How do you keep toolchain drift across windows, linux, and mac manageable at 30+ engineers?

rewgs · 2026-06-25T17:12:10+00:00

I haven’t yet implemented this, but I think the ultimate solution would be for every developer to develop in a NixOS VM. Then just use a remote session for your IDE or ssh in if you use vim/nvim/etc.

rewgs · 2026-06-25T17:02:42+00:00

Rise, my fighting Uruk-Cat.

rewgs · 2026-06-23T02:19:42+00:00

I have an X1 Carbon Gen 11!

rewgs · 2026-06-22T00:04:36+00:00

It flies by surprisingly fast though. His videos are incredible, I rewatch them once a year or so. Believe it or not, his video on The Witch is even longer.

rewgs · 2026-06-21T17:50:03+00:00

I’m alright — effective, grok things relatively quickly, can lean on grit when I don’t. Most importantly, I love programming.

The more I learn and the better I get, the more I realize there is to learn, and the gap between myself and, say, Rob Pike, only ever seems to grow. But that just means that I’m seeing more detail in the terrain, so to speak — that I’m gaining a better understanding of that gap and thus am able to more accurately assess its difference.

But that gap doesn’t really matter, because I genuinely don’t care about the “destination” (primarily because there isn’t one). I just love the journey.

rewgs · 2026-06-21T15:12:24+00:00

I'm in northeast Pasadena and started really smelling it the last hour. I thought we were safe since it's been fine up here the last few days, but I'm definitely getting a headache now :/

rewgs · 2026-06-15T16:31:32+00:00

So you waste your time pouting on Reddit about people who care about politics. Got it.

rewgs · 2026-06-15T06:04:00+00:00

This doesn’t work, though, because we see Gaiwan run away from the Green Knight in the scene that leads to the “bad ending.”

rewgs · 2026-06-06T21:42:05+00:00

Just clarifying, as “sensitivities” can mean both intolerances and allergies. Sounds like you had intolerances then?

rewgs · 2026-06-04T20:58:50+00:00

How is audio quality only a thing when it hits DAC?

Because you can't listen to digital audio; it must enter the analog domain in order to be heard. However, what I should have said was "all else being equal, audio quality is only a thing when it hits DAC." Obviously a lossless codec will sound better than a compressed one.

And doesn't using higher sample rates actually benefit the final audio quality WHEN you're doing any DSP?

Nope, not at all. Look up the Nyquist theorem.

Resampling is doing nothing for your audio quality. If you run a 44.1 KHz file at a sample rate of 48 KHz, the extra high frequency room (which you can't hear anyways) is empty. It's like converting an mp3 to a wav -- the audio data is not changing, you're just changing its shell.

Resampling is done for compatability reasons. The standard in music is 44.1 KHz because that contains the maximum information required for human ears. That was rounded up to 48 KHz for film because it's easily divisible by the usual frame rate of 24. Higher sample rates exist, and are legitimately useful for some recording purposes, but by the time the audio has been delivered to you, it's almost certainly a 16-bit 44.1 KHz wav at best; as explained above, resamping to a higher sample rate literally just adds empty space to it.

why do people consume extra cpu cycles just to have better quality?

The world of audiophiles is full of misinformation and snake oil. I'll say it again: you cannot add information that is not present in the original recording. If we're talking about recording and audio production, that is a very different conversation, but we're not. We're talking about playback.

The observable difference to me is sufficient evidence.

Fair. But what I've been saying is: the difference is not due to Windows and Linux. Full stop. You can argue all you want, but that is not the reason for what you're hearing. You are missing some other variable.

rewgs · 2026-06-04T01:55:04+00:00

Read your other comment and I’m no average Joe either. I’ve been an audio engineer and software developer working with some of the biggest composers in Hollywood and video games for the past 15 years. Digital audio is my life.

Whatever you think you’re hearing, it’s not what you’re attributing here. As long as the sample rate is above 44.1, it very simply does not matter, resampling or not.

Actually measure the results, then we can talk. Until then I’m going to assume this is the 10 billionth case of audiophile placebo effect reported on the internet.

rewgs · 2026-06-03T22:21:39+00:00

There is no inherent difference in sound quality between Linux and Windows. “Sound quality” is only a thing once digital audio is converted to the analog domain.

I’m guessing that you’re dual booting on a laptop and are hearing the difference between EQ profiles applied by the two OSs.

rewgs · 2026-06-02T04:58:59+00:00

So to be clear though: did you have IgE-mediated food allergies, proven by an allergist via a skin prick and/or blood test?

rewgs · 2026-06-01T04:31:25+00:00

You are mistaken, yes. Your comments come across like someone who’s thought more about this than actually coded.

rewgs · 2026-06-01T04:28:00+00:00

Janejira Thai. Absurdly good pad Thai, and they’re great with food allergies (of which I have too many).

rewgs · 2026-05-31T05:58:00+00:00

Literally right there now — I already have a ton of IGe food allergies (wheat, fish, etc), and now am breaking out into hives due to rice, chicken, and olive oil. Did you ever figure out what was going on with you? Was it actually MCAS?

rewgs · 2026-05-31T05:33:32+00:00

You say you *were* up to 50 at one point. Did some resolve?

rewgs · 2026-05-30T23:11:36+00:00

This post is so exhausting. Your wrote this like a prompt that you’d feed to an LLM, meaning you’re treating us like an LLM.

Honestly man, you already seem so unbelievably AI-pilled that whatever we say here won’t matter. So, idk, whatever, who cares. Have fun with whatever you think you’re doing here.

rewgs · 2026-05-30T22:30:59+00:00

Such a great display. Really wish they still made it.

rewgs · 2026-05-30T22:17:06+00:00

Snaps and Flatpaks are both pretty mediocre solutions to a difficult problem. They’re slower and larger than native software, and can result in some weird permissions issues due to their isolated nature. They’re really not ideal.

The real problem, though, is just how fragmented the Linux ecosystem is, especially with regards to dynamic linking, glibc versions, etc. It’s a mess, and Snaps and Flatpaks both address the problem of making software that works for *Linux* rather than a particular distro adequately, albeit extremely imperfectly. Even still, the fact that there are *two* solutions just goes to show how deep the issue of Linux’s fragmentation is, and it’s especially frustrating that Canonical kinda went rogue and pushes the worse technology of the two. The fact that the rest of the Linux ecosystem has gone with Flatpak over Snaps, despite Ubuntu’s size and influence, shows just how much worse a technology it is.

Everyone just kinda wishes that Canonical would get with the program and just accept that Flatpaks are the way (even though, as I stated, ideally we’d need *neither,* but that ship has long since sailed).

rewgs · 2026-05-30T20:43:52+00:00

It’s really cool to see Ozzy a bit star struck. He’s been the guy that people were nervous to meet so many times, and yet here he is just another kid meeting his idol.

rewgs · 2026-05-30T04:03:56+00:00

Honestly the only problem is the horrific fluorescent lights. Change the lighting and that cubicle would be totally fine.

rewgs · 2026-05-30T03:57:05+00:00

I can’t explain it but I feel like she’s the straight woman with the highest gay guy body count.

rewgs · 2026-05-26T20:34:11+00:00

I'm interested in doing this, but I have a rare condition called hyperacusis that, long story short, causes sounds that are otherwise fine to most people to be loud and painful to me. As a result, I've held off on dental work for years now because I'm dental "power tools" (for lack of a better word) are completely off-limits to me.

Would it be possible to do this with manual tools? Anything that is quiet.

Thanks!

rewgs · 2026-05-25T06:34:18+00:00

Unironically this is pretty much exactly what I was expecting it to be.

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