dyingkneepad

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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
> > Does this affect search and discoverability in between servers? > A little. Can you please elaborate on that? Thanks for the answers!
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
I'm not the person you're asking to, but I failed at the "choose a server" part. I started having a bunch of questions over the choice of server and then gave up from analysis paralysis. What are the implications of cho
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
It seems to me that the market is kinda segmented between "people who read mostly physical books" and "people who read mostly ebooks", with some people consuming both, but usually doing some kind of segmentation for them
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
Just remember: whenever IT doesn't deliver a workable solution, Shadow IT does.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
This channel has the best Linear Algebra explanations I've ever seen, and it also explains the basics of AI really well.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
Performance will be significantly better. Power consumption will be way way way better. Integrated graphics (Intel) will be extremely better than 2019. Just check the benchmarks. Your drivers will still be supported for years by all vendo
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
Why slimy? They asked a question and you answered without charging for it. It's not their fault.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
Choose 3 countries. Live 121.6 days of the year in each. Don't pay any taxes because you're not a fiscal resident anywhere.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
Thank not only these people but also their employers for funding the work.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
I always see people claiming they use this strategy, but I never ever ever see people blaming services saying "this and this company sold my data to spammers". Where are the name-and-shame people? Have you ever caught anybody doin
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
> the video encode and decode blocks were on an entirely different piece of silicon from the GPU. As far as I understand this is not true. It's a different engine within the graphics device, and it shares the execution units.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
When I can't find something on Google I may ask ChatGPT, read its answer and then we talk about it.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
X11 is just a network protocol that specifies how a client (e.g., your browser) can send messages to a server (e.g., /usr/bin/Xorg) so the server will draw stuff on the screen. A complicated part of this process is the decisi
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
Speaking from my own experience at work, for non-webdev, if the project is something I'll want to share with other people, there is a great incentive in just using Python. I can't seem to get people to be interested at all in my t
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
I believe both Gnome and KDE have native "share my desktop" options (if you have the right packages installed) that will in theory work out of the box even on Wayland. It does not work properly when you're running games (game
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
I got a very similar thing: a legit email from PayPal, but it's an invoice and not a quote. And when you login to PayPal the website shows nothing.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
And then some day someone will recognize you somewhere, tell your wife "hey, I saw reaperducer at the park today!", and then she will think you're cheating on her.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
From non-university stuff, I did not read the book but I read the derivative works and applied it to my life: Getting Things Done. Specifically, Inbox Zero changed my life and made me a better programmer by having me become way more organiz
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
Only malicious foreign actors are encouraged to survey the security of systems of national interest, since they can't easily get prosecuted. Systems working as intended.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
The the mandatory yearly corporate BS trainings. Organize your inbox. Do that one thing you've been wanting to but is lower priority, like learning a tool or working on a low priority bug.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
Because the Jira deadline (or perhaps OKR deadline) or whatever other deadline set by a PM or a Manager or HR is Friday, and I have to mark the checkbox or move the ticket as done before the deadline so I can claim I finished stuff on time
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
"We recommend you try UBQTLONR this time!"
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
I have dual boot on my computer, but Steam on Linux has been getting so much better that I've been running stuff mostly on Linux. It's been a while I had to boot on Windows... But I also own a PS5 and prefer to game on it. Serious
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Ask HN: Do you maintain/practice your "coding for interviews" skills?
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
Trying neovim has been on my TODO list for a while, but I never had an actual reason for it. What's better about it that will make me want to switch? I don't care about the fact that internally it's Lua instead of Vimscript:
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
As much as I admire the herculean efforts of the people involved to make these things work, my policy is to only ever use hardware where the drivers are actually supported/paid for by the hardware manufacturers. I mean, even when using
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
For fiction books, I've heard of indie authors organizing groups where they read each other's books and write reviews. Some groups are more serious in that they actually analyze and suggest improvements to each others' work,
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
> My DS is rusty What is DS?
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
Steam works just fine for me on Debian. The process of installing it is exactly the same as Ubuntu.
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by dyingkneepad 2y ago
> I think developing these habits requires real will power. That's why the modern method suggests you to take *small* but permanent steps forward. Cutting a slice of bread per week was easy. Cutting M&Ms was easy. Cutting soda c

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