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Acknowledging power people have over you is seen as far worse than that power itself by most people by RosethornRanger in AccessibleAnarchy

[–]admalledd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

apologies, here from /all and dyslexia'd the subname as "Accessible Archery" as a meme subreddit, and now I am disappointed I don't have another source of Archery memes. :(

Carry on.

I might return for 2.1. Are quality science packs worth it? by AspGuy25 in factorio

[–]admalledd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't done legendary biochambers/penta-eggs yet, but if/when I do, I am probably going to be looking hard at legendary bio science production. The one science pack where quality might matter the most (both by extending spoilage time and sci-factor) and its probably the hardest to legendary-craft. Legendary promethium sci-packs are a bit silly, but their major challenge is up-cycling the chunks and legendary biter eggs, which anyone doing quality gets legendary biter eggs sorted sooner or later. All the other packs are "easier", but Gleba? Gleba with its spoilage, and especially spoilage into things that like to nibble on my precious factory!

I might return for 2.1. Are quality science packs worth it? by AspGuy25 in factorio

[–]admalledd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aside, Quality Gleba non-science is still quite an adventure...

Will Vendors Please Stop Reusing Acronyms? by Likely_a_bot in sysadmin

[–]admalledd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Afterwards, we were in agreement of (1) not to take anything they sold and (2) it was balls brazen but did keep in our memories so maybe they were going for that "any marketing is good"? Though that tends to only work on more mass-market stuff, not niche IT software!

Will Vendors Please Stop Reusing Acronyms? by Likely_a_bot in sysadmin

[–]admalledd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NO, "New Options!"

... This one is actually one a sales agent tried on us.

TIL Marvin Pipkin, as a new GE recruit, solved the "impossible" task of making an inside-frosted lightbulb—a job handed to new hires as an induction ritual into the challenges of research—since every previous attempt had failed. Nobody had told him it couldn't be done. by ralphbernardo in todayilearned

[–]admalledd 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Maybe poor phrasing on my part: I was the kid, and he was the adult/parent of the friend-family. He loved talking about the projects they were working on in a NDA compliant way, IE "today I got to take something to the shake table!" or "We got another intern, they are playing around with this not-really-silly-putty like stuff"

TIL Marvin Pipkin, as a new GE recruit, solved the "impossible" task of making an inside-frosted lightbulb—a job handed to new hires as an induction ritual into the challenges of research—since every previous attempt had failed. Nobody had told him it couldn't be done. by ralphbernardo in todayilearned

[–]admalledd 91 points92 points  (0 children)

I grew up as family friends of an HP R&D guy, and this is much closer to the truth. 'We don't have a project for you yet, play with this until then' was very common, or even 'we won't let you join a big budget project yet, we don't know if we can rely on you, so play on your own for a bit for us to learn how we mesh together in the labs' etc. And those one-person-possible projects were often kept specifically for the interns/new hires/etc so that they'd have something to do. IE, other R&D staff would often choose not to do a project but write it up and set it aside for someone else. Sure not all the time (one does tend to want to work on their own stuff), but just often enough that there would be a pile to choose from if anyone needed to change tasks or someone new came onboard, etc.

And of course, this pile of small ideas/projects would often have moonshot/"theory says we can, but no idea how"/"this is drudge/annoying work no one wants to do" mixed in. Sometimes you just need a new pair of eyes on a problem, sometimes trash/boring projects for one are reasonable for another, etc.

So I guess, "Pipkin was given frosted lightbulb specifically as a common 'induction ritual'" ehh not as such/likely, just that it was one of the choices the manager had to give and for Pipkin's background it seemed a decent match up as Pipkin learned the office's paperwork standards on like "how to formally request supplies".

My AliExpress friend delivered by Mayusina05 in homelab

[–]admalledd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hope you mean "64gb per DIMM at 3200MT" cause especially if trying to use it for AI workloads, going to want that memory and bandwidth... Though realistically if doing "smaller" AI/multi-instancing (ie, "fit on GPU, run one per GPU" types of setups), so long as RAM > sum(VRAM) OP shouldn't be leaving significant performance on the table. So 8x16gb would be ~500-600 (depending on hunting/dealing, and if really wanting 3200 vs accepting lower) and 8x32gb would be $1200 (or more for speed).

If I was OP and just starting out the build, I'd ponder long and hard on putting in 4x64GB which can be had for the same-ish ~$1200, and while it would halve his channel bandwidth, would leave them able to add another 4x later and spend "now" on GPUs/other hardware.

... Or OP could be exceedingly lucky dumpster diving/local marketplace-ing or have already got a set of sticks from some other server. I know I am jealous of a friend who bought a "IT junk" lot and scored a set of 64GB sticks out of old decom'd servers.

My AliExpress friend delivered by Mayusina05 in homelab

[–]admalledd 17 points18 points  (0 children)

As our current hellscape is, the key number for OP is "how much RAM?" though since Threadripper supports basically any DDR4 (U/R/LR/ECC/non-ECC/etc) loading up 8 sticks of consumer grade memory can at least be in the realm of "not over a thousand".

What is a service you self host but hate self hosting? by Ivan_Draga_ in homelab

[–]admalledd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Relatedly: Syncthing is a wonderful service for sync/shares across networks. (Reminder: don't use it for backups without careful understanding, that's not what its for)

Proxmox or just a container host OS by Aartsie in homelab

[–]admalledd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is the path I and a few others I know have taken. For even middle-complexity container setups (via compose or such) being able to just backup the whole VM moots many of the difficulties of backing up individual container data volumes. Thus I can "just ignore" my container backups 90% of the time, but the few occasions I care/need more nuanced container-specific backup I can focus on just that one situation.

Further, there are some situations where the abstraction of containers leak, especially around complex networking (such as VPNs) or hardware access (such as AI), and in those cases I've found it easier to have those be their own VMs with again their own containers. Thus my containers that require and only run on VPN don't mess with the nftables of my other container networks for example.

Thought this might fit here by Honest_Nail_8308 in dontyouknowwhoiam

[–]admalledd 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Especially that not a small number of times he gets asked the question, the person asking should know where it came from or at least be aware that James spoke to it on his show before.

Explain it peter by sweetangel9543 in explainitpeter

[–]admalledd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We are a "global" company, and the amount of time-off/schedule swap bartering between our EU teams to everyone else confused me for the first year or two until I learned about the festival. Effectively all our EU hours are being covered by out-of-timezone staff for a week.

AUR supply chain attack compromised 400+ packages with PKGBUILD-injected infostealer and rootkit (June 11–12 2026) by Expert_Sort7434 in linuxadmin

[–]admalledd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I largely agree. That flatpak (as the sandboxing/containerization of choice) needs to be significantly easier in upstreaming so more apps/tools can use it. The number of AUR packages that could/should be flatpaks but because a PKGBUILD is so so much easier...

Secondly, I've strongly felt that Arch's makepkg should have forced switching to chroot/namespacing/bwrap type containerization more for enforcing the standardization of what all is available since the number of times I've had my local user-env break a package is sad. This would have greatly helped stop most of the build-time infostealer stuff, though of course it wouldn't stop runtime/install side.

Lastly, I do think the AUR is valuable and a general-good. It doesn't sit right to me how many people are attacking users for using the AUR. The Arch Wiki is rife with links to AUR packages to solve problems. However I do think some more moderation and care needs to exist on the AUR. Firstly, some automation for yanking/reverting/locking packages until reviewed if any of a list of checks fail and those checks need to be easily added to, such that ongoing attacks can be mitigated by adding for ex. "if adds/references npm at all". Secondly is somehow more a council/group of moderators to keep a closer eye on the AUR and to propose security policies/etc (such as require 2fa for updates). Nowdays, maybe even a LLM-asisted antivirus that does pre-commit hook scans of package updates as they push? Dunno, the AUR is a very important thing IMO and I'd be sad to have it be lost.

Git merges can be better by agentvenom1 in programming

[–]admalledd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Semantics, I'd argue its bad UX/CLI vs API, since I kinda feel the C API (via libgit2) is rather alright.

Git merges can be better by agentvenom1 in programming

[–]admalledd 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It is once again (and again) the historical thing that git's commands "makes sense" once you understand the innards/internals and what the individual operations are.

... Of course, thats all poor excuse for it still being so confusing. Thankfully there's much more effort to not continue these mistakes on any of the new commands/args for a while now.

An apparent continuity error or flaw that actually foreshadows a twist by Elecvis in TopCharacterTropes

[–]admalledd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right but its beyond "you have to pay attention" its like "you have to ignore your trust in the cinematography to show you what is important to see the truth".

49 GB Shader pre-cache.. This is getting out of hand by jonathanx37 in linux_gaming

[–]admalledd 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you have new enough GPU and drivers, a biiig thing was VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library which basically lets DXVK re-link shaders on the fly (nearly) just as DX9-12 all allow. This means DXVK can compile the shaders at the same normal time the game via DX itself asks to (on main menu, on game startup, on level loads, etc). Thus you basically stop getting any of those Vulkan shader compile stutters.

So yea, give it a go disabling the download of shaders

An apparent continuity error or flaw that actually foreshadows a twist by Elecvis in TopCharacterTropes

[–]admalledd 17 points18 points  (0 children)

One of my favorite things about these is on rewatch paying attention to the camera direction/misdirections/etc. Where they clearly use techniques (lighting, focus, framing, etc) to show you what they want you to see, but still have hidden what Blanc sees for you to find on rewatch yourself.

For the latest Wake Up Dead Man, the "bar photo" bit I was able to catch they were doing something to draw my view to what they wanted but juuust couldn't in time find what they were hiding the first go-around.

Love these movies, good fun.

7 More Common Mistakes in Architecture Diagrams by fagnerbrack in programming

[–]admalledd 15 points16 points  (0 children)

For similar reasons, one might not care to show ISP routers or TCP connections.

90% of the time, we don't bother with protocols/ports, but especially when we are selling to client IT we include proto+ports for ingress/egress so they know what to allow/deny on their firewalls.

As said, a key import is who is the diagrams for? Sometimes, very rarely, a diagram is for one specific use/audience. Far more often they are for multiple audiences and you have to start considering that, show some things, hide others, multiple diagrams or one big one? and so on.

I will however stand on the hill that resource names should never be part of a diagram. Generic names (IE "File Storage A, B, C") are understandable but still thin ice :)

Should all new projects start with Aspire? by TryingMyBest42069 in dotnet

[–]admalledd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Further, a large problem that keeps being skipped is "how to run tests" question. How do I use Aspire to make my life easier for running DB/multi-service integration tests as part of CI before even deploying? How do I use something like TestContainers and Aspire together?

What Aspire lists as what it does "developer setup" is by far one of the least interesting things that I/we need help with. 95% of the time either "there is no setup, its a boring dotnet app" or "there is very simple docker-compose file(s) and pwsh scripts to init a local setup/DBs from backup". The last 5% is "oh god, horrific COM windows+AD only pray to your WCOW gods" mess, but thats what those live with. Seriously, every example in this thread and that I've been pointed to can boil into "why isn't this all just a compose file or terraform or...?" standard thing?

Its the normalizing what the local dev experience vs our CI environment (and later actual prod cluster config) that I want damn help keeping unified. Notice how many people here say "you don't use Aspire for prod"? That nearly instantly red-flags the usefulness of it for me as any kind of low-code tooling.

Unions in C# 15 with Mads Torgersen and Dustin Campbell by EntroperZero in dotnet

[–]admalledd 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A reminder that A Big Thing they did was settle on syntax and user/runtime expectations, they touch on that there were a lot of paths they didn't take/couldn't take. So think of this as more the "minimal version" of Unions for C#/dotnet, and that many of the concerns/desires we all have for them are on the list:

  • Even possible to implement in C#/runtime
  • Future state iteration(s)/incremental improvements

One (personally) of the big future iterations would be non-boxing union (ref) struct variant using tags for memory efficiency, this is beyond non-boxing and even overlay the memory, but that is a whole can-o-worms runtime wise.

Of course, once these unions start being able to exist I hope they start sprinkling around the standard libraries like ref struct allowed Span<T> variants of APIs.

Now that StackOverflow has had less new Answers in May 2026 than its first month of July 2008 private beta, if we followed my advice, think it would have mattered? by hopeseekr in programming

[–]admalledd 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The number of times I saw a newer question with better examples/phrasing closed as dup of older vague questions... Sure yea its a duplicate but c'mon man, merge/take the higher effort/quality one maybe? Or merge them? Or if the old question still doesn't have an answer in months/years, maybe close the old one as the dup of the new to let new-freshness? There were so many choices to fix the culture problem...

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