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by gigel82 5y ago
It's not just the cooling, it's power usage in general, that's how Intel moved ahead with this generation... 12600K is using 224W compared with 5600X's 134W during the same test (SuperPi stress test where 12600K scored w
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by gigel82 5y ago
Let's circle back in a few months; I too feel nostalgic when I visit my dad's and play some classic games on the old faithful PC from my youth (still rocking a 17'' Trinitron CRT). But after a few hours reality hits sinc
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by gigel82 5y ago
I mean, that's literally Linux's whole spiel: "works great on older hardware", isn't it? I wasn't in the market for a new computer, just wanted to use an old one I had lying around (from the Windows 8 era BTW).
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by gigel82 5y ago
I really-really tried to on-board Linux on the desktop, but it's not there quality-wise. On my work setup, I have 2 monitors connected to 2 computers (to fully isolate work-connected / monitored PC and personal stuff), using a sof
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by gigel82 5y ago
Damn, my entire history is there, down to the cent... base pay, bonuses, everything. I can't even get this old data from my employer's intranet. Such BS. Can anyone confirm prospective employers actually pull this before making an
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by gigel82 5y ago
That feels weird somehow. I highly doubt PiHole is the culprit. If you're only using it internal to your LAN for DNS there is no way someone from outside can touch it. You most likely have other, bigger problems with your network (perh
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by gigel82 5y ago
Norton Commander was amazing; had it running on my family PCs since 1990 and up until it got upgraded to Windows 2000. Nothing good came from Norton since (that I know of).
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by gigel82 5y ago
LOL, Netflix is a FAANG? They're small potatoes in the big picture; by market cap: (1) Apple 2.98T (2) Microsoft 2.51T (3) Alphabet (Google) 1.92T (5) Amazon 1.72T (7) Meta (Facebook) 941B ... (35) Netflix 264B Source: https:/&#x
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by gigel82 5y ago
When just editing code, I prefer VSCode. But for debugging C++ there is nothing that comes even close on any platform productivity-wise to Visual Studio. I guess if you're not doing cross-platform and staying within the ecosystem (MSBu
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by gigel82 5y ago
I prefer this to SimpleWall, but it's kind-of heavy (both the UI and the service) resource-wise - so I don't run it always, just after big Windows Updates to make sure they don't add new "phone home" "functiona
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by gigel82 5y ago
You can set UTF-8 system-wide for 3+ years; I've been doing it on all my boxes and never had issues. I suspect in a few years this will just be the default: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_in_Microsoft_Window
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by gigel82 5y ago
These are all great things, but the fact we can't take some well-tested, used-by-millions library from npm and start building on it makes things very confusing. It also makes skills non-transferable for the millions of web developers o
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by gigel82 5y ago
It's possible though not straight-forward. React Native Windows seems to have a version of V8 wrapped with JSI (for use in React Native) though by the looks of the project, it appears to be only used internally and not really meant for
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by gigel82 5y ago
Some previous discussion on SciterJS here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24797423 The issue is that this isn't actually an Electron alternative; the author is upfront about this not actually being a browser-comp
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by gigel82 5y ago
A full V8 is 8Mb on 32bit Windows and 12Mb on 64bit Windows, so not sure where that 40Mb is coming form.
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by gigel82 5y ago
So, a Chromium webview with some custom menus? Cool, cool, cool...
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by gigel82 5y ago
I've heard (2nd hand) Microsoft also handed out SSAs ("Special Stock Awards") last month, but it's unclear how they chose the recipients (all across the level range and performance score range, though it appeared more ta
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by gigel82 5y ago
That feels fishy somehow... how exactly are they paying for the advertisement? DDG is free to use, which usually means customers (their data) are the product. Is there an in-depth analysis somewhere of what exactly is their business model (
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by gigel82 5y ago
I'm confused about this... are you saying DDG is doing something on their own? I always thought they are simply a shell for Bing search.
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by gigel82 5y ago
It was mostly about availability of such luxuries. Even if you were "rich", money in a controlled economy was pretty much useless. Everything was rationed (one car per family, 2 breads, 1 bottle of milk per day, etc.) unless you w
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by gigel82 5y ago
I have friends that immigrated from Romania, and I was surprised by their very different stories of living as a teenager in the 80s under communism. One was enjoying vacations abroad, imported goods and generally mostly living a western lif
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by gigel82 5y ago
I've built React SPAs with inlined JS, CSS and SVGs in 2017, which is why I'm still entirely clueless what's special about this. BTW, the discussed page is not at all a single-page site; it makes separate network requests for
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by gigel82 5y ago
I have definitely built React SPAs with inlined JS and CSS as far back as 5 years ago, it even inlined some SVGs for icons; it was literally a single HTML page (unlike the discussed page, BTW, which loads the CSS and the images with separat
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by gigel82 5y ago
I'm curious if it's still falling back to Google DNS / NTP if not otherwise configured. That was a very bad choice even though I understand it'll only kick in under unusual circumstances.
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by gigel82 5y ago
How is this news? React SPAs have been around for years, and SPAs existed long before React too.
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by gigel82 5y ago
Looks like they plan to build a desktop browser "around the OS-provided rendering engines" (likely meaning embedding a WebView with Edge / Safari). Wish they'd adopted something like Ungoogled Chromium ( https:/&#x2
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DuckDuckGo in 2021: Building the Privacy Super App(spreadprivacy.com)
5 points by gigel82 5y ago|1 comments
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by gigel82 5y ago
If I'm reading this right, it assumes the machine's IP is publicly accessible over the internet; which I'm guessing -even with IPv6- is not the case in 99.999% of cases; who just exposes their development machine directly to
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by gigel82 5y ago
It's not the same :) I remember the whole experience was cathartic, and my DOS PC definitely felt faster after doing (though it most likely wasn't).
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by gigel82 5y ago
Privacy Everyone is tracking me, monitoring everything I see and do online, feeding the giant "personalized advertisement" machine and all the other trolls mooching off its edges (identity thieves, scammers, etc.); I'm going

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