rjh29

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by rjh29 2mo ago
This stuff is user tested, many people prefer animations because they get confused if the UI changes instantly. For example if a button moves position when a sidebar is collapsed, the animation tells the user where the button has gone. You
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by rjh29 2mo ago
Where's the utility? If it's a fun hobby to optimise old hardware that's fine. But there's nothing noble about using AI and expensive modern GPUs to get 5% more juice out of old hardware.
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by rjh29 2mo ago
Reddit has the same phenomenon where the audience doing the upvotes is very different to the audience posting comments. As I'm in the second group I would love to say it's because people who read comments are smarter than those wh
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by rjh29 2mo ago
"Linux users" is a pretty big spectrum. My XFCE install uses barely any ram.
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by rjh29 2mo ago
Steam for some reason gets a pass even though it normalized the use of DRM for PC games over 20 years ago.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
They specify that the BIOS needs to be patched.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
Absolutely not. Folding phones just aren't for you!
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by rjh29 3mo ago
"The final cost depends on the availability of high-capacity memory modules."
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by rjh29 3mo ago
Historically even if you invest into index at the worst possible time (prior to a crash) and keep holding you still outperform inflation long term. Timing the market is impossible. Just keep an emergency fund in a money market or savings ac
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by rjh29 3mo ago
The prose and art is obvious AI slop. If the author somehow thinks that can deceive an intelligent reader then they've lost me already.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
You can still enjoy Reddit and it's still a useful source of information. Just avoid the popular subs (including those you mention) or anything with 100k users or more. It's not difficult.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
It's just how he is. Prior to LLMs he was cramming a datasette link into every thread. Downvote and move on.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
I think it's 2. I frequently get told there's no capacity for Pro and the query is answered by Flash with extended thinking. And tbh it's hard to tell the difference between the two, especially if you're not coding with
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by rjh29 3mo ago
It's easier to split USB 3 into two stages: 1) USB 2.0 - 480 Mbps, 0.5A (2.5W / 5V) 2) USB 3.0 on Type-A - increases data to 5/10 Gbps (e.g. for SSDs) and power to 0.9A (4.5W / 5V). 3) USB 3.0 on Type-C - adds pins to en
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by rjh29 3mo ago
Choice of tone can communicate the same thing as 3-4 paragraphs of calmer discourse. Should we ban the use of tone? Personally I appreciated it and the frustration was palpable.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
I agree there is some technique involved. It's just so trivial compared to hand coding that I find the comparison meaningless.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
"practice techniques for AI-assisted development" I guess people don't like to admit that AI is doing 95% of their job so they pretend they are "practicing techniques" or "experimenting with new models", o
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by rjh29 3mo ago
Pretty good summary. It can be confusing since type C is "just a connector" but it's pretty heavily coupled with the protocol now.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
Usb isn't the issue, you bought an extremely budget mechanical keyboard.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
It's complicated. They are underpaid relative to inflation, but there's also a massive queue of graduates who want to replace them. If the govt aquiesces to their demands then they may need to do the same for other unions.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
"In the UK, most people simply get Bupa dental insurance." Respectfully that is completely wrong, do you even live here? Nobody wants to pay for private healthcare here (takeup is ~10%) and people don't care about teeth as mu
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by rjh29 3mo ago
Finding an NHS dentist is nearly impossible in most of the UK, though.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
Perl is another example. It has a dedicated linter to detect the myriad ways of using it wrong.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
The author was talking about eliminating memory being copied between processes. That's a performance improvement. I don't know how the 300x improvement was made or whether that's even real - you should really be arguing with
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by rjh29 3mo ago
Ladybird's Rust port of the JS engine was a good example. Compare the output byte-for-byte, run both in production (with the new code disabled but checked) before releasing. It was LLM-translated but done carefully.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
I'm not interested in a technical conversation with you; I was answering someone else. The top voted comment thread of this page, which dominates discussion, already covers everything you'd want to know.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
There are hundreds of comment chains about this already, go troll somewhere else.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
It is the opposite for me. AI loves terms like "you've just hit upon ..." or "it's the holy grail" or "The X Trap" so much that I internally cringe when I see them, and would avoid using them.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
Yes, see top comment.
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by rjh29 3mo ago
In this case it's justified because Rust allows safe implementation of threaded code. Current Postgres is per-process. Switching to threading yields performance improvements.

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