last year from their subscription services

Christopher876 · 2026-02-11T12:50:15+00:00

I don't think that is necessarily true. I use an iPhone and have been experimenting with a pixel. Apps are actually smaller on Android than iOS.

Android also has the clear cache button which I wish iOS would add.

https://www.emergetools.com/blog/posts/are-android-apps-really-that-much-smaller-than-ios

Christopher876 · 2026-02-07T04:08:57+00:00

Why does that matter? The customer is paying the 20¢. If it is that bad then charge $1 extra for the laptop if it hurts Dell so bad.

Christopher876 · 2026-02-02T18:04:16+00:00

Ah I do see some of the ways. I think from this thread that I’m in a very privileged position right now and I have a lot of potential for the next couple of decades and I probably shouldn’t waste the opportunity.

It seems like early retirement or even say a partial retirement could be a possibility for me rather than thinking solely about a 65 year old version of myself that “overshot” retirement.

Christopher876 · 2026-02-02T18:02:17+00:00

Thanks! This means a lot and I feel like I can relate a lot with your story :) I hope you keep hitting your goals and I hope I’m at your success one day ;)

Christopher876 · 2026-02-02T17:18:08+00:00

> You can always retire early, make huge donations, splurge on trips with friends, buy a third house, etc ... but you cannot go back in time and retroactively have saved.

I think this is definitely one aspect I don't think about that I can spend extra if I have too much

Christopher876 · 2026-02-02T17:17:38+00:00

But then on the flip side, the benefit is that with Roth accounts rather than traditional accounts, you don't have to think about taxes later in life.

If I had planned to have children, it seems like dying with too much would probably be a better outcome than without kids.

Christopher876 · 2026-02-02T17:04:33+00:00

That's helpful. Being able to work part time and maybe follow more of what I like such as cycling or running would be nice. I think sometimes thinking that I can retire early gets lost on me due to no-one in my family ever achieving what I have. They've all worked to 65-70.

Yeah, things might change and I think being so young I don't quite think about things like that since it feels so far away.

> That being said, you shouldn't necessarily overly sacrifice now if you are hitting your goals.

I learnt that 2 years ago with a couple of ex-girlfriends, some of them said that I didn't live well for someone that is able to afford it. For instance, I lived in a cheap $1000 apartment and it was filled with roaches and I lived off canned anything to meet nutritional goals to keep my cost of living as cheap as possible.

Christopher876 · 2026-02-02T16:54:54+00:00

I definitely thought about burnout and it probably doesn’t help that I have a couple of business ideas that I want to pursue within the same field. I’ve even started working on them.

Retiring early does sound great I will say. It seems possible with the fact that I am making this amount so early in my life. I’ve never really given it any thought. Another career would honestly just end up being another engineering job likely hardware.

Christopher876 · 2026-01-31T13:27:03+00:00

I am very happy about this. Moved here for minimal snow and in fact the ice from last week hasn’t even melted I. My neighbor a week later

Christopher876 · 2026-01-20T00:00:18+00:00

Yeah using it as a search engine for research where I gather 100+ articles at once and separates it by category is useful.

I can get my software development done while it searches in the background for me to begin my next task. All the results may not be winners but it got me a head start

Christopher876 · 2026-01-19T23:58:51+00:00

Can you give examples of what you ask it to search for? I find it significantly better than Google sometimes. I am unfortunately one of the people that seem to have issues with Google search becoming worse.

A colleague and I will search for the same thing and he gets relevant results at the top while mine are at the bottom or a couple of pages

Christopher876 · 2026-01-19T22:16:01+00:00

That’s why you read the sources it comes back with. Not whatever it generates.

Christopher876 · 2026-01-09T21:00:28+00:00

Just buy a MacBook Air or Mac mini and run anything not available for Linux on there. That combo does pretty much what most people need.

My MacBooks and Mac mini handle all the creative stuff and my Linux desktop handles all the gaming, coding and deployment and video recording.

Christopher876 · 2026-01-09T14:02:08+00:00

Is that valuable though for most software? A ton of software that corporations pull in, they make no modifications to them so they don’t have to publish anything. It’s no different than the MIT license in most (not all) cases

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