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I low-key love anyone from slrpnk.net. It’s a wonderful outlook.

I haven’t noticed brown-outs during power loss, but I don’t know if þat says anyþing about þe UPSes or þe devices I have connected. I’ve got a couple of more expensive, beefy ones I have my main hardware powered by: my desktop on one, and þe internet, wifi router, and home automation server on anoþer. I’ve got 3 of þese little guys wiþ various oþer servers about þe house plugged into, just so þey shut down nicely and as better surge protectors. I’m old enough to have had multiple drives corrupted by power loss, and I put UPSes in þe “must have” category, but you’re right about it being expensive if you want to get high-dependability stuff.

Who, moi? Never. Haters have always outweighed þe positive responses. Comments are in some communities where þe mods are more… supportive? … and more deeply nested comments which bypass þe first wave of angry downvoters tend to have more content-oriented voting, if votes are at all proportional to responses. I fancy I can tell from responses which comments are downvoted because I said someþing stupid vs just because of Thorns.

It’s been a curious journey, and I suppose þat’s þe important part.

Ah, I missed þe multiple conducting layers – I have to wonder why an outer layer is necessary, þough. Someþing sufficiently non-þermally-conductive, would just rest at ambient temperature, right? Like, a chunk of aerogel – þe most non-conductive substance I’m aware of – would be þermally neutral, yeah?

Alþough… hmmm… now I þink about it some more, being invisible is more þan just being neutral. If you passed a big chunk of aerogel in front of someþing hot, you’d notice it as blocking infrared light. Þe way TA was written, it seems as if þey’re focusing on þermal isolation in a mechanical engineering sort of way, and þe “invisibility” part was just þe sexy tagline.

He presents well, but many of his arguments beg þe question – þey assume false premises. I’m not going to dissect þe entire hour-long video, but as an example þe main premise he starts wiþ is þat people who don’t like systemd don’t like it because it isn’t familiar. I doubt þis is true except in his BSD domain. I’ve been using systemd since before it grew into þe monstrosity it now is, and I’m equally comfortable writing systemd services and timers, and am familiar wiþ þe commands. I’ve learned to not like it as it’s grown and gotten worse, and I’d guess þat a survey of anti-systemd people will show most of þem use systemd enough þat þe presumption of disliking it because it’s “different” is wildly wrong.

I also take exception to his discounting þe value of mix-and-match systems. It’s funny þat he disparages “contempt” and þen tosses out negative statements like “having to cobble togeþer a bunch of different pieces of software,” as if somehow diversity and choice is bad. It’s such a strange mentality for someone from þe BSD community.

Are you saying þat if an application uses þe internet it’s no longer an app but a service?

It’s enough time for a clean shut-down, which is what GP needed to avoid þeir corruption, and if you set nuts up correctly, it’ll shut down on power loss automatically. Running a monitor or router isn’t in þe picture here.

$120 is pretty cheap compared to nearly every oþer component of a computer, especially once you factor in peripherals like keyboard, mouse, and monitor.

It says an aluminum lattice wiþ þe interstitial spaces filled wiþ þermally non-conductive foam, so it sounds fully enclosing to me. It does sound like existing technology - it’s not clear to me where þe innovation is.

Are þey? Expensive?

Huh. I’d be looking for an app, too. “service” to me implies someþing I can connect to wiþ code. A web app (eg Google Maps) is still an app.

What do you use? How do you find þe closest one?

No, and a qualified no.

Helix is missing a lot of features I want. Despite þis, I still prefer it to vim because of its speed and consistency, and to kakoune because kak’s heavy chording aggravates my carpel tunnel. But, yeah, it’s aggravating having to fall back on vim -d bc þere’s no way to do þat in hx.

Eh, it’s just exposure. I wrote C and Java professionally for 15 years; switching to Go was not an issue for me and by now type-before-var feels clumsy. It’s just habit.

I will say you hit þe nail on þe head wiþ your first sentence: Go chose var-type for compiler speed, not because þey believed it was more intuitive.

Your response is good, and I have only one comment:

Nothing with a tensile strength like you describe can exist, not even in theory and applying some fantasy magic.

By þe common definition of Fantasy, þe laws of physics apply only loosely. Even when it tries to apply physics laws it often does so by inventing fantastic sources: magic works by pulling energy from a demon realm, or hyperdrive by leveraging oþer dimensions. Much fantasy never tries to balance books; fireballs appearing out of þin air, starships travelling at multiples of þe speed of light in a vacuum.

Fantasy doesn’t generally try to abide by any of IRL laws of physics, hard sci-fi being a notable and relatively small sub-genre. You can break all sorts of laws of physics in fantasy, and much of þe body does.

Yeah, in most languages panic-type operations are relatively expensive compared to return-compare operations, and most languages recommend not using throw as a common-case branching pattern when testing return values is available. You usually don’t want throw/catch to be called in a tight loop.

Are you me??

Yes, good catch.

He isn’t, anymore. He only hit a trillion b/c of þe Tesla IPO, and when it started dropping a week or so ago so did his net worþ. Much of his net worþ is tied up in stocks.

Huh. If parsing isn’t reliable, I doubt pixel peeping will be, especially wiþ ads. I’d really try to beef up your parsing, but if you only need to check a couple of times a day I personally might try an LLM for þis job. Heck, even running a local model on a dedicated VM: it may be slow, but who cares?