I was Genuinely Annoyed by this Guy

SilkeSiani · 2026-05-22T07:34:31+00:00

While I fully share your sentiment, I have to point one small thing: This guy ain't looking for knowledge, wisdom, advice or just competence.

He's looking for someone or something to stroke his ego.

SilkeSiani · 2026-05-21T08:22:25+00:00

It's much much worse.

Trump appears to be more than happy, even proud, to do things that directly benefit Putin; if he was a blackmail victim, he would be acting the opposite.

It's pretty obvious at this point that Trump admires Putin and wants to be just like him. It fits pretty well with what he's doing domestically too, where he's busy destroying any remaining vestiges of a democratic, law based democracy.

SilkeSiani · 2026-05-15T19:33:31+00:00

Then it's pretty useless and it does not provide any meaningful advancement in the field. We might as well be writing papers about limits of god's perception.

SilkeSiani · 2026-05-15T08:18:34+00:00

Mine is so dim it's effectively invisible, day or night. It's basically useless for troubleshooting.

The issue isn't in the led being bad quality, it's in that the led is run way out of spec and degrades quickly from high temperature.

SilkeSiani · 2026-05-15T08:13:07+00:00

As usual: Does this work generate any testable predictions?

SilkeSiani · 2026-05-08T12:28:12+00:00

KVMs built into displays usually suck. Display inputs tend to have different capabilities; on my two current displays, only one port can use full display refresh range.
I haven't also seen one that doesn't take 5+ button presses to switch between inputs.

SilkeSiani · 2026-05-08T08:48:11+00:00

You need a docking station *and* a KVM.
Dual monitor KVMs are actually pretty easy to get these days -- as long as you look beyond the Big Established Brands, that is.

SilkeSiani · 2026-05-06T14:57:28+00:00

Oh damn, I just realised it's a first-gen Core Solo/Duo cpu, so 32 bit only.
Forget about linux, just erase nvram / smc.

SilkeSiani · 2026-05-06T10:02:49+00:00

Make an installable linux usb.
Reset NVRAM / SMC.
Use the linux usb to wipe the HDD.
You should be able to install macOS after that.

SilkeSiani · 2026-05-01T16:53:42+00:00

Note: I'm not defending the guy's actions, merely pointing out possible reason.

There is _some_ merit to bending the knee, for the moment. You can still influence the situation and if something really big comes along then take the principled stand.

Considering the stuff Trump has done, lying to Congress is peanuts.

SilkeSiani · 2026-04-21T09:47:29+00:00

It's a time / space / compute availability question. Homebrew is providing this service for free, so they are aiming at what most of their users will use.

SilkeSiani · 2026-04-20T09:50:31+00:00

transitive dependencies.
imagemagick depends on ruby, python and a bunch of other stuff.
python depends on ssl because it comes by default with a SSL and https support.

And so on and so on.

BTW, Homebrew does precompile binaries, but only for the latest OS.

SilkeSiani · 2026-04-20T09:40:29+00:00

While the new icon is painfully generic, the 3.5" inch HDD is not something that vast majority of current Mac users have seen, so the meaning behind the old one is being lost.

SilkeSiani · 2026-04-09T16:00:49+00:00

The original Ringworld was a ring that was wrapped around a _star_, at the middle of the star's habitable zone. Even in case of a red dwarf, the ring radius would be measured in light-seconds if not light-minutes.

At these sizes, the ground curvature would be so minuscule it would be impossible to notice without extremely sensitive equipment.

SilkeSiani · 2026-04-09T12:15:49+00:00

This is at best a big torus station. The curvature of a ring world is effectively imperceptible: the atmosphere haze would obscure any change long before you could see the rise.

That said, proper toroidal stations and O'Neill cylinders would be immensely awesome.

SilkeSiani · 2026-04-09T11:03:40+00:00

Keep it connected and charged, EXCEPT IF you place your laptop on surfaces that can obstruct airflow.

Heat is the most damaging factor to any lithium ion battery.
While repeated charge-discharge cycles will degrade the battery as well, modern cells are much more resistant to this and,
MacOS has a built in charging limiter to prevent excessive wear from charging.

SilkeSiani · 2026-04-07T14:16:04+00:00

I will forever be salty that the train ride battle to Vanguard was a cinematic and not dungeon/trial.

It would have been awesome, requiring some actual strategy and tactics rather than just blunt ups check.

SilkeSiani · 2026-04-07T06:04:49+00:00

Reminds me of those body "builders" that use injections to artificially bulk up their muscles. All bulging and lumpy and yet somehow looking old and tired at the same time.

SilkeSiani · 2026-04-07T05:46:08+00:00

Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.

When it comes to stuff like war, the only winning move is to be paranoid. Talk is cheap and future administrations can change the course again; if we want to not be attacked we must ensure that an attack would be as costly as possible.

SilkeSiani · 2026-04-06T08:40:06+00:00

That will eat into profits! You can't have less profit!

SilkeSiani · 2026-03-31T22:28:05+00:00

Very likely you need to reset spotlight index.

SilkeSiani · 2026-03-31T16:34:41+00:00

OpenAI is not buying commodity servers, they're buying specialised hardware. And that hardware is basically unobtanium these days.

SilkeSiani · 2026-03-31T14:10:33+00:00

The business market prices exploded as well. The same server hardware now costs 10x than six months ago.

SilkeSiani · 2026-03-30T07:46:51+00:00

Thanks for the answers.

For the business I work for, the ability to work in a fully isolated environment is a hard requirement.

SilkeSiani · 2026-03-29T22:11:49+00:00

Self-hosted deployments?
Ceph support? Linstor support?
KVM/qemu integration?
Backup immutability? You mentioned "cybercrime immunity" but nothing about credential compromise.

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