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by nvarsj 5y ago
It's most likely a Mac thing. And is probably the main reason I gave up on OS X as a serious work OS, since I'm so dependent on Emacs (org-mode in particular). I hope it gets sorted one day. Apparently it has to do with certain sy
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by nvarsj 5y ago
28 is the current master of Emacs. So you have to compile from source.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Ditto. Also, FBAR reporting of any account with 10k+ in it. Like seriously, the IRS/US is concerned about 10k in a bank account? Gotta get those tax evaders!
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Does anyone know the reasons behind PIA’s actions? Is it safe to assume they are also harvesting their VPN user data?
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Magic Arena does this. It's _incredibly_ irritating, especially if you play a combo deck or something click intensive. Those 5-10s animations get really old after the millionth time.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Gnome is one of the most customizable DEs around. You can customize almost every aspect of it via the extension mechanism. I'm even running a full tiling WM right now that is coded as a Gnome extension (PaperWM).
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by nvarsj 5y ago
I really like the philosophy as well. But there are probably less than a handful of players that actually managed to beat DCSS unspoilered. It's a really hard game, even knowing the various tricks.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
I really miss being able to play a SpEn backstabber. It was the highlight of my DCSS experience. Such a fun, if slightly overpowered, combo. Then they took invisibility out of the enhancer starting book.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
It is a common complaint among a lot of experienced DCSS players that the game is too long. I have 10 wins under my belt and I stopped playing mostly for this reason. About half way through the game your victory is essentially guaranteed.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
I wonder what percentage of luxury goods are fake on Ebay? In my own experience, 100%. The sellers are not even apologetic - they take your return, issue a refund, and immediately relist the item.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Try not to compete with FAANG. Don't make the interview process stressful. Allow people to work from anywhere. Allow flexible work and fully remote working. 4 day work weeks. Lots of things that can be done to entice the right people.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
It doesn't take much effort to unpin the Plex channels from your home page, or remove them completely from your account settings. It's annoying that they're the default, but it's not a huge deal either.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Yeah I seriously don't understand Apple here. The Microsoft Surface Pro is such a great example in contrast, offering a full OS in a tablet form. I had a Pro for about 6 months and I loved that thing, the only problem was the hardware
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by nvarsj 6y ago
This is the single most important issue imo in modern higher education. It is fundamental to the success of our society that we can provide high quality education to all who want it. If you talk to the admissions department of every top sch
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by nvarsj 6y ago
It's probably just related to crappy laptop hardware. Macbook speakers/mics are great and I never hear any feedback from them. When it happens, and you can hear your voice echoing on everything you say, it gets quite annoying.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
It depends a lot on your sound card I guess. Pro streamers use them on twitch as portable options (like Seagull) and they sound great to me. The only real downside to it is the cable is sort of flimsy and the 3.5mm termination is not great
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by nvarsj 6y ago
The ModMic is also excellent, and you can attach it to existing headphones [1]. I use this at home with my prized Sennheisers. It baffles me that some people don't seem to care about their audio quality on calls. The most obnoxious are
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Hi André. Encore looks really cool! It must have taken a huge amount of work to put this together. I think streamlining from IDE to production is the future of tooling and frameworks, and it looks like you are going in that direction. I fee
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Surely there is some compromise. Diesel is far worse than petrol for local pollution for example. So let's ban diesel in the city, then as electric becomes more viable, we can finally ban petrol as well. We shouldn't have sympathy
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I like sway a lot, but I also encountered many bugs with its implementation. For example, it's drag and drop and focus switching randomly breaks when interacting with Xwayland windows. It also breaks resume/suspend if you have mul
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by nvarsj 6y ago
In pretty much every western European country your tax rates can easily hit 60%+ (like the 100k 60% cliff in the UK). The budgets of these governments are all largely funded on the backs of middle class income tax - 40% of all receipts in t
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Raft is a large improvement over Paxos for practical implementations. But it's still tricky to get right. As far as I know, the only widely used, battle tested Raft implementation is github.com/hashicorp/raft. Which is why so
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Wow when did they add that to TestComments? I really disagree though. The native testing framework is overly clunky and verbose. It also makes things harder to debug when they fail. Just look at the example it gives! You don't even kno
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by nvarsj 6y ago
You write a custom marshal/unmarshal method for every type, of course.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
It sounds like you have a memory leak in your golang app. That shouldn't be happening. Time to bust out pprof. I'd say though GC is what limits golang as a systems language. If you are doing lots of memory heavy things, I'd s
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Maybe we should have. This was well over a decade ago now. It wasn't something we could easily prove either. We just had strong suspicions based on the timing and his behavior.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I was also a victim of this. At my first engineering job, I came up with a novel way to handle project estimation for a very large company, using a combination of basic statistical techniques (hierarchical linear regression, markov chains).
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Yeah of course, it is a really tough decision. I think though, as the article points out, doctors have a responsibility to properly educate about the life quality of down syndrome so parents can make an informed choice. Right now, standard
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I think that Down Syndrome is a very misunderstood syndrome. The way it makes you look dominates how people think about you, without even knowing you. I interact with someone online who has Down Syndrome. It really changed my understanding
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by nvarsj 6y ago
The only thing really worth it is ripgrep, which is substantially faster than plain grep.

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