MrDOS

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by MrDOS 1y ago
> YouTube works admirably well. This is what really kills me. I spent a lot of time in 2020 on a 4G connection throttled to 384 Kbps. Video calls? Fine (once you gave it a few seconds to notice the poor throughput and readjust its target
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by MrDOS 1y ago
Yes; it means you can, for example, install an off-the-shelf copy of Debian. See https://github.com/pftf/RPi4 . In theory, it's a wonderful idea, because it means you can run the same distro on your RPis as on the
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by MrDOS 1y ago
Worth noting that (so I've heard) the most impactful hardware change between the 12 mini and the 13 mini was improvements to the battery life. I've never struggled with the battery life on my 13 mini, either, but the handful of pe
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by MrDOS 1y ago
No need to bring JavaScript into it. In HTML, use `<picture>`: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/... In CSS, use `image-set()`: https://developer.mozilla.o
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by MrDOS 1y ago
I'm sorry, I misunderstood your doubt of the usefulness of other lossy formats as criticism of using lossy formats in general in the face of higher bandwidth. Reading too fast, never mind me... :)
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by MrDOS 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44298656 You might be getting 100 Mbps to your smartphone; many people – yes, even within the United States – struggle to attain a quarter of that.
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by MrDOS 1y ago
PNGs for line art and text, JPEGs for photorealistic images. > When I came up in the IE era In the IE era I recall, the battle was between GIF and JPEG because IE supported alphatransparent PNGs very poorly :) > if I recall correctly
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by MrDOS 1y ago
I stopped recommending Signal to nontechnical folks due to the inability to back up messages on iOS. People are pretty protective of their message history, and having everything tied to a single device with no recourse for backups is a nons
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by MrDOS 1y ago
For those on macOS, RapidWeaver still exists: https://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/ . (Shame that it's now subscriptionware, though – could've sworn it used to be an outright purchase per major version.
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by MrDOS 2y ago
You can't down vote until you have 500 karma. You can upvote posts and comments right out of the gate, AFAIK.
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by MrDOS 2y ago
The format itself is patent-unencumbered. That doesn't mean I couldn't still write a non-free decoder and license it to Pioneer for use in their CDJs. Due to organizational inertia, I suspect that's what's going on h
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by MrDOS 2y ago
thatsthejoke.jpg
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by MrDOS 2y ago
A bit gauche that “the full panorama” link hotlinks the CDN of a dead social media site (cohost) without citation. Far more information about the print can be found in the corresponding post there: https://cohost.org/belariu
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by MrDOS 2y ago
The first game was unimaginably popular after its release in 1993. It quickly became the best-selling computer game of all time, and stayed there for nine years until The Sims unseated it in 2002. It's still the 25th highest-sellin
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by MrDOS 2y ago
It's only “unbundling” if the basic fare goes down by the carry-on cost. If the total ticket price goes up, it's called “gouging”. Hope that helps!
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by MrDOS 3y ago
Nice to see Workers steadily reinventing CGI-served PHP. Maybe in another few years they'll reinvent mod_php, too, and then we can have persistent connections!
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by MrDOS 3y ago
I think the “Firecracker” referenced in this Tweet is Amazon's “microVM” environment[0]. VMs running in this environment are sometimes booted to service scheduled/batch jobs, but are, I think, more often launched in direct respons
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by MrDOS 4y ago
> Microsoft won the work from home game by delivering more features Citation needed. First off, I don't know if Microsoft did win the work-from-home game. Do you have comparative sales numbers to support that assertion? Anyway, I&#x
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by MrDOS 4y ago
> cheap USB DACs These numbers are several years old now, but Apple USB-C DACs do perform very well overall regardless of price point: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/r... .
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by MrDOS 4y ago
That depends entirely on where you are in the world. In Canada, for example, the (consumer) Lenovo service centre used to be notorious for taking weeks (three was common, I've heard as much as seven) to return machines, and for provi
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by MrDOS 4y ago
Cmd+Up/Down/Left/Right, not Fn, so those keybinds have always been accessible, even prior to the Fn key.
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by MrDOS 4y ago
Doesn't Mikrotik have US-specific part numbers that have hardware locks around particular RF features?
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by MrDOS 4y ago
Not to mention that, by default, they bill by the whole calendar month for each infrastructure and APM host. Scale your Kubernetes cluster up and then back down? That'll be an extra $18 + $36 per additional node (not $15 + $31 – that&#
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by MrDOS 4y ago
For $475/month, I hope you're able to use it for more than just iOS builds. I know I'm too hobbyist- and small-business-minded for lots of folks on HN, but that monthly fee is a mind-boggling non-starter for me. I know that c
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by MrDOS 4y ago
This is an excellent talk, and exactly where my mind went, too. I might suggest watching this upload of it instead, to avoid capture errors in the older upload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6TaiXzHAE
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by MrDOS 4y ago
> I had no idea StarCraft still saved the entire game state: what a gigantic waste! > Fun times: I'd exchange my best games with my brother, as email attachments IIRC. We'd then watch each other's games and make comment
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by MrDOS 4y ago
> Just like Britain's other fake markets for gas and electricity it's just a single service with multiple alternative brandings you can choose between. Admittedly, the last mile is all Openeach, but operators like AAISP are muc
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by MrDOS 4y ago
There's a reason the RAM is soldered on: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1460108068637712384 . SSD is very annoying, though.
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by MrDOS 4y ago
> I'd be somewhat more content to ship an un-minified + Brotli-compressed file than an un-minified + gzip'd one. Whoops, typo: I meant to say that I'd be somewhat more content to ship an un-minified + Brotli-compressed fil
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by MrDOS 4y ago
Of surprise to no one, Brotli does better on both: $ ls -l *.js -rw-r--r-- 1 mrd staff 330904 5 May 01:04 watch.js -rw-r--r-- 1 mrd staff 152172 5 May 01:10 watch.min.js $ brotli watch.js $ brotli watch.min.js

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