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ajolly··on Recruited for Navy SEALs, Many Sailors Wind Up Scraping Paint
I assumed they meant cleaning it at the dock, not getting to serve on a sub.
ajolly··on Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?
Yeah, I would pay to reduce the number of clicks. Already using voice to text and a fancy professional mic.
ajolly··on Recoll – Full-text search for your desktop
Yeah, there's a number of options for searching by file name etc, everything works well for me.

Searching within file contents seems to lack good options right now. Historically you had X1 desktop search, Google had a desktop search product, I think copernic. But most seem to be out of date.

ajolly··on Keyboard Latency (2017)
Would a faster microprocessor help, or is it something more inherent? I'm just starting to get into custom keyboards.

Is ZSA's build known to have latency issues compared to QMK?

ajolly··on I’m Often Wide Awake at 3 A.M. How Do I Get Back to Sleep?
Turns out the original patents on melatonin for sleep covered doses up to 1 mg, so all the manufacturers started dosing melatonin significantly higher.

(I get mine from nootropics depot) -300mcg

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...

ajolly··on Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall
First of all, thanks for this, I've been using it today. I'll e-mail later with a longer list of comments/suggestions.

First request would be a way to sync settings across multiple machines, or at least a way to import/export configs.

I did get hit with the issue about having incoming connections blocked by default - realized RDP connections were blocked even from the local subnet, and had to go plug a physical monitor in.

I was a bit surprised I couldn't figure out a clean way to allow inbound connections from the local network, but not from the internet. The docs at https://docs.safing.io/portmaster/settings seem to imply that I can set various settings to different tiers - 7 for trusted, for untrusted, 4 for hacked, but even when I have the developer view tuned on, I just see a binary choice.

ajolly··on Ask HN: Working in a VR Headset?
My eyes aren't quite as sharp as they used to be, but there is still a substantial difference between a 1080p monitor and a 4k monitor, even at those sizes. Can't use it to display that much more, but text is smoother.(A retina ipad has higher dpi than a 4k 17", the dpi on a 4k 17 is identical to my old 13.5" surface book.) I do wish windows would let you scale different monitors to different custom dpis though. You can do it if you stick to the 100%, 125%, 150% etc levels, but not if you want to do something like 114%
ajolly··on Ask HN: Working in a VR Headset?
It's not quite as nice as a full desktop setup, but you can get portable 4K monitors in the 12 to 17 inch range.

Also you can build some small but high powered machines. I've got a mini ATX build with a 12900 ks, and a 3090. Fits in a carry-on, way faster than any laptop.

Also if you're spending that long in each location, it might be viable to just buy monitors at your location, especially if you think of it as the cost for enhanced productivity.

I'm in a similar situation so I've tried to build as capable of the travel setup as possible.

You can also throw desktop monitors in a checked bag, I'm usually only bringing one, but you can fit two to three.

It really depends on how frequently you travel, if you're going to the same locations, if you can store stuff there, and how much additional cost are you willing to pay for a better set up.

The luggage shipping services out there can be fairly reasonable, if you don't want to lug that much gear back and forth with you. Do you have a home base that you go back to, or are you jumping between locations? I used to be fully nomadic, I spent a lot of time optimizing.

ajolly··on Ask HN: Working in a VR Headset?
What is a beamer?
ajolly··on Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall
What's the performance impact on this, especially on windows?

Also what would happen if I installed a Windows gateway, using routing and remote access services, and then installed portmaster on that?

Overall this looks pretty awesome, and I'm excited to try it out.

Oh and can I use this in conjunction with wire guard? How does it play with other vpns.

ajolly··on Launch HN: Shimmer (YC S21) – ADHD coaching for adults
This sounds super useful, I'll give it a try. I definitely agree with reducing friction helping extensively, I only get so many attention points during the day.
ajolly··on Launch HN: Shimmer (YC S21) – ADHD coaching for adults
My problem is finding a good ADHD focused therapist. That task seems hard, so I've never gotten around to it. I'll definitely thought in the past hey I should find an ADHD focused psych... But it never happened.

I just realized part of it is not knowing how to vet them, part is figuring out how to find availability for a psych, and then part is me not wanting to call in to set up my initial appointment.

ajolly··on Launch HN: Shimmer (YC S21) – ADHD coaching for adults
Give your clients alerts. Send me a text message 15 minutes before the appointment, if its time and you've been waiting for 5 minutes call me.

Yes I know I can set up calendar alerts, but odds are I screwed that up somehow, and a call will get through.

Bonus points for telling me not to feel bad and stress too much if I'm late. If it's an hour appointment and I joined 30 minutes in, that should be okay. Yeah I've lost the unused time, but otherwise that would reduce my stress.

Also I'd rather have a change under 24 hours, be accommodated (if it's possible on your end )without an extra charge.

I can definitely see myself the day before "going wait can we move our 3:00 to 5:00 instead? And if that's not possible I may just want to keep 3:00, but if it works for everyone I'd rather have 5pm"

ajolly··on Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch
I love my pebbles. Especially with notification center on Android, I can set complex regex filters for what messages get sent to my watch, vibration patterns etc.
ajolly··on RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs
Can I get flux installed after rooting my TV?
ajolly··on Measuring CPU core-to-core latency
I suspect what you are seeing is the preferred cores. With TVB/OCTVB (thermal velocity boost/overclocking thermal velocity boost) those can boost higher than the other cores.

From my 12900ks (its a boosted 12900k) Core 6-7 is rated for 5.5ghz.

Freq MHz DTS C VID mv PC Eff Fr UCcode 0x1f VR Volt Limit 2500 ---------------------------------------------------- 800 24 1307 52 517 Uncore 3600 IA AC LL 0.5999 800 20 1282 52 47 Power 23.465 IA DC LL 1.0996 800 20 1314 52 70 Current Limit 0.0000 SA AC LL 0.0000 800 20 1308 52 69 iccmax 1023 SA DC LL 0.0000 800 20 1303 52 88 PL1 32760 iccmax dis True 800 18 1293 52 69 PL2 32760 TAU 33 800 20 1286 55 39 Memory 5200 PPP_OVR True 800 22 730 55 37 EE_Turbo_Dis True RTH_Dis True 800 22 1377 40 60 Dis_Ring_EE False HWGuidedSch True 800 22 1172 40 73 IA_CEP_Dis True Dynamic_Mem True Full_Range_Multi False SA_Freq_OVR False TSC_Dis_HW False Banding_Ratio 0 PVD_Ratio_thresh 0 SA_CEP_Dis True FLL OC Mode 3

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Core Voltage Adapt 0 Ring Voltage Adapt 0 Core PLL V 900 Core Voltage Offset 0 Ring Voltage Offset 0 Ring PLL V 900 L2 Voltage Adapt 0 L2 Voltage Offset 0 AVX512 Offset 0 SA Voltage Offset 0 Ring VID 0 MC PLL V 900 AVX Offset 0 AVX2 V Guardband 0 AVX512 V Guardband 0 SA Voltage Manual 1150

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Turbo Ratio Limit 55, 55, 52, 52, 52, 52, 52, 52 Core OCMB Max Ratio 0 Ring Min Ratio 8 Turbo Limit Cores 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Ring OCMB Max Ratio 0 Ring Max Ratio 47 Atom Ratio Limit 40, 40, 40, 40, 40, 40, 40, 40 Atom Limit Cores 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255Atom OCMB Max Ratio 0 OS Max Ratio 34 HWP Min Ratio 43 HWP Max Ratio 255 Max Possible Core 40 Max Possible Ring 47 UCLK 2600

Num cores: 24 Using RDTSC to measure time: false Num round trips per samples: 5000 Num samples: 300 Showing latency=round-trip-time/2 in nanoseconds:

       0       1       2       3       4       5       6       7       8       9      10      11      12      13      14      15      16      17      18      19      20      21      22      23
  0
  1    0±0
  2   37±6    36±6
  3   31±6    37±6     5±5
  4   26±6    26±6    26±6    26±6
  5   26±6    31±6    26±6    31±6     5±5
  6   31±6    31±6    36±6    31±6    26±6    21±6
  7   31±6    31±6    31±6    31±6    26±6    26±6     5±5
  8   31±6    31±6    31±6    31±6    26±6    26±6    31±6    26±6
  9   36±6    31±6    31±6    31±6    26±6    26±6    26±6    26±6     5±5
 10   31±6    36±6    31±6    26±6    26±6    21±6    26±6    31±6    26±6    31±6
 11   31±6    36±6    31±6    36±6    26±6    26±6    31±6    31±6    36±6    31±6     5±5
 12   31±6    36±6    31±6    42±6    26±6    31±6    31±6    37±6    31±6    37±6    31±6    36±6
 13   36±6    37±6    42±6    36±6    26±6    26±6    31±6    31±6    31±6    31±6    31±6    31±6     5±5
 14   31±6    36±6    37±6    36±6    31±6    26±6    36±6    31±6    36±6    31±6    36±6    31±6    31±6    36±6
 15   31±6    31±6    31±6    31±6    26±6    26±6    36±6    31±6    31±6    31±6    31±6    31±6    31±6    31±6     0±0
 16   42±6    42±6    42±6    42±6    31±6    31±6    37±6    36±6    36±6    42±6    37±6    36±6    36±6    36±6    37±6    37±6
 17   42±6    42±6    36±6    42±6    31±6    36±6    37±6    36±6    36±6    37±6    36±6    37±6    36±6    36±6    36±6    37±6    47±6
 18   42±6    42±6    42±6    42±6    31±6    31±6    37±6    36±6    37±6    36±6    42±6    36±6    37±6    36±6    36±6    36±6    47±6    52±6
 19   42±6    42±6    42±6    37±6    31±6    31±6    36±6    37±6    36±6    36±6    37±6    37±6    36±6    36±6    42±6    37±6    52±6    47±6    47±6
 20   42±6    42±6    42±6    36±6    37±6    31±6    37±6    36±6    37±6    36±6    36±6    42±6    37±6    36±6    36±6    42±6    42±6    42±6    42±6    42±6
 21   42±6    37±6    42±6    42±6    31±6    31±6    37±6    36±6    42±6    36±6    37±6    36±6    37±6    37±6    36±6    36±6    42±6    42±6    42±6    42±6    47±6
 22   42±6    42±6    42±6    36±6    36±6    31±6    36±6    37±6    36±6    37±6    36±6    36±6    36±6    37±6    36±6    42±6    42±6    42±6    42±6    42±6    47±6    52±6
 23   36±6    42±6    42±6    42±6    31±6    31±6    37±6    36±6    37±6    42±6    36±6    36±6    37±6    42±6    36±6    36±6    42±6    42±6    42±6    42±6    52±6    47±6    47±6
Min latency: 0.0ns ±0.0 cores: (1,0) Max latency: 52.3ns ±16.3 cores: (23,20) Mean latency: 34.6ns
ajolly··on Finally fixed my PC’s persistent graphics and audio stutters
I ended up having extremely weird stuttering issues where the mouse would suddenly take several seconds to move across the screen on a high-end 64 core threadripper machine. Turning off mouse trails in Windows completely solved the problem.
ajolly··on Homebrew Bluetooth Headphones
It's frustrating to me that even high-end apple and both noise canceling headsets don't have low latency support
ajolly··on The end of Optane is bad news
I love my optane drives. One of the biggest quality of life upgrades for my desktop.
ajolly··on Serverless DNS: Self-hosted DNS resolver at the edge
Yes, I'd love to know more about how you implemented your setup.
ajolly··on Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
Windows these days works extremely well with just taking out the hard drive and placing it into a different computer, even across different processor brands completely different hardware etc.

I personally do this all the time. At most you get an extra restart the first time the drive is in a new set of hardware and after that you're good to go.

My main Windows install is probably 8 years old at this point, it's gone between multiple motherboards.

The biggest annoyance is a few pieces of software that tie activation to the motherboard.

If you want to make it even more portable you can install Windows to a vmdk.

And if you want to get a special complicated, you can have that vmdk act as essentially a secondary variant of your main operating system complete with symlinking most of the files and application info, to both save space and so you have most of the same state across both os's, but still can play around and easily roll back any changes.

ajolly··on Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative
Has anyone tried using this or similar tools in conjunction with voice to text software?
ajolly··on An informal review of CTF abuse
If you like that, HackFortress is a CTF that combined both sides, the video game playing and the hack style CTF. Looks like they're going to be back this year for defcon, I ran a team for several years.

I found it to be some of the most fun ctfs I played, partially because it was extremely time-bound. Rounds were 20 to 30 minutes each. It meant that you still had the rest of your conference time for other activities, rather than taking over your entire weekend.

ajolly··on An informal review of CTF abuse
There's been a number of in person ctfs where hacking infrastructure was fair game... And did not have static arp entries set, and I ended up mitming all the traffic to the score server.
ajolly··on An informal review of CTF abuse
Also a lot of the time they are they can be the same people. Just one set of targets for your day job, one set of targets for fun at the CTF. (and the ctf challenges are probably easier)!
ajolly··on Microsoft Validation OS
Fyi Windows does have a game mode that will do some of those things.

If you want to get super crazy, I'll boot a second copy of Windows off of a vhdx file that's stripped down if I want extra performance.

With a little bit of work you can even clone the sid of your main os, and symlink most of your existing files and info, so it's almost identical to your main OS.

Calyp.to's guide is one of the best I've seen for stripping windows down to reduce latency.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1c2-lUJq74wuYK1WrA_bI...

ajolly··on My Preferred Smart Home Vendors
I get notifications on my TV once my kettle is done heating.
ajolly··on Ask HN: I'm disabled and out of money. Now what?
I would be very interested in that link.
ajolly··on Why don't more people use throat mics?
Combine them - I often wear earplugs plus a pair of bose nc700s. They have better noise canceling for your conditioner noise compared to my airpod Max's
ajolly··on Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
Any way to get Twissr to subscribe to a users twitter list?
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