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beebeepka··on Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms
I remember a time when the Pi was just 15 euro. Now it's nowhere near that.

There are plenty of x86 dual and quad cores around 100-150 "dollars". They are just as bad as the new Pi. Better spend a bit more and get a much better product.

beebeepka··on Resetting the timer in my toothbrush
What's there to be locked out of? I've this brown diode blinking for half an year. Are they disabling the vibrator?
beebeepka··on Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms
With the need for active cooling, I am no longer convinced Rpi is that great anymore. I loved mine 3b+ but at this point a cheap x86 sff provides much more utility at similar cost and power levels.

The Ryzen 7840 stuff is great but even a 5800 would be fantastic. They have been getting quite cheap lately.

beebeepka··on The Closing of the Bulgarian Frontier
It's easy to agree with this quote but I am writing this response because it made me feel like there's a bit too much repetition, or maybe exposition. First two sentences felt like enough to convey the whole thing to me.
beebeepka··on A KDE Plasma theme that aims to replicate the look and feel of Windows 7
Great job. Maybe the best effort yet?

That said, I liked the windows 8 look and feel better though. Not a huge fan of shiny glass aero effects. Grouping was quite the innovation back then. I wonder what happened to the (woman) who created it.

I think Gnome can, easily, be turned into an amazing GUI but its creators, for whatever reason, insist on ruining the out-of-box experience. It's 99% there and better than almost anything Windows and macOS have to offer. How come only apple offers cool stuff such as reopen apps after reboot.

sorry for the rant

beebeepka··on AMD MI300X 30% higher performance than Nvidia H100, even with optimized stack
They announced availability last week.
beebeepka··on AMD MI300X 30% higher performance than Nvidia H100, even with optimized stack
It's totally perceivable, though.
beebeepka··on AMD's CDNA 3 Compute Architecture
I thought trolling wasn't welcome on HN
beebeepka··on Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS and iOS
Clearly even modern devices are nowhere near 5ms but hey, let's just agree your perception is more forgiving.
beebeepka··on AMD FSR is the building block for Apple's hybrid MetalFX upscaling tech
I think your conclusion could only make sense with vsync on. Otherwise, doing something could only be slower than not doing something.
beebeepka··on AMD FSR is the building block for Apple's hybrid MetalFX upscaling tech
sli and crossfire. Double the cost and higher fps for equal or negative latency gains.

at least in talos 2 and highest quality fsr, 120 fps feels like 70, maybe 80.

beebeepka··on AMD FSR is the building block for Apple's hybrid MetalFX upscaling tech
After turning FSR on and off in Talos Principle 2, I think this upscaling thing is not as bad as I expected, though lag is a bit of an issue.

I wonder if dedicating more transistors (not fixed function) to the task could improve the issue, and if so, why aren't AMD and Nvidia doing it. As I understand it, the latency issue is not better with leather jacket cards

beebeepka··on How museum items go missing
I said stolen artifacs. How is that the same as buying iron from another country.
beebeepka··on Self-teaching, spaced repetition, and why books don't work
I did come back to it as an adult. Spent a while doing 2d and 3d graphics. It was much easier as an adult but rendering involves too much of this math stuff and I gave up. Definitely not for equipped to shine as graphics programmer.

Which brings us to my original point - not everyone can do it (well).

beebeepka··on Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS and iOS
Pretty sure you have forgotten or never experienced the awful bt devices from 15 years ago. Or maybe latency is not a big issue for you.
beebeepka··on Self-teaching, spaced repetition, and why books don't work
Oh, understood the main point just fine. You are not wrong.

Just got a little upset about the rest. I wouldn't have reacted as I did had you phrased it a bit differently, like in the post I am currently replying to.

beebeepka··on How museum items go missing
Sometimes I fantasize about breaking into the fancy UK and US museums just to give it back to counties it was stolen from.
beebeepka··on Self-teaching, spaced repetition, and why books don't work
I guess you mean well but this sort of reasoning is borderline offensive. I said math is hard to me and you immediately jumped to "abstract reasoning" as if that means math and nothing else.

Saw plenty of this in school. Not appreciated.

beebeepka··on Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS and iOS
Bluetooth is the gift that keeps on giving. Not sure why my Ubuntu insists on enabling it on every boot, at least on my hardware.

Good thing PC peripherals moved away from this junk. It was fascinating watching Logitech sell 300 euro BT keyboard with literally a second of lag, or "high end" mice with 500ms or more.

Hell, I barely use my PS5 controller because it sucks ass compared to my old Xbox 360 pad. Lag, lag, lag. 8 guess the majority does not notice or care, though.

beebeepka··on Self-teaching, spaced repetition, and why books don't work
Not everything is hard work. Some are smarter (or better equipped) than others. You can spend an eternity teaching me math and still won't be able to accomplish anything. It's almost like different people exist and they have different skill sets and interests.
beebeepka··on The depths of the input element
Ha, I actually didn't know some of this stuff. I am guilty of not being very helpful to mobile and disabled users so far, mostly because I almost never work on user facing projects. Which is terrible excuse because why wouldn't a visually impaired or disabled person not be working in a back office or something.

We should not be sticking to what works for "most people". I am sorry.

beebeepka··on The best WebAssembly runtime may be no runtime
Wouldn't code written in JS be just as fast after being turned into wasm?
beebeepka··on Fixing Classical Cats: How I got tricked by 28-year-old defensive programming
What do you mean?

Oh, listening to In Sides while shooting strogg? Maybe not a bad match. I don't think I can stomach this album anymore, though. I shouldn't have listened to it as much as I did back then.

beebeepka··on ‘Inert’ ingredients in pesticides may be more toxic to bees than thought
Ha, this appears to be sold as sugar substitute. Of course it would be promoted on here. Very profound, thank you. Any other suggestions popular with fat people?
beebeepka··on The United Arab Emirates' takeover of African forests
Vs destroying everything everywhere. But hey, gotta pump up more humans.
beebeepka··on ‘Inert’ ingredients in pesticides may be more toxic to bees than thought
Literal poisons, designed as such, may be harmful? I cannot sanction stupid newspeak hogwash like this. Is it not possible to openly say the truth anymore?
beebeepka··on Audiobox: Meta's new foundation research model for audio generation
"If we were to release our kettle and chickens, they would go extinct within a few years."

"I just hold on to all the money, 'cause bitches can't be trusted with it. We pool all the kissing money together, see? But if you wanna buy anything, you just talk to the bottom bitch, and then the bottom bitch talks to me.

Do you know what I am saying?"

beebeepka··on Trust-based moderation systems
Excellent at allowing the same 10 guys (and their alts) to dominate almost every discussion. For truly serious topics, this place isn't all that different. Manipulation is a powerful weapon.
beebeepka··on Trust-based moderation systems
"Trickle down moderation"
beebeepka··on Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications
No, having a dumb phone is not enough. A malicious actor can pretend they need to deliver an SMS to you, which may result in a network disclosing your location (anywhere in the world). Mobile networks probably don't honour aggressive probing for just about any peer but it's not like nobody can do this at scale. None of this is new.
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