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by Zhyl 6y ago
If you can put as much weight on Linux as possible, that will help it happen. We've made massive strides in the last 2 years, but we need everyone who is Win7 Main to at least run Linux for some games to get used to the differences and
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by Zhyl 6y ago
This isn't about being negative or critical. It's about being negative all the time . It's about labelling yourself as cynical and making all of your schtick be about that negativity. I see plenty of well-thought out criti
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by Zhyl 6y ago
This was actually explored in this Cracked article [0] which I heard about on the Cracked Podcast. Basically, being cynical and negative is one of the easiest ways of appearing smart because you don't need to back up any of your assert
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by Zhyl 6y ago
The Kingkiller Chronicle. Firstly, they're good books and are enjoyable to read a second time round. Secondly, Rothfuss has laid down plot points like a Go player places stones. The second time reading through will join together dispar
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by Zhyl 6y ago
>it piggybacks on HN's own code, hope that assuages you :) Haha, it does actually. That is very cunning!
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by Zhyl 6y ago
I got it set up with Luke Smith's muttwizard [0]. The actual integration feels a bit clunky (the UI closes when entering a query, but then results are returned to the UI) but it does work quite well. I think the interesting corollary o
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by Zhyl 6y ago
First: I use neomutt + mbsync (formerly isync) + notmuch. The local searching was at first a nerd special interest project but has actually become very useful for searching, filtering and otherwise managing my mail. Second: the button on th
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by Zhyl 6y ago
Newsboat :)
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by Zhyl 6y ago
They're very messy - they've built up slowly over the last year or so. Will add some comments over the next few days! https://github.com/daharka/newsboat_scripts
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by Zhyl 6y ago
Haven't seen newsboat be mentioned so far. I've written a bunch of scripts that help subscribe to feeds (e.g. search YouTube for keyword and add RSS feed for channel of the top hit), scripts to curate (e.g. extract 'topics&#x
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by Zhyl 6y ago
The sad reality is that there just isn't enough awareness or understanding of technology within Government to make it onto the agenda. The exceptions of this are little pockets of like-minded individuals such as GDS [1] who have done s
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by Zhyl 6y ago
Jay Foreman's videos are all amazing. Well researched and incredibly entertaining.
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by Zhyl 6y ago
1) I loved this video. 2) I did have to take a sip of tea and think about my life when I realised I was watching a video by a Welshman about mining. 3) Although having said this, 'Welsh Bitcoin Miner' is going to fit seamlessly in
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by Zhyl 6y ago
This is one of Nicki's best explorables yet. I wish that this had had more upvotes.
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Lots of praise here, so I won't re-iterate the good points (presentation, pleasant tone, good structuring) and will head straight to the meat of my issue with the title: This is not a book for regular folk. A regular HN reader, sure. A
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by Zhyl 6y ago
Absolutely. High absolute indicates a lot of damage and should be reduced. High per-capita indicates a lot of excess and/or waste, which should be reduced.
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by Zhyl 6y ago
Make sure that your browser is directing you to the URL which includes the '#'. If it doesn't, you can find it under 'community' flavours. edit: nope, you're right it isn't working!
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by Zhyl 6y ago
So I have no idea what the poster means by 'without any useless packages' but I can talk a little to why packaging i3 is good. Firstly, I like i3. Of all the tiling Window managers I've tried it seems to be the best mix of mi
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Intermediate Sed Usage(xpmo.gitlab.io)
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by Zhyl 7y ago
I don't think that there's anything inherent in tiling managers that mean they have to be light, but it's very common for them to be light. Ratpoison, xmonad, awesomewm and i3 are the most well known tiling managers (unless
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by Zhyl 7y ago
If you're just looking for a DE/WM that's light on resources, I can definitely recommend tiling window managers like i3 [1]. I'm not sure what other changes would be in your sightlines given that you were happy with Ubun
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by Zhyl 7y ago
This also allows you to use different version of Proton for different games (e.g. it's fixed in a beta build or broken in the latest build) and to enable Proton for games which have a native version!
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by Zhyl 7y ago
In addition to the what others have said (DXVK, pre-configured WINE, D9VK), the Steam client integration is also a MASSIVE quality of life boost and a serious lowering of the barrier to entry. With Proton, the Windows versions of games appe
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by Zhyl 7y ago
www.protondb.com
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You can check for individual games or run a check against your whole steam library (by authenticating with Steam) at ProtonDB [1]. [1] www.protondb.com
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Yeah, reality is a weird mix of probability (reducing trips and therefore likelihood of catching 2019-nCov off of them) and actuality (the path the virus actually takes - see Patient 31 [1]). Governments have to release guidance based on th
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Yes, to put this in perspective, each person has 'x' transmission opportunities on every journey to/from their lockdown base. 'x' can be expressed as 'x = n + m' for n people they would meet along their jo
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It's a convention (a meme?), along the lines of "read the manual" being rendered as "RTFM". In online discourse it is common for people to ask questions or make statements without reading the reference material bein
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Ah this line I think summarises everything perfectly: >As the saying goes, there is much here that is new and true, but what is true is not new, and what is new is not true; and some of it is even old and false, or at least utterly unsup
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by Zhyl 7y ago
Stephen Wolfram is well known in the industry as being a pompous, self-indulgent man. There was an old joke I heard which went: > Q: How do you know if Stephen Wolfram invented something? > A: He'll tell you. I saw a TED talk by

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