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by usrn 4y ago
>Wayland enables the flicker-free, nicely-animated experience Of all the things I care about this might be at the very bottom of the list. If that's the best reason people can come up with to give up my DE and decent performance for
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by usrn 4y ago
I've been banned by Dang before, but of all the moderators on the internet I still like him the most. He tries hard and after all these years still works in good faith as far as I can tell. HN wouldn't be what it is without him.
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by usrn 4y ago
GP probably meant consumer vs business laptops. Personally I let my last laptop die and never bothered replacing it. My Pinephone works much better when I need portable computing and it means I don't have to carry two laptops on a work
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by usrn 4y ago
HN is written in a custom lisp dialect. I'd argue it's more like one of those designer cars than a corolla.
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by usrn 4y ago
My mail server's IP has been the same for 4 years now. Even the machine I'm typing this on only changes IPs every couple years or so and that's a residential IP that isn't supposed to be static. Of course you want ever
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by usrn 4y ago
Walking around with a notebook (the paper kind, I like the small pocket sized ones with no rules so you can write music and draw things too) instead of a phone and then coming home and typing what you wrote into a computer is awesome. I wro
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by usrn 4y ago
tbh it doesn't matter what's < 20ms with satellite internet that's amazing.
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by usrn 4y ago
If kids are trying to kill themselves it's not the guns that are the problem. I'd argue telling them constantly that they're horrible or incapable for being their race is probably closer to the real problem since that seems t
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by usrn 4y ago
I think what we need is trust, good faith communication, and actual science (rather than conjecture and bribes.) That's all gone now, possibly for a very long time.
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by usrn 4y ago
It was but the progressives destroyed it in the mid 60s.
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by usrn 4y ago
The places in the US with the tightest gun regulations have the most gun deaths because it's the people, not the guns, that cause the problem.
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by usrn 4y ago
School shootings are an extremely tiny minority among shootings in the US. They just get a lot of attention.
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by usrn 4y ago
The economic problem Japan faces is temporary while the demographic change from immigration would be permanent. It makes sense that the Japanese are avoiding it.
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by usrn 4y ago
Actually yes. There are parts of the US that behave like the developed world with gun crime rates comparable to commonwealth countries and Western Europe. The parts with high gun crime rates are full of people who for whatever reason can&#x
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by usrn 4y ago
My understanding is that the older stuff is actually cheap, it's just much harder to manage and that's what people don't like.
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by usrn 4y ago
It sounds to me like the modern process is just working up GMO yeast matabolites. I feel like the main issue is probably going to be patents and not something technical.
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by usrn 4y ago
Yeah. Having lived for years with geosyncronous internet: it's not what people think of normally as internet, it's more of a consumerized interesting radio thing. It's not reliable, it's not fast, the latency is insane,
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by usrn 4y ago
I've seen videos of people using starlink on boats. Without compensation for the boat movement it performs poorly/unpredictably. I really wonder if they'll just tolerate the people that do it anyway since they're unlikel
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by usrn 4y ago
If you're set up for electric propulsion that's not too bad. That plus my work machine would be under half what a properly sized motor should draw at 50% throttle. It only needs to work for ~6-7 hours a day.
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by usrn 4y ago
Interesting. If I moved on to my boat and managed to get by with the 5GB option I'd be just about breaking even because of how high rent is.
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by usrn 4y ago
Me and my girlfriend use period timing. We accept the risk because we would eventually like children, now wouldn't be ideal but wouldn't be catastrophic either. Both of us agree that regardless of the law we wouldn't get an a
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by usrn 4y ago
You're not crazy, whatever Redhat decides eventually becomes popular because that's what people get paid to work with. It's very similar to the situation with Windows. Also, I think most desktop Linux users that care probably
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by usrn 4y ago
I really don't like Zuckerberg and expected to disagree with him (especially about maps, everyone gets maps wrong (especially especially on computers) but this isn't a map of the earth.) This sounds right to me. Every time someone
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by usrn 4y ago
This is much better although I'd argue even it can be taken too far.
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by usrn 4y ago
Honestly adwaita will look like crap no matter what the resolution is. (And before you get upset about the Gnome dev's feelings getting hurt, they've decided that this is the best theme and no one should ever use anything differen
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by usrn 4y ago
If I were to buy a new laptop I'd probably avoid high DPI displays. I can display fonts small enough that I can't read them even though the screen can resolve them on the older 1080p screen my thinkpad has. All the high DPI means
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by usrn 4y ago
On the other hand, North Korea is the way it is because they've rejected our neo-liberal ideology. I think much like TOR did for Iraq this would actually move them away from China and closer to us. EDIT (out of comment quota): I'd
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by usrn 4y ago
It's really odd, everyone said search was the main reason to put videos on YouTube instead of self hosting/with a CDN. I guess all they have now is inertia, kind of like the cable companies had.
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by usrn 4y ago
It's weird buying expensive stuff like boats after living your whole life surrounded by new consumer goods. I keep finding modifications/damage the previous owners made and have to figure out how to deal with them on my own.
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by usrn 4y ago
It doesn't matter. Some tiny minority of internet users are actively involved in OSS development and they're the ones that use IRC.

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