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conwaytwittyon The dank case for scrolling window managers

Niri demo video actually looks kinda cool, could be nice to use on a laptop when there's no access to multiple external monitors, so that you could just pop a log/tool/whatever window to the side without fulling swapping workspaces xmonad/i3/hyprland/etc style.

But with 2+ screens available I'd think at least for me the usefulness would diminish, even if you'd have per monitor scrolling

conwaytwittyon One year after switching from Java to Go

depending on the size of the app, this can go from a few seconds locally, to 60 seconds when running on 1cpu nodes

there's just so much being done during startup it requires some burst cpu

conwaytwittyon One year after switching from Java to Go

Spring Boot startup time is indeed a problem, especially when scaling horizontally on low cpu nodes.

If your environment allows for burst cpu usage until ready to accept traffic, you can start up really fast as spring does so much reflection magic during startup that can't be done during compilation "trivially". You can include hints for runtime configuration from a build, but it doesn't do much to help in really low cpu envs.

Then you can of course just do native images, but you lose some of the spring "magic", and might be annoying to refactor towards.

conwaytwittyon DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching

It was pci passthrough so the vm had a dedicated gpu, usb controller and nvme drive which I wired to the hardware KVM as extra inputs.

There are other options like https://looking-glass.io/ , but I preferred having this option, which is like having 2 computers if there's enough resources to share to the gaming guest (cpu pinning + huge pages).

conwaytwittyon DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching

If you want a proper kvm, see the offering from level1techs/wendell (not affiliated, just a satisfied customer) at https://www.store.level1techs.com/products/hardware

I used one with 4x dual dp switching at home to run desktop with linux, pcie passthrough gaming vm on same machine and my work laptop via a dell thunderbolt dock connected to it.

Works extremely well, with modern features tested for (gsync, high refresh etc etc).

edit: one thing to note is that you need really good quality cables, so don't cheap out

conwaytwittyon DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M

Was super confused for a while thinking this was about actual caviar...

conwaytwittyon I Took Apple To Court And Won, Twice

I have a two year old Precision 5520, which is basically a xps15 but with on site service.

Not sure if there's a precision model for the xps13.

conwaytwittyon The Blu-Ray Reauthoring Project

I personally own a lot of dvd's and blurays, but it's been a while since I actually watch them in that format.

I just rip the disc to my harddrive, demux/convert what i want (usually just the main audio to flac), then remux to mkv and store the result (video + audio + eng subs + commentary tracks). Then just watch in kodi/plex.

Dealing with the actual discs etc seems just weird, neither dvd nor bluray as a media was never any fun to use. Using a remuxed copy of a tv series i'd be half way through an episode by the time the trailers and fbi warnings stopped playing on the disc version.

conwaytwittyon Mortgage rates have been rising at a pace not seen in almost 50 years

Sounds similar with a base reference rate + lender's margin (in finland currently like 0.2-0.5% for house loans), but for some reason the base rates are positive in the us?

After 2008 in europe the rates took a dive and have been negative for a few years.

conwaytwittyon Mortgage rates have been rising at a pace not seen in almost 50 years

What drives the interest rates in the us?

In europe my loan is tied to the euribor 3month rate, which has been negative for ages and hasn't shown any signs of rising.

I remember having an argument on some webforum with some non european guy that could not believe my current interest rate is close to zero (mostly just fees collected by the bank).

conwaytwittyon Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?

https://www.imgix.com/ has worked fine for us, it's essentially a proxy for an S3 bucket and you can parameterize image requests for scaling, dpi etc

conwaytwittyon My review of Dell XPS 15 as a developer laptop

Dell actually has the fn modifier which works with the arrow keys to create pgup/dn and home/end.

conwaytwittyon My review of Dell XPS 15 as a developer laptop

I use mine with linux (Ubuntu Mate + xmonad) and so far I like it (as a disclaimer, the company bought it, not me personally).

What I did so far:

  - updated all the firmware to the latest (thunderbolt has a separate firmware)
  - bumblebee automatically disables the nvidia gpu on startup (i don't need the extra power or power draw)

I run in 1080p on the 4k screen, which is kind of sad, but the hidpi support just isn't there yet. Gnome3+ might have better support but can't replace the WM for xmonad in those variants.

I used to have the first XPS13 model with linux support officially from dell and this laptop is just as good and even better due to better hardware. Slightly larger and heavier but not an issue for me.

Palm detection support is ass and might have to look into it more as it's driving me crazy. There is also some firmware bug where the screen won't start after sleep.

With proper hidpi support and remaining firmware fixes from dell this will be a nice laptop even with linux.

conwaytwittyon A Back Door to Encryption Won't Stop Terrorists

When X is illegal, only the criminals will have X.

Replace X with basically anything.

conwaytwittyon Smoking: Quitting is so hard

I stopped smoking by getting a prescription drug called Champix (apparently Chantix in the us).

The instructions tell you to pick a day to stop like 5 days after starting the drug, I think on day 7 I just didn't feel like smoking anymore. After the prescription ran out I started to crave cigarettes again but no where nearly as badly as going cold turkey so I just didn't smoke any more.

conwaytwittyon The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/38scem/norways_89...

It was discussed on reddit.

conwaytwittyon The 'SimCity' Empire Has Fallen and 'Skylines' Is Picking Up the Pieces

copy? unless you want to play on two machines at the same time, you don't need it, it's steam after all