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cwaffles··on Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux
I find the server 2003 theme to be much more eye pleasing, mainly because it is designed to use more than 256 colors. https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-Classic
cwaffles··on tcpdump is amazing (2016)
Quick reference to add permissions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wireshark#Capturing_privile...
cwaffles··on Take more screenshots (2022)
I can recommend flameshot[0]. It has good editing tools built-in, low dependencies, and is ergonomic.

[0] https://flameshot.org/

cwaffles··on New Mac Mini
How expensive would it be? Windows XP (circa 2001) does it without GPU acceleration with ease on a 512MB ram machine. Windows Vista runs on 2G of ram, with transparency everywhere (to the point that it is distracting).
cwaffles··on CDC File Transfer
CDC slides explaining the algorithm: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protec...
cwaffles··on How Not to Forge a Search Warrant
Related examples page: https://dirtyprosecutor.org/
cwaffles··on Replit for Startups
Not sure what is the advantage relative to GitHub codespaces?
cwaffles··on Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
HP Elitebook 865 G9. Top notch Ryzen chip, up to 64GB RAM (non soldered), IPS screen, LTE WWAN modem, 75whr battery, very user serviceable, and USB 4 (charging + display). ~$1400 USD

https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-elitebook-865-g9-notebo...

cwaffles··on Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
Any chance your RAM has errors?
cwaffles··on Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
Arch latest docker image is 135MB[0], whereas Debian stable-slim is 30MB[1]

[0]https://hub.docker.com/_/archlinux/tags

[1]https://hub.docker.com/layers/library/debian/stable-slim/ima...

cwaffles··on Ask HN: How ready for daily driving is Asahi Linux?
Good to know! I'm also considering the Schenker[0] with 99wh battery, or the Starbook[1] as they seem to be linux friendly

[0]: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Schenker-Vision-14-Laptop-in-r...

[1]: https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starbook

cwaffles··on Ask HN: How ready for daily driving is Asahi Linux?
How is the battery life on Asahi (eg 16in MBP)? I'm debating this versus the HP Elitebook 865[0], which has 64GB ram, top spec Ryzen, and a 72whr battery. They claim 22h battery life, and 13h of youtube playback.

[0]: https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/mdp/hp-elitebook-865

cwaffles··on Ask HN: What are good resources for solving performance bottlenecks?
This would be for linux applications built with C++/Rust. Performance is mainly CPU bound currently due to small packet sizes
cwaffles··on Reference count, don't garbage collect
I disagree with the statement that modern memory architectures have much higher read bandwidth vs write bandwidth.

Benchmarks show they are within 30 percent of each other: https://www.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2021/03/2021-...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/2525/5

cwaffles··on Microsoft Opens New HQ in Toronto
What kind of career are you currently in?
cwaffles··on Node.js v18 Released
Release announcement: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/v18-release-announc...
cwaffles··on The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you (2020)
I recall there was an article of mental models to make the most in life, knowing that their time on Earth is limited. For example one would try to live like they are the protagonist of their own life movie, living like a rock star. Does anyone recall an article like that?
cwaffles··on Explaining Postgres Explain
All parts:

https://www.depesz.com/2013/04/16/explaining-the-unexplainab...

https://www.depesz.com/2013/04/27/explaining-the-unexplainab...

https://www.depesz.com/2013/05/09/explaining-the-unexplainab...

https://www.depesz.com/2013/05/19/explaining-the-unexplainab...

https://www.depesz.com/2013/05/30/explaining-the-unexplainab...

https://www.depesz.com/2021/06/20/explaining-the-unexplainab...

cwaffles··on Nuclear war probabilities are useless - counter to the nuclear gambler’s ruin
Trump also pushed the EU and the rest of Asia towards China

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trump-withdraws-ame...

cwaffles··on Apple in 2021
M1 was built by the PA Semi team, acquired in 2008 [0]. They build the A series chips in the iPhone, I would argue that M1 would not exist without them, furthermore, M1 was not a Cook endeavor. For the watch, it looks like the first key hire was in 2013, but there is a chance that it was not all Steve's work [1]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi 1. https://www.wired.com/2015/04/the-apple-watch/

cwaffles··on JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers
The issue is that people also share screenshots, and ligatures are not universally shaped or styled, unlike ASCII.
cwaffles··on Tailwind CSS v3.0
Memorizing and looking up names has significant impact on my productivity, especially on codebases that I do not touch frequently. I often losing my train of thought or momentum because of too much abstraction
cwaffles··on Caddy – Open-source web server with automatic HTTPS
Nginx has an excellent track record for CVEs: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/17956/Nginx-Nginx.html?ve...
cwaffles··on Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart?
I am very interested to hear what kinds of health conditions arose from constantly working (both as a case study and as a thing I can do to avoid myself)
cwaffles··on ‘Havana syndrome ’ and the mystery of the microwaves
An interesting use of energy is in "The Thing" which is powered remotely and acts as a listener-transmitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

"The existence of the bug was discovered accidentally in 1951 by a British radio operator at the British embassy who overheard American conversations on an open radio Soviet air force radio traffic channel as the Soviets were beaming radio waves at the ambassador's office.[9] An American State Department employee was then able to reproduce the results using an untuned wideband receiver with a simple diode detector/demodulator..."

cwaffles··on Show HN: Sendfiles.dev – quick, secure P2P file transfer using WebRTC
Great illustrations, how did you make them?
cwaffles··on OpenCV 4.5 Release
Interestingly this release moves OpenCV to the Apache2 license, budgeted for 1+ manweeks[0], RISC-V optimizations, and Julia bindings.

[0]: https://github.com/opencv/opencv/wiki/OE-32.--Change-OpenCV-...

cwaffles··on Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead
IMO F1 is a testing ground for engineers firstly, and a medium for displaying driver skill second.
cwaffles··on Actix Web 3.0
Rust offers a few things over Node in my experience: - Super fast startup - Single binary distribution (you can integrate your static assets with rust-embed) - Minuscule ram consumption (0.5MB for a graphql server) - Cargo build system is much easier to work with than webpack - No mismatches between TS types and JS source

However the big caveat is the documentation and libraries are still quite lacking

cwaffles··on Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer
Backup link if you're getting http 503: http://archive.is/JSvCi
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