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IronBaconon Debian 10.4

I remember the troubles using "dselect" without a stable internet connection, "apt" came quite later (with Potato or Woody, don't recall). On the other hand, I never had the need to try something else...

IronBaconon AMD reckons it can win the high-end GPU battle

Not an AMD fault, but I'm bummed that the only model of RX 5700 with ITX form factor is available exclusively in Japan, cause a I would love to assemble a full AMD 5 liters PC (without selling a kidney for importing the GPU...) T__T

I guess mini ITX is a niche market.

IronBaconon The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers

If you count using an external HD valid, you can install Arch or Fedora on PS4 right now if you can still find one with a FW not higher that 5.05/5.07...

IronBaconon The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers

Wasn't that the PS2?

I recall they offered a "Linux" kit with mouse/keyboard, network/HDD adapter (so limited for fat models only) and a VGA cable to use with a computer monitor with sync-on-green support...

IronBaconon Urbit

I don't recall to have heard about it before and to be honest the far right and racists remarks posted by others about the project founder make me uncomfortable, but the last few lines where they introduce the "Dojo" with a REPL and a Lisp like syntax, that was interesting...

IronBaconon Testing Google Stadia [video]

> they don't have the data from future frames yet that will allow them to get down as low as you can go.

They could potentially implement something similar to Retroarch's runahead feature, but I suppose it would requires support from the game itself and more infrastructure so probably not feasible...

IronBaconon IBMs 200K Macs have made the workforce happier and more productive

Seems you used Debian long time ago, the equivalent of the Windos Store, Gnome Software assuming you are using the default install, doesn't ask for any password...

IronBaconon Htop Explained

jnettop

Well, it has "top" in the name. ^__~ I would say that jnettop is more similar to nethogs than htop...

IronBaconon Ask HN: Do you post your email address publicly?

I do, when something is bigger than an SMS.

IronBaconon Apple hid a secret message in its latest YouTube video

I think it was in the Silicon Valley series where one of the t-shirt had a print in binary ASCII with 'bitcoin' in it, don't recall the episode right now...

I didn't translate it real time tho, man ascii and a couple of minutes... ^__^;

IronBaconon Apple hid a secret message in its latest YouTube video

Slightly related, but I'm only aware of Gstreamer based video players that allow reverse playback: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/tutorials/ba...

Gnome Totem video player, at least last time I tried, could play a video with audio backward after pressing the comma key, it's an hidden feature as it wasn't mentioned in its keyboard shortcut page...

IronBaconon Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform

Also rsync (the one I use).

IronBaconon Getting Started with Lisp in 2019

I would love to see a section about debugging, something like the series at https://malisper.me/category/debugging-common-lisp/ but I suspect it would be difficult to made it general enough (the guide above targets SBCL, Emacs and Slime)...

P.S. I should mention that I live in Emacs, but I know there are people that wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole

IronBaconon The three words that can save your life

Until a few weeks ago I've never heard before of 3words, but they seems to be online from a very long time.

Another similar geo location system, if I'm not wrong created by Google but released with a liberal license (Apache) and not patent encumbered, is called "plus.codes".

Edit: according to Wikipedia they were founded in 2013, don't recall why I thought they were older...

IronBaconon Japanese addressing system

I know "what3words", proprietary algorithm with patents, and "plus.codes", from Google with a free license IIRC.

IronBaconon Emacs Users Are Like Terry Pratchett’s Igors (2013)

Clearly I meant "toll" not "tool" above...

IronBaconon Emacs Users Are Like Terry Pratchett’s Igors (2013)

Syntax high-light pays its tool on not so huge files, but I remember opening without slowdowns files with around 100K lines in text mode (mostly log files).

Not exactly related but with Emacs 27 will be distributed the so-long mode that could toggle minor modes that affect redrawing like "font-lock", "visual-line", "whitespace" when files with long lines are opened: https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/so-long.git/plain/so-lo...

IronBaconon Microsoft turns an obsession with detail into micron-optimized keyboards

> It makes every staggered keyboard feel like a relic from another age, they make no sense to me at all.

I agree with you totally, it boggles my mind and I'm so frustrated that we are still replicating a layout necessary for mechanical levering when it's not required by at least a century...

IronBaconon Microsoft turns an obsession with detail into micron-optimized keyboards

Not the OP but I have one that's collecting dust. I've chosen single profile keycaps for it (the keycaps have the same "shape" for every rows) because I wanted to use the Colemak layout, but I was never able to get used to it.

To be honest didn't tried too much. I also have an old Kinesis Advantage model, the one with the rubber function keys (I hate them, the Advantage2 has new function keys but they still look cheap membrane buttons) anyway I'm quite satisfied with a TECK 209, it's not perfect but it's more portable than the Advantage if I'm on the go.

I suppose the next one to try would be a Maltron.

IronBaconon Microsoft turns an obsession with detail into micron-optimized keyboards

I'm not completely sure, I think with ortholinear is used to indicate "array" layout keyboard like the Plank (first Google image link: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/440508407294189587/ )

IronBaconon Microsoft turns an obsession with detail into micron-optimized keyboards

> Unfortunately, being a big company, they can’t do anything very radical.

In my opinion, being big they have the means and resources to do some wacky and unorthodox experiment. I suppose that's same division that produced a Xbox controller for people with disabilities, it's quite a radical departure from the standard controller that one is used to find on a modern consoles: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/09/xbox-adaptive-control...

But, from what I know, they never tried something like this for keyboards.

IronBaconon Microsoft turns an obsession with detail into micron-optimized keyboards

Yeah right, obsessed with shaving some µm from keyboards but then let's put laptop style "short travel keys" keyboards on a desk because it looks cool. And not get me started with using the same horizontal staggered layout that was necessary 200 years ago on typewriters but it makes absolutely no sense today.

The fun thing is I've seen "ortholinear" keyboards sold for kids because horizontal staggered layout is for adults...

P.S. in my personal experience vertical staggered should be the default layout

P.P.S. and yes bikeshedding

IronBaconon Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

Also https://www.serverhunter.com

IronBaconon Some models of Airbus A350 airliners need to be hard-rebooted after 149 hours

Without reading the article it reminds me of the famous software glitch of the Patriot defense system, to work around a rounding error bug it was required to reboot the system if used for not so many hours...

IronBaconon Common Lisp Style Guide

Mmh, yeah. Sometimes I lack reading comprehension.

So, I would think it's not a thing that can be solved with style guidelines, maybe a different diffing paradigm that handles elements addition or deletion from a list?

IronBaconon Common Lisp Style Guide

Probably because I learned to never put them on their own and now, when I see them, I found them somewhat awkward.

IronBaconon The video game industry can't go on like this

Well next year should be available "The King of Fighters XV"...

IronBaconon Common Lisp Style Guide

I would add it at the beginning of the list instead of the end, if the list order wasn't important. I wouldn't put premptively the closing parens on a line alone tho.

IronBaconon A plan to mine the world’s research papers

So if the 35TB figure was correct a few years ago, I didn't expect now to be more than doubled.

Do you happen to know if it's only SciHub or it also includes Libgen? If it's only SciHub that's a lot of papers... ^__^;