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by foresto 3y ago
I prefer non-server-class machines for purposes like this. Modern single-board computers make very capable home servers, and are far smaller, quieter, cheaper, and less power-hungry.
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by foresto 3y ago
Thankfully, there are a few projectors with very quiet fans. I haven't kept up with the current models, but Sony made some roughly eight years ago.
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by foresto 3y ago
> it displays the entire area for the entire time and switches frame content almost immediately. I've heard this called the sample-and-hold effect. It looks a bit like a fast slide show, and really stands out in high-contrast, stead
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by foresto 3y ago
Related: Google’s S2, geometry on the sphere, cells and Hilbert curve https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10066616 I've always thought S2 was a clever name for something built with the Hilbert curve. (Look at the shap
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by foresto 3y ago
For those who haven't seen it yet: A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudoephedrine From N-Methylamphetamine https://archive.org/details/pseudosynth
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by foresto 3y ago
Counterexample: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/4096 Old glass terminals are still in use here and there, too.
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by foresto 3y ago
# No tput, no cry: red=$(tput setaf 1 2>/dev/null || true) echo ${red}text
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by foresto 3y ago
> In practice several of those ANSI escape code behaviors are hard-coded The most common examples I see these days are for red/green/yellow status text in shell scripts. To anyone planning to do that, or even more complex stuff
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by foresto 3y ago
> Maybe you misunderstood me. I don't think I did. uMatrix makes this easy to configure with a couple of clicks. uBlock Origin can probably do it as well, but not as easily; it might require text-based configuration. As I said, chec
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by foresto 3y ago
Check out uMatrix and uBlock Origin.
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by foresto 3y ago
Fair, but my comment is for other readers, too. (Also, being in the same room doesn't always mean direct connection is allowed. I've seen wifi networks that forbid it.)
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by foresto 3y ago
Magic Wormhole is great, but sometimes unbearably slow for bulk transfers. (I imagine the public relay server used for the common NAT-to-NAT case is sometimes overloaded.)
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by foresto 3y ago
The point is not to deny your preferences, but rather that they shouldn't be forced upon everyone else, especially when they break decades of proven usability design and practice.
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by foresto 3y ago
I don't mind auto settings themselves, but I agree about the opaque ones. In this case, the effective value is stated in the field's help message, but it's still easy to miss.
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by foresto 3y ago
Some (maybe all?) ASUS AM5 motherboards have official ECC support. It appears in both the board manual and the BIOS manual for the model I just checked. Note that one of the relevant BIOS settings is Auto by default, which (counterintuitive
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by foresto 3y ago
> there has been ongoing work to improve this. Including improved pressure detection, Are you referring to the /proc/pressure interface? https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/t
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by foresto 3y ago
Jim Orlando talking about five other PET games that he recently wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYJ-wKoGYgU
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by foresto 3y ago
I would love to see more hardware companies making their firmware available this way. Motherboards, SSDs, hard drives, game controllers... almost all seem to require either having a Windows installation or booting the computer from a myster
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by foresto 3y ago
These look like the same article, without the paywall: https://www.advantageben.com/whats-new/news/2023/09/these-em... https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/these-employe
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by foresto 3y ago
> I've been working on a multi-threaded pure Nim GUI Any plans to develop this into something beyond a hobby project? I think a Qt rival in a language safer and more pleasant than C++ would be welcomed by more than a few people.
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by foresto 3y ago
> manufacturers don't offer ECC memory modules with a speed as high as non-ECC versions. Indeed, they seem to be aiming their ECC sticks at the server market, their "overclockable" sticks at the gamer market, and not mixin
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by foresto 3y ago
> There's also the issue of ECC. Does something prevent Zen 5 CPUs from using ECC memory? Or maybe you mean that ECC puts more load on the memory controller, potentially reducing top RAM speed compared to non-ECC configurations?
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by foresto 3y ago
You can see 1GB and 2GB jumpers in the photos, so it seems reasonable to expect these models to show up eventually.
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by foresto 3y ago
When the Pi 2 was new, it was one of the few single board computers that properly supported fractional frame rates, which are often needed for smooth video playback. (Many films are encoded at 24000/1001 fps rather than exactly 24 fps,
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by foresto 3y ago
Sure, but USB ethernet adapters exist, as do multi-disk servers. Not bad for a simple setup, though, especially one aimed at conserving power. (Although this board's idle power draw remains to be seen.)
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by foresto 3y ago
> I'm really quite skeptical more than one in a million people could tell the difference Consider that lossless is good not only for listening, but also for transcoding. For example, when you want to use a media player with limited
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by foresto 3y ago
> PCIe 2.0 x1 interface for fast peripherals (requires separate M.2 HAT or other adapter) This could make it appealing for a low-power server, like a home NAS. In previous models, disk I/O had to be over USB, which imposes more CPU
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by foresto 3y ago
I landed on Matrix a couple years ago. My requirements were: - free - open source - decentralized - good cross-platform support (linux, mac, windows, ios, android) - multi-device synchronization - offline message delivery - group chats - en
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by foresto 3y ago
...if you happen to be using bash.
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by foresto 3y ago
Target, Costco, and Newegg (for certain items) come to mind has having good prices and return policies.

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