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eklavya··on What to expect from Debian/Trixie
Want to do that but there is no official nvidia driver and cuda installation support for testing. Only major releases.
eklavya··on Lenovo Legion Go S: Windows 11 vs. SteamOS Performance, and General Availability
That's pretty much what RHEL and Ubuntu LTS are. Stable for 10 years.
eklavya··on UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs
The comments make it sound as if Oracle can just demand money from any Java user. That's not the case, if you were already paying for Oracle Java and support, there seems to have been a change of terms.

If you don't need the support, just use openjdk, what's the problem? What's with the insistence on providing something for free or however much you want to pay for it? Get better terms or switch vendors! Java is an abundant ecosystem with multiple paid support providers.

eklavya··on India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
Why bother? What do you think would be the HN reaction if the attack in pahalgam played out in any western country? I would love to see CNN and others report about jingoism and nationalism then. CNN still called the terrorists, militants, it's a wierd hatred. The hypocrisy is so strong it's almost inhuman.
eklavya··on Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?
The main difference is liveness of the stream. Live streams are much much more difficult and much less forgiving.
eklavya··on How to Secure Existing C and C++ Software Without Memory Safety [pdf]
How is NPE a safety issue?
eklavya··on Cot: The Rust web framework for lazy developers
It's probably not for you, it is absolutely for me. I am looking for a micronaut for Rust.

There are many options to build your own thing on hyper | axum | tonic | tower if you want.

eklavya··on Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion
Thanks for sharing the vscode link. After trying I have disabled the continue.dev extension and ollama. For me this is wayyyyy faster.
eklavya··on Find Your Footing After Installing Arch Linux
In my opinion the best KDE experience would be KDE neon by the KDE developers.

https://neon.kde.org/

eklavya··on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS
I started using Windows fully after like 15 years. I really like Windows 11 after running the debloater. WSL2 seems to work pretty seamlessly. I built this machine for gaming but now I use it as my primary machine and have stopped using my macbook completely.

I tried to do linux on the box instead of windows, but I ran into: - No fractional scaling support except for KDE. - I can't for the life of me, stop X from using the discrete Nvidia card (I use AMD integrated for display). It wants to sit on the card even when there are no processes running on it through X. - Wayland fractional scaling is unsupported in chrome and electron still. - No HDR. - Font rendering is painful to look at with fractional scaling.

Wasted a LOT of time trying to get this working before giving up and just using WSL2. Everything works in Windows, which is not unexpected. It's amazing already what a community of volunteers is giving me for free!

eklavya··on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS
Last I checked it wasn't true at least for Ultimate, is Rider treated differently?
eklavya··on Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript
I just checked and it says MIT licensed. What am I missing?
eklavya··on ScyllaDB – Why We're Moving to a Source Available License
The audacity, right?
eklavya··on Rust and C++ with Steve Klabnik and Herb Sutter [audio]
Rust, the language can not push any politics. For me, technical stuff and politics are disjoint sets. I do not care at the least what the political leanings of people I work with are. To me it sounds as none of my business as what car they drive or what perfumes they like.

What exactly are you afraid of?

eklavya··on Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations
Any guides or blogs on how to do that?
eklavya··on Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs
Because tradeoffs and diminishing returns are a thing? For example having one backup is better than having no backups. Backups spread across earth, moon and mars would be better but probaboy not worth the cost.
eklavya··on They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7
"resource hog" is a thing. Eclipse is java as well.
eklavya··on Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones
I don't. I haven't experienved any lags. My mother has had a samsung m30 for a while and everytime I used it, it was absolutely fine. This was a 4.5 years old phone. I got her a samsung a35 this time.
eklavya··on Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones
I used to not understand this as well. Then I switched to Android after some 8 years and can't really remember why I "needed" iOS. Everything works and I am happy. really just choose the better product (for you). Regulation may not happen in time or at all but declining sales will make any business do an about turn at record pace. And even if it doesn't, why do I care?
eklavya··on Null-Restricted and Nullable Types
How do you know what is or isn't null?
eklavya··on Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024
The parent comment doesn't talk about different versions and I wasn't either.
eklavya··on Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024
Linux has had support for not doing duplicate pages for a long time now. I am forgetting the name of the feature but essentially this duplication is a solved problem.
eklavya··on Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial
Am I reading it wrong or are you admiring deafness which shouldn't be cured? Or the deaf people who are admirable?

Why should curing deafness not be a goal of medicine?

eklavya··on Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise
Why would bringing up sustainability of any business be comical at Hacker news?

How do you make money? Why should it not be for free? Your sustainability is important?

We agree on hardware belonging to the user by the way.

eklavya··on Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go
It doesn't make sense when you use this reasoning on established languages like C++ and Go. Makes all the difference when you are less than a year old language.
eklavya··on Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go
I see what you mean but how is it academically useful to identify transpilers something of their own? It's still compiling (lowering) from one notation to another.
eklavya··on Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go
Congratulations and best wishes for your project. I have hoped for a Go+Rust lang for a long time now.
eklavya··on Why SQLite Uses Bytecode
Bytecode will only impact packing, so more efficient ram, cache and cpu wise. But I don't understand how it would help with branching? You still have to make the same decisions? As in the bytecode executor still needs to do differnt things based on the op code, its not in hardware.
eklavya··on Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
Maybe you are both right but your scales are orders of magnitude apart.
eklavya··on Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders
First of all, Maldives not Mauritius. Their current president won on a campaign of India out and then a minister said Indians smell and something about cowdung. I guess we Indians need to develop thick skins and still go to Maldives for leisure travel because self respect is only reserved for westerners.
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