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by ndiddy 4mo ago
I've seen these portable e-ink monitors available for nearly 10 years now, but this one seems to be the first that's responsive enough for general usage, which is a big step forward. Out of curiosity, if anyone here has one, what
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
There is no mass market product with the same specifications. The closest equivalents from established companies are the Dasung Paperlike 13K and Bigme B13, both of which cost the same or more than the Modos.
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
The Windows 95 UI designers wrote a paper going over their design methodology and how they incorporated feedback from real-world users at a variety of levels of computer proficiency into their design. https://dl.acm.org/doi&
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
You will never see a visually consistent operating system again, the material conditions that allowed for older Windows and Mac OS versions to be consistent no longer exist. The user base for desktop computers is no longer growing, so the i
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
OpenAI won't be able to cut R&D spend and collect rent on their existing models as long as the Chinese models keep up the pace of being ~6 months behind them for a fraction of the price.
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
It's because you get better ad rates on Youtube than if you made a website and posted the information there. Additionally, the current state of the web (Google only exposing SEO blogspam, AI overviews making it so ~60% of searches end
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
Wow I assumed it was one of his books before I saw your comment. Thanks for pointing that out!
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
It was always fun when you were trying to find a contractor or something and got greeted with https://web.archive.org/web/20101028145116/http://industrial... .
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
I saw that video a few days ago. It's really neat tech, but I'm curious what people are using the small external monitors for. I'm a big e-ink fan and really want to buy one because it's neat tech, but I can't come
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
Iran seems to believe that their negotiating position will get better and better as time goes on. I'm not sure if they're right, but the terms they got Trump to agree to certainly indicate that they are. From that perspective, the
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
Thanks, I'll look at those blog posts.
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
> Could you maybe make your point more concrete? I hadn't heard of the Pinenote before looking at your comment, so I looked at the site and saw some things that made it seem unfit for purpose as an ereader. I made my comment because
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
Have you tried the PineNote yourself? It $400 and says that it's "aimed at Linux developers with an extensive knowledge of embedded systems and/or experience with mobile Linux." The community provided firmware they link
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
> The irony is that despite the myth to the contrary wayland does not even try to handle mixed DPI at all and only fakes it via the fractional scale hack and X11 has supported mixed DPI from probably day one. I'm not sure what you&#
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
Yeah that's fair, the KDE people have remote login as a goal but it's not there yet. Waypipe is definitely the more mature option at the moment if you need a headless workflow.
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
For one thing, the US has agreed to give Iran $12 billion of their frozen assets before negotiations start, and another $12 billion during the 60 day negotiation period. When you repeatedly bomb the other side while prior negotiations were
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
The mixed DPI support on X11 is just that each monitor provides a DPI attribute that applications can query. It's up to the application or the toolkit it uses to actually look at this attribute and scale itself properly. In practice, t
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
If you're fine with RDP, both KDE and GNOME have built-in RDP support on Wayland. If you want something closer to ssh -X, look up waypipe.
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If you're not American, one thing that you have to keep in mind whenever you hear "there's large public support in the US for [insert vaguely left-wing thing here] but nothing gets done about it" is that the US's sy
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
> When was the last time you ran into a C library that a pure C++ compiler couldn't compile? Only if someone decided to spam the new keyword all over the codebase (or something similar). In C, you can use goto to jump over a variabl
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We recommend Highway over std:SIMD(github.com)
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
They bought the HL1 rights back from Sierra in the early 2000s. The real problem is that the code is not in a distributable state and nobody at Valve feels like working on putting it into a distributable state ( https://github.co
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
What is the purpose of refurbishing old phones like this? Is it just to sell to enthusiasts/collectors? In most of the world, 3G has been shut down and 2G is either already shut down or in the process of being shut down, so you wouldn&
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
Does it get better if you disable transparency in the accessibility settings, or is there no workaround?
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The reply to that message notes that the email doesn't read like previous emails he's sent, and the Github account mentioned was created an hour prior to the email being sent. I think it's at least somewhat feasible that it&#
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
There's a good podcast about the whole saga here (with a transcript): https://corecursive.com/sloot-digital-coding-system/ and Sloot's patent is here: https://patents.google.com/patent/NL
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
I looked into this a bit a while ago, what Sloot did was at least a little novel. Basically the way his encoding scheme actually worked was that it would store each line of video into a database, encode each video frame as a series of line
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
> Lenovo is the only weird excemption I experienced. Apple has put the Fn key to the left of Ctrl since they added Fn to their laptops in 1998.
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
They switched the Ctrl/Fn position a year or two ago so people like you would stop complaining. Of course this means that instead you have anybody who's used a thinkpad in the last 30 years complaining about the switch. It's
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
You can pass both C arrays and some STL containers (i.e. std::vector, std::array) into a function that takes a span, and the span will get constructed automatically. You have to construct it manually if all you have is a pointer and a lengt

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