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exciteabletom··on Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
https://xkcd.com/1172/
exciteabletom··on Intel says one of its 13th Gen CPUs will hit 6GHz out of the box
I'm sure a big air cooler like the Noctua NH-D15 would be enough to stop throttling.

Maybe Intel will include a beefier stock cooler in the box?

exciteabletom··on This Image Does Not Exist
Hi,

Awesome project!

You might want to consider cropping all the human images to be square as well. It's a dead giveaway when all the AI images are square and the human ones have varying aspect ratios.

exciteabletom··on This Image Does Not Exist
This is awesome, but they should really crop every image to a square.

All the AI generated images are square which kind of ruined it for me.

exciteabletom··on Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement
If I may ask, what is the reason you place these restrictions on yourself?

Do you have a moral objection to centralised currency?

exciteabletom··on The end of the nice GTK button
Anyone else happy with Gnome? It's good to have an opinionated DE that just gets out of the way.

It launches apps, provides me with workspaces, and abstracts all the low level details away so I can focus on actually using my computer.

If people want to customise every minute detail of the themes they shouldn't be using Gnome/GTK. The devs don't have to cater for everyone's needs, they are allowed to focus on a target audience.

exciteabletom··on Mercedes to accept legal responsibility for a vehicle when Drive Pilot is active
I love that the fines are scaled to income, makes so much more sense than a flat rate.
exciteabletom··on My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll
You can still work around the Quora BS by appending `?share=1` to the URL
exciteabletom··on Mojang to Require a Microsoft Account to Play Minecraft
It would take an insane amount of work.

Minetest is not remotely close to feature parity with Minecraft.

exciteabletom··on Avoiding the top Nginx configuration mistakes
The automatic certificate renewal is a killer feature. Goodbye dodgy cronjobs!
exciteabletom··on Avoiding the top Nginx configuration mistakes
Thanks so much for replying! Just looked at some example configs and it looks way slicker than nginx.
exciteabletom··on Avoiding the top Nginx configuration mistakes
What are some alternatives to NGINX? Is there a maintained fork with a better config?

I know of Apache, but that seems to be falling out of favour lately.

exciteabletom··on Cyberpunk: Patch 1.5
I'm glad CDPR is still working on this despite the dismal launch.

It looks a lot closer to what they promised on release now.

exciteabletom··on Spongebob-CLI – Watch classic spongebob from the terminal
Thanks
exciteabletom··on Spongebob-CLI – Watch classic spongebob from the terminal
Awesome tool but what is the legality of this? Where is it sourcing the episodes from?
exciteabletom··on Cannabis use produces persistent cognitive impairments: meta review
Is caffeine also at the top of the funnel? How about melatonin?

The fact that most heroin users have used caffeine previously does not mean that caffeine is a gateway drug to heroin, or at all correlated with hard drug use. The same applies to cannabis.

exciteabletom··on How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition
<p>How <b>not</b> to code an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML">HTML</a> page by hand.</p>
exciteabletom··on Vibration API
> I think HTML should be split in web sites, and applications.

You have reinvented native apps

exciteabletom··on 2049 and the dreams of Philip K. Dick
The rotoscoping in the film makes the film feel so surreal, it's like nothing I've ever seen before. Absolutely worth watching if you get the chance.
exciteabletom··on Free SVG images and icons, released under Creative Commons CC0
Quality control is definitely lacking, but it is free so I have no complaints.
exciteabletom··on I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
Sure, but MS values backwards compatibility a lot.

They aren't going to break existing API or bloat the kernel with a bunch of functions that do the same thing.

exciteabletom··on Against Discord Channels
The post says: "discord just doesn’t scale well, because it lacks good threading"

However, they recently added threads[1] where users can start small temporary channels for discussions.

[1] https://support.discord.com/hc/tr/articles/4403205878423-Thr...

exciteabletom··on Why noise is necessary for our brains to perform at a high-level
It's insane to me that we have already got to a point where we are struggling to differentiate CG text from real articles.
exciteabletom··on Fork Freshness: Project lifespans in the Ruby ecosystem
This problem could be solved if Github simply sorted the list of forks by stars instead of alphabetically.
exciteabletom··on SHA-1 'fully and practically broken' by new collision (2020)
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Be kind. Don't be snarky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

exciteabletom··on Fosscord is a free open-source discord compatible chat, voice and video platform
Without context I would've assumed that was a phishing site.
exciteabletom··on Fosscord is a free open-source discord compatible chat, voice and video platform
It definitely checks the process list. On Linux it lets me add "systemd" as a game to display on my status
exciteabletom··on Fosscord is a free open-source discord compatible chat, voice and video platform
Forgive my ignorance, but how could Discord accommodate deaf users in voice chats?
exciteabletom··on Ask HN: Do you think web3 is a hype or a real thing about to happen?
Propaganda? I was sharing my opinion on a post that explicitly asked for it, you're welcome to disagree with it
exciteabletom··on Ask HN: Do you think web3 is a hype or a real thing about to happen?
Web3 isn't solving problems that the average user cares about. The vast majority of people just care that they can read articles, watch videos, do shopping, etc...

Web3 makes these tasks more complex and slower in order to create a decentralised, privacy-preserving, cryptocurrency supporting network. No average user cares about privacy on the web or paying with anything other than fiat.

And if the user base isn't there, what company will build software to interact with Web3? Every usable browser today is made by a for-profit company.

I can see it being used for niche, nerdy communities, but that's about it. I don't think it will ever be mainstream.

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