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by nvarsj 6y ago
> that simply don't occur on Windows, mostly because of MS superior QA You're comparing an OS that hasn't had a major release in almost 5 years to a bleeding edge Linux distribution. Install an older LTS version of Ubuntu
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by nvarsj 6y ago
This is well described. Nix is fundamentally a different way to manage an OS compared to almost anything out there. While I think the ideas behind it are revolutionary and is the right way to build infra, the UX and organic growth of it mak
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I've never used nix-env on NixOS. I really think that command only exists as a bridge for people used to more traditional OS's. I think there is a space for it - if you don't want to spend time building your user configuratio
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by nvarsj 6y ago
It's simply not true. Install Ubuntu or Fedora, run Gnome 3 and everything "just works". You can't use Arch as an example here - it is intentionally very basic, and takes a lot of effort to learn as you do almost everyth
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I believe this is what's considered as a "highly sensitive person". There's some scientific evidence showing that you can identify even babies based on how they react to external stimuli. Basically your brain is hardwire
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by nvarsj 6y ago
They operate at different layers. K8s sits on top of the infrastructure which terraform provisions. It's far more dynamic and operates at runtime, compared to terraform which you execute ad-hoc from an imperative tool (and so only make
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I shouldn't expect a widely used standard (USB Audio) to work after upgrading my hardware? All the Windows and Linux machines I've had have no problem with USB audio and I don't expect they ever will.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
> How old is your Mac? That issue sounds very strange to me. New MBP 16". Apparently it's a problem with the T2 security chip and affects almost all external USB 2.0/3.0 audio devices. Just do a google search for audio dro
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I've had many issues with OS X audio on Catalina - all of my USB audio devices skip and pop on it. It's also a pain to configure, with options bizarrely hidden in the MIDI app. Windows probably has the best audio stack of them all
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Condensed fonts are really great for coding. It was one of my own personal revolutions when I swapped to one. It lets me put a lot more text on the screen without wrapping - and I find it much quicker to scan and read. I highly recommend tr
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by nvarsj 6y ago
This is a very good point. There seem to be a non-trivial number of dyslexic engineers out there (I've worked with at least 3-4 over my career), and they struggle a lot to write - although they'll hide it out of cultural taboo. Th
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Not true at all. It's different, but plenty of deception and diplomacy. I've played werewolf online as well (in forum threads, way back in the day) and it's quite similar!
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by nvarsj 6y ago
If you're willing to invest the time in it, org-mode will reap you dividends and a note taking system that will last you for life. org-roam, especially, is really great.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
There are loads of examples in the comments here. Have you read them?
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Zoom uses a proprietary gnome API / hack to do it I believe. It works on Gnome only. Note that with pipewire, wayland screensharing already works on Chrome/Firefox (for all of the video chat apps), and it will come to electron eve
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by nvarsj 7y ago
I think this is very common for tmux usage in general. I think the reason is that terminals seem to benefit the most from tiling WMs, as generally their own internal window management is quite lackluster and you usually want to open many te
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by nvarsj 7y ago
The main problem I find is mixed language projects are not well supported like they are in Intellij. For example I'm working on projects using gradle and mixing Groovy and Java. In the past I was working on Scala/Java projects wit
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by nvarsj 7y ago
I love IntelliJ's backends - they are best of breed for sure. However I think its editor is subpar and not very customizable. I also dislike its simple vim mode. I really wish I could pay for IntelliJ's backend with my desired edi
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by nvarsj 7y ago
> I have a feeling the new Macs will be worth a look for anyone without hard requirements for Windows 10 Not just that - but the many, many legacy apps professionals rely on. The 64-bit move already decimated the professional audio space
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by nvarsj 7y ago
I don't really see that cycle. I think Hotspot's latency and memory usage has always been atrocious, and they have slowly been working to improve that with ParallelGC->CMS->G1. I don't think there is a black/white
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by nvarsj 7y ago
It's a great time to get into Emacs. The community is growing because of great projects like Spacemacs and Doom Emacs which let you get a fully working environment up very quickly, with good defaults. I personally would recommend doom-
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by nvarsj 7y ago
Not at all. Rarely ever get a spam email in Fastmail. Gmail is the worst in my experience. It’s far too aggressive and would regularly capture legit emails when I used it. I lost a few important emails this way. The best email filter I ever
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by nvarsj 7y ago
> The majority of state school provision in the UK is atrocious. I don't think this is really true anymore. I agree state schools were truly awful in the 80s/90s (my partner who went to state school didn't even learn times
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by nvarsj 7y ago
This is a problem in the UK too. The independent school (aka private school) sector has seen fees double or triple over the last 10-20 years. This is largely driven by rich foreign students, primarily Chinese, sending their kids to these sc
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by nvarsj 7y ago
Audio "issues" are incredibly subjective. The placebo effect is so strong with audio, which has led to an entire industry of snake oil and hyper subjective audio comments (like many seen in the replies here). Unless you blind A&#x
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by nvarsj 7y ago
On Mac at least, kitty seems to be the best terminal option. It's fast/low latency, has no font rendering issues, and fully supports ligatures (iterm2, alacritty, all have issues in my experience). It also works well with tmux.
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by nvarsj 7y ago
Thanks for the suggestions! I've never heard of IF before - but I'm a long time MUD / roguelike player. This looks really great.
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by nvarsj 7y ago
I’m being pedantic, but that’s not really Zen, it’s the BT Openreach backend which has really great stability and latencies. I tracked my BT Openreach connection for many years and I never got more than a few ms of jitter, really amazing. H
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by nvarsj 7y ago
> putting a lock on the door as my SO cannot integrate the concept of WFH I basically had to give up WFH because of this. My family just did not understand at all. And putting a lock on the door is not socially acceptable. If you have a
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by nvarsj 7y ago
What's wrong with the spotify shuffle? edit: Did a search, seems like there's quite a few problems (only playing recently added songs, only playing 100 songs out of the playlist, etc.). I know google music has also had long standi

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