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drunner··on EVGA terminates Nvidia partnership [video]
Uhh, what does EVGA carry besides graphics cards? Are they going to carry AMD cards now or just going to downsize and survive on other minor component sales?
drunner··on A Note to RadWagon 4 Owners
While its a small start, any RadWagon 4 owners of models manufactured this year are scratching their heads and wondering when Rad is going to address the fact that their tire treads are also catastrophically failing.

For those unaware, the RadWagon 4 uses an extremely uncommon tire size that Rad is pretty much the only supplier of tiers and tubes for. They have been catastrophically failing (bead separating from sidewall) for months and Rad hasn't said a word.

https://old.reddit.com/r/RadPowerBikes/comments/wv0x2j/radwa...

https://old.reddit.com/r/RadPowerBikes/comments/wkyy5i/psa_i...

drunner··on New MacBook Air with M2
Is there anything out there that can run linux that has battery life like this?

I'm debating just getting one and running a linux VM full time in it.

drunner··on Wasmer – Universal WebAssembly Runtime
Its been a while since I looked at using webassembly as a scripting language for modules in a larger program.

Has support been added for:

  1) types other than int, for example strings and what not without the hacks of passing string lengths and addresses?

  2) sharing of data.  That is can I declare a struct of some sort in the main program, pass that to the webassembly script, operate on it, and return it?  Last I looked at that the only thing I could come up with was passing it back and forth as a (pick your format here) json string.
drunner··on Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?
I can't speak to the quality of the code base (I don't know go), but as a user caddyserver is pretty great.
drunner··on You may not need Cloudflare Tunnel. Linux is fine
If you ran something like Headscale, Netmaker, or Netbird (WG mesh network managers), then all your traffic is direct point to point and you don't need to care about the limits imposed by a VPS.
drunner··on Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30374905 which in turn points to https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

Doesn't answer you question. I wish google would use their enormous resources to fight this copy spam (and maybe its so hard that they are but you can't tell).

drunner··on Our User-Mode WireGuard Year
How do they manage their mesh?

I've just been doing research on setting up my own wireguard mesh (currently using a spoke/hub setup with pi-hole/pivpn).

I found https://github.com/HarvsG/WireGuardMeshes today which is awesome, but I'm curious what fly.io / other readers here may be using.

drunner··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
At least they let you mail or email.

I faxed them 4 times in 6 months to verify my identity because they have me confused with someone else and eventually just gave up.

They said any other alternative was not supported.

drunner··on The UX on this small child is terrible
The other hack for jars of any size is to store them upside down until you open them for the first time. Then when you open the jar, you get to stir the PB and the oil naturally comes up from the bottom instead of delicately trying to force the oil down without spilling it over the sides.
drunner··on A great organic-food fraud
afaik in the US, 'natural' is an unregulated word in the world of food labeling/marketing
drunner··on How we got to LiveView
Does this kind of technology exist in other languages in a similar fashion? I am aware of Blazor for c#, but I believe that uses webassembly and ships the entire c# runtime/gc making it very heavy.

It is so cool that this just has a small js layer client side.

drunner··on Hospitals lift curtain on prices, revealing giant swings in pricing by procedure
And yet: Using a conservative definition, 62.1% of all bankruptcies in 2007 were medical; 92% of these medical debtors had medical debts over $5000, or 10% of pretax family income.

https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343%2809%2900404-5/pdf

drunner··on Unity patents ECS
Does this need a (2020) or am interpreting this document wrong?

Either way, how the hell do you get a patent for some abstract diagrams that represent a design pattern.

Like can I patent the "novel" by submitting a diagram like:

  _______________________
  | Character | Setting |
  _______________________
  | Situation | Theme   |
  _______________________
drunner··on The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
> I have always been a vaccine enthusiast but now I see infection surging even in the most vaccinated areas.

https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrou...

    The reported share of COVID-19 cases among those not fully vaccinated ranged from 94.1% in Arizona to 99.85% Connecticut.


    The share of hospitalizations among those with COVID-19 who are not fully vaccinated ranged from in 95.02% in Alaska to 99.93% in New Jersey. (Note: Hospitalization may or may not have been due to COVID-19.)


    The share of deaths among people with COVID-19 who are not fully vaccinated ranged from to 96.91% in Montana to 99.91% in New Jersey. (Note: Deaths may or may not have been due to COVID-19.)
drunner··on Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen
Reminds me of buying beets at the grocery store that were $.99 "each", but were conveniently bundled in a group of 3.

I got home and was thinking "that was a lot of beets for $.99." but I still have no idea if I did the self checkout right or wrong when I entered "1" as the quantity.

drunner··on The home computer as a cultural object is physically vanishing (2007)
Not really a workstation, but seems like folks can take their homelabs pretty seriously too.
drunner··on Ad tech firms test ways to connect Google’s FLoC to other data
Well, that's part of the issue. On macOS, all browsers are just skins over Safari. Google obviously has more resources to make this work better but I agree, overall I always found Chrome better than Firefox on macOS.

You can't really compare that to a native linux/windows experience.

drunner··on Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
How do you deal with deployments and not losing things you could otherwise persist in Redis or Memcached? Of is your application stateless in that way?
drunner··on Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke
Equifax drives me insane. I can't manage my own freeze with them because they can't validate who I am over the phone (none of other bureaus had a problem).

Instead, I have spent 6+ hours on the phone with them over the last 3 months. I have faxed the requested information 3 times and mailed it once and nothing has been resolved. I've given up. I recently had to have my credit checked for home purchase and I simply told the lenders that I would not be working with them if they could not use Experian or Transunion to verify my credit.

The most insanely infuriating thing about all of is was that when Equifax got hacked, I immediately froze my wife's and my own credit with Equifax. At the time, they required you to create a unique 16 digit key to manage your freeze. They have apparently done away with that, so even though I own the key and can give it to them, it means nothing to them. My wifes account has no issues.

My account will be frozen for life at Equifax, I don't care to waste any more time with them and I the credit system in the US with a passion.

drunner··on Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’
I feel the same way about reddit that I feel about google search now (like many others it seems according to the HN thread the other day).

It is only useful to me for very, very small subs that act like enthusiast forums of old.

drunner··on In January, there were more real-estate agents than homes for sale in the U.S.
Same in Fort Collins. Last house we lost on was listed for 425, sold for 500 with waived inspection and appraisal gap.
drunner··on Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
Mosh and tmux is classic setup. If you need x11, I have recently found x2go to have the best performance.

I use wireguard to access my home network when I'm visiting my parents.

drunner··on Ask HN: Laptop as a Thin Client?
Definitely an option, I could tolerate vscode during those times.

I would just need to figure out the best way to connect to my desktop from outside my home.

drunner··on Ask HN: Laptop as a Thin Client?
What software do you use for the rdp connection?
drunner··on Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture
This is what happens when apple forces browsers to use Safari's rendering engine. Could it be better, sure. Use an OS that allows Firefox to use its own renderer if it bugs you that much.
drunner··on With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
Those of you praising Proton, what distro and what gpu are you using? Are the days of nVidia bad, AMD good for driver support over?
drunner··on I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
Doesn't rdp feel super laggy/artifacty?

Or are you just doing ssh work?

drunner··on 'Zoom towns' are exploding in the West
Yeah, I agree. I'm not an academic, but I could not find the data on which towns were surveyed in 5 minutes looking at the source paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01944363.2020.1...
drunner··on Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
it doesn't have true colors for one
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