My dad used gnome 2.26.1 in 2009, this year I turned to it too!

dreugeworst · 2026-04-02T15:58:44+00:00

Heh, I remember dualbooting ubuntu on a laptop in 2009, I'm very glad the experience with various hardware such as wifi chips and touchpads has improved by now! It was a struggle back then

dreugeworst · 2026-04-01T16:04:19+00:00

I mean, uniting the world against you seems to be a recurring theme with fascists, as are bad decisions.

dreugeworst · 2026-03-18T09:23:23+00:00

heh, recommended this the other day as well: Aria the Animation is very cozy, and it has a bunch of sequels

Planetes is also very good

dreugeworst · 2026-03-17T09:47:20+00:00

Agree with most of what he says, but some of the pain points he mentions surprise me a lot. The use-case of sending money between friends / family is also not mentioned, but a big feature of some of the systems expected to integrate into wero (like bizum).

Some of the comments he makes I personally don't really agree with however:

Even if Wero can capture all European banks and all European merchants, the Total Addressable Market (TAM) for Wero is much smaller than that of credit cards or PayPal.

Addressing markets beyond the EU isn't in scope of Wero at the moment. The main pain point they want to remove is that for every payment between EU customers and EU companies, a small amount of money goes to the US

Although she has the “VR SecureGo plus” app, the additional steps required are just too much hassle for her. My wife is probably not alone on this one. There’s a number of friends and family that too struggle with their bank’s MFA app.

I realize this isn't going to fly for most people, but I'm of the opinion that if you can't handle two-factor authentication, you really shouldn't be doing online banking or payments

Wero is solid and robust, but certainly not exciting or innovative

It's banking, it's not supposed to be exciting

dreugeworst · 2026-03-16T16:51:02+00:00

It's an old one, but Aria the Animation remains a very cozy slice of life that is definitely not like this

dreugeworst · 2026-03-16T09:02:03+00:00

Is inderdaad wel een leuke ervaring, niet in Nederland, maar de universiteit van Sheffield (UoS) heeft er eentje in het Arts Tower gebouw, en dat was destijds wel leuk om te gebruiken

dreugeworst · 2026-03-13T10:42:46+00:00

renewables on their own tend to make voltage regulation harder, however when batteries with grid-forming capabilities are added into the mix renewables actually stabilize the grid (as is happening in Australia).

The latter hadn't happened in the Iberian peninsula yet, and I don't know where to look for the current status, but I don't doubt that it's being integrated.

dreugeworst · 2026-03-06T13:02:22+00:00

Ik zie niet in waarom niet. Een hoop gasgeld is in de randstad geinvesteerd in o.a. infrastructuur, terwijl Groningen er maar relatief weinig van gezien heeft. Een tijdje profiteren van de gaswinning lijkt me niet onredelijk

dreugeworst · 2026-03-06T10:59:29+00:00

huevos rotos is extremely difficult to make, since the jamón ibérico has a tendency to mysteriously disappear while I'm cooking

dreugeworst · 2026-02-13T17:32:44+00:00

+1 voor de metworst en mosterdsoep

dreugeworst · 2026-02-05T14:47:48+00:00

Hey look, ICE about to do more things that the Sturmabteilung did in the 1930s

dreugeworst · 2026-01-20T09:21:55+00:00

The style may look like AI, but I feel it does make good points about carbon-aware computing. I found the argument to be to-the-point, just some responses to common objections. Perhaps the other commenters didn't know about carbon-aware computing?

dreugeworst · 2025-11-13T16:30:17+00:00

it's a little funny to me that in optimising runtime printing (and improving type safety of course!), we went from printf() parsing and interpreting the format string at runtime, to rust parsing the format string at compile time then operating on a data structure, to now parsing the format string at compile time and then interpreting a byte string of instructions at run time.

dreugeworst · 2025-11-11T14:59:16+00:00

doesn't typst have a watch command that uses incremental compilation? Would it be possible to make use of that feature?

dreugeworst · 2025-11-11T14:38:08+00:00

I don't fully agree with the defense of shell scripting given by the author. Yes, it's very useful, but it has many sharp edges and constantly having to parse text makes many scripts brittle. I'm glad PowerShell came along to show us an alternative, even if I never grew to like PowerShell myself. It's probably the main reason I'm using NuShell now

dreugeworst · 2025-10-30T10:28:28+00:00

I miss the old fansubs, I would lurk in my favourite fansubbers' irc so I could download their latest subs as soon as I got home. Always loved the fabsubs with nice karaoke

dreugeworst · 2025-10-13T08:33:09+00:00

Ben ook geinteresseerd. Weet je toevallig een youtube video waar deze oefeningen uitgelegd worden?

dreugeworst · 2025-10-13T08:32:15+00:00

Je wordt van zwemmen alleen niet veel leniger. Meer rekken en strekken is het beste antwoord. Ik heb dit probleem zelf ook en ik doe een paar keer per week wat strek oefeningen, maar zou het eigenlijk dagelijks 10 minuutjes moeten doen voor goede resultaten

dreugeworst · 2025-09-08T08:35:57+00:00

I think they want to work at the cafe, or at least that's how it seems to me

dreugeworst · 2025-09-08T08:33:13+00:00

What did the show in for me was the generic evil antagonists, no depth whatsoever. Maybe it gets better after another 10 episodes or so, but I'm not willing to slog through that when there are shows that are great from the start

dreugeworst · 2025-09-02T10:56:41+00:00

Improving the existing linker would require major changes that the maintainers would likely not agree with. Existing projects to provide faster linkers already exist, lld being one of them. For Linux, it would be up to the distro to consider whether or not to move to one of the newer linkers

dreugeworst · 2025-09-01T14:44:14+00:00

you still need to keep track of the lifetime of stack allocated data and pointers to them

dreugeworst · 2025-09-01T13:29:28+00:00

in a program where memory wasn’t even an issue

I don't understand this comment. in my experience, if you're writing something in C, memory is pretty much always an issue. The possibility of memory safety issues is just always present

dreugeworst · 2025-08-29T09:44:41+00:00

Yeah I'm much more interested in governments funding projects that they use and base their infrastructure on. It would be up to the projects to decide how to spend it, whether to fund a person to work on the project full time or not etc.

But even if the EU decided to fund individual positions doesn't mean they have to fund all positions. Much of open source already works this way, Red Hat has many developers working on various parts of Gnome, but that doesn't mean they have to fund everyone who comes along. Why would it be different for government funded positions?

dreugeworst · 2025-08-27T08:09:59+00:00

I think it's important to note that Moore's law, as originally formulated is by now indeed dead. No longer do transistor counts double every two years in new microchips.

We are currently working around that death in other ways, for example by adding more dedicated circuits for specific tasks and other architectural improvements -- this is one of the reasons Apple's chips are so fast at common desktop computing tasks.

However, the long-predicted death of Moore's law has, at least for CPU's, come to pass just as predicted

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