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by wolrah 2y ago
> mac ui is nice but just thinking about the keyboard and mouse (iMac) give me carpal tunnel syndrome. This seems like an odd complaint in the context of a desktop computer like an iMac where you have effectively infinite choice in input
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by wolrah 2y ago
It's not that it doesn't work at all, and it might even work pretty well in most apps. The problem with non-integer scaling is the moment you run an app that has a custom UI element that thinks in pixels you start having to do ugl
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Maybe someone can train an AI to decide which alarms need immediate attention, given N staff members available. The words you've used could hypothetically mean some future artificial general intelligence that does not currently ex
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by wolrah 2y ago
Would you mind expanding on that, or can you point me at some relevant documentation? I've never seen a systemd service example for Minecraft which allowed for sending commands to the server CLI and seeing the result without involving
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by wolrah 2y ago
The immediate thought I had upon reading the description was "this would be great for Minecraft servers". Most of us running Minecraft servers on Linux have it wrapped in screen or tmux because the CLI is the only way to issue cer
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by wolrah 2y ago
> I don’t know what I’m missing here but something about this whole idea rubs me the wrong way. Who in their right mind is going to do this in a production environment where there is no apparent possibility to have a shared repository fo
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by wolrah 2y ago
> That’s not their job, and they already do what they need to: it requires disclosure in the games page/metadata. By the same logic was it not Apple's job to decide that music downloads shouldn't have DRM and tell publishe
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Would probably be seen by governments as anti competitive and abusing their monopoly position. What monopoly position? There are dozens of game stores available on all the platforms Steam supports with nothing restricting users from i
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by wolrah 2y ago
The purpose of Lorem Ipsum and similar is to provide text that looks close enough to actual content but isn't anything someone is going to get distracted by when evaluating a template. If the text is actually readable, even if entirel
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by wolrah 2y ago
> Like, installing or updating software is the same permission tier as accessing another user’s documents, wtf? To some extent, yes. If I can install software of my own choosing on basically any normal desktop OS that will appear to oth
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by wolrah 2y ago
> I remember mid-90s it was typical for a home computer to come with a prominent tutorial on mouse usage. There was definitely one for MacOS 7, while I don't recall if there was an official Microsoft tutorial for 90s Windows or just
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by wolrah 3y ago
> I'd love to have managed 2.5Gb switches with 10Gb uplinks in my house using a custom linux OS that I can use standard config management tools with... 100%, this has been the most frustrating thing about following the various &quot
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Nothing on the GP's comment is about capitalism. Companies and/or industries deciding that some element of technological and/or societal progress is limiting or threatens to reduce their profits, and that it's less
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by wolrah 3y ago
As someone who got in to the PalmOS world just before OS 5 was shown off and then spent years waiting to upgrade for the OS 6 device that never came I've been fascinated by your project since I first came across it. Amazing work! Amus
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Are prisoners not allowed to send and receive letters in the mail? That seems like a way around the phone call scam. Yes, writing letters, definitely a reasonable alternative to phone calls, no concerns about timeliness and even delive
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by wolrah 3y ago
> (think DECT you could roam between base stations with) DECT does support roaming between base stations. Most DECT base stations are designed as standalone devices, but Yealink, Snom, and other vendors do offer multi-cell solutions sca
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by wolrah 3y ago
> But I’d say the error rate is actually very low, maybe .1-1% and nowhere near 10-20% of data being messed up. The thing with CSV-related issues is it's usually not a fixed percentage but instead depends on the data. I work in the
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Why stop there? Add more than 15 sails and you could be generating fuel! AFAIK there are a few companies that have been adding electric drive systems to sailboats that actually do work this way, not only can it be used to maneuver arou
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by wolrah 3y ago
> but vinyl and CD differences have nothing to do with it; it's just incompetent producers and sound engineers aiming at making their work more loud to attract listeners. The physical limitations of vinyl don't allow it to be p
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by wolrah 3y ago
G.711 is what's used on the actual PSTN, so there's not even a hypothetical benefit from G.722 unless you're going direct over IP to another host supporting 722, and if you're doing that then you're probably better
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Doesn't that require your printer to support Postscript? Not many printers for mere mortals support such advanced technology. Most networked printers support Postscript, it's not a special feature like it used to be. Sure, ch
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by wolrah 3y ago
Most internet-based VoIP services (read: full telephone providers, not just chat providers) use the same exact G.711 codecs used in the digital portions of traditional telephone lines for normal calls. In theory you can run anything over th
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by wolrah 3y ago
I'm using Mellanox ConnectX-3 cards, IIRC they're HP branded. They shipped in Infiniband mode and required a small amount of command line fiddling to put them in ethernet mode but it was pretty close to trivial. They're PCIe
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Besides, I don't think anyone really has a local network which is faster than their SSD. Even a 4-year-old consumer Samsung 970 Pro can sustain full-disk writes at 2.000M Byte/s, easily saturating a 10Gbit connection. You mig
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Photography in particular is frustratingly easy to get wrong. Not directly relevant but this reminded me of an article I probably saw linked here a few years ago where two photographers took nearly identical photos and people on the in
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by wolrah 3y ago
Reading this post led to one of those moments of realization about "no shutdown" in Cisco IOS and similar environments. The config file can't guarantee the interface will be up when it's loaded as that depends on externa
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Says who? The people behind these invasive systems who push back hard on the slightest attempt at basic accountability? 100% this, IMO any of these law enforcement vendors like ShotSpotter, Harris (stingray), Taser/Axon, etc. whic
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Funny how environmental activists were powerful enough to kill the nuclear energy but not the fossil one. It's a lot harder to affect something that's so firmly embedded in how we do things as a society. Blocking new nuclear
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Absolutely not my experience from those days, VPSs were rock-solid for me. Likewise, my personal toy VPS actually dates back to 2009 and the only unplanned downtime it's ever had were when Linode was one of the targets of one of t
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by wolrah 3y ago
> It's nice in browser history to see foo.mp3 and know it's an mp3. TBH I agree, I personally do my best to ensure the extension in the URL matches the document type on sites I run, but my point was that it's not in any wa

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