jwrallie

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by jwrallie 2y ago
So the reason for no Linux support is non technical right? There are literally dozens of us! An easy way to scrape webpages is something I’m interested in, I promise I’ll try it when it’s supported.
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Exactly, the extra effort to complete it is worth it, but it is costly. I think this can be explored in a positive way by selling incomplete things cheaper to the end user while using this money to sustain the development of the last 20%. I
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by jwrallie 2y ago
Yes, it works perfectly. It’s a Thinkpad X260, not exactly new hardware, and even Debian works just fine.
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The most annoying issue I had was that even using mpv would lead to audio samples being dropped. I think I fixed it eventually by increasing buffer sizes, but I would expect at least audio should work out of the box.
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I could tolerate no graphic acceleration and battery issues as part of the virtualization overhead, but I had issues with sleep (it would sleep and wake up perfectly only with when plugged in) and other related problems such as Windows VMs
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by jwrallie 2y ago
You are assuming that what was interesting for the initial users is exactly the same that is interesting for the increasing mass of joining users, but as you increase the number of users, things that have mass appeal have more likes, retwee
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by jwrallie 2y ago
Cookie Clicker is indeed eye opening. I think it is one of the few games that "changed my life" in the sense that by getting addicted to it for a few days, it made me see Cookie Clicker in every platform that tries to waste my tim
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by jwrallie 2y ago
Question: what can you do with the A100s that you cannot to with multiple 3090s? Or rephrasing for somebody that never tried to experiment with models: which one do you need to have something like ChatGPT-4o (text only) at home?
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by jwrallie 2y ago
It’s not perfect but current SuperMemo is more flexible than default Anki. It feels less punishing, you do not have to tweak it, and you can prioritize what you think is more important to learn (but I don’t use this function). Still the bas
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by jwrallie 2y ago
If the button already has a function (like back) assigned to it, I think the input-remapper[0] software would work. That is what I use with my deathadder. [0] https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper
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by jwrallie 2y ago
Microsoft will probably tell you that the Microsoft Authenticator supports syncing, so you should set it up on a backup device. This has several problems though, one of them being that they assume you have at least two mobile devices (let&#
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by jwrallie 2y ago
> Refactoring code in C++ is challenging because there are roughly ten different ways to do one thing. When learning C++ I was not yet proficient in English, so I learned the version that was taught in the books translated to my language
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It’s always good to take a look, many things are decided on the client side, and developer tools are part of the browsers anyway. The other day I wanted to make reservations for a service to send my luggage from the airport to my house in J
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That’s true, but not everything is about recall. Sometimes you just want to record the information quickly in a searchable way and forget about it until the next time you need it. Not being able to recall something you do not want to might
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by jwrallie 2y ago
I thought this was already the case with KDE Neon and Fedora.
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That might be true, still to defend OpenBSD, it’s smooth sailing trying to run a desktop on OpenBSD compared to let’s say FreeBSD. The rumor is that OpenBSD devs run it on Thinkpads while most FreeBSD devs are using MacOS as their main OS.
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The name is familiar, I learned a couple of things from Solène in the Qubes OS forums. Many thanks in case you see this. I think OpenBSD has a big advantage (to me at least) that it’s the OS I really want to use, but I could never find a pl
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by jwrallie 2y ago
I can relate to the 12h time difference. It is really tough when connecting with people from back home. It also makes it really hard to go back in emergencies. I did however choose to stay living abroad. As I married a local and had kids, I
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by jwrallie 2y ago
> it has a very simple and straightforward UI and while it doesn't expose much functionality, what exposes seem to work fine without bugs. Nice one, I will add it to my notes to use it next time I need debugging. The least thing I w
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by jwrallie 2y ago
By “accidentally went through” do you mean without a specific trigger or cause? Or do you mean there was one (or more) but you had no control over it?
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I think interruptions damage the productivity overall, not only of engineers. Maybe some are unaware of it, and others simply don’t care. They don’t want to sacrifice their own productivity by waiting on someone busy, so they interrupt and
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by jwrallie 2y ago
I get your point and your edit. I think most people reaction is less because of the destruction itself and more because The Internet Archive is being targeted. It is a place that most would say are representing the hacker values, and few su
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I have been thinking about this topic for some time, but my focus was a bit different. I wanted to know what would take to make a computer where the state is always preserved, meaning reboots are never required, but most importantly whateve
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Some Makefile knowledge does not hurt much, but other than that it starts to become a nightmare. Another big difference is the size of the standard library. One can hold on his brain all the information needed to program in C, but I would a
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by jwrallie 2y ago
Sometimes more important than to get the right answer is to ask the right question. That and the verification that the answer satisfies the question is what you are providing. If you delegate a task to people working under you, would it be
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by jwrallie 2y ago
I’d like a portable device with good battery that would run free software, mostly for privacy reasons. Anything with a good battery could do, GNU/Linux would not be strictly necessary. Running TOR or a VPN over Wifi and a browser and f
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by jwrallie 2y ago
I understand protecting new console sales and current IPs, after all many people are currently employed and working on it, and in Japanese law this is protected under unfair competition. But when Nintendo just recycles old games, many times
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by jwrallie 2y ago
I got my license from US, the questions are randomly selected from a pool of public questions, so with enough time and Anki, you can easily pass the test. It might feel like cheating for some, but I found out I can remember a lot of informa
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I wonder how much prompt skill is actually influencing the quality of the response. After using LLMs daily for some time, I have developed a feeling on how to phrase my requests as to get better quality answers. For example, ensure that it
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by jwrallie 2y ago
I would bet the schedule didn't allow much time to doing subsystem level test with on-board computer, so everyone went to the big test praying for the best. That or inexperienced programmers were involved, assuming they were not scared

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