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> As an avid Splatoon player, something I've come to learn is that there are players in the highest rank who play mobile and even can't/don't/won't play on a TV.

Do you know why? I'm curious to know.

I guess that, when you are playing on a TV, you don't have a 'full range of motion' because you need to continue facing the TV, but I don't know of anyone who does a 180 turn in Splatoon by spinning in real life--I was under the impression everybody uses the right control stick to rotate the camera for large motions, and then uses the motion controls for fine-tuned movements.

Your comment confuses me. Are you talking about external GPUs not making sense? Or dedicated GPUs in laptops?

Anyways, I'm pretty happy with the weight of my Dell XPS 15 which has an Nvidia card, but I regret buying it because of the lackluster Linux support.

I haven't seen any laptops with dedicated AMD cards at all lately, and until recently I had no idea that AMD's integrated cards were so competitive, so that's why I didn't. I plan to buy AMD next time I'm in the market.

Most people want to use the proprietary drivers, because nouveau's performance is prohibitively low for gaming. And that only supports switching GPUs with a reboot.

It does work, but it's not very nice, which is what we are upset about.

I think the OP is probably referring to the fact that running Docker on Windows and macOS is accomplished by running a Linux VM which the Docker containers run in. Not that Docker containers are VMs.

Let's hope it doesn't go into maintenance mode before this feature is released: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GLXVND-O...

Not sure if I understand correctly, but the absence of this is what has prevented Nvidia's proprietary drivers from supporting GPU switching without having to restart the X server session.

> paying for the freedom to easily up and move if something else fits my fancy.

There is something to be said for this.

However, there is also something to be said for the ability to not be kicked out of your living space directly ("we have decided not to renew your lease") or indirectly ("should you renew your lease, we will be increasing rent by $500 and installing smart locks in every apartment").

They'd also probably stop when they saw you were running i3 and couldn't figure out how to pull up a web browser.

Oh. The names are close so I accidentally conflated the two. Thanks!

The cynical reply to this is also "Will I be alive to care?".

A more realistic reply might be "will any humans even be alive to inherit my game library?" or "will anyone even be able to run any of my games on the hardware and software available 100 years from now?"

I feel like this is worth mentioning.

https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extensio...

If I go looking for an extension called "Stylish", will I find the original? Is it trustworthy?

I wish Nintendo treated mobile like a first-class platform. Unfortunately, I only know of one good game that they made (Super Mario Run), and they've allowed their other IPs to be poisoned by pay-to-win garbage (Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, Fire Emblem, Pokemon Go).

I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. Virtual building is great because it lets people build things without having to be limited by the space they have available or the materials they have to build with (in Minecraft (creative mode, at least), you never run out of the color block that you need, unlike playing with Lego in real life).

Is it absurd to not want to get pulled over?

I'm not arguing against raising the speed limit to the natural speed. I'm against blaming (and tailgating and generally harassing) drivers who are following the speed limit because they don't want to have to pay a fine. It seems like the blame is misplaced.

I am all for raising the speed limit if the speed limit is lower than what is safe, but I have an issue with the way the article blames drivers who drive at the speed limit for the delta in speeds. If we all need to agree on a speed to drive, why not choose the one that we can drive at without risking being pulled over and ticketed?

That's interesting. I thought that everyone was mocking Iron Man for wearing it (people my age wore Axe when we were in middle school). It hadn't occurred to me that this was still probably a net positive for Axe.

They probably meant the last line of the post you linked.

> So good luck with your replacement command shell. I hope you figure out how to run batch files.

Yep, seems passive aggressive

> Librem Mail. Main Features: Safe (We delete unencrypted emails after 30 days)

I don't understand encrypted email very much at all. Is encryption on emails that I have received controlled by the sender? Almost all of the transactional emails I have received (receipts, confirmation numbers, etc) are probably unencrypted, right? This doesn't sound desirable.

> queueing between stages

Doesn't it only support a queue depth of 1 at each stage? Last I checked, if you have a change that is queued up waiting to get into a stage, and a newer change comes along, that newer change will supersede the old one. That makes CodePipeline only good for workflows where you only care about deploying the 'newest' of something.

I think the worst thing about CodePipeline is how hard they make it to run custom code from your pipeline. Your options are Lambda (limited to 15 minutes per run, or you have to rewrite your Lambda function to be called once every 30 seconds, essentially using the first run to start your deployment and every subsequent run to check to see if it's done yet or not) or CodePipeline Custom Actions (where you have to write the AWS SDK code for interacting with CodePipeline).

The AWS Developer Tools team could learn a thing or two from Azure Pipelines. They did it "right", IMO: you can create a 'bash' stage in your pipeline which runs whatever script you want from the build agent (which can either be hosted my Microsoft or hosted yourself). That's all I really want. CodePipeline could support that with a custom action but it's more stuff that I would have to set up.

> The apps would be tied to the game itself, and would only be able to run when loading up that game, but you can see why Nintendo would take issue with its implementation.

I have a few guesses, but no, I don't see why Nintendo took issue with this. Is it because users could damage their devices with access to something like this? Is it because this could somehow be used to undermine Nintendo's DRM or cheat in online games?

I think it's the other $1975 that is breaking their startup.

Depending on your perspective, that might also be a small amount, but let's not misrepresent the situation.

Wow--this exists?

I had heard of Tweetdeck, but I assumed that it was a third-party client which provided a better experience and was therefore at odds with Twitter's interests. You're telling me that, not only is Twitter okay with it, but that they built it?

Yep, that's what I use as well. It works, but I don't really love that I have to create an IAM role and a Lambda function just to create an encrypted secret.

ECS/Fargate and Kubernetes are different, for sure, but it seems like the author is conflating the one-time setup costs of Fargate with the continual maintenance costs of running Kubernetes on VMs which you maintain yourself, which doesn't seem like a fair comparison to me.

> If you need something more advanced than Cloudformation to define your infrastructure as code, try Troposphere or CDK

The author has already hit a use-case that is not currently supported by Cloud formation (creating a SecureString SSM parameter)--that's something that Troposphere or the CDK won't help you with (unless you use them to create the resource via the API rather than Cloud formation).

Did you work with Rich Adams?

https://wblinks.com/notes/aws-tips-i-wish-id-known-before-i-...

A "task" in ECS means a container. In Fargate, in order to be ready to receive requests 24/7, you have to pay to have a container running 24/7. In that sense, it feels a lot closer to EC2 than it does to Lambda.

Yes and no--Fargate is a Docker container which runs on an ECS cluster that you don't have to manage, sure, but it doesn't scale down to zero. As far as I know, there's no support for running an HTTP endpoint and then having the container start in response to a request coming in. You could build that yourself (although I suspect it would require running some long-lived infrastructure, defeating the purpose of scaling the Fargate service down to zero) but I think the cold start times for a Fargate container would be prohibitive--maybe it gets better once you've already scaled up, but in my exploration I've seen Fargate take 45-70 seconds to run a new container. I suspect this is due to Fargate running in your VPC and therefore probably requiring a network interface to be created before the container can be ready.

The exciting part of Cloud Run for me is not that I don't have to manage a Kubernetes cluster, but that I don't have to pay for it when my service is sitting idle.

Counterpoint:

Are you suspicious of a VPN service that claims that it doesn't collect logs?

Actually, maybe that's a bad question, because a large number of HN commenters _are_ suspicious of commercial VPNs, but would you say that a VPN that doesn't make such a claim is preferable to one that does?

What the heck is Cloud Run and why can't I find any information about it? Is it the GKE Serverless Add-On that I have to request access to (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdG5cCIiHhkW7srw9MW...)?

That doesn't solve the problem where legitimate numbers are spoofed, does it? It seems my number is among the many that are being used by robocallers, because I sometimes get texts from strangers saying "who are you?", or "sorry, can't talk now".