nvy

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   by nvy 3y ago

   I can only join Teams meetings (as a "Guest") if I'm signed out. If I'm logged in to my Microsoft account, I cannot join calls and get some weird error. Nobody at Microsoft can resolve this error. It's been two ye
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   by nvy 3y ago

   There is no universe where Teams can be described as "good enough". It is without question the worst piece of software I have ever used.
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   by nvy 3y ago

   >But even students treat it as such. Many of the people I know went to get a degree because they believed "they had to", not because of an intrinsic desire to learn. They're responding rationally to a fucked up employment
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   by nvy 3y ago

   >Concurrency is not "single core parallelism" Of course it is. Concurrency gives the impression to the user that parallel processing is being done, even when it's not. That's why my parents old 386 could render a mo
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   by nvy 3y ago

   >lxappearance My understanding is that lxappearance is for GTK stuff only; is there a similar tool for Qt-based stuff?
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   by nvy 3y ago

   But concurrency is just "single core parallelism" anyways, so this isn't really germane to the discussion. JS has neither.
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   by nvy 3y ago

   I'd be interested in reading a writeup on this subject; I've always enjoyed running linux without a DE but the awful text rendering makes it a sub-par experience. I have one of the lcdfans modded thinkpads running Fedora and awes
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   by nvy 3y ago

   I feel like "allowing Facebook properties" and "Firefox tracker protection" are fundamentally at odds.
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   by nvy 3y ago

   >so does starting Emacs complete with its GUI I'm with you all the way and am a daily emacs user but I'm not sure I'd point to emacs as a good performance comparison, haha. Emacs has always been a bit of a dog in my experi
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    by nvy 3y ago

    Java is only slow to start the VM. If your process is long-lived it's exceedingly quick because you only pay the startup penalty once. "GC pauses" are greatly exaggerated in terms of impact and frankly for the vast majority
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    by nvy 3y ago

    It's really not as weird or as esoteric as the memes would lead you to believe. (Common) Lisp is multi paradigm so you can write code that looks very much like "C with the parenthesis in the wrong spot" and it'll work ju
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    by nvy 3y ago

    Open-pit mining produces dust, and in this case that dust would be heavily contaminated, and could then end up being blown away to contaminate some new site, making the problem worse.
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    by nvy 3y ago

    Yep and nothing of value was lost.
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    by nvy 3y ago

    I bought an ASUS monitor with adaptive refresh rate sync (gsync/freesync) and it died in less than 3 months. ASUS refused to replace it. Their products are scams; avoid ASUS at all costs.
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    by nvy 3y ago

    Are you sure it's the raw intellect turning women away and not, you know, unpleasant levels of arrogance?
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    by nvy 3y ago

    >Is the NDP the party of the wealthy elite in Toronto? Always has been.
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    by nvy 3y ago

    st is actually one of the worst terminals available. For all their purported minimalism, it has abysmally bad performance. See https://danluu.com/term-latency/
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    by nvy 3y ago

    I'm neither cool nor a wizard but I still wrote my algorithmic trading bot in common lisp. Also a Todo list web app.
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    by nvy 3y ago

    >if it wasn't built in the last six months it's not cool. I feel like the perennial posts about lisp pretty handily demonstrate this to be false.
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    by nvy 3y ago

    Could you link to the box that STH recommends? I find navigating their site to be a bit of a chore.
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    by nvy 3y ago

    The pfsense people are, frankly, fucking clowns. They bought the domain opnsense.com and used it to badmouth the opnsense project[0]. Do not give pfsense time, attention, or money. [0] https://opnsense.org/opnsense-com&#x2
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    by nvy 3y ago

    I've been looking at this as well. I'm currently running my gigabit fiber connection through a GPON-ethernet media converter and from there over Cat 6 to a ubiquiti Edgerouter-X. It does okay with hardware offloading enabled for
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    by nvy 3y ago

    >INFP Hasn't Myers Briggs been debunked as a load of pseudoscience shit?
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    by nvy 3y ago

    Don't forget baking Amazon ads into their default desktop environment. Unity, was it? I forget which one.
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    by nvy 3y ago

    Same! Though mainstream Linux distros are quite good these days, for ThinkPads and Dells
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    by nvy 3y ago

    >hell, look at how long it took the multinational mega-corporation to get Android's background power consumption down. Was it bad early on? I seem to recall even the original Nexus One would last all day on one charge. By contrast
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    by nvy 3y ago

    Actually I used to run OpenBSD on a Thinkpad as a daily driver. Did that for work at a startup around 2010, but it was a miserable experience.
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    by nvy 3y ago

    I actually think, given how the usage share of the BSDs is a fraction of that of Linux or Windows, that OpenBSD is a textbook example of how "good enough" almost always trumps technical excellence. Linux is unquestionably less &qu
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    by nvy 3y ago

    Neat idea, thanks for sharing. Curious choice to highlight Show HNs that didn't survive, but not the ones that did. Is there a reason for this?
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    by nvy 3y ago

    I have one from my sister-in-law, that she got from her (Israeli) partner's grandmother, which is a very traditional Israeli hummus recipe. That recipe is for stovetop and I adapted it to the instant pot. The trick is to use baking so