“Let’s Go Take, A Closer Look”

This channel is so kitsch, I’ve grown to love it. I just watched 28 minutes of some English nerd installing Linux, and all the familiar hassles he had along the way. I’m going to assume you just watched this video in it’s entirety, or switched it off after a few seconds. i know you have…

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Fancy laptop with discrete GPU? Afraid of the hassle of setting up Linux properly?

I’ve got a Dell XPS 15 9560. It’s beginning to get on now – 5/6 years old?? But still full of life and power. The Windows drivers have always been a problem with all the new tech in these things. I’ve had several long episodes over it’s lifetime related to the nvme driver / storage…

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tfjs for M1 very close!

https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs/issues/4514#issuecomment-974982349 hmm, I think I have a working binary. I probably should have contributed it

Unit testing

Spending even a nanosecond chasing down bugs in unit test feels like a raging contradiction. …although if we wrote perfect unit tests, then why couldn’t we write perfect code every time. Still infuriating spending even the slightest nanosecond debugging when writing a test :-D

Google is an Internet advertising company that decided to make a web browser.

Google is an Internet advertising company that decided to make a web browser. Why did they make a web browser? For exactly the same reasons as I have not and never will use it. They have unrivalled potential to snoop on everything you do with your personal devices. 10 years later, after useful projects like…

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