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by greggyb 7y ago
I, too want this. My ideal is actually mu4e, rather than mutt, but the idea is the same. I think what is truly optimal is to keep the CLI nature of the MUA, but have a slave browser window that displays the HTML portion of a message. Then y
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by greggyb 7y ago
I saw that. If adding threads makes a program faster, that implies that more CPU can make it go faster. If the filesystem is already streaming bytes to the program as fast as it can, adding threads just means that you have more threads wait
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by greggyb 7y ago
Thanks for the thorough response. This aligns with what I had in my head, but it's nice to see a clearer explication and also confirmation that I'm not way out in left field with how I understand things.
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by greggyb 7y ago
Perhaps I'm just being pedantic or maybe I am misunderstanding. The author claims to be IO bound toward the end. But they are comparing to two versions that are faster. It is my understanding that IO-bound means that the IO subsystem i
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by greggyb 7y ago
Not trying to yuck your yum, just offer another perspective. I see no benefit from resolutions >1080p for common laptop sizes. I think 17" is the transition point where 1440p even begins to make sense. The majority of people I'
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by greggyb 7y ago
I get what you mean. And I agree. It's a huge impact. I am incredibly lucky, as are others with similar backgrounds. In hindsight, I'm honestly not even sure that the nuance matters. The effect is largely the same whether there is
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by greggyb 7y ago
> high correlation between parental wealth and success as a startup founder. I assume it's because of the safety net. Supporting a few sibling commenters here. I believe it is more nuanced than a safety net provided by parental weal
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by greggyb 7y ago
I have to agree with you on temporary containers. I spend most of my time in temporary containers. I trade the annoyance of having cookie popups literally every time I visit a page for not actually having to worry about the impact of those
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by greggyb 7y ago
Gosh, I am spoiled by languages with decent numeric towers. You mention it as a sign of inexperience, and I can't really disagree with you. Just adding a nuance that inexperience can be due to loss of experience as easily as lack of ex
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by greggyb 7y ago
Gotta love those rollover minutes.
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by greggyb 7y ago
Negative durations are clearly impossible. Just take ABS of the duration to be safe....
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by greggyb 7y ago
Copyright is about exclusive right to copy a work of art from some creative effort. Copyright is implicit upon creation of a work of art. Patent is about means and ends. Process applied to achieve outcome. Patents must be approved by some a
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by greggyb 7y ago
> The work that goes I to this is copyrightable I have to pick a nit here. In terms of copyright, effort matters only in a very specific way. Generally, only artifacts matter. The map is a thing. The creator of the map holds copyright. C
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by greggyb 7y ago
Ah, thanks! I am a little embarrassed. I translated so much Caesar in Latin class. Oh well, it turns out you lose it if you don't use it. Thanks for the correction and detail.
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by greggyb 7y ago
I think there's plenty interesting. The sophistication of Roman siege warfare. There is an entrenched enemy. Caesar's legions build miles of fortification to surround and starve out the enemy. Many more enemies come to break the s
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by greggyb 7y ago
You can evaluate an elisp expression anywhere in any mode.
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by greggyb 7y ago
I'd be interested in that comparison. A fridge throws off quite a bit of heat when cooling. Luckily they're closed the vast majority of the time and are well insulated. Which uses more energy at Max load?
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by greggyb 7y ago
The reviews I've seen mention 3 days as expected battery life. Maybe I shouldn't trust them.
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by greggyb 7y ago
Anyone else notice that this is starting to form a letter 'M'? Perhaps, with the correct versioning scheme[0] and appropriate install size fluctuations, they could write out the company name. [0] Almost definitely not semver.
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Ask HN: What is the best durable storage medium for critical data backup?
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by greggyb 7y ago
It speaks to the other devices. I remember when I migrated from a flip phone to a smartphone a few years ago. I have been frustrated for as many years. One day I realized I could just buy a charger for every location I might stop for a whil
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by greggyb 7y ago
> I'd argue it also introduced in popular American culture the concept that an individual could judge the law and decide whether it was just or not. It seems that this is a fundamental principle in US culture. The nation was born of
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by greggyb 7y ago
> I spent a month of the year just flossing 1 tooth each night (ridiculous, I know!), then 5 months just flossing 1 row (better!) Not directly related to the habit formation part, but this reminded me of something my dad used to tell us
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by greggyb 7y ago
Capitalism is fundamentally based on private ownership. The rest falls out of it. If I own and control something, and you own and control something else, trade is a natural byproduct. If I own and control something, then of course I can rea
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by greggyb 7y ago
> If you look at existing hunter gatherer societies, the actual time that is required to be invested in subsistence is much less than the 40 hour weeks of today's society. 40 hours of work provides much more than subsistence, even a
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by greggyb 7y ago
Noting as a reply, rather than an edit. Neither scenario I described implies that the entirety of one's life must be devoted to subsistence. The fact that the vast majority of people participating in a capitalistic society consume at a
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by greggyb 7y ago
> Isn't the whole idea of capitalism to force most people to align themselves to exterior goals? No more than a subsistence living as a hunter-gatherer, and in fact, likely less so. If you live absolutely primitively, then your circ
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by greggyb 7y ago
Regulatory capture is the name for the phenomenon where some governing/regulatory body, charged with regulating/governing some industry for the public good, instead begins serving that same industry to the detriment of the public
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by greggyb 7y ago
That seems to be a very pessimistic interpretation. Perhaps, they've been evaluating that as an architectural change, but recognize it would be a significant engineering effort. And they can already meet their current performance goals
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by greggyb 7y ago
From a business perspective - regardless of the content of consulting/freelancing: People respond to incentives and everything that matters to you and to the client is up for discussion. I do a mix of project work, training, and team&#

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