cwillu

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by cwillu 3mo ago
And in my experience, there was. One person's lived experience is another person's “supposedly”.
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by cwillu 3mo ago
I expect it's the https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Amozilla-firefox%2Ffirefox... link that phoronix used in lieu of linking to an actual github issue.
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by cwillu 3mo ago
Neither of the last two processors I've purchased in the last few years had any iGPU.
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by cwillu 3mo ago
Yes.
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by cwillu 3mo ago
[0]: > > Did running a ‘cat’ really take more time in '95 than fiddling around the ‘<file’? > It does now for a sufficiently large file. And it's even more extreme when the recipient can do things with a file that it
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by cwillu 3mo ago
2 ^ (713 739 807 325 663 489 766 475 852 620 783 120 641) digits. Nope, an implementation of that algorithm will never be directly useful.
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by cwillu 3mo ago
Yeah, my city is currently going through every bus stop in the city, redoing the pavement in concrete. Construction season has been nasty for us this year :p
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by cwillu 3mo ago
Preferably the size of texas
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by cwillu 3mo ago
We're talking about a forest the size of texas.
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by cwillu 3mo ago
It enables them to build small and entirely undedicated global fan bases. And no, that is not the only alternative. There is a fine article linked at the top of this very page that points out alternatives that an actual living and breath
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by cwillu 3mo ago
And what good does that do those artists precisely? From the article: “For example, I am paid $0.00029 per stream of a song on Spotify, and even this amount depends on whether the song is being streamed by a paid user or someone using the
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by cwillu 3mo ago
Those results depend on having a 500hz monitor. There's a world of difference between a mildly-buggy rendering loop's 1-frame delay or missing a vsync deadline causing a 2ms delay vs a 16ms delay.
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by cwillu 3mo ago
Being able to use ChatGPT is useful, but it is significantly offset by how many business interactions are now mediated solely by chatgpt, and I'm not sure on balance my life has been improved.
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by cwillu 3mo ago
So 11pm in B.C. :)
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by cwillu 3mo ago
> latency should be identical Should be, but very clearly isn't.
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by cwillu 3mo ago
> do you point out loud clothes and styling choices of your coworkers too? If the answer is “no”, will you admit that people complaining about noise are, in fact, complaining because of the noise?
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by cwillu 3mo ago
2am in Ontario or 2am somewhere more westward?
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by cwillu 3mo ago
It's exactly what your comment was about: the same boring motte and bailey fallacy of “you don't understand, wayland is a protocol” If your protocol you pushed to replace a working implementation invites a dozen poor implementatio
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by cwillu 3mo ago
It's generally a single checkbox to turn off compositing in X11, for precisely this reason.
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by cwillu 3mo ago
And don't forget the “this isn't a wayland problem” whenever a major missing feature provided by the X11 ecosystem is mentioned. Guess what: if you're going to replace the whole ecosystem, you're responsible for all the
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by cwillu 3mo ago
It's vibes when you don't have the tools to isolate and measure it. It's unfortunate that “vibe” is almost always pejorative these days.
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by cwillu 3mo ago
Sure, but isn't that the point? Needing to be a celebrity to fix something?
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by cwillu 3mo ago
PLEASE_UNBREAK_ME options should default to on; people who actually work on rust code are quite capable of turning it off when they configure the rest of their environment.
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by cwillu 3mo ago
‹looks at hn›
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by cwillu 3mo ago
Are we talking about another comment thread? Because gp didn't say he deserved it: “leopards eating faces” is a statement about predictable outcomes, not merit. (Although worth noting that “had it coming” has strong implications of wha
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by cwillu 3mo ago
> cat /etc/passwd|wc -l 50
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by cwillu 3mo ago
Pie-in-the-sky synthesis: translation is easy these days, so maybe non-english writers can and should just write in their own native language and let the readers provide their own translation. Perhaps English no longer needs to be the ling
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by cwillu 3mo ago
A thing that notably triggers my allergies is that if significant human effort went into something, a few paragraphs written by a human seems like a trivial additional investment; if that last touch is missing, it's really hard for m
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by cwillu 3mo ago
The thought is that he should care because it affects our willingness to tolerate him and his.
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by cwillu 3mo ago
“Linux System Requirements: 3.2MB [+ 17GB the first day]”

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