leeoniya

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by leeoniya 4y ago
don't forget to enable hardware accelerated decoding. i found it to be off by default in many installations. press "i" during playback to see if it's being utilized. or simply compare CPU usage before and after (should b
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by leeoniya 4y ago
> “The bitcoin miners were able to push over 1,000 [megawatts] back into the grid for ten-hour plus periods multiple times during the week.” that's an entire nuclear power plant worth of energy; how noble of them. no words :'(
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by leeoniya 4y ago
the main complaint i keep seeing about them is their power inefficiency
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by leeoniya 4y ago
uPlot spotted in the wild! <3
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by leeoniya 4y ago
hmmm, about the size of an asprin tablet or pea at arm's length, seems to agree with somewhat smaller than thumbnail [1]. maybe i should find and measure some sand now :). in either case, 1/10 the width of the moon is so much easi
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by leeoniya 4y ago
> So about a tenth of the width of the moon. this is so much more digestible than "grain of sand at arm's length", and those two metrics dont feel at all equivalent -- the moon is not ten grains of sand at arm's lengt
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by leeoniya 4y ago
it's terrifying how alone and ephemeral we truly are, that there are already places in our expanding universe that will never be reachable even via communication with any technology on any time scale (unless universe expansion reverses
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by leeoniya 4y ago
the Southern Ring Nebula (MIRI Image) is bizarrely very low res? https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/033/01G...
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by leeoniya 4y ago
one of the few watch brands (the only one?) that makes a ferrari look cheaper than a clearance item at a dollar store.
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by leeoniya 4y ago
are you wearing a cape, or are you not?
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by leeoniya 4y ago
also https://github.com/photopea/UNN.js
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by leeoniya 4y ago
currently on a Lenovo P14s with an excellent matte 4k, color calibrated, bright display and Ryzen Pro 5850u. EndeavourOS (Arch) with KDE/Plasma works great.
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by leeoniya 4y ago
cancer treatment costs can make anyone poor. just sayin'
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by leeoniya 4y ago
maybe it's bottlenecked on Node's built-in http module, there are projects like uWebSockets.js (and hyper-express [1] built on top of it) [1] which show a 10x increase in throughput. [1] https://github.com/kartikk2
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by leeoniya 4y ago
> Semantic diff – Can we figure out how to use version control to have more context-aware merges? Can you believe that we still rely on a text diffing algorithm from 1976 (and its shortcomings)? Git still has trouble with file renaming.
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by leeoniya 4y ago
so a bit like Opera Mini [0] > Opera Mini was derived from the Opera web browser. Opera Mini requests web pages through Opera Software's compression proxy server. The compression server processes and compresses requested web pages b
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by leeoniya 4y ago
i wonder if the recording industry also knee-jerk-renamed "master record" and "mastering", since the meaning is the same in both contexts. or if "masterclass" and "karate master" will have the same fa
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by leeoniya 4y ago
most people were happy with a 640x480 60hz interlaced CRT display, too.
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by leeoniya 4y ago
that sounds like a very niche feature, does it exist outside of ultra-tweakable firmware/OS like rockbox?
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by leeoniya 4y ago
> I have a Rockboxed Sansa Clip+ +1, it's a great audiophile quality tiny little player. i recently got a HiBy R3 Pro Saber, but still frequently come back to my Rockbox'ed Clip+ for its much smaller size.
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by leeoniya 4y ago
it would feel a lot faster if you could live with viewing max res 640x480 or 800x600 images on your 4k display
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by leeoniya 4y ago
did it work?
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by leeoniya 4y ago
modern JS runtimes are extremely fast on all hardware that's not a 2000-era phone or an embedded micro-controller with 4MB ram. if your CSR is slow on a modern client, then that same JS code will bring your server to its knees when y
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by leeoniya 4y ago
maybe there was more nuance to that statement, but i never bought it at face value, even then.
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by leeoniya 4y ago
> 100ms added latency can cost you 7-8% in conversions i hear this metric (or something equally absurd) cited frequently and have never seen it to be true in my own experience. i guess if you have to load a product page with 100 images (
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by leeoniya 4y ago
> But client-side rendering is expensive; the framework often will ship hundreds of kilobytes of client-side JavaScript to users on each request. These JS bundles often do little more than rendering static content that could just as well
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by leeoniya 4y ago
> for FSC cardholders and also apparently anyone who had simply applied
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by leeoniya 4y ago
$a(); // read $a.set(20); // write (1) $a.update((prev) => prev + 10); // write why not $a(20) and $a(prev => prev + 10)?
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by leeoniya 4y ago
would likely depend on whether the filing date was before or after this, but yeah, this would likely invalidate any claims for the most interesting improvements over the SMH designs
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by leeoniya 4y ago
unless you have actual experience in helping, your "help" can quickly become a liability, no matter how well intentioned. not to say you shouldnt get a rescue cert, but that alone is insufficient if you have no actual and recent o

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