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whbrownon AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust

Yeah, for what it's worth--I also am dual booting Windows (solely for games, wine isn't worth the trouble) and I've had absolutely no problems with it. In fact, it's buttery smooth with every game I've tried it on (CK3, Noita, Synthetik, Kenshi, Factorio, etc.).

whbrownon AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust

Yes. I have the X13 which is quite similar to the T14s (just smaller) with the same processor/ram and I'm quite happy. Best keyboard I've had on a laptop. Does suspend to ram/suspend to disk/hibernate work you for you though? Using Manjaro on 5.9 kernel and X, and most things work out of the box well enough for my purposes except for suspend/hibernate and I can't find any info online for how to fix it completely.

Added "idle=nomwait amd_iommu=off resume=<swap UUID>" kernel params and this seems to sometimes work but usually not...

And what is your battery life? I get ~5 hrs (up to 6.5hrs with most processes disabled except firefox), with around 6-8 watts discharge rate (using powertop --auto-tune).

Typical trials and tribulations of new hardware with linux. I was thinking of trying out Fedora/Ubuntu/Pop_OS to see how they are.

whbrownon Error 418 – I'm a Teapot

400s are user errors ;)

whbrownon Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory

Looking forward to the numberphile video about it.

whbrownon “Accentism” is real, but impossible to end

Hiring people you'd work with on a daily basis without ever having spoken to them sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Surely there's a better way of acknowledging and mitigating harmful stereotypes?

whbrownon Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

I don't disagree that it can somewhat diminish user experience. But if users still are scrolling over posts & ads in greater numbers than ever before with cheaper running costs per user--then it does seem a superior option from a business standpoint at least...

whbrownon Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

Client side rendered won't be faster all things being equal since they'll have to make at least an extra round trip request after the initial (html/js/css) requests for data from the API, but it should definitely be much cheaper since you can lean on the client's compute rather than solely your own servers.

Given the popularity of facebook/reddit/twitter/gmail etc. it seems users think client-side rendering is fast enough, and what each of those sites have in common is the impracticability of precaching every single user's version of the application anyways.

whbrownon Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1 (Follow-Up)

> "Buy the M1 and switch to a fully remote development experience."

At least you'd be getting the impressive battery life from the power efficiency courtesy of RISC ... Still rather silly though.

whbrownon Git Commands You Should Never Use

Can you elaborate why you think merging master into the feat branch keeps team velocity higher than rebasing the feat branch with the latest version of master?

With rebasing, it seems to me to be easier to maintain a clean history (no merge commits) since all merges end up being fast forward, with the added benefit that I can deal with any conflicts as and when they come up rather than fixing them all at once when I eventually merge to master.

whbrownon Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems

Web backend work at scale is all about building and maintaining distributed systems. Just consider the company where Go was designed ... And indeed, it's still a language of choice for teaching systems design[1].

[1] MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&list=PLrw6a1wE39...

whbrownon Tech giants let the Web's metadata schemas and infrastructure languish

Not to be curt, but it clearly isn't obviously useful—otherwise the project wouldn't be languishing such as it is. The notion of creating a single overarching conceptual map to regulate the representation of the varied manifold of human experience on the web is almost certainly a deeply misguided idea, and even if it's philosophically sound (a big if), it's not clear that schema is anything like the correct approach. I'm open to be convinced of it's value if you'd like to elaborate, but I'll just say its far from obvious.