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by arghwhat 1y ago
1. Denmark has a special retirement system for people who started work life earlier than normal, allowing them to indeed retire after some 45-48 years of work. All these rules are broken though. 2. These ages only affect a minimal governmen
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by arghwhat 1y ago
> Edit: fundamentally, if hacker news has taught me anything, it's that "downvote = makes me feel bad and doesn't want to answer questions". The entire concept of democratic news aggregation was a lie. Guidelines: &gt
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by arghwhat 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou... The root cause is not known, but Spain was producing excess power (primarily solar) at the time around the disconnect. Some fluctations were seen, then su
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by arghwhat 1y ago
"Uneven electricity output"? The variation on output is over a matter of hours (wind powerful enough to spin entire wind farms is not something that comes one second and is gone the next), and large grids with import and export ca
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by arghwhat 1y ago
In finance, not making mistakes is not at all critical, and mistakes happpens all the time. Regulatory compliance is critical, as it provides a thorough legal defense even in case of failure. The lack of efficiency in finance (or pharma f
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by arghwhat 1y ago
> Open-access publishing implies the authors are paying the cost of publication and its popularity in STEM reflects an availability of money No it implied the journal not double-dipping by extorting both the author and the reader, whil
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by arghwhat 1y ago
The problem isn't really the ratio, but the use in arbitrary contexts that require a lot of pre-existing knowledge. The reference value is sometimes a rather arbitrary value in an arbitrary unit, neither of which is communicated by the
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by arghwhat 1y ago
No. Adding superfluous features to an intentionally minimal baseline program defacto reduces it's quality by making it less suitable for its task and more likely to have defects. There's decades worth of options for fatter editors
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by arghwhat 1y ago
I prefer SSH because it fits into a standard workflow with far larger ecosystem (my file manager and editors can browse SSH directly, traffic can easily be routed over SSH in either direction), and is already what I'd use for the major
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by arghwhat 1y ago
SSH is ubiquitous, lightweight, and now works for all machines equally. SSH is integrated with everything and can be used to manage, transfer files/mount remote folders, forward ports in either direction, or proxy any network traffic t
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by arghwhat 1y ago
... Yikes.
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by arghwhat 1y ago
This is a console application, it does not manage the keyboard directly and there is nothing windows specific here. All existing editors do these things well already, nothing that required writing yet another editor.
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by arghwhat 1y ago
More features ≠ higher quality.
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by arghwhat 1y ago
That just feels like scope creep. Notepad would also be neat with some better keybinding support, plugins, lsp, ... - but then it wouldn't be notepad, and theres countless not notepads out there. Tools like nano (well, pico) exist to
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by arghwhat 1y ago
I'm actually not sure, but not because I believe there are many of the latter.
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by arghwhat 1y ago
> You can use nano over wsl if you want No, not when ssh'ing to a server to manage it. Pulling in a Linux VM to get a simple text editor also makes no sense. There is also nothing to integrate - it's a basic text editor for a t
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by arghwhat 1y ago
WSL2, in my testing, is orders of magnitude faster at file heavy operations than anything outside WSL, dev drive or not. We have an R&D department that's using WSL2 and jumping through hurdles of forwarding hardware because it&#x27
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by arghwhat 1y ago
Yay for finally having a default text editor that works over ssh. Managing windows servers over ssh is a bit of a pain without. They could just have packaged nano, but oh well.
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by arghwhat 1y ago
NTFS is not the problem. The problem is Windows IO filters and whatnot, Microsoft Defender trying to lazily intercept every file operation, and if you're crossing between windows and Linux land, possibly 9pfs network shares. WSL2'
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by arghwhat 1y ago
The problem is that it just doesn't work on modern, fast displays. Without motion smoothing on a fast and bright screen, 24fps/30fps goes from "choppy" to "seizure inducing and unwatchable". Older sets would ju
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by arghwhat 1y ago
Indeed - I also mentioned that in the paragraph immediately following.
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> Things like lens flares, motion blur, film grain, and shallow depth of field are mimicking cameras and not what being there is like Ignoring film grain, our vision has all these effects all the same. Look in front of you and only a sin
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by arghwhat 1y ago
Motion resolution? Do you mean the pixel response time? CRTs technically have quite a few artifacts in this area, but as content displayed CRTs tend to be built for CRTs this is less of an issue, and in many case even required. The input is
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by arghwhat 1y ago
Absolute is also a funny size. From the perspective of human visual perception, an absolute brightness only matters if the entire viewing environment is also controlled to the same absolute values. Visual perception is highly contextual, an
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by arghwhat 1y ago
Arguably, even considering HDR a distinct thing is itself weird an inaccurate. All mediums have a range, and they've never all matched. Sometimes we've tried to calibrate things to match, but anyone watching SDR content for the pa
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by arghwhat 1y ago
They are not just looking for vulnerabilities, they're demonstrating impact which is kernel dependent. The kernel has numerous CPU bug mitigations that change kernel behavior to make the CPU bug ineffective for active exploitation (mic
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by arghwhat 1y ago
They are running their LTS distro's LTS kernel, but that us not an upstream thing On an LTS, you'll be running a Canonical kernel, or a Red Hat kernel, or a SuSE kernel, or an Oracle kernel, or... Each will have different backport
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by arghwhat 1y ago
CPU vulnerabilities are first fixed through kernel mitigations, only sometimes through microcode. But security research should be done against the current state. Something as simple as a performance optimization can end up affecting the exp
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by arghwhat 1y ago
Mitigations are generally kernel workarounds, not microcode updates. Microcode updates provide some fixes or disable features, but all kernel efforts and why they specify the software at all is because of kernel mitigations.
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by arghwhat 1y ago
The problem is that it's downstream backports and hardware enablement - you're running an old forked artisinal kernel maintained by Canonical, you will only get bugfixes if known to be severe enough to be flagged, and all this p

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