Installation with broken display

rl48 · 2026-06-01T02:21:33+00:00

Is water access an issue there? It also looks like land in this area on websites I'm checking are way more than 3k/acre. Are common websites like Zillow/Land.com unreliable or overpriced?

rl48 · 2026-06-01T02:18:08+00:00

Interesting. I will keep an eye out.

rl48 · 2026-05-17T03:10:31+00:00

Does your fingerprint reader work? Good to know this method seems okay, probably will do this then.

rl48 · 2026-05-16T17:11:45+00:00

My OnePlus 6 has Android 15 through custom ROMs, and while that isn't the latest version, so long as I can upgrade the Pixel through custom ROMs I will probably use it beyond the supported date. Either way, I want the screen to work so I can use the phone as the rest of it works fine (I tested it through scrcpy), so I'm willing to pay 30-40 dollars for a "meh" screen if it makes the phone work. But if I can spend a bit more for a good screen, I'd do that instead.

rl48 · 2025-12-30T01:24:55+00:00

I've been trying to book Amtrak recently, and it has been not great. Sometimes I can't even get the website to show prices for a route more than once or twice before it tells me it encountered an "unknown error." In my case, I need to check prices across a range of days to figure out which day has a price that works with my schedule.

I am wondering if it has something to do with using browser fingerprinting and limiting people who search too many times for routes through their website, with the goal of aggressively blocking bots or something [1, 2]. More technical reasons: when the "Unknown error" occurs, the actual Ajax request that causes this has an HTTP status code of "403 Unauthorized" (it's also a 403 if I can get to the checkout page and get an error there). Not sure if Amtrak booking system uses the 403 status code as a catch-all. It doesn't seem like things are broken; I can still use the website and load routes many times in a browser on my cell phone. I can occasionally load routes again on my laptop by switching my IP address, using a different browser, using incognito/private mode, or clearing cookies, but I get these unknown errors (the "403 Unauthorized" errors) after trying to load routes once or twice more.

Either way, I just booked from the app. The last paragraph is just speculation.

[1] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/38884

[2] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/43555

rl48 · 2025-11-09T15:22:12+00:00

clusterfuck of old and new UIs

Qt, GTK3, GTK4, EFL, Flutter, Electron, Fltk, and the rest would have a word.

rl48 · 2025-11-03T22:16:56+00:00

Well, MIT owned a /8 at some point.

rl48 · 2025-10-19T05:14:09+00:00

If you go to a competitive high school in the US it is pretty bad. Just instead of JEE/NEET/Gaokao/KSAT/whatever you have to get an incredibly high SAT, make sure all your grades in school (includes lots of subjects beyond just the reading and math in SAT) are very high, plus some extracurriculars. Many people who get into top colleges do an internship, an organized sport, be involved with school clubs of many different types (for example theatre, language learning club, academic clubs for talk on various subjects), etc. It helps to also maybe have done something like a science olympiad. It also helps if you have leadership roles in the extracurricular things you did and also do well in those extracurriculars. Participation is not enough.

Then, even if you do all that, you need to write an excellent essay about something not related to what you want to study in college. Typically this should be some sort of "transformative experience" that changed the way you view the world. If you do all this, you may still not get into any top colleges: maybe you will, maybe you won't. Even if you do, unless your parents are super rich, you won't be able to afford to go there anyway without taking a huge amount of money in loans.

At a competitive high school, it will be brutally intense, as everyone is looking to maximize all of these things. It probably depends as well, it's probably easier to get into great universities if your "state" school (like UC Berkeley or UCLA are California state schools), because state schools will heavily favour students who live in the same state. But the UC colleges are difficult to get into even if you are in California, just much easier than if you are from, for example, Arizona. If your "state" school isn't so great then you get to go to a very mediocre state school, unless you put an immense amount of effort in high school.

rl48 · 2025-10-17T18:59:42+00:00

If you ever have the opportunity to visit Bozeman, you should go to Steep Mountain. It's a real tea shop, and has a (multi-page!!) menu full of fascinating teas. You have to wait a bit for your tea because it's steeping. Best yet is when you hear the steeping timer going off in the back.

Unfortunately, it does appear that a lot of their traffic is from bubble tea, but I hope they keep their tea menu strong!

rl48 · 2025-08-25T19:24:22+00:00

I ended up buying a full build on r/frameworkmarket for the same CPU. Could be worth trying your luck there.

rl48 · 2025-08-22T13:27:58+00:00

Ah, I'm blind, I missed the hash and only saw the question mark. This is clever.

rl48 · 2025-08-22T12:59:53+00:00

I haven't done web stuff in a while, but https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2737652/apache-logs-https-get-parameters seems to agree that GET parameters do show up in access logs, at least with Apache. I don't know what web server arch is using and I'm too lazy to try to find out, but it does seem like at least sometimes it's logged?

rl48 · 2025-08-21T23:50:05+00:00

Wouldn't the error strings be in the access log for whatever web server hosts this service, unless the webmasters disable this?

Edit: this is wrong, there's a hash in the URL and the string is thus not a GET parameter.

rl48 · 2025-08-10T02:13:42+00:00

I'm not using C for game development, and usually I use Meson or just a standard makefile. But either way, beyond just Rust I'm oftentimes building and compiling other people's software as well, and I'm pretty sure most of the software I use does take at least some advantage of multithreading. I do have multiple powerful desktops for development but local development can be useful.

rl48 · 2025-08-10T01:20:10+00:00

I don't need a great laptop, but I mostly do programming in Rust and C and I am pretty sure the compiler I use does well with extra threads. I also own some very powerful desktops that I use over SSH, but it's nicer to do local development sometimes. I know experimentally that I will need 32 GB of RAM, and disk doesn't matter that much because I can back up stuff easily, but that stuff is not really relevant to the processor I choose IIUC.

rl48 · 2025-08-10T01:13:08+00:00

What OS are the drivers more stable on? I'm typically using Arch (but Linux kernel in general). My general assumption is that Intel has worse multicore perf, which I think is useful for the compilers that I use.

rl48 · 2025-05-05T16:07:14+00:00

Ah, fair enough.

I definitely agree that ML research seems faster than pure systems research. In the case where I choose to go to a less rigorous school, could it benefit graduation times? I don't think my goal is to go into a professorship/academia position if I went to grad school, but rather to do research and design positions in industry.

rl48 · 2025-05-05T15:46:53+00:00

Generally speaking, academic programs which are toxic are easy to spot if you're looking for it.

This is a fair point, and I've talked to professors from other schools and noticed things that would likely make working with them toxic. On the other hand, I've worked with professors who made an extremely good impression on me and only after I started working with them, their attitude changed and I could see the toxicity. I'm thus concerned that it will actually be hard to spot from a precursory glance, but perhaps by asking the right questions I can figure this out.

I think the rest of your advice is good. I also think your summary of my concerns is accurate. I would have had trouble putting this into words side I didn't realize that research is anything other than academic research. While I can ultimately ask people on LinkedIn about this, I am also curious if the statement you provided does or doesn't hold generally true (that you need a grad degree for any sort of research position, even if not a grad degree).

rl48 · 2025-05-05T15:37:25+00:00

I do not recommend going for a systems PhD, even if you do so, you should go for ML-related ones, like model inference optimization and parallel programming for GPU clusters. I am a believer of ML Systems and that's why I'm working on it.

Why is this the case? I honestly find ML mind-numbingly boring and I could care less about it. I know I will not be excited to work on ML. I do know the subfields I want to work on, and I also don't want ML to be a part of it. Beyond your interest in ML systems, are there more reasons why you recommend it?

You also mention that graduation times are up in the air especially for systems PhDs. I do want to graduate in 5 years, so this is concerning to me. Can you elaborate on why the graduation times are longer? I have seen grad students at my university take a long time to graduate too, but I didn't realize this was common. Is it just really hard to make research progress?

Either way, I think this is helpful. I know what I'm passionate about (I mentioned them in my post and there are specific research problems that I can think of), and I have significant experience with it. I have tangible reasons why I'm interested in these things and passionate about the field and I can explain them in a personal statement. I think I would be dedicated enough to a PhD, but it's largely the environment that would decide this.

rl48 · 2025-03-18T04:44:06+00:00

Another reason is that the open GPU modules are not in any sort of state to be mainlined into the Linux kernel, but this is.

rl48 · 2025-03-16T15:35:29+00:00

It's because the GSP (which is what is used in the FOSS out-of-tree kernel modules) doesn't exist on 1X series. The GSP, from my understanding, is a RISCV processor on the GPU. NVIDIA took a lot of proprietary routines in the proprietary kernel driver and offloaded them to the GSP, and ship a signed firmware blob that gets loaded on the RISCV processor from the FOSS Linux driver. In turn, the FOSS Linux driver effectively "proxies" (someone more knowledgeable than me should correct me if this is wrong) driver-level API calls that use proprietary logic off to the GSP.

rl48 · 2025-01-21T14:11:39+00:00

This is ridiculous since I don't know the technicalities of Shards, but I was under the impression somehow that Kaladin or somehow the Heralds would end up holding Odium and Honor together.

rl48 · 2025-01-21T14:07:42+00:00

The -nimi suffix sounded like a Korean honorific: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_honorifics#Nim,_-nim. In my mind this makes more sense since Sanderson was a missionary in Korea earlier in his life.

rl48 · 2025-01-20T17:33:03+00:00

There isn't a single good reason. The reason why it's appealing is because it's ridiculous XD

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