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Numerlor··on Astronomers Spot a Planetary 'Suicide'
The energy is transferred to the planet from its orbit when it stretches, and then dissipated as heat from friction
Numerlor··on Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected
You usually keep old mails around that malware can then silently forward, this is a problem for unencrypted data. To authenticate through email, even if possible, there are hoops the attacker would need to go through and you'd likely be notified of e.g. a password reset mail
Numerlor··on Watts Should Replace MAh as Essential Spec for Mobile Devices
While more informative on its own, it's still kind of useless with the wide variance of power usage across models.

Laptops use Wh but you still need to do the same research as you would have if it was in mAh (ignoring the 100Wh max for planes that you'd have to calculate yourself)

Numerlor··on PowerToys Command Palette Utility
You can't directly map it to the win key, but you can use the keyboard manager to remap one (or both) of the win keys to a shortcut you then assign to command palette https://u.numerlor.me/zRq6PA
Numerlor··on How Silica Gel Took Over the World
Alcohol would dry up faster, demineralised water will have more time to dissolve and redeposit particles. Though you have to be careful with alcohol as it can destroy some plastics
Numerlor··on Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)
I've been running zfs on root on my Debian home server, only the install was a tiny bit more involved but it was done in maybe half an hour going off of the guide and trying to understand everything it was doing with 0 experience (... And then did it again after I broke networking after an hour lol)
Numerlor··on Everyone knows all the apps on your phone
On windows you shouldn't be able to do (most of) these directly with apps running under admin, though that's a small consolation when the browser is a normal process.

I'm not sure if we'll get away from these anytime soon as any out of the box solution will inherently limit the user's freedom that has persistently been there for decades on PCs

Numerlor··on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account
I'm mostly doing server code in Python nowadays.

From what I remember only the c/++ toolchains were a problem on windows but the couple of times I needed them they were either managed by some other build process and ran fine or I could just compile and run in wsl

Numerlor··on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account
I don't have any of that in Windows. I'm not using the home version but the preinstalled apps can be removed in a minute, I think cortana has been deprecated for a while now, and the only unwanted thing I've seen on the taskbar has been the weather that I've hidden with two clicks.

For wsl, it's just a normal VM that's integrated with Windows. Maybe it'd get in the way of I did development that needed to work closer with the hardware, but I don't at the time

Numerlor··on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account
I'd use multiple desktops if you have that many windows open. For the highlight it should have a different color?
Numerlor··on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account
I'm a dev using Windows, tried Linux multiple times for a couple of months and it always felt like it was getting in my way in daily usage.

Dev experience is usually at worst the same as Linux when you use wsl as you don't really need more than the terminal

Numerlor··on Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi
For what came up to me when searching for Python info before I blocked it, they still have plenty of incorrect information or information that's useless for the tutorial page it's on
Numerlor··on Setuptools version 78.0.1 breaks install of many packages
I'm usually of the opinion of just removing stuff when it needs to be gone, but this is really an incosequential change to the setuptools code compared to how many problems it caused
Numerlor··on CueCat
Except for my bank app that refuses to scan payment qr codes, and OCR is faster and more reliable on getting the information
Numerlor··on Why SSDs slow down, and how to avoid it
QLC is the new standard and shouldn't matter much for high capacities.

Both depend on running a SLC write cache, once that's full the performance drops significantly, a bit less so on TLC. Consumer ssds just aren't made for writes that cover a large portion of their capacity

Numerlor··on Volkswagen seeks to counter rivals with budget EV model
That's not too far off what people earn here, in an EU country with cars as our main export
Numerlor··on Apple M3 Ultra
Ah seems like I remembered the CPU price for a higher tier CPU which can cost the 6k on their own.

Thinking about it you can get a decent 256gb on consumer platforms now too, but the speed will be a bit crap and would need to make sure the platform ully supports ECC UDIMMs

Numerlor··on Apple M3 Ultra
A basic brand new server can easily do 512gb. Not as fast as soldered memory but it should be maybe mid to high 5 figures
Numerlor··on Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance
To my understanding the use of nuclear would be to reduce the ammount of spread out battery stations that'd have to cover the base load when cloudy / at night.

There'd also be less overbuilding of solar as you have to build for winter weather and day length instead of summer if solar is supposed to cover everything

Numerlor··on Linux laptop maker called me a Zombie
If you need windows enough to dual boot I'd just use wsl for the linux
Numerlor··on AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards
There's room but neither GPU vendor is willing to sell 32gb at that price
Numerlor··on Wi-Fi 7 Overview (2024)
Already having them in place without moving would be the main benefit
Numerlor··on A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
From what I can tell it wasn't as prominent as it has been recently, with being a popular pick for random projects that weren't just gluing things together. The big companies that used it were perfectly happy specializing the interpreter to their use case instead of upstreaming general improvements
Numerlor··on Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations
While I also felt limited in vscode compared to pycharm, it definitely feels more polished. I've had some bugs in pycharm for years with no progress on their issue tracker, and new features feel a bit slopilly implemented.

Also the built-in type checker is just bad

Numerlor··on A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
python just didn't have much momentum until relatively recently, despite it's age. There are efforts to speed it up going on now backed by Microsoft.

For pypy it's in a weird spot as the things it does fast are the ones you'd usually just offload to a module implemented in C

Numerlor··on LINUX is obsolete (1992)
Are graphics just specially handled by the kernel with how recoverable they are from crashes?
Numerlor··on NordVPN says its new protocol can circumvent VPN blockers
Off the top of my mind as a big game GTA V runs P2P, I think most games that aren't competitive do, only using servers for matchmaking
Numerlor··on Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
They have a bridge app for normal protocols, though I have had problems with it losing content IDs on attachments
Numerlor··on Proton(mail) Is Down
I switched over this year on a paid plan, still on trial period, may switch back to PrivateEmail. PrivateEmail was kinda sketchy security wise (e.g. you can turn on MFA but SMTP has no MFA and same password) but never had any problems there.

So far not being able to send mail from arbitrary addresses on my domain without registering them first is annoying because of the 15 address limit they have in place. If I try it over SMTP without registering the address first I get an error back. And the bridge app is breaking inline attachments for me from a Python script sending mails over SMTP daily. The outage is not helping with the quite long downtime.

UI wise it works fine I guess? getting to settings has been annoying. Only use the web UI as the client app used some ridiculous amounts of RAM but I think they're mostly the same

Numerlor··on Ask HN: Is Proton Mail Down?
Is there some way of having a backup for relatively short outages like this on a single domain? From what I understand DNS entries for mail and mail security block quickly switching providers temporarily right?
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