Great post! IMO the quantization stuff is good (concrete demo of why the loss of precision is ~OK) .
For me, the refresher on FP representation was the highlight. Even having learnt it supposedly getting my CS degree, I still got caught out and learnt something.
Highly Recommended :)
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fly + tailscale/tsnet in the container gets close, but I haven't found a way to do that and retain the "scale to zero"/"wakeup fast on request" behaviour that makes fly so useful in the first place when tailscale is in use.
native integration to make that work would be amazing.
I also switched (from Gnome) to Omarchy in Dec. It's a bit rough around the edges (reminiscent of my early Slackware intro to Linux in the 90s...) but the simplicity and ability to work out wtf is going on and fix it (compared to Gnome's increasingly obscure junk) is refreshing.
* a bunch of issues with voxtype wtype based input not working reliably with cursor - switched to paste mode for now... :(
* sporadic ghosttty crashes - takes out **every** console :(
* yesterday everything *except* ghostty got terminated and I still don't know why...
insulation - noise and thermal.
arch seems like a bit of a wild west in terms of package management (yeeting random crap in via AUR is terrifyingly easy) vs the trust I have in Debian is probably the biggest + just general unfamiliarity with how to drive arch overall after 20+ yrs of Debian systems makes for plenty of rough edges!
omarchy specific:
* a bunch of waybar config tweaks for personal preferences
* sooo many keybindings to learn to drive hyprland usefully
* configuring desktops was a pain - I've settled on a setup with hyprsets to re-open/start all my stuff, but feels janky/took a lot of effort to get working.
what's the status or ETA on SOC2/IAM controls to support business/SaaS use-cases?
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* I haven't worked out how to logout/login without fully restarting (e.g. to quickly test startup behaviour): systemctl restart sddm should work, but something about how hyprsets is starting Joplin + Slack makes them hang infinitely.
all just minor things, overall very happy.
