This is a different story - they’re now saying (and he’s acknowledging) that he had a romantic relationship with her, not just a distant business relationship.
No it's not. There's a new story today.. the FT story from 2 days ago is the same story (they're both about a report from last year.. today's story is about nVidia reacting)
Shovel manufacturer responds to complaints about customers throwing piles of manure in neighbors’ yards: “We’re trialing a free window cleaning service to help you get a clearer view of the manure”
(Not sure you read the post, but it doesn’t come off very pro-filling RAM!)
Anyway, the downside of filling RAM aggressively is that it convinces users that their RAM is in very short supply, hence causing them to make issues/reddit posts/forum posts complaining about the RAM usage of even fairly conservative programs. I can’t totally blame them - if your memory only has a gigabyte free at startup, and $program uses a gigabyte and a half under heavy load, it’s natural to worry that something is going to go wrong if you open it!
Of course it doesn’t work that way, especially on modern machines with fast SSD swapping, and the memory filled at startup is mostly purgeable cache data. Doesn’t stop the complaints!
This, and also that it hides away valid complaints about actual memory leaks. I can't remember the number of times I complained about Firefox leaking memory, and got brushed away as "that's just how Linux works, it fills your RAM for cache". Well, if it's just cache, why is it thrashing my PC everytime it fills up? This even led me to misunderstanding about how kswapd0 works, and prompted me to ask how to "disable swap" because the OOM won't fire as it used to in the olden days.
After some time, work forced me to switch back to Windows, and now everytime I see complaints about how Windows gobbles up RAM, I just say to myself, "Hah, that's how Linux works too!"
- iTerm started pushing a ton of updates to add features that absolutely no one wanted. AI chat in the terminal emulator (not within the terminal), integrated web browser, etc.
- Some of those features turned out to introduce major vulnerabilities, so they had to push even more frequent updates to patch them. It’s extremely annoying to have your work interrupted by multiple update prompts in a day from your terminal.
- iTerm has visual glitches (line artifacts appearing when windows are opened/closed) on non-Retina monitors.
That said, I miss the GUI for changing settings. Ghostty’s settings file format requires looking up keys every time you want to change something, and it isn’t nearly as powerful as iTerm profiles.
I chose Ghostty instead of Wezterm specifically because the settings file format makes it possible to get a GUI some day. I don't even know if it's officially considered for Ghostty but at least it can be done, even by an external tool[1].
VSCode started this way and for a long time settings could only be updated by editing a JSON file. The fancy settings UI was added much later on.
Wezterm config being Lua makes it almost impossible to get a UI ever. Also I don't understand why a terminal emulator config needs to be written in a general purpose programming language.
So nothing at all. Most people would notice the difference between no ads everywhere, and ads everywhere, would prefer no ads, and still there are ads. That there are ads tells us nothing about people.
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