tormeh

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by tormeh 9mo ago
I suspect that's an Nvidia problem. Never been an issue for me using AMD.
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by tormeh 9mo ago
I've tried the stock Windows shell and utilities. `ls` is noticeably slow in directories with like 15 subdirectories. That's not acceptable. Even the terminal emulator is so slow pasting 30 characters takes several frames. That&#x
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by tormeh 9mo ago
If I became financially independent tomorrow I'd go straight to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%A9delon_Castle to help build that. I don't think we've evolved to be healthy and idle. In retirement yo
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by tormeh 9mo ago
If you're ever forced to use Windows, just install nushell. The speedup is wild, and along with it comes many nice quality of life features. Nushell is good on the Unixes as well, but the defaults there are less annoying. I regularly r
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by tormeh 9mo ago
I have to say I'm a bit unimpressed with the efforts of the MFT consumer system camera manufacturers. Panasonic creates excellent cameras, they're so big it lessens the appeal of the smaller mount. OM makes cameras of the right si
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by tormeh 9mo ago
That's a lot of code, though. I can't imagine common libraries so big. The Linux kernel is less than 100mb.
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by tormeh 9mo ago
I've had to dive into xorg.conf more than once. Switched to Wayland as soon as it became an (experimental) option in Ubuntu and never looked back. Probably helps that I've always had AMD cards when running Linux, but it has been s
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by tormeh 9mo ago
If the meaning of the book and the intention of the author diverges then the author has done a bad job. If you can interpret a book however you want, what's the point of reading? I can just reject the author's intended meaning and
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by tormeh 9mo ago
That's fascinating and insane. Rust will help, but I can't see that working well. In my experience LLMs (even Claude) need quite a bit of handholding.
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by tormeh 9mo ago
Microsoft is the US military's biggest supplier. There is definitely a solution for this. And that solution is probably not available to regular users.
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by tormeh 9mo ago
Honestly I get the Xbox apathy. There's not that much profit in being what, third or fourth place? After Steam, Playstation and Nintendo? Depends how you define it, I guess, but to me they're in fourth place. Microsoft needs to ei
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by tormeh 9mo ago
Cosmic is quite nice. There's some polishing left to do, but it's already pretty solid. The app store is a bit of a turd, but I bet that's just because it's by nature connected to the internet. More could surely be done
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by tormeh 9mo ago
I have to use Windows sometimes at work, and of all indignities, this is surely a small one, but it is an indignity. Everyone complains about ads, which is a real issue, but to me the biggest issue is how blatantly suboptimal everything is.
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by tormeh 9mo ago
Very much this. I bet the Xbox/games division would be up in arms about it, but they got told to spend less money and also not to bother the important people. The Windows people might care, but with how bad they've been shepherdin
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by tormeh 9mo ago
Oh yeah, those are just problems you learn to live with. I guess these are as obvious to me as the Nvidia problems are to you.
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by tormeh 9mo ago
Absolutely. I think I might actually prefer this, somehow. It's very relaxed. One thing that vexes me in dating women, however, is that it's hard to figure out what "type" of woman a woman is. I think men might be a bit
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by tormeh 9mo ago
Have you tried getting meta about sports and video games? I don't care about sports, but I'll be interested if you talk to me about the business of sports clubs or the technicalities of stadiums. Video games have a lot going on ar
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by tormeh 9mo ago
Did you use the proprietary AMD drivers? You need to use the open source drivers. As far as I know these should be the default on all distros, so just click through the OS installer, install Steam, and start gaming. Don't touch the dri
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by tormeh 9mo ago
I think indies are safe. The potential problem I can see lying ahead - at least for me - is Battlefield.
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by tormeh 9mo ago
This really depends on the friends you have. I've never encountered this limitation because no one in my friend group plays competitive ranked games. Basically anything with private sessions doesn't require anticheat, so Valheim,
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by tormeh 9mo ago
Yeah, muscles are mostly about genetics, just like anything else. A mouse won't become a rhino by lifting. Humans are so incredibly genetically homogeneous that it can sometimes be tempting to ignore this, but even between humans the v
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by tormeh 9mo ago
Google is already there with TPUs. The reason they can add AI to every single google search is not just that Google has near-infinite cash, but also that inference costs far less for Google than anyone else.
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by tormeh 9mo ago
Gifts do confer obligations. This is widely agreed upon in human society. If you ignore this there will be consequences, just no legal ones.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
For individuals, there's often a strong incentive to display certain beliefs, and the easiest way to do that consistently is to internalise them. The cost of voting for a bad party to you personally is zero. In other words, the governm
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by tormeh 10mo ago
The US seems mostly healthy except for corruption skyrocketing. I don't even need to see the stats. If the president is this bad, and Americans overall think that's fine, then a lot of lower offices will soon be filled with corrup
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by tormeh 10mo ago
I don't believe this is possible, even at Trump speed. It's much easier to wreck NATO than to reshape the world economy to that extent.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
If you're an EU citizen you by definition have a permanent permit, until either your country of origin or host country leaves the EU. If you are not then woe be you, but that's a separate matter.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
What's this person's phone OS? This seems somewhat overlooked here. To me, the mobile OS is the centerpiece of any ecosystem. That leaves only two options.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
Things work well in Switzerland because the Swiss spend a lot more money on rail. That's unfortunately the secret.
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by tormeh 10mo ago
The worst parta are in NRW and in particular Cologne (honorary mention: Frankfurt). Unfortunately a lot of people live there and a lot of trains go through there. Don't understand why it's not getting fixed. Every time more money

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