Pxtl

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by Pxtl 7mo ago
In my experience Mint still has the smoothest process for Nvidia drivers, making it the first suggestion for gamers. And Snap causes some embarrassing bugs in Firefox in the Ubuntu family, so people thinking "I want an Ubuntu-like OS b
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
The problem is modern MS doing three contradictory things at the same time: - FB's move fast and break things . Constantly launching new libs. - Linus's we do not break user space . Great commitment to backwards compatibility. -
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
I'm a firm believer in always using an auto-generated surrogate key for the PK because domain PKs always eventually become a pain point. The problem is that doing so does real damage to the ergonomics of the DB. This is why I fundament
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
I meant to reply to a different comment originally, specifically the one including this quote from Torvalds: > Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. > -- Linus Torvalds I was specifically thinking about
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
Depends on length and complexity, imho. If it's more than a line or two of procedure? Or involves anything counterintuitive? DRY at 2. Extract a method or object if it's something that feels conceptually a "thing" even
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
As much as relational DBs have held back enterprise software for a very long time by being so conservative in their development, the fact that they force you to put this relationship absolutely front-of-mind is excellent .
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
> My stance is that if somebody is a minor, his/her/their parents/tutors/legal guardian are responsible for what they can/cannot do online, and that the mechanism to enforce that is parental control on devices. I
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
I miss the days of earlier AI image-recognition software that would emit a confidence percentage. New LLM-related AIs are all supremely confident in every assertion, no matter how wrong.
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
Except in "Brazil" it was a mechanical error in a deterministic machine caused by an invasive outside actor. It would be reasonable to trust that the autotypewriter/printer would faithfully output the correct text. Modern AI
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
It's not about the article, its' about the flotilla of comments in this thread with unfounded layman "theories" about dietary changes that are the root cause rising colon cancer rates.
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
"health theories" is how we got a nice new batch of measles outbreaks. I work with health research doctors and I've too much respect for them to humour "health theories". And they don't tell me how to do my jo
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
Call it: RTO causes colon cancer, or WFH causes colon cancer?
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
Hah, I've counted 10+ different intelligent(?) guesses in the replies.
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
Amazing how everybody in this thread has posted their pet theories as to cause: - insufficient fibre - too much high fructose corn syrup - too much milk - too much citric acid - toxins and parasites (gut cleanse!) - washing chicken in chlor
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
They were explaining US politics, not Middle East politics. Whether or not you see a first-world project to liberate Iran as legitimate, fundamentally the Trump government is too mercurial to see it through. While the Bush-era invasion of I
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
Good thing we now have technology that allows us to crank out complex software at rates never-before seen.
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
I don't mean HTML+CSS, I mean just HTML, as a middle-step between CSV and full spreadsheet file. HTML with only the table tags allowed get you a document that you can 1) View in a browser, 2) Has table headers and the ability to de
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
It's frustrating how we're still fighting over this stuff when 99% of documents and spreadsheets (the data, not the formulas) could be zipped html except if not that spreadsheet editors and document editors don't have a stand
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
I don't want Kate to be vscode, I want it to be notepad.exe. I want it to open a document instantly and let me edit and save and close with no distractions or delays. I have vscode for vscode.
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
Good. The edit mode is exactly the place I want to be overwhelmed with options.
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
Honestly this is the only complaint I agree with. KDE plasma desktop and its configurability looks and feels great... but all their in house actual windowed applications like Konsole and Kate are mediocre at best. All that duplicated effo
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
Omg yes the top left corner thing is imho the only complete misfeature in stock plasma.
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
Really? I found KDE plasma hit the perfect sweet spot between the slapdash nature of Cinnamon and the polished but restrictive Gnome. Plus AFAIK it's the most multi threaded so it's the hardest to freeze.
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
You can't be serious. Did you miss all that talk of 51st state and "governor Trudeau" or "governor Gretzky?" > A reporter asked if he was "considering military force to annex and acquire Canada." >
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
Cuba hasn't recently openly discussed plans to annex Canada by force, and to punish Canada economically for not acceding to this desire.
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
HN will moderate you for being loudly political unless it's for anarcho-capitalism.
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
It's smaller than you'd think, but more than enough to make a real dent. December 2025, statscan calculated that cross-border auto traffic was down 30% (mostly same-day trips). Air travel is only down 11%, and air travel to other
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
Maybe for Putin, but for Trump it's hard to see it as anything but his completely mercurial nature just causing so much random melodrama that less-urgent problems completely vanish. The same people who love carbon also hate the damage
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
Because of first COVID-19 and the post-peak economic chaos distracting us, and then afterwards Trump and Putin and Netenyahu and the global rise of erratic mayhem as a political platform. https://xkcd.com/2275/ Eventua
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
The cookie dialog was a mistake -- this is something that should've been handled as a browser API. A standard dialog of "do you consent to cookies yes/no/functional-only" should be part of the HTTP headers. Same th

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