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lanius··on Pixel 8 Pro
Do you have adaptive brightness enabled? For the longest time I did not realize that the screen doesn't achieve max brightness despite the brightness slider manually set to the max unless it's enabled.
lanius··on f.lux
My previous monitor, even at minimum brightness with flux enabled, was still uncomfortable to view at night. I finally invested in a monitor with low minimum brightness (~0.5 nits) and couldn't be happier.
lanius··on A baby saved ‘Toy Story 2’ from near complete deletion (2021)
How common was working from home in 1995?
lanius··on I Built My New Linux Gaming Desktop in 2021 with AMD (CPU+GPU) and GNU Guix
750 W seems like overkill for a 5600x + 6700XT.
lanius··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)
>Modern cars are far more efficient, performant and easier to drive than a 15 year one

Can you clarify what being "easier to drive" means?

lanius··on Diablo II: Resurrected
I'll play this, but all these remasters make me wonder if Blizzard is running out of ideas.
lanius··on 'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry'
Still is in the K-pop industry.
lanius··on Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev environment
Does going mouseless reduce risk of RSI?
lanius··on Association between egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular outcomes
>Higher egg consumption (more than 1 egg/day) was associated with a significantly decreased risk of coronary artery disease

Is there an upper ceiling where the benefit goes away? I go through dozens of eggs a week.

lanius··on The MIT License, Line by Line
I did not realize the MIT License had so many variants [1]. Compare that to Apache License 2.0, which has one canonical form [2]. For this reason alone, Apache seems like a plainly better choice (IANAL).

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT

[2] http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

lanius··on I no longer trust The Great Suspender
I'm glad I decided to go with 32 GB of RAM for my current PC build. No longer need to close any tabs!
lanius··on Show HN: Thruhikes – A list of long distance hikes around the world
Noob question: how does food work on these multi-month hikes? Are there stops along the way where you can resupply? Do you forage?
lanius··on GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL
> Games are developed on cross platform engines. I can't remember the last game I played that was Windows-exclusive.

You may not play them, but a significant number of popular[1] games are Windows-only.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-played_video_game...

lanius··on Dash: Scalable Hashing on Persistent Memory [pdf]
You can just read the conclusion.
lanius··on Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course
You can start :)
lanius··on Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course
Yes! How should we organize this? Maybe start with an IRC channel?
lanius··on Players Blame Skill-Based Matchmaking for Losing in Call of Duty
I wonder why these complaints only seem to come from players of team-based games. I have never heard anyone call for an outright removal of skill-based matchmaking in 1v1 games like Starcraft or Super Smash Bros. Is it because the lack of teammates means you can only blame yourself for losing?
lanius··on These are called opportunities
I once had to debug an online service from a cruise ship. The network connection was painfully slow due to being over satellite. SSH is practically unusable with that latency. After suffering through that ordeal, I now take much greater care when developing software that requires internet access. Perhaps others could learn from this experience.
lanius··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)
I think you meant Snapcraft instead of Starcraft :)

It certainly caught my attention!

lanius··on New bike chain claims to be faster, more durable
>Sure i shaved 4g on my $400 waterbottle holder.... but when i weight 80KG.. and have another 2kg of water with me, does that 4g really matter?

Plus don't cycling competitions set a minimum bike weight anyways?

lanius··on The Donut King who went from rags to riches, twice
>Driving back with $85,000 cash in the boot of the car, they were stopped by the police... When they were released, the cash was gone.

Civil forfeiture strikes again!

lanius··on Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop
>Weight 10KG MAX

The goal weight is 60% of the way there. Rounding to 50% for convenience, that means the prototype is around 20 kg or basically the weight of a large barbell plate. Imagine typing with that on your lap!

lanius··on Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive
I recall being able to play .swf files in Media Player Classic a decade ago.
lanius··on Ghidra 9.2
I strongly suspect that is the case, especially considering the logo :)
lanius··on Ghidra 9.2
It's very possible. The Japanese pronunciation of hydra can be written as either Ghidorah (as seen in Godzilla) or Ghidra (as seen in Final Fantasy), among others, in English.
lanius··on One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong
Couriers often call me when they're unable to get into my building to deliver packages. One time I was expecting a delivery, I answered a call from an unknown number figuring it was the courier. To my annoyance, it was a cold-calling recruiter.
lanius··on Why do printers still suck?
It took me an embarrassingly long time before I learned I could digitally sign PDFs (literally draw my signature). After this discovery, I've not had any need for a printer.
lanius··on Building an artificial sun that looks realistic [video]
How about one for moonlight? My room doesn't have windows, and the nightlights I've tried are too harsh and make it harder to go back to sleep after waking up in the middle of the night.
lanius··on Chess’s Cheating Crisis
How much money is on the line? Cheating is also an issue in esports, where all serious tournaments are played offline.
lanius··on Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
Is the site down? Nothing seems to happen when I enter text into the search bar.
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