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by dnr 6y ago
`2.days.ago` is not "cool," it's an example of the some of the worst things about Ruby. Suppose I came across a cutesy expression like that in a program I was reading. How in the world am I supposed to figure out what code is
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by dnr 6y ago
I really just don't understand this pushback. I posted a comment about eye strain. I've been using computers for almost 30 years. Do you really think I haven't tried turning down the brightness? Is it that hard to believe tha
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by dnr 6y ago
These articles are so bizarre to me: he's writing about dark mode and light mode as if you can just... _choose_ one or the other and be roughly equally happy either way? I would never even think to look at "studies" when it&#
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by dnr 6y ago
The drive firmware and layout are more sophisticated than you're imagining: All SMR drives have some non-SMR (CMR) zones for buffering and metadata. For the archival drives I was looking at a while ago (host-managed), it was usually 1%
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by dnr 6y ago
Just a quick followup: I installed 5.7 (still on Ubuntu 19.10) and no hangs yet. I got a bunch of warnings about missing firmware so I manually downloaded some i915 firmware files from the linux-firmware repo. I assume that's just an U
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by dnr 6y ago
Btrfs actually has a simpler interface than ZFS: it consumes block devices and exposes only a filesystem, not more block devices. It does have integrated volume management functionality, but overall acts much more like a "regular"
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by dnr 6y ago
Thanks for the overview. I know HN isn't the place for this but just for the record: there are no other i915 messages in dmesg (certainly nothing about a file with debug info). This is on Ubuntu 19.10, kernel 5.3.0, and it started happ
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by dnr 6y ago
Will this fix my "i915 0000:00:02.0: Resetting rcs0 for hang on rcs0" that's makes my screen freeze for 5 seconds multiple times a day??? It's been driving me slightly crazy.
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by dnr 6y ago
If you look at reviews of Z-Wave dimmers and switches, as I did recently, GE seems to be not very well regarded, and on the expensive side. Some of the newer brands like Zooz and Inovelli have a lot more features and are cheaper too. I narr
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by dnr 6y ago
Yup! I had many (many) hours of fun, and got pretty deeply into the development community that sprung up after the publisher abandoned it. I learned a lot from that and it definitely had an effect on my career.
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by dnr 6y ago
Use Deluminate for dark mode on all sites! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/deluminate/iebboop... I tried most of the "dark mode" chrome extensions out there and found this was the best (co
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by dnr 6y ago
Finally got time and motivation to continue working on my collaborative crossword puzzle app: https://squares.io/
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by dnr 6y ago
Just a clarification on 4'33": recordings of it are not pure silence (and are not intended to be). They're recordings of actual musicians on an actual stage, not playing any music. So you hear lots of little environment sound
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by dnr 6y ago
For Thinkpads running Linux, you can do this (somewhat manually) with tpacpi-bat: https://github.com/teleshoes/tpacpi-bat I set mine to stop charging at 85% and not start again until it drops below 75%. If I know I&#x2
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by dnr 6y ago
Here's my contribution to this useful class of scripts: http://dnr.im/tech/articles/mvdir/ https://bitbucket.org/davidn/mvdir/src/default/mvdir Similar to vidir, but
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by dnr 6y ago
https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync I run it nightly from my home server. It has a few limitations (due to limitations of the Google Photos API) but overall it does what you want.
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by dnr 7y ago
Tensorflow (v2), numpy, and related stuff for image processing. I kind of ignored the whole deep learning revolution, though I had a very basic understanding of NNs from a long time ago. It's fun to play with, and I'm getting an i
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by dnr 7y ago
He only has two collections published so far. I thought the first one (Stories of Your Life and Others) was slightly better than the second (Exhalation), but both are good.
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by dnr 7y ago
Take a look at FlexBuffers, part of FlatBuffers. FlatBuffers itself is similar to CapnProto and requires a schema, but FlexBuffers is a related schema-less format that uses a bunch of the encoding techniques from FlatBuffers to gain advanta
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by dnr 7y ago
Right, so ideally I would like to keep something in a safe deposit box (or similar), but the point is I don't want to keep going back and forth to the bank every time I sign up for a new account with 2fa. That's why I want one lon
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by dnr 7y ago
I definitely want to keep 2fa secrets on a phone, not my laptop, otherwise it's not a true second factor. If you have an Android build to try, I'll check it out. Also, part of my ideal requirements is an app built by an entity tha
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by dnr 7y ago
I think you might be reading an unintended meaning into that sentence. I'm talking about the experience of using Go vs. what people write about it, not about your experiences with other languages (which I have no intention of invalidat
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by dnr 7y ago
I've used Google Authenticator for a long time, but the lack of backups is a really serious downside. What I would really like is encrypted backups using a strong passphrase that I can write down on paper (like Authy), but from a trust
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by dnr 7y ago
If you were using Go for those four years, you'd also see very little of the criticisms regularly leveled at Go. What you see on the internet is the union of everyone's complaints and frustrations. Each individual sees only some o
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by dnr 7y ago
No, please do _not_ drop a double opt-in on this or any situation where you're collecting email addresses. People mistype email addresses all the time. Always verify email addresses before using them. (This is a personal pet peeve sinc
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by dnr 7y ago
That's why I added the qualifier "generally". When there's little or no intersecting traffic and no ambiguity about right of way, it seems perfectly safe to me to slow down but not completely stop at stop signs (i.e. the
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by dnr 7y ago
Ha. I do this too: as a cyclist who generally follows traffic laws and vehicular cycling behavior, I get annoyed when cars that obviously have the right of way at an intersection want to wait for me to go through first. So, I just stare at
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by dnr 7y ago
You need a phone to create an account and register the desktop app but then you can then use it completely separately from the phone, even when the phone is not online. You can link multiple desktop apps to one account/phone (afaik).
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by dnr 7y ago
Downtown, like below 14th st, feels a lot more like that, and even more the further south (i.e. older) you go. Midtown and uptown not so much.
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by dnr 7y ago
Just more anecdotes: I accidentally filled up a 2tb btrfs filesystem on ssd with a buggy backup script. I deleted the stuff that shouldn't be there, ran a few recommended incantations, and was back to normal in about ten minutes. It wa

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