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by nickjj 10mo ago
Thanks. I didn't want to wipe everything and use a different distro unless it was a last resort. I did try KDE Plasma (Wayland and X11) which produced different results than niri which was enough to get me to realize niri's compos
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GPU Memory Allocation Bugs with Nvidia on Linux and Wayland Adventures(nickjanetakis.com)
3 points by nickjj 10mo ago|2 comments
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by nickjj 10mo ago
> Isn't your website responsive? It is but the max width is at a point where most folks on a tablet and desktop will see that width so I optimize for that. Mobile always looks ok in the end, but I don't think about how sentence
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by nickjj 10mo ago
> "People travel on public transport to get somewhere, not to interact with the ticketing system." I really like this line because it applies to so many things we build. Public transport is an interesting one because it applies
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by nickjj 10mo ago
> Mhm. Why? I can write all of my post and look at it only afterwards? My site has a fixed max width which is what most tablets or desktops will view it as. Sentence display width is something I pay attention to. For example sometimes I
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by nickjj 10mo ago
The blog post linked in my previous comment covers the why and everything else.
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by nickjj 10mo ago
I don't think Wayland is fully ready, at least not with NVIDIA GPUs with limited GPU memory. I have a 7,000 word blog post and demo videos coming out this Tuesday with the details but I think I uncovered a driver bug having switched to
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by nickjj 10mo ago
If you already write your posts in Markdown, it makes sense for sure. About a year ago I converted my 500+ post Jekyll blog to Hugo, overall it's been a net win but boy do I find myself looking up syntax in the docs a lot. Thankfully n
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by nickjj 10mo ago
Sometimes speed isn't everything too. As much as I want to use Linux on the desktop I've had terrible cases of instability: My hardware on Windows 10 works perfectly well. Literally 11 years of being super stable, running assorted
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by nickjj 10mo ago
I haven't tried a full desktop environment that's not niri yet. With the direction of KDE, I don't know if it would change things because the latest upcoming version will be Wayland with no X11 support[0]. It sounds like it w
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by nickjj 10mo ago
Thanks. Which driver version are you using? NVIDIA's official stance is the DKMS 580 series drivers do support my card. The 590 series do not but I didn't try those. Basically the 75X, 8XX, 9XX and 10XX cards all use the 580 serie
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Ask HN: How are you using Nvidia cards on Linux with its VRAM issues?
2 points by nickjj 10mo ago|4 comments
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by nickjj 10mo ago
I wonder what the video editing story is like. It would be cool if one day (if not already today?) you could use AV1 as a drop-in replacement for h264 for recording with OBS, smoothly editing without proxy clips and rendering out highly dis
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by nickjj 10mo ago
Thank you. Yep on my site there's around 30 hours of content for the same course. Basically a bunch of updates and refactors along with building a 2nd app. I was trying to differentiate my site vs Udemy by adding extra perks.
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by nickjj 10mo ago
> If you are still relying on docker, it is time to migrate. I did work for a client recently where they were using Podman Desktop and developers are using Macbooks (Mx series). They tried to run an amd64 image on their machine. When bui
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by nickjj 10mo ago
Thanks, funny enough the last 2 are on Udemy (my first courses) where as the others are on my main site. I've kept the Flask one up to date for almost 10 years, all free updates. I have so many course ideas but starting a new one is to
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by nickjj 10mo ago
Yep, you're definitely not wrong. We see it all the time on GitHub. If a project hasn't gotten a new commit in 2 days then the project is claimed dead. The same thing with blogs in general. A post could be popular and ranked highl
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by nickjj 10mo ago
> Speculating, but perhaps it needs to be updated once in a while? Last modified might be a (dumb) factor. It's a fair point. I have over time, such as updating libraries which produced new zip files and also modified lessons. It di
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by nickjj 10mo ago
I was a Udemy instructor for ~10 years selling tech courses but focused more on delivering courses through my own site for the last ~5-6 years. Something never felt right with how Udemy promoted courses. I used to have a top selling course
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by nickjj 10mo ago
Having switched to Firefox about 10 months ago, one thing I notice is every site I visit works but a lot of sites load way slower than Chrome. YouTube is a big one. How much of that is Firefox rendering being worse vs artificial slowdowns b
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by nickjj 10mo ago
I've been a long time Windows user (20+ years) who heavily uses WSL 2 as my dev environment with tmux / Neovim but I'm switching to native Linux before the end of this year. I tried once 7 years ago but ran into major audio i
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by nickjj 10mo ago
Yep, running time on my tool's --version takes 50ms and funny enough processing 10k CSV lines with ~2k lines of Python code takes 100ms, so 50ms of that is just Python preparing things to run by importing 20 or so standard library modu
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by nickjj 10mo ago
I did something similar since 2001: -rw-r--r-- 1 nick nick 691 Mar 16 2001 2001-03.txt I separated mine by YYYY-MM which is long enough to keep related things together but short enough where it's easy to find things withi
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by nickjj 10mo ago
Makes sense, most of my scripts are standalone zero dependency scripts that import a few things from the standard library. `time pip3 --version` takes 230ms on my machine.
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by nickjj 10mo ago
> The startup time of a simple .py script can easily be in the 100 to 300 ms range I can't say I've ever experienced this. Are you sure it's not related to other things in the script? I wrote a single file Python script, i
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by nickjj 10mo ago
It's surprising to me at how hard companies are pushing AI when it's in such a poor usability state. I was trying to sign up my step dad to SiriusXM (he wanted it) so I called their phone number. The first interaction with the com
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by nickjj 10mo ago
One of the entries is: > How to build a Faraday Cage for your bedroom I'll get there eventually. A friend and I always joke about this since it took me to 2021 to get a smartphone (by choice).
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Why Is Video Editing So Bad on Linux Compared to Windows with Camtasia?(nickjanetakis.com)
2 points by nickjj 11mo ago|0 comments
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by nickjj 11mo ago
Thanks. Switching to uv ~6-7 months ago was so worth it. It took like 3 seconds to repackage this project thanks to uv, that's building and locking every dependency with Docker too.
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by nickjj 11mo ago
Congrats to the Django team! If anyone is curious, I've been maintaining a Docker Compose based Django + Celery + Postgres + Redis + esbuild + Tailwind starter app for years and just updated it for Django 6.0 at https://gith

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