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by nvarsj 6y ago
Unfortunately you are sort of stuck with Nvidia. AMD has fantastic Linux support, but no CUDA.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Is it the same? I've done CUDA development myself, and the ease of local development is hard to beat.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I play a lot of stepmania (DDR and stamina), and I have really struggled with audio latency in Linux. And I have spent far too much time on PulseAudio and JACK configuration. Windows, again, is fine with nearly no latency and virtually no c
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by nvarsj 6y ago
That was definitely a troublesome paragraph. I’m not sure what point he was trying to make exactly. The rest of the article is much better though. Master recordings for example - is this offensive? It seems almost identical to the usage of
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I don't know how true this is. Personally I've always noticed significantly more input lag on Linux than Windows for games. I even used to hack on ezquake's Linux port to try and get the input lag down, but the Linux kernel j
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Slight exaggeration on my part. I was thinking of my old desktop which is about 6 years old - taking about half the time to compile a project compared to my brand new MBP.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
The trend in laptops has been for longer battery life and less heat. Since there haven't been any major breakthroughs in battery technology or mobile processor power (at least from Intel), this means lower power for processors and gene
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by nvarsj 6y ago
You just recited the unwashed masses dogma. I don't really agree with you at all. The vast majority of british people I've interacted with, even the "uneducated", all have reasonable, well thought out opinions even if th
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by nvarsj 6y ago
That's really sad to see. I also found the included songs pretty boring, and without custom beatmaps and scoresaber it's not really very good. I wonder what FB's strategy is here - why cut out the enthusiasts?
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Have you played Alyx or something like that on VR? It's absolutely not a gimmic. It's pretty freakin' amazing.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Not sure this makes much sense. All the top end VR headsets are constantly sold out and require waiting months to get one (Index and soon the HP Reverb G2). People want to play Alyx but they can't. Also a PC only game is niche enough,
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Nope... it just seems to make the glass stronger (more shatter resistant). Which is unfortunate, given how bad iPhones scratch over the last few generations.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
They are calculated differently. US numbers are 8-12 lower than EU for the same petrol.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
This is why clear copyright and licensing is so important. Unless something is in the public domain, don't use it unless you have permission. > The entire software industry is built on the idea that APIs are not copyrightable. The
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by nvarsj 6y ago
This is a complete dramatization. Are you copying 10k lines of code from a licensed code base into your project without permission and using it in your commercial product? Github projects already should strive to use correct licensing, and
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by nvarsj 6y ago
It's basically a repo containing ~/.emacs.d. It provides a lot of sensible defaults for different Emacs packages, these are organized into "modules" which are just sub-folders that can be enabled or disabled via the cent
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I think Kovid is awesome. He produces extremely high quality OSS for free and he's been doing it for years, while providing almost instant support to anyone that has a question. It makes me sad that people like to shit on someone doing
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by nvarsj 6y ago
It's not really comfortable enough for very long sessions. You really need something as lightweight as a pair of glasses for productivity work, in my opinion. Maybe we'll get there eventually, depending on how mobile SOCs improve.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
A good approach I think is to put together screen cast demos for work - like with obs studio. After you do that a few times pretty much all your fear of public speaking will tend to go away. It's so easy to do this.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Same here. As an engineer, who is naturally very blunt about work, I just heard another engineer speaking and being honest about all the pros and cons. My overall impression is he is very optimistic about things, and proud of what they&#x27
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I’m fairly sure the Ars review is plain wrong on this as well. Measurements in other reviews show the Quest 2 at 503g, vs the Quest 1 at 580g. That is around a 14% weight improvement, not 10%. On top of that, the headset depth has been redu
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by nvarsj 6y ago
There is something odd about this Ars review. It’s not the normal high quality review I expect from them. There is a lot of subjectivity and plain wrong things stated (like less IR sensors in the controller). The only legit criticisms I pic
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Not author, but I used Prelude for a long time and swapped to Doom a couple years ago and far prefer Doom's approach. Doom is just a git repo you check out into .emacs.d. It has no state other than updating your git repo to update Doom
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by nvarsj 6y ago
> Unless you think that universities should pick their students by lotteries This is already the case in the US - more so than any other developed nation I think, because of how poor state public schools can be and the lack of a welfare
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Not in the UK. Only in Silicon Valley, at a handful of companies, is this kind of comp normal. Seems silly to compare a government job to inflated stock-based salaries.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I think the lag is subjective. I find it noticeable compared to wired - however I'm fairly latency sensitive. I think if you've never played Alyx over wired, you may not notice the lag in VirtualDesktop. Playing something timing s
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by nvarsj 6y ago
When I was a kid I had a lot of friends in the local neighborhood. Kids used to just go outside and play with each other. Plus my parents were involved in the local community and knew a lot of other parents with kids, so they organized soci
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by nvarsj 6y ago
YMMV. I have a good friend who went to an American international school in Belgium that did the IB. It was a lot like you describe - many more freedoms and the teenagers were treated more like adults. He had a very good experience there. My
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by nvarsj 6y ago
It's not really surprising to anyone I think. School is hell for lots of teenagers. You're forced into a prison like setting with strict rules and little freedom, and you're forced to interact with a huge number of immature p
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Yeah sorry, the Java collections API is pretty great. I meant in terms of raw boilerplate the language requires you to type to get anything done. This is definitely improving, and you can use things like Project Lombok to generate a lot of

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