cwillu

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by cwillu 5mo ago
VB was used to create a great many data-munging applications in its time, and while they were never pretty, they were lightning fast, largely consistent, and generally far more reliable than what we currently have.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
Hell, you can have the damn ad without any tracking, and you still wouldn't need the popup.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
I have three monitors, works fine for me.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
Screentearing has been solved on x11 for a decade; if nvidia don't support TearFree in the driver, that's an nvidia issue, not an X11 issue.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
What is with people reimplementing window scrolling badly?
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by cwillu 5mo ago
Unrelated, but I love finding lower-case numbers in the wild! (Note the two and the zeros in “$20 billion to $80 billion.”)
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by cwillu 5mo ago
No, it doesn't. You get good at something by doing it a lot, consistently; it's basically rule 1 of learning any artform.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
If they said “platform owners” I'd give them credit for that, but they didn't; they said “anyone”.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
And all that just strengthens the case for piracy: you actually get the original thing.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
This is a great example of when pulling out a dictionary implies that you've lost the argument, because if people were using the word in the same sense as the dictionary definition, you would have no need of the dictionary to “prove” t
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by cwillu 5mo ago
I recently stayed with a non-technical friend for a few weeks; they easily spent a third of their working hours on zoom calls.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
There's also /proc/sys/vm/panic_on_oom and /proc/sys/vm/oom_kill_allocating_task for other behaviours suggested in the comments.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
(2004)
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by cwillu 5mo ago
Video calls are niche, and offline encoding of video isn't ? Are you sure this isn't just “things I do are commonplace, and things I don't are incredibly niche”?
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by cwillu 5mo ago
https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen... has a partial list
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by cwillu 5mo ago
Imagine if someone tried making a sub from that, and then it delaminated lol
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by cwillu 5mo ago
It's gross to scroll on desktop as well.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
Is there any source with just the plain text? The css styling is headache inducing and reader mode doesn't work or has been defeated.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
False dichotomy is false; good day.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
More like repeating their firmly entrenched preconceptions. Their claims may (or may not) be right , but there's very little if any new evidence being provided by either camp.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
The gap between “block on first signal” and “ignore the signal entirely” exists, and it is not small.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
> Or, as it turns out, from within. (Looking at you, Danielle Smith). Pretty sure that's a prong of the southern strategy.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
Relax, it's niche internet points, you'll be fine lol
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by cwillu 5mo ago
> it could also be fraught if Stripe was in the business of blocking customers from their entire network based on one vendor's complaint “You probably don’t want a system where one annoyed merchant can get someone blocked across the
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by cwillu 5mo ago
“Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.” --hn guidelines (there are links to examples in the original)
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by cwillu 5mo ago
They failed far more than 12 landings before they started reliably landing boosters, and people made the same “maybe this is a dumb idea” comments back then too.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
The problem is what they do to large existing systems: subtle misunderstandings mean subtle bugs are constantly being introduced, and very few shops have adequate systems in place to receive reports of subtle issues at the rates they occurr
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by cwillu 5mo ago
The instructions on the back of the prepared meal box is not a cookbook. This is not a judgement of using a prepared meal box .
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by cwillu 5mo ago
It's fine that it exists. But a package of customizations is not a distribution. Yes, the definition is fuzzy, but this is clearly not it.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
IIRC, it basically removes the need to do a handoff between the relatively tiny tanks that can reliably pump fuel and oxidizer in zero-g from the main tanks that struggle with that in starship, and completely removes the need for any of tha

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