Yeah, I upgraded to a 5700x3D a year ago, but if I’d known RAM was going to be overpriced for half a decade I would’ve gone 9800x3D instead.

I should hope it would be, because those antennas don’t fit in my rack and wouldn’t be appropriate even if they did (because I have separate WAPs distributed across the house via PoE).

IMO Jupyter notebooks are a good example to look into first, if you want something more contemporary and somewhat widely-used than “tangle and weave.”

I like the way you presented the ctrl-c blog post as sort of introductory to the tonsky.me one. The second one is much more useful in terms of exploring the details and making specific recommendations, but the first one does a good job of motivating why I should care.

Also, it’s funny how both authors are kinda beating around the edges of literate programming e.g. in their discussion of code comments being one of the things worth highlighting, without ever quite getting there.

It’s a joke (and a bit of a dig on javadoc-esque documentation).

Yeah, pretty sure we even had a President or two who married their first cousin. One of the Roosevelts, maybe?

Edit: not FDR (his wife was a much more distant cousin), but John Quincy Adams is an example.

socially disenfranchised young men middle-aged married men in positions of power

FTFY

Do you have to be European?

Wish I knew about that trick back then! I shelled out for an X4…

Bulldozer was AMD’s Pentium 4.

To be fair, I upgraded my main desktop directly from a Phenom II X4 840(?) to a Ryzen 1700x without owning any Bulldozer stuff in between.

(I did later buy a couple of used Opteron 6272s, but that’s different for multiple reasons.)

What on earth is that much system RAM needed for lol.

Web browser tabs.

I’ve been buying AMD since the K6-2, because AMD almost always had the better price/performance ratio (as opposed to outright top performance) and, almost as importantly, because I liked supporting the underdog.

That means it was folks like me who helped keep AMD in business long enough to catch up with and then pass Intel. You’re welcome.

It also means I recently bought my first Intel product in decades, an Arc GPU. Weird that it’s the underdog now, LOL.

I’ve made toum twice. The first time went great, but the second time I couldn’t get it to emulsify correctly. Also, peeling the garlic is pretty laborious.

More recently, I’ve just been buying it. The “Toom” brand is at least seasonally available at Costco, and Kroger has started carrying both that and store-brand (in a deli container – might be made in-store; not sure).

This is what small claims court is for.

Hope you used something with decent temperature and UV resistance, not just PLA.

That is not the solution. The solution is to never buy anything from them again and for the guy whose order was cancelled to sue them for specific performance (+ court costs, obviously) and for the government to issue punitive fines.

I would genuinely love to find a job coding FORTRAN, mainly because it means I’d almost certainly be doing some kind of scientific computing. Way better than most tech jobs that involve boring CRUD work you don’t care about at best, or actively making the world worse implementing the whims of some billionaire sociopath at worst.

I’m sure it’d be fine.

Fedora if he’s not gaming.

Bazzite if he’s gaming. Or CachyOS.

Specs are a 9800X3D and a 9070XT. He’s definitely gaming.

Or if he isn’t, he bought the wrong computer.