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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Night mode > dark mode Absolutely! > I built an OLED friendly reading app Very nice! On windows, I use a program that runs matrix operations on the color space, so that I could increase the contrast, invert, then only keep the re
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> I really don't see the point, cross-platform software with multiple binaries is absolutely fine. I've shipped cross-platform software and it's a one time trivial cost to prepare a multi OS pipeline. That's like peop
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I love OLED displays my laptop and tablet: when working at night, it's a wonderful complement to eink (when working at day) I thought 4k was great, but if I can get a 25% increase in dpi or a better efficiency, I'm very interested
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> But still have not found a way to boot Linux from Windows boot loader in plain UEFI. Where those exact 446 bytes are completely ignored. That's exactly what I'm looking for: chainloading from bootmgfw by adding entries with b
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> In case I need a GUI, I use a Fedora installation. I assume your scenario is more like that. Yes, it's just faster to boot to an installation or liveCD iso, as it's rarely needed and updating it only requires a new ISO. Havin
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Amdahl's Law predicts performance will approach a limit with added cores, but still predicts that each core will improve performance. And I would agree: on my systems, efficiency cores are used to handle other tasks and keep the p
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I have: there are not many people between Nevada and Utah.
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> > Everything has costs (...) > That one would be a tough for a lot of people nowadays in the US because it could be a safety issue. Everything has costs, including safety. > Now only a few states still have emergency call boxe
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by csdvrx 3y ago
After checking the picture, it may have been him indeed. It's not about finding characters sympathetic or not. It was very inappropriate, like if 2 characters were talking around a coffee, then one suddenly flipped the table and punche
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> really depends if you can view it in the context that produced it; if you go all "death of the author" it's just going to seem cringe. I don't wish death to anyone. I try to separate the author from the art, so the
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Perl, if you are talking about stuff widely used in industry. I love perl! Last year for Christmas the release of cosmopolitan perl inspired me to write a perl web server: https://github.com/csdvrx/PerlPleBean&#x2F
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> the context of the show is that all of the characters are socially pathological I have no idea of the context: I just watched this episode and I found it shocking enough to not bother trying more episodes. > It would be fascinating
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Technology doesn't exist in the vacuum - it costs money, resources and labor to manufacture and support artifacts like cars or CD players or CDs themselves Nobody is forcing anyone to buy vinyles or CDs, but enough people like the
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I posted it on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38689459#38689872 along with a summary of this discussion to provide context
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> I suspect that a lot of people from today dropped into the 90s would find a great deal incredibly frustrating. What I find the most shocking is the difference in cultural values. This summer I was watching some reruns of a popular 1990
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by csdvrx 3y ago
When discussing the teen who likes to live as in the 1940s on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38687171 I mentioned I like technology from the 1990s and before (ex: terminals, perl, CGI, sixels) Someone suggested it was
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My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s (2019)(gwern.net)
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I'm not fully retro (I use Wayland for hyprland) but I'm sure there must have been some great stuff in the 1940s. It's just that I don't know it. Maybe if I did, I would love it like he does?
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> There are YouTubers like "ReportoftheWeek" who like to dress in an older style, but choosing to not learn to use a cellphone There are also HNers. Count me in the "refuse to use a cellphone" camp. I want to learn ho
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> I want to live in the 90s. Gross I don't like the values I see in the 1990s TV shows. However I love the tech, like CDs: > CD audio is a little bit nicer tech. They I love CDs! I even got a CD player in my car! After trying the
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> There have always been people around who embrace anachronism, TBH I love tech from the 1990s and before: CGI, terminals, sixels etc and I refuse to carry a cellphone (though it's ok to have one at home, plugged 24/7) I didn&#
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by csdvrx 3y ago
What does "parentifying" means?
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by csdvrx 3y ago
So you mean that cultural familiarity brings the comfort of some predictability that's lost when trying to innovate? It's a very interesting perspective and after rereading your comment: > I believe what Chaplin hoped to achiev
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by csdvrx 3y ago
The goal is to have full ISOs, for Ubuntu, Windows 11 etc with the minimal number of partitions and files, for easy maintenance and imaging to other computers A few ISO + a UEFI entry to select them is much simpler: the ISO file will never
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I've seen old tutorial from the Windows 7 era, tried to do the same with Windows 11 but failed. Can you explain how to use Windows bootmgr to chainload a linux kernel store either in the EFI or the NTFS? The goal is to use the same men
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by csdvrx 3y ago
Not bad, but it's more metal to me (including roars at 4:14)
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by csdvrx 3y ago
Key limitation: can't be installed to run standalone (in a partition on your nvme boot drive) if you care about partitions alignment. Variants without this limitation were discussed yesterday. Usecase: a rescue distribution to start fr
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by csdvrx 3y ago
Лига Опасного Интернета was nice but Morgenshtern caught my eye again with ЧЕРНЫЙ РУССКИЙ (ПОЙДЕТ was boring) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK7CIj-_uBk
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by csdvrx 3y ago
Thanks! I just checked a few of the songs on https://www.supraphonline.cz/album/50244-entre-deux-mondes (the 1999 album isn't on suprphon) there's some good beat but it's not very complex music-wise. I&
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> nor my wife (who studied in Lyon for quite some time) Can you please ask her some recommendations for contemporary music? I find french rap wonderful! My new favorite artist is Aye Nakamura ; before I really loved Eva Queen.

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