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joonoroon Where Glaciers Melt Away, Switzerland Sees Opportunity

Ah yes I too love to read about the positives of the worst ecological disaster we have ever experienced (created) that will lead to widespread suffering and death. It's like arguing about how nuclear war would be great for the construction business.

Go tell all the climate refugees when their home gets swallowed up by the ocean or when a heatwave kills their grandma that they need to see the "positive sides" of the situation.

joonoroon Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations

I like Magit because it doesn't try to hide git while still giving all the advantages GP mentioned https://magit.vc/

joonoroon Newly Declassified Documents: NATO Wouldn't Move Past East German Border

https://www.linkedin.com/in/davemajumdar

Yeah the author sure does look sketchy huh /s

joonoroon The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

Firefox used to have this feature, but it was removed. You need to install this extension now: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-pa...

joonoroon How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users

Thanks for the response, it's good to know what's causing the problems with messages and that it's being worked on. I'll try to contact support next time I have voice issues with my group.

joonoroon How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users

Elixir was one of the reasons I started using Discord in the first place. I figured if they were smart enough to use Elixir for a program like this then they would probably have a bright future ahead of them.

In practice, Discord hasn't been completely reliable for my group. Lately messages have been dropping out or being sent multiple times. Voice gets messed up (robot voice) at least a couple times per week and we have to switch servers to make it work again. A few times a person's voice connection has stopped working completely for several minutes and there's nothing we can do about it.

I don't know if these problems have anything to do with the Elixir backend or the server.

EDIT: Grammar

joonoroon The Rise and Fall of Yik Yak

>Go on living, stop being a hyper-sensitive prick about people saying mean things. They're going to bully whether or not it's at home, school or work.

Go ahead and tell that to the growing number of people with depression or other mental anxieties that they're being "hyper-sensitive pricks", I'll wait. I'm sure they will appreciate your advice. This is just as stupid as telling a depressed person to "just think happy thoughts". You're out of touch.

joonoroon Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update

Came here to say this. Many of my friends run pirated copies of Windows because they cannot afford a license, and they cannot use Linux either because they are dependent on Windows software.

Usually I'd say it's their own fault but fuck it, it's Microsoft's fault. Everyone knows Windows licenses are overpriced and that if Microsoft actually cared about collective security they'd bring the price down. Stop pretending you're not a part of infrastructure.

joonoroon Tmux and Vim – better together

I did the same. I got fed up with constantly tweaking my Emacs config so I switched to VS Code. A month later I was back because VS Code was missing too many things I wanted and didn't really work the way I wanted it to.

So the way I feel about it now is, yes, it would be nice to not have to deal with these configurations. But so far, editors like this aren't as good as the ones that do require more complex configuration, at least in my opinion.

But as others have mentioned, it's not so bad. Once you get your config right you can mostly leave it alone.

joonoroon Night Shift compared to f.lux

I use a cronjob with redshift[0] and it works. You can set it to simply toggle the effect without any scheduling (`redshift -O 3400` to enable, `redshift -x` to disable). I have it set to enable at 9PM and disable the next morning when I open my laptop lid ;)

[0] http://jonls.dk/redshift/

joonoroon Switching from macOS: Developer Environment

I used Xfce for a while but I still prefer vanilla Ubuntu, Unity feels more polished to me. It's the little stuff like vsync being enabled by default (no screen tearing when you move a window or scroll a web page).

joonoroon Computing glitch may have doomed Mars lander

Damn, beat me to it.

joonoroon Stali: A new static Linux distribution

>There's honestly not a ton of difference on most of the CLI stuff since the hardware is the same, but it is measurable.

This is what I was after. I can't imagine ffmpeg running slower just because of systemd or unity. But yeah, if you're running on a 2010 netbook I wouldn't be surprised if it ran better under Xfce.

joonoroon Stali: A new static Linux distribution

Out of curiosity, what were you using to measure the speed of the various operating systems you mentioned?

joonoroon Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You

Is there a way to see what Facebook labels you if you aren't registered on Facebook?

joonoroon With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy

The saddest part about it for me is that Windows 10 made some of my friends cynical regarding privacy. If you asked them before they would have at least acknowledged the value of privacy, but now it's just "Why not upgrade to Windows 10? Everything you use is already data-mining you." They see all the bad news about privacy in Windows 10 and I guess that's the only way you can rationalize using it.

joonoroon BSD vs. Linux (2005)

Ahh, this old article again.

>"But Linux is more popular." >So? Windows is even more popular. Go use that.

This slope is so slippery I broke my neck when I fell.

joonoroon The 4$ smartphone

AFAIK your issues with the 2012 Nexus 7 are well known to be caused by the storage memory of the device, it degrades really rapidly. Upgrading to 5.1 just makes it more pronounced. Other devices of the same age don't suffer from it.

joonoroon A Message to Our Customers

They didn't make any mention of how feasible it would be, just that they wouldn't even try because it would threaten the security of their users.

joonoroon We Need a Better PC

The new ThinkPads are indeed awful, get the X220 aka the last good one. That should do you well until something worthwhile comes to replace it (maybe HP?)

- Last old-style ThinkPad with great build quality

- Last one with the classic keyboard

- Small form factor

- Sandy bridge i7, still kicks butt because it's not undervolted (check the benchmarks)

- up to 16 GB memory

- 10 hours of battery with a new 9-cell battery (+ tlp package on linux)

- Linux or Windows works great

joonoroon Why I don't like smartphones

>Smartphones will be their first and last computer

No, unfortunately smartphones are toys at best. Nobody uses them for real work, just consumption and browsing facebook. When they go to work, they will use a real computer.

joonoroon Why I don't like smartphones

>"No thanks." ?

If you then showed them a real computer, nobody in their right mind would have said "yes." The thing about smartphones is, they don't actually do anything new. The only thing better about them is the form factor, they sacrifice everything else in comparison to a real computer. None of those things you listed are inherent to smartphones.

>The smartphone is one of the most significant inventions of the last 100 years.

This is hilarious. Oh yeah sure, nukes are pretty forgettable compared to smartphones, because now anyone can post on Hacker News from while on the toilet.

joonoroon YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 for 2 weeks

I was going to reply to you by saying that Youtube audio quality is affected by video quality, but apparently that hasn't been the case anymore since 2013. The more you know!

http://www.h3xed.com/web-and-internet/youtube-audio-quality-...

joonoroon Why I Carry a Newton

I assume this isn't the one he's using https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLg1Wtl9ffQ

EDIT: okay yeah this looks a lot better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKHelCE9QAg

joonoroon Steam Sales 2015

In the past they were more similar, at least the NPC art style was. When they first started Rimworld they used a sort of Prison Architect art style for their NPCs as placeholders until they got their own art in (which they have now).

If anything, both Rimworld and PA are "clones" of Dwarf Fortress.

joonoroon Steam Sales 2015

I wasn't denying that, but yes I agree.

joonoroon Steam Sales 2015

>Indiepocalypse is cancelled, you can stop worrying now.

I think I speak for quite a few people when I say thank God. I have nothing against indie games in general but the sheer volume of low-quality DayZ/Minecraft-inspired early-access survival game clones that were all broken in the same ways that were never finished by the developer have left me jaded.

joonoroon “Gunslinger’s gait”: a new cause of unilaterally reduced arm swing

This is actually amazing. I will now forever see Putin as being ready 24/7 to whip out his PB[0] at a moments notice wherever he goes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PB_%28pistol%29

joonoroon Social media encourages us to follow those we envy

>no matter how much philanthropy he's involved in

Not even that, I had the fortune of glossing over this gem earlier today:

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/12/zuckerberg-has-not-donated-...

EDIT: apparently the site I linked doesn't like linking from HN, sorry folks I had no idea.

joonoroon Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox

There's more discussion if you follow the link to the relevant Chromium issue at the bottom of the page. In particular it doesn't seem malicious and actually it's only started on demand.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=498272