ndarwincorn

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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
> “You’ve got a guy shooting heroin on the street, and the cop is supposed to say, ‘You O.K.?’” grumbled one law enforcement officer in Seattle. As progressive as some are here, the NIMBYism (see other locals that this opinion piece has
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
Rehabilitation/reintegration of sex offenders after they're released from prison is a real discussion that we'll need to have as a society sooner than later, but I think we should start with the folks on probation/parole
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
As with most absolutist statements, the truth is somewhere in between--the inverse is true there as well. If you don't do anything to keep caloric expenditure constant and just restrict intake, your body will reduce expenditure to matc
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
I feel like vim browsing is better off with a browser designed for it like luakit, and that's coming from someone who uses vimium and tridactyl. They both get in the way as often as they help. Mirrors my experience with vim-mode plugin
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
Given their background I think they meant nix as Linux/Unix and not Nix the programming language/package manager. Despite its clear fit with the current hotness of immutable systems and functional programming, I don't think I
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
Probably not a popular opinion on a board for entrepreneurially-inclined programmers, but this is the truth.
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
> It seems like nobody communicates correctly in that company, the author included, and it must hurt in so many places. Depending on what you think of Google (or maybe Rackspace, but I think Google's more likely the source of that p
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
IDK about EPYC, but my 3700x was blazing through startgame with those settings on Linux Civ 6. Where standard/8 AI was unplayable on my FX8350.
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
One of many examples why not enabling comments if you have the option to is probably a good idea.
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
Tangentially related, half of those comments are yikes-tier.
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
For Mozilla, that's likely a conflict on interest between their search deal (which AFAIK is their primary source of income) with Google and the hardline privacy/FOSS direction they're moving toward. I'm shocked no one po
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
> Was it always this bad and we just didn't see it before? I definitely remember reading some pretty-accurate-in-hindsight scare pieces about Facebook's only way to monetize around the time they IPO'd. That said, it's
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
Her RSS is very much worth a subscription.
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
This thread's so full of FUD spread by the aptly-named Truth campaign, and this one (and its parent) takes the cake. Eventually the fight-fire-with-fire approach they took to combat big tobacco is going to bite us. While you're pr
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
I was wondering. I'd read their blog occasionally over the years but never looked at the site. sourcehut was the first thing I thought of when the top comment got me to look at Pinboard itself.
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
> evidence of continuance was weak That's a funny way of saying that we had interviews from the general that ordered the destruction of the program that all WMD had been destroyed after the Iran-Iraq war.[1] I'd add that counte
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
Those are pretty old cards though (I've had amdgpu support for my six year old 7970 since kernel 4.9, and I think they've extended it back to a generation or two older architectures now), and you can use the open source radeon dri
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
MST on a NUC was pretty seamless for me when I used it.
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
And on top of that they have the gall to call it 'reparations'. Truly Orwellian.
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
The "solved problem" is using the kernel implementation of muxless hybrid graphics (PRIME), not Nvidia's proprietary one (Optimus).
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
I'm not updating the wiki for a device I don't own, or plan on owning. Especially when the relevant part of the wiki is correct.[1] [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PRIME#PRIME_GPU_offload...
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
If you're gonna reference the wiki, cite the right article[1]. Under the 'GPU Offloading' heading (the feature most folks want in dual discrete/integrated laptops): > Note: This setting is no longer necessary when usi
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
> classic example are laptops that dynamically switch between discrete and integrated graphics YMMV, but as far as I know that's more or less a solved problem by default (for X anyway) with DRI3. This particular complaint echoes fol
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
I thought Gnome shell supported wmctrl/EWMH?
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
> HiDPI Hasn't HiDPI support been one of the main drivers of the renewed interest in Wayland the last few years?
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
It would be interesting. So interesting you might find reading the article worthwhile. > Although the company called the event an “act of God” that was unprecedented, the study said a similar event happened during Hurricane Camille in 19
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
I noticed that too and am shocked this comment isn't at the top. Related, I'd find an attempt to measure the amount of waste in SEO blogspam and email spam/ham very interesting. I.e. who gets the real landfill designation.
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
Same. I'm looking at buying here in ~2021, and I'm looking at houses that are ~half the size of the one I grew up in on ~half the land for 2x the price. Shortly after I moved here I rented a 450 square foot condo that sold last fa
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
Can confirm. Desktop Linux-using ops staff here, we're moving from dropbox to onedrive in the next ~month, and I'd switch from Slack to Teams if it didn't suffer from the same problem all MS IM products (UWP/Chromium Sky
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
You must've skipped tragedy of the commons day in micro 101.

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