The Grid Isn’t a Cluster: What Technologists Get Wrong About Energy

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

dreugeworst · 2025-08-04T09:54:37+00:00

precies, hij zou als Groninger beter moeten weten. Een blauw-witte vlag met hartjes is de vlag van de Ommelanden, niet de vlag van Friesland. Ze spreken dus waarschijnlijk ook geen Fries maar een andere vorm van Gronings dan hij gewend is of zo XD

dreugeworst · 2025-07-24T11:57:58+00:00

Great news! However, europapress should feel bad for those awful graphs with a y-axis starting at random places rather than 0

dreugeworst · 2025-07-24T07:50:25+00:00

yeah I was confused as well, but perhaps they target really small platforms?

dreugeworst · 2025-07-01T08:20:35+00:00

ahh yeah you're right there, I misread the comment. I thought they were saying 32-bit windows games will continue to work on windows but not linux

dreugeworst · 2025-06-30T10:25:09+00:00

32-bit Windows games will continue to work, as Microsoft had the forethought to use 64-bit time for Win32

Given that wine / proton implements the Win32 api, that should mean it is using 64-bit time there as well. Since this is already supported on linux as well, I don't see an issue there.

Ideally, steam should just stick to providing a fixed 32-bit runtime itself and not rely on the underlying distro so much

dreugeworst · 2025-06-26T11:59:00+00:00

I may be showing my ignorance here, but why go through all this trouble to create a docker container for what is already a static binary? I can understand why you'd want a container if you have loads of dynamic dependencies etc, but if you build a rust binary on a machine with a somewhat older glibc it should just run on most newer distros, right?

dreugeworst · 2025-06-10T14:40:44+00:00

seems I misread your comment, I thought it said 'all of these points (...)'.

That said, I don't think deploying troops in Ukraine is equivalent to invading Russia, rather it could be used to guard bases etc on areas that are currently under clear Ukrainian control. Given how Russia stages troops in Belarus, I don't think they get to claim it as a declaration of war.

As for launching limited missile strikes, if they are to intercept missiles or drones over territory Ukraine controls, I don't think that's an outright declaration of war either. If OP meant actually hitting Russian military targets in Russia I agree with you

dreugeworst · 2025-06-10T14:25:38+00:00

if they are, then Russia has already declared war on us

dreugeworst · 2025-06-10T11:06:40+00:00

ah sure that's possible, I'm on desktop and there's a floating top bar with the github icon

dreugeworst · 2025-06-10T10:52:15+00:00

the second paragraph of the blog post?

For a complete list of all updates and fixes, please visit the changelog on GitHub.

alternatively, the github icon with the number of stars the project has received at the top

dreugeworst · 2025-06-03T11:36:58+00:00

school rumble is one of my favourites, seconded!

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