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3•gooob•1y ago
i'm trying to figure out why elden ring started stuttering and freezing during gameplay recently, and why the windows operating system has so many little dumb things wrong with it.

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sherdil2022•1y ago
Trying to figure out what to do next and what to do with my life.
gooob•1y ago
how's that going? what are your current options?
sherdil2022•1y ago
Not going good.
scottmcdot•1y ago
How to build a segmentation model based on a sample of data that needs to be representative of the population.
turtleyacht•1y ago
Trying to figure a workaround in ksh for space-delimited filenames:

  for f in $(ls "/mnt/dir"); do
    cp -v "$f" /elsewhere
  done
Because -R doesn't handle retries when cp(1) errors out intermittently (USB MTP to phone). I don't remember it being this hard in bash, or Android just is like this. Hopefully can figure it out without going to perl or C. Maybe dump(8).

Even though 54 GB partition created, it only takes up 22 GB or so. Either missing a lot of files or FFS compacts it well.

turtleyacht•1y ago
Pipe and read per line:

  ls /mnt/dir | while read line; do
    cp -v "$line" /elsewhere
    # substitute with something fancy
    # [ $? -eq 0 ] || cp -v "$line" /elsewhere
  done
nailer•1y ago
If there’s transmission errors, I would recommend using rsync rather than cp. that will keep transferring and running checksums until everything matches.
turtleyacht•1y ago
Thank-you. After installing openrsync(1) (and rsync), files transferred for a bit but failed and dumped core with error 138 (bus error). Maybe a quirk with OpenBSD 7.6, or interaction between simple-mtpfs and the fusefs mount.

In the meantime, after a few retries, the failures are written to a log for a second sweep.

MD5 check helps skip extra copying, but it's overall much slower. It seems okay for a long-running batch job; maybe something we can return to after getting the pictures to display.

The pattern is like

  cp ... || \
    { sleep 2; cp ... ; } || \
    ... || \
    ... || echo "$file" >> retry.log
Not the best way. It has failed before all four times. Going to let it run overnight to see if it completes.
arthurcolle•1y ago
navigating personal 'unemployment' while obsessively hoarding whatever money I can to run experiments / train, finetune models to leverage RL and environment-building in order to use computers, learn tasks, learn from each other, and scale to managing companies (simple, SaaS at first, and eventually, potentially to real-world operations downstream task sets)
nailer•1y ago
I arrived tired to a pre wedding photo shoot this morning, my prospective wife yelled at me, and cancelled the shoot. I walked out because I don’t like people yelling at me. So I am trying to figure out whether I still want to marry her.

"These cameras are just like the Eye of Sauron"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09239
1•dijksterhuis•1m ago•0 comments

Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/mark-zuckerberg-tells-staff-that-ai-agents-havent-progressed-as...
2•msolujic•2m ago•1 comments

Rust Service Isn't Leaking – It Could Be the Allocator

https://pranitha.dev/posts/rust-and-memory-allocators/
1•abhirag•2m ago•0 comments

From Socrates to Expert Systems

https://lafavephilosophy.x10host.com/dreyfus.html
1•cratermoon•4m ago•0 comments

ABI vs. API (2004)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/02/msg00648.html
1•signa11•4m ago•0 comments

Zero-defects code: the prescient Microsoft memo from 1989

https://digitalseams.com/blog/zero-defects-code-the-prescient-microsoft-memo-from-1989
2•bobbiechen•5m ago•0 comments

Probing the loss-band sparsity assumption in Scientist AI

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zJGGZQdtfoNye5ywe/probing-the-loss-band-sparsity-assumption-in-sc...
1•joozio•5m ago•0 comments

The Expert as Tourist

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/this-land-is-your-land-beverly-gage-history/
1•samclemens•5m ago•0 comments

Sometimes never compete on price (2025)

https://longform.asmartbear.com/never-compete-on-price/
1•mooreds•8m ago•0 comments

DNA Break Repair by Homologous Recombination [video]

https://www.wehi.edu.au/wehi-tv/dna-break-repair-by-homologous-recombination/
2•jwgarber•8m ago•0 comments

Freud's Mind Model Within a Predictive Processing Neuroscientific Paradigm

https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/28/3/318
2•bookofjoe•11m ago•0 comments

Domain experts: All human experts into AI agents

https://github.com/wonsukchoi/domain-experts
2•wonsukchoi97•12m ago•3 comments

The Official Rules for Calling Shotgun

https://www.shotgunrules.com/
1•Cider9986•12m ago•0 comments

Show Day (2019)

https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25486-show-day
1•indigodaddy•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Handwriting recognition for Obsidian on your terms

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Chrome Extension Development for E-Commerce Led to Increased Sales

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1•ag_user123•20m ago•0 comments

Shark

1•nova-gaia•22m ago•1 comments

Every JavaScript bundler handles inline script tags wrong

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1•csande17•23m ago•0 comments

British Grand Prix: Analyzing every driver's telemetry

https://fastlytics.app/race/2026-british-grand-prix/overview?view=analysis&session=R
1•subhashhh•24m ago•0 comments

Hypernet – The Agent-First Web

https://hypernet.sh/
2•akasuv•25m ago•0 comments

Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit

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1•Narann•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Heckle – Send a bug's full browser context to your coding agent

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3•srb-85•30m ago•3 comments

Building real agents from real context graphs [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmhmrJ7zRE0
2•TaterTots•30m ago•0 comments

I built a website where people can "tattoo" the Earth, one pixel at a time

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3•earth-tattoo•30m ago•2 comments

Systemd by Example – The Systemd Playground

https://systemd-by-example.com/
2•Tomte•32m ago•0 comments

Understanding Postgres 19 Property Graphs

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Send Birds, Not Messages with Roost

https://roostsocial.app/
1•teekert•33m ago•0 comments

People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age

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4•paulpauper•35m ago•2 comments

The Rise of Grocery Tourism

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1•paulpauper•35m ago•0 comments

The family keeping watch over a 52-year-old pot of soup

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2•paulpauper•35m ago•0 comments