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  • 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months

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  • Oh, there can be all kinds of uses.

    For example, I own an LTO tape drive. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the IBM drivers to compile on my particular flavor of Linux, but I do have a dual boot system.

    Now, Windows is a shitty, shitty OS that I only boot up when I really need to. It interferes with all kinds of stuff in ways I hate, for example - copying files. It just refuses to read large files in a continuous, reliable data stream without any interruptions from my SSD when backing them up to tape. This causes the LTO drive to slow down, speed up, rewind, which is not a good thing because it causes additional wear on the tape.

    Fix: Create a large RAM drive, copy files to RAM drive, run backup with RAM drive as source.

  • 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months

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  • Built my new PC in late 2023... so glad I put 96 GB of RAM into it, despite several people asking me why the fuck I need so much RAM...

  • Homemade Kimchi

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  • Kimchi is such a versatile ingredient. I love using it for stir fries.

  • What is something you can't do with 100M dollars but can do with 1B dollars?

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  • Well.. Kingda Ka is said to have cost $25m. Using that as a ballpark figure.

    I want wooden coasters, steel coasters, hyper coasters. Other attractions, too. Gotta buy the land, build the infrastructure around the park, employ lots of people, build hotels, gastronomy... a billion might not even be enough for everything.

  • What is something you can't do with 100M dollars but can do with 1B dollars?

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  • Build my own theme park with all the roller coasters I want.

  • Dev creates astrology-powered CPU scheduler for Linux, makes decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs — sched_ext framework informed by lunar phases, cosmic weather reports, and dynamic

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  • The gravitational pull exerted on the baby caused by the midwife's mass exceeds the gravitational pull of all planets combined by far.

    I just can't take people seriously who believe in bullshit like astronomy - so while this may be a fun project, sadly there are going to be people who honestly think this is a thing.

  • OP is shocked that an import tax is not paid by the exporter

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  • The problem with people like this is NOT the fact that they were dumb enough to believe Trump's lies about tariffs.

    The real problem is them crying more about having to pay the tariffs themselves than about having been blatantly lied to.

  • unpacking.

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  • Trump Says U.S. 'Shouldn't Even Have an Election' as He Threatens Insurrection Act

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  • Basically counting the days before he introduces a "Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Empire".

  • Trump says he should receive a separate Nobel Peace Prize for the ‘eight and a quarter’ wars he claims to have solved

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  • 3rd day of 2026...

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  • Three dictators controlling about 11000 nuclear warheads.

    Not a doomer, but that looks suspiciously like the Great Filter solution to the Fermi paradox.

  • ;DR blame the dev

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  • Well, ideally you start new projects writing 100% Kotlin while only adding Kotlin code to older codebases you can't get rid of. Personally, I don't like mixing languages anyway and I would stay with Java in Java projects. One reason is the bloat argument you pointed out quite correctly.

  • ;DR blame the dev

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  • True... but Kotlin makes Lombok quite unnecessary by having its concepts built in. It's also worth to point out that null safety is opt-in in Java and opt-out in Kotlin.

  • ;DR blame the dev

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  • Yes, there are things about Kotlin I don't love either. But I still like how it was clearly developed having developer quality-of-life in mind.

  • ;DR blame the dev

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  • Kotlin isn't perfect and it gives the devs quite a lot of freedom. I would argue that if your Kotlin code is messy, that's on you - but it will still be significantly less prone to failures like NPEs. Unless you opt out of null safety by using the dreaded ?-Operator.

  • ;DR blame the dev

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  • NPEs are the reason why my team moved to Kotlin. Well, that and all the other myriad advantages Kotlin brings to the table.

  • What are some lesser known facts and hidden easter eggs in movies/TV shows?

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  • This man in Monty Python's Life of Brian is none other than British comedy legend Spike Milligan, who, together with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, starred in the 1950s radio comedy show "The Goon Show", which all members of the Pythons cited as their most important influence.

    By coincidence Milligan was visiting his old World War II battlefields in Tunisia where the film was being made. The Pythons were alerted to this and he was included in the scene being filmed that morning.

  • bumper sticker

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  • Even then, a BMW would tailgate and flash its headlights at you on a German autobahn.

  • bumper sticker

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  • The sticker should also say something like "But don't worry, we're going to be evaporated in a huge explosion anyway, due to the gigantic release of energy when you crash into my car in a few nanoseconds."