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argulane··on Gabe Newell forced to testify in person in Steam antitrust case [pdf]
tbh, Baldurs Gate 3 runs pretty terribly on my Ryzen desktop also.
argulane··on RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information
miniflux does a pretty good job at fetching the original content, but it does not work well for sites that use a lot of JS
argulane··on Operating on a minimal two-core Postgres instance: Query optimization insights
I bought https://theartofpostgresql.com/ few years a go. It goes more into intermediate/advanced category and I have been quite happy with it.

I was fortunate to have a Database Basics course in the university that was 80% database schema design and 20% SQL queries and indexes. Reasoning for such a split was that fixing a bad database schema is much harder than fixing bad queries.

argulane··on US Smartphone Shipments Decline 19% in Q3 2023 as More Americans Delay Upgrade
I also loved my S10e. Unfortunately the mainboard on it died few few months ago.

I bought Sony Xperia 1 V to replace it. It has a 3.5mm headphone jack and a MicroSD card slot. The build quality is excellent but I'm a bit worried what the software support will look like in a few years.

argulane··on Show HN: Light implementation of Event Sourcing using PostgreSQL as event store
This is very well written!
argulane··on Finnish Government to Make Announcement on Gas Pipeline Leak in Gulf of Finland
The Russian electrical grid decoupling is mostly standing behind in building enought Synchronous condensers to keep the Baltic grid stable.

Estonias first SysCon was turned on this summer https://news.err.ee/1608976037/elering-launches-estonia-s-fi...

argulane··on Things I just don't like about Git
I use rebase every day because fix typo commits are not useful and having good commit messages helps a lot with code review
argulane··on A Raspberry Pi 5 is better than two Pi 4S
The normal Raspberry Pi OS Lite is pretty okay.

https://www.armbian.com/ is also pretty awesome and also supports bunch of other RaspberryPi clones for cheaper price.

argulane··on Pg_branch: Experimental Postgres extension brings Neon-like branching
There is https://github.com/Photonios/pgcow that supports ZFS.

BTRFS is not that scary. Quota and RAID56 is broken but other features have been stable quite some time. Btrfs is used by default for few Linux distros and Facebook makes quite heavy use of it on their servers https://lwn.net/Articles/824855/

I have been running btrfs on all of my machines since 2016 as transparrent file compression helps a lot with keeping disk usage down.

Btrfs RAID1 even saved my data once when one of the SSD's decided to die suddenly.

For maximum performance you should run databases on top of XFS anyway. It also supports per-file COW via reflinks.

argulane··on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
It seems to find local Estonian sites and locations quite well.
argulane··on My trip to the Communication and Laptop Museum in Estonia
There is also a interactive video games museum called LVLup in Estonia that is a lot of fun https://www.facebook.com/lvlupmuseum/
argulane··on Reasons to not use your own domain for email
Estonia tried this with national first.last@eesti.ee email for everyone. Turns out nobody cared and they will shut it down on 1. November.

https://news.err.ee/1608966110/ria-ends-support-for-eesti-ee...

argulane··on Gnome 45 to Break Extensions
As a everyday sway user, Out of the box Gnome experience way more user friendly to most people.
argulane··on OpenSSH has some peculiar handling around command line arguments
The last example really looks like perfect case for using `here document` feature.

    ssh -T host <<EOF
    ls "folder name"
    EOF
argulane··on Please don't say just hello in chat
Sounds a lot like cultural thing. In Scandinavian countries everyone will be much happier if you just get straight to the point. If you you want to have your PR reviewed, just ask `Hi, can you review PR 1342.` and the other person will answer `Sure, no problem`. There really is no point of fluffing up your request with random chitchat.
argulane··on Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
They would probably suht it down after few years.
argulane··on Comic Mono
I also quite like Fantasque Sans Mono. Few years ago they even added programming ligatures support. Some like them but I don't, so I keep using the previous 1.7.2 version of the font that does not contain ligatures (not all programs allow disabling ligatures).
argulane··on Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English
Open Source translations tend to be better in general. Specialy for smaller languages like Estonian. MS uses pretty horrible direct machine translations here that usually don't make sense.
argulane··on Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?
Hackerspaces are awesome!

Im quite active at https://k-space.ee in Tallinn, Estonia.

argulane··on The Future of Consumer SBCs: Has the Pi Bubble Burst? [video]
If the SBC is supported by Armbian then the software support is usually pretty good.

https://www.armbian.com/

argulane··on Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning about low level disk/file IO?
> Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?

https://db.cs.cmu.edu/mmap-cidr2022/

argulane··on Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet
In Estonia we are trying to do similar thing with infra/isp split. Coverage is limited but already those places can get 1Gbit internet 3X cheaper than others.
argulane··on 50 years in filesystems: 1984 BSD FFS
We use it in our hackerspace kubernetes cluster. Seems to work fine.
argulane··on HDMI Expansion Card power saving rework (Beta)
Damn, that's some dedication to document it so nicely. Soldering to such tiny pads quite tricky. Kudos to Framework!
argulane··on Modern CSS Solutions
Looks like this site is using quite heavy css layout rules. Performance is pretty bad on lower power computers and mobile devices. Not great first impressions.
argulane··on Driving Compilers
That is a pretty good introduction to the steps that happen when you compile C code.
argulane··on Thoughts on Video Editing (2022)
I have been happy with kdenlive.
argulane··on Building the worlds jankiest serial to USB cable from scavenged parts
You don't even have to load a sketch to the Arduino. Just connect the RESET pin to GND. That will keep the Atmega IC on stop state and the TX/RX pins are free for what ever you need them to use for.
argulane··on I Made a Wemos D1 Mini Dev Board
Building such dev board shields/carrier boards is a nice beginner friendly way to get into electronics and pcb design.
argulane··on Raspberry Pi Debug Probe: a plug-and-play debug kit
Looks like RP2040 support was merged some time ago and should be available in recently released OpenOCD v0.12.0

https://github.com/openocd-org/openocd/commit/92169e9f552995...

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