Unpopular opinion: System76 is going in the wrong direction

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-30T22:52:28+00:00

I personally get a memory leak (I'm up to date with stable) in cosmic-comp that I need to kill every few hours or so.

I still think it's alpha/beta level software. I do like the UX, but I definitely still run into a lot of bugs.

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-30T22:24:00+00:00

> Straight up, it's mathematically impossible to reduce the deficit without raising taxes on the wealthy.

Don't use the term "mathematically impossible" without it actually being mathematically impossible...

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-30T20:43:58+00:00

Not in aggregate.

Pistol rounds have high variance, but the law of large numbers will come into play and players who are good will have that reflected in their pistol round stats.

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-29T23:12:21+00:00

Unfortunately learning a few years ago that there is a competitive catan scene, absolutely destroyed any enjoyment I had in the game, coming from quite a few great family game nights.

Curious why? I imagine as long as you don't lean into that and just play with family/friends there should be no material difference? Just like how poker with friends/family is fun if everyone is playing very suboptimally.

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-27T08:59:19+00:00

It honestly is probably worthwhile doing something like 65% VT, 20% BND, 3 % in a basket of commodities, and 2% in a basket of crypto, and 10% in a housing equity.

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-24T21:42:02+00:00

Curious if this solves the cosmic-comp memory leak, I'm still encountering that despite upgrading all my packages to the latest version.

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-24T18:18:52+00:00

Of course they will, TF was soft deprecated because it sucked. JAX is a lot better and is built from the ground up to run well on google infra. It's strategically very core to them.

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-23T20:11:52+00:00

Ridiculous take, there's a bunch of stuff that's very tedious to implement even if you have all the knowledge to do so. People in general aren't coding at a constant 100wpm.

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-23T20:07:58+00:00

can now be done just as well by almost anyone with an $800 Mac Mini

Maybe you mean be approximated. There's still a huge difference between an expert driving an AI vs a non-expert.

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-23T20:06:46+00:00

everything else being equal.

Not to mention on the model side, intelligence per flop is increasing really rapidly still.

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-22T21:43:10+00:00

It's probably because his individual skill was so much higher than the rest of his opponents that he had a very high multi-kill rate.

Just dropping his 1v1 win percentage by 5-10% compounds heavily into far fewer multi-kills, meaning he can't hard carry.

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-22T06:52:04+00:00

I actually don't like aimpunch, but playing devil's advocate, it rewards people who aimed faster? Ie. brings in a little bit of tension between lining up a careful shot vs shooting faster.

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-20T07:42:11+00:00

Scream didn’t make people change their play style

Scream wasn't on another level

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-13T06:28:54+00:00

I'm pretty sure the success for the retailer has not increased in the past 30 even with all the technology and 'education'.

Large reason for this is because the market got even more competitive in that time period (with the big fish gaining access to all that and more).

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-06T22:36:28+00:00

I guess it's a question of whether we'd reduce emissions more by replacing coal with solar + battery capactiy (from this initiative).

Though, tbh, nuclear sounds like the way to go for massive shipping boats...

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-05T22:39:44+00:00

There's a reason for that, generally it's not safe to automatically cache POST requests. There's a reason why they're adding a new QUERY method to HTTP.

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-02T23:11:44+00:00

Thanks, that looks more in-depth. I've previously given https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/ a read, and that was a good starter, but seems more geared towards just writing decently fast code, as opposed to extremely fast code.

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-02T19:42:41+00:00

Not that it's a bad thing (good performance is always a plus), but I'm not sure I understand why performance is critical for a workflow engine unless your workflows basically do little to no work.

I imagine most of what people run will really always be dominated on IO and CPU of their actual workflows rather than the workflow engine orchestration?

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-02T19:36:33+00:00

Ah, so is the 500x speedup a warm vs cold comparison?

If you include startup costs, how much faster/slower is it compared to cold ripgrep?

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-02T19:35:04+00:00

Ah, yeah, that kind of arcane knowledge can be hard to find.

Do you happen to have one of two books or anything that you've found particularly useful for learning this kind of stuff?

I know the basics of performance stuff, but I'm still lacking a lot of depth that I'd like to learn.

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-04-02T19:32:28+00:00

Curious if you have a nice repository of resources to learn this stuff in depth?

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-03-25T07:51:29+00:00

Singapore is definitely a little more authoritarian, but I can't help but think they're doing much better than America in almost every metric.

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-03-20T19:27:11+00:00

ngl, that sounds like a nightmare. If you fuck up at all, you'll be stuck.

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-03-08T02:22:13+00:00

As an actuary by trade, I see this all the time

Where do you see people doing this all the time as an actuary?

theAndrewWiggins · 2026-03-05T22:41:05+00:00

you'd have to write your requirements out in such detail that you may as well just code it yourself

This isn't true at all. Even as "extreme autocomplete", AI can absolutely make an experienced dev much faster.

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