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by ploxiln 6y ago
On macOS, I install https://github.com/emreyolcu/discrete-scroll to disable scroll acceleration, because I find it annoying, and macOS has no config option to disable it.
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by ploxiln 6y ago
In my experience, it's just some particular syntaxes that vim is slow to process - large XML/HTML files in particular. But just ":synax off" when you want responsiveness more than you want colors :)
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by ploxiln 6y ago
Yes, you can pretty easily use "SSH agent forwarding", which grand-parent comment calls "the devil", but really it's not that bad when used selectively, and a lot better than copying the private key to the server.
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by ploxiln 6y ago
I used docker inside a vagrant+virtualbox VM running ubuntu, on macOS, for a few years. It's more reliable, and more debuggable, than docker for mac. It's some easy-auto-transparent storage and networking layers that make docker-f
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by ploxiln 6y ago
There is lossy compression. There is a rather old codec (SBC) at a few different bit-rates, and a couple newer better codecs from the last 10 years (aptX, AAC, ?). Apple does have the control to make sure better codecs are supported and use
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by ploxiln 6y ago
Don't miss the link (in the middle of TFA) to a similar (but simpler) story about the Radeon software suite: https://www.techpowerup.com/274967/psa-amds-graphics-driver-... Both posts ask at the end something like
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by ploxiln 6y ago
IE6 also did this back in the day, it was infuriating.
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by ploxiln 6y ago
OpenBSD was sufficiently aware of this kind of thing to disable SMT completely back in mid 2018: https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg9... The vulnerabilities (MDS etc) were published in early 201
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by ploxiln 6y ago
But notice the link in the other thread, to some benchmarks provided by the authors: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201117232003.3580179-1-joel@j... With the "kernel protection" aspect enabled, the performanc
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by ploxiln 6y ago
True, but you would be surprised how little space each driver and feature take. The old and obscure ones are particularly tiny and efficiently implemented by modern standards. For the latest 5.4.z kernel release, the full source tarball, xz
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by ploxiln 6y ago
but the volume to surface-area ratio increases as the size of the object increases, bigger is better
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by ploxiln 6y ago
I noticed some years ago that vim can be much slower due to highlighting of particular syntax of huge files. For example it was fine with a 10MiB C file, but super slow with a 10MiB XML file, but fast again with ":syntax off"
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by ploxiln 6y ago
I think the skepticism and criticism of this project is reasonable, given the marketing. Look at it: https://dahliaos.io/ > a modern, secure, lightweight and responsive operating system, combining the best of GNU/Li
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by ploxiln 6y ago
KeePass is awkward on macOS and Linux. KeePassX hasn't had a release in 4 years. Thus, KeePassXC ... it's actually pretty good IMHO.
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by ploxiln 6y ago
Many C extensions work with PyPy now. I have a service that uses pylibmc and pycurl, and it works with PyPy. Those extensions didn't rewrite with cffi or anything like that, PyPy added a compatibility layer, it's impressive. But,
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by ploxiln 6y ago
Signal disallows federation from forks (it has been attempted). "Using signal" requires using the official build, and that requires closed-source libraries and services (e.g. Google Play Services).
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by ploxiln 6y ago
I've long avoided "switchable graphics", for this reason. The complexity breeds issues. Be happy with just intel graphics, or go for an AMD/radeon, to improve your chances of not running into bugs/incompatibilities.
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by ploxiln 6y ago
For system integration stuff like suspend/resume, display hotplug and resolution changes, etc, the open-source radeon driver is good, and probably the best option on linux. The 3D accel is not bad (but not as good as nvidia). However,
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by ploxiln 6y ago
It was generated by the hardware division. These are the registers that are authorized for disclosure in the open-source driver by the AMD employed open-source driver developers. So, it includes many times more register definitions than are
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by ploxiln 6y ago
I actually ran into one of these recently. I stayed at an AirBnB which had a super-cheapy small-ish TCL+Roku TV in the living room, with a super-cheapy thin antenna thing. The internet was "acting up" (95% of packets dropped, unus
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by ploxiln 6y ago
I find some of the arguments in https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/against-against-billio... rather compelling. > Two of the billionaires whose philanthropy I most respect, Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tun
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by ploxiln 6y ago
This feature doesn't facilitate you at all. It's a historical mistake that macOS and Windows have preserved, and refined a bit over the years. The only real purpose of this is for easier/faster compatibility with software dev
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by ploxiln 6y ago
I use Firefox. I have used it since it was called Phoenix, and I still use it today, extensively, on macOS, Linux, and Windows. I'm just disappointed about what Mozilla has become over the years. It wasn't supposed to be an "
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by ploxiln 6y ago
Just in case the author shows up here, there's a confusing little typo in "Passing argv to our program": _start: popq %rdi movq %rsp, %rdi callq main the second %rdi should be %rsi, which is confirmed
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by ploxiln 6y ago
These days, niceness is considered not adequate for this kind of thing ... you should get better results if you put all the worker threads in one cgroup, and your ssh/shell in another cgroup, with the cpu group scheduler enabled, and t
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by ploxiln 6y ago
There are other problems with the grub configuration and install, as a result of these changes, it seems. I had a few AWS EC2 instances, running an ubuntu-20.04 AMI, not come back after a reboot this morning, due to this brand new issue: h
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by ploxiln 6y ago
you missed the "Xbox One X"
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by ploxiln 6y ago
One example: librsvg was rewritten from C into Rust, gradually, while retaining the C API: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg https://people.gnome.org/~federico/news-2016-10.html (I do not nec
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by ploxiln 6y ago
Yeah, the scroll wheel acceleration kills me - I start off scrolling just a few pixels, and then it jumps half a page, when I just wanted a few lines. I've been using a product called "USB Overdrive" which has a multitude of
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by ploxiln 6y ago
I'm not sure about that, I've seen many states with 65mph and 75mph highway speed limits ... but you might be thinking about the drinking age, which was raised to 21 years in all states by withdrawing highway funds if they did not

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