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FreeFull··on Ask HN: What brand of laptop do you use?
Clevo NL51MU, 32GB of RAM, 1TB nvme, 1TB SATA SSD, running Arch Linux. If I were to buy a laptop again, I'd probably pick something with a nicer screen, but overall I've been pretty satisfied.
FreeFull··on TinyWM – A tiny window manager in around 50 lines of C
TinyWM doesn't include an X server implementation, while TinyWL is a full wayland compositor (although most of the heavy lifting is done by wlroots)
FreeFull··on CDE 2.5.1
It stopped after the change in ownership, but by then the damage was already done, and sourceforge lost a ton of popularity.
FreeFull··on NVIDIA and nouveau
I recently upgraded from a laptop that also had Kepler + i7 Haswell iGPU, to a laptop with an 11th gen Intel iGPU, and the graphics performance of the new laptop is way better than the old one, even compared to running the proprietary NVidia drivers on the old laptop. I'd definitely recommend upgrading.
FreeFull··on Why modern software is slow
Unless you're on a mobile phone, in which case it redirects you to the JavaScript-laden page anyway.
FreeFull··on Study finds high levels of PFAS in school uniforms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31jDgwAuIv8 I found this video about fluorinated solvents (Novec™) rather illuminating about the potential dangers of PFAS and related compounds.
FreeFull··on Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM
I wonder if another thing that's been holding larger amounts of RAM back is the lack of error correction. Maybe DDR5 will mitigate that problem, although it's still suboptimal that consumer-targetted CPUs don't support ECC.
FreeFull··on Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size
The only thing I can think of is that screen diagonals are still measured in inches. Ignoring that, a lot of countries are definitely fully metric with regards to the basic length/weight/time measures
FreeFull··on One centimeter long bacterium discovered
AFAIK, the egg isn't a single cell. The actual embryo connected to the yolk inside is significantly smaller
FreeFull··on We're choosing Rust, and not Go, C++, or Node.js (Feb 2022)
I'm guessing they're conflating memory safety with not having memory leaks. Of course, Rust doesn't prevent memory leaks either, although they might be less likely? I'm not sure how often Node.js codebases keep around memory allocations that aren't actually needed any more.
FreeFull··on Rustdesk – Remote desktop software, an open source TeamViewer alternative
AFAIK uinput does work just fine with Wayland. I've used sc-controller under Wayland before without any issues, and I believe it makes use of uinput
FreeFull··on Rustdesk – Remote desktop software, an open source TeamViewer alternative
At the very least, I would have used an AtomicBool rather than a static mut. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/53639 . As a bonus, AtomicBool doesn't require any unsafe code.
FreeFull··on HP Dev One Laptop with Pop_OS
As a collolary, RAM that's not being used by programs still gets used by the OS as a filesystem cache, so it still contributes towards the system feeling snappier.
FreeFull··on Patenting Your Perpetual Motion Machine
The data is confidential, so I'm afraid I can't disclose that. Wouldn't want someone else to successfully decompress it.
FreeFull··on Patenting Your Perpetual Motion Machine
I've compressed all the data I have down to a single bit, but now I can't figure out how to extract it back out.
FreeFull··on Evidence of Fabricated Data in a Vitamin C trial by Paul E Marik et al in CHEST
Your brother definitely did the right thing, given that "MMS" is actually chlorine dioxide, which is an industrial bleach. Drinking it can seriously damage the digestive system.
FreeFull··on Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing
Yeah, I did try it out for a while, a year ago or so. Ended up sticking with sway due to personal preferences, but in general the KDE Wayland session acted the way I expected, and I didn't run into any bugs.
FreeFull··on Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing
From what I've seen, it seems to work really well nowadays. AFAIK the Steam Deck even uses the Wayland KDE session for its desktop mode.
FreeFull··on Please put units in names
Maybe "fraction" would be suitable.
FreeFull··on Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing
I'm sorry, I meant specifically KDE's Wayland compositor. I misremembered, it seems Plasma is more general than just the Wayland session
FreeFull··on Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing
If you are using KDE on X11 right now, maybe you should give KDE Plasma a try.
FreeFull··on uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
There is an addon available for Firefox on Android that stops the video from stopping, too, which makes this even easier.
FreeFull··on Bacteria upcycle carbon waste into valuable chemicals
Sour beers exist, but yeast is definitely still the microorganism responsible for the alcohol content. I'm guessing the article itself wasn't written by the researchers, though.
FreeFull··on Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
Not quite 100% compatibility, since some games intentionally detect if they're running in a VM, and refuse to launch, for anti-cheat purposes.
FreeFull··on Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer
Seems like your Rust version is a bit out of date. Nested or-patterns have been stabilised in Rust 1.53.0, which came out back in June.
FreeFull··on The Factorio Mindset
Interestingly, Minecraft itself was inspired by a Zachtronics game called Infiniminer
FreeFull··on The Factorio Mindset
Pretty much any Zachtronics game, for one.
FreeFull··on Last call to voluntarily migrate Java accounts
Could this perhaps be a gmail.com vs googlemail.com thing? Perhaps using yourmail@googlemail.com will work, if gmail is your email provider in this case.
FreeFull··on What I'd like to see in Go 2.0
Guessing it was meant to go on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30205232 ? No idea how it ended up here
FreeFull··on The Dangers of Dimethylmercury (2019)
1-Propanol acts like ethanol, but stronger, so you'll be fine if you don't ingest too much. 2-Propanol on the other hand (isopropyl alcohol) gets metabolised into acetone, which isn't great. And the only difference between the two is the way the atoms are arranged!
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