NilsIRL

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NilsIRL··on Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater

Animals clogging up nuclear power plants is a common occurance[1][2][3].

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-21/french-nu...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/01/jellyfish-clog...

[3]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hinkley-poin...

NilsIRL··on Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater

Keep in mind that that is not the only possible environmental impact. In order to extract such large volumes of water, ecosystems may be damaged.

NilsIRL··on Why I Work on Ads

It's not because it's funded by advertising that it's cheaper for the user, in the end, the consumer pays for the advertising when they purchase something

NilsIRL··on FDA Moves to Ban All Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars

In France, taxation accounts for 80% of a cigarette pack. [0]

Yet tobacco costs 120 billion euros a year for only 16 billion in revenue (to the government). [1]

It is almost infeasible to tax cigarette to the equivalent of their burden on the health care system.

[0]: https://www.boursorama.com/patrimoine/actualites/les-taxes-s...

[1]: https://www.reseau-hopital-ght.fr/actualites/patients/campag...

NilsIRL··on Launch Your App: Why We Don’t Use Docker (We Don’t Need It)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26472452

NilsIRL··on Firefox for iOS 32

Shameless plug!

You can use MozWire[0] to generate wireguard configuration files for Mozilla VPN.

[0]: https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire

NilsIRL··on Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)

How different is this from "real life"?

Books and other non-internet media are written by a subset of the population as well.

NilsIRL··on Learn Vim (the Smart Way): a book to learn the good parts of Vim

There's also caps2esc, which works even on the tty. https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/plugins/caps2esc

NilsIRL··on Creating a QR Code step by step

I found this video to be a lot clearer and with the combination of the website makes understanding easier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA8hDldvfv0

NilsIRL··on Show HN: I made a site where students can create and share flashcards and notes

Similarly to many here, I can't get the website to work, but I'll still ask a question:

How is this different than Quizlet and Anki? (Obviously with Anki sharing isn't as straightforward but is possible (there's even a website hosting Anki flashcard sets))

NilsIRL··on Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent

AFAIK it's also done using CSS

NilsIRL··on Setting up Git identities

As suggested by the [release notes](https://gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html#ecc), not many PGP implementations support ECC.

NilsIRL··on A Godot reimplementation of SuperTux

https://github.com/godotengine/godot-git-plugin

https://godotengine.org/article/gsoc-2019-progress-report-1-...

https://godotengine.org/article/gsoc-2019-progress-report-3#...

NilsIRL··on Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu

> I just don't understand why people run windows

I've seen so many good answers but to me, the main one is that people don't know there are alternatives.

I know virtually no one in "real" life that knows what Linux is. Windows is pre-installed and people just roll with it. Some are aware there's this thing called "Mac" that it is more expensive and that's it.

NilsIRL··on Clang vs. other open-source compilers

Link time optimization is possible with GCC.

NilsIRL··on Verlan: French slang that inverses words

Isn't this similar to what is done in English?

NilsIRL··on Godot 3.2

You might want to look at how the editor is built. The editor uses the Godot engine as an "engine" (as opposed to a framework).

So the UI and everything are written in C++.

That seems to be exactly what you are looking for.

NilsIRL··on Godot 3.2

Akien (project manager) isn't based in Brazil, he's French. And Juan (project manager) lives in Argentina (according to his GitHub).

George however, who has been employed only recently does live in Brazil (according to his GitHub).

NilsIRL··on Show HN: Darken – Darkmode Made Easy

I think a before and after screenshot, with minimal configuration, would help to understand what it does, and see the "quality" of the results.

NilsIRL··on The Status of HTTP/3

> All this to support more ads per page.

I'm also very afraid of the future of Web Assembly.

Both of these technologies i'm afraid aren't going to make things better, faster and more lightweight. They are just going to allow the bloat of the web to become worse without noticeable symptoms.

NilsIRL··on Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

There's a reason "downvotes" are called "flags" on HN

NilsIRL··on Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language

> Is there any evidence this is a tradeoff?

Bound checking often is the reason rust performs worse on some benchmarks. Though I wouldn't consider this a problem at all since it can be disabled.

NilsIRL··on Comma Two Devkit

and the vehicle itself

NilsIRL··on Firefox 72.0

I don't know if I'm paranoid but on the Mozilla add-on page, it says the code is licensed under GPLv3. So the source code MUST be available somewhere.

Seems very odd.

NilsIRL··on A Response to Hello World in Go

Also, performance isn't only about the time it takes for something to run and whether that will impact the user, but is also about resource usage.

Those milliseconds the user won't notice are still processing that is wasted and could potentially be used for something else

NilsIRL··on Hello World

Nim compiles to C

NilsIRL··on Hello World

It would be interesting to know why the number of syscalls for C are so high.

NilsIRL··on Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim script faster and better

I don't know what kdbus is but you're never going to have less latency than copying a value into your instruction register.

And the fact you think a software bus is good enough is the reason so many things are so slow these days. It just depends on what your standard for latency is.

NilsIRL··on Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim script faster and better

I've never done it and have never heard of it being done but you could replace the code a bit like a JIT compiler does it.

NilsIRL··on Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim script faster and better

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