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ludamn··on Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
If it helps I played AC Odyssey w/o issues using Proton GE, the biggest issue for me was that when I launched the game through steam, steam would launch the Ubisoft launcher which then launched the game , so I had to manually close this launcher to prevent having proton running in the bg for too long

It's been a while since I gamed though (2022), but the game ran smoothly on a mobile RTX 2060 card

ludamn··on Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
If it helps I used to use a gaming laptop for work that had a RTX 2060 mobile version, I was able to run some recent games like Elden Ring (including mods & online play), and some older but still demanding titles like Witcher 3. All of this without tinkering too much on a oob Ubuntu LTS install (I later switched to popOS because I don't like snaps that much).
ludamn··on Microsoft needs to open up more about its OpenAI dealings
> This stuff is so overhyped and yet so under hyped at the same time. I can’t really wrap my head around it.

perfectly stated, I had to play a lot with some models to get a better picture of how they work and their limitations, before that all the articles I read about them were either "LLMs are the greatest thing ever, totally perfect and made me a 100x engineer" or "LLMs are complete BS and don't provide any value"

I do think we can build great products on top of them, but the way they're being sold implies we'll need no more new product because a chat interface w/ some tool calling is all you'll ever need.

ludamn··on Rust cross-platform GPUI components
thanks for explaining, i was really lost on what this person meant by that
ludamn··on The World Trade Center under construction through photos, 1966-1979
That looks beautiful, it might be a silly question but why hasn't anyone pushed for rebuilding them? It's kinda sad to see NY without these towers, it's a silent reminder that terror once won. I know it would probably be very expensive, but I wonder why nobody thought of rebuilding these, even if as a symbolic token that people can reemerge after tragedy.
ludamn··on Podman Desktop celebrates 3M downloads
Besides being a great replacement for docker for development, I use it to run some government GUI apps that I don't want to install on my machine (they have some bg jobs that I prefer not running 24/7). Once I finish running them I just shut down the container and don't have to worry about it.
ludamn··on I’m Not a Robot
You need to lit the candle and brush off the moss from the grave
ludamn··on Microsoft Python Driver for SQL Server
Thanks for the detailed insight
ludamn··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
Out of curiosity, who was this person? Which puppeteer they went after?
ludamn··on USPTO refuses Tesla Robotaxi trademark as "merely descriptive"
I wonder why they didn't go with something more original like Aixi, it has some similarity with Taxi which we all already know (just call a Aixi) and the plural is more aligned with their CEO's vision for the future, look at all these new aixis coming to town!
ludamn··on I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
Such a nice read, thanks for sharing!
ludamn··on Show HN: I created a language called AntiLang – breaking all the conventions
Lol this entire thing is just funny, thanks for the laughs!
ludamn··on Using short lived Postgres servers for testing
For those interested in a easier way to set up databases, and maybe other containerized services, for testing I recommend using TestContainers[1], there's integrations for well known languages like Go, Java, Node.js and the set up is easier than what is described in the article (at least if you're already developing on a container-ready workspace)

[1]: https://testcontainers.com/

ludamn··on Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
I would recommend reading Josh Comeau's brilliant article[0] on this subject, I prefer his more intuitive approach for deciding when to choose `rem` or `px` for CSS values.

For example, from this Airbnb article:

> In the case of Airbnb, the team decided to prioritize the use of rem units specifically for font scaling, rather than scaling all elements proportionally.

This can lead to undesirable outcomes as sometimes spacing between elements can have a functional purpose, e.g. making it easier to vertically separate one paragraph from another. If you use `rem` solely for font-size and nothing else users with `32px` as their default font-size would not have the necessary amount of space to help discern one paragraph from another in this case.

PS It looks like they use Linaria, one can simplify the transition from `px` to `rem` by declaring this helper function and using inside their `css` rules:

```ts

export const px = (...spacing: number[]) => spacing.map(s => `${s * (1 / 16)}rem`).join(" ")

// Example usage

const styles = css`

p { // This inline padding is for aesthetic reasons, we don't want this to scale

  // with users preferred font-size

  padding-inline: 16px;

  // This serves a functional purpose, it will become `0.5rem 1rem` 

  // which should match `8px 16px` if users are using the default 16px font-size

  margin-block: ${px(8, 16)};
}`

```

[0] https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/surprising-truth-about-pixel...

ludamn··on Shiakaku of the Day
Thanks for sharing this, these are great for those 10 minutes break I set for myself between one task and another. Recently someone also shared a "Guess my RGB" game which serves equally well for this purpose
ludamn··on Show HN: I Made a Landing Page Structure Generator
I'm not sure if it helps, but maybe include copies that say the goal of your app is to provide ideas for landing pages?

I agree with the parent comment, the impression I got from reading "Structure Generator" was that the app would generate landing pages too, but English is not my first language so it's hard to say if that's due to language barriers/misconceptions

Maybe something like "an App that gives you ideas for building your landing page" could clear the confusion, since "ideas" feel more abstract than "structure"

As a side note, this looks great! The responses are pretty fast!

ludamn··on Julius Caesar's Year of Confusion
Every time I read anything related to our calendars, and how we've changed them over time, I wish someone with a lot of influence led a similar effort nowadays to adopt the Kodak, or IFC, calendar[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

ludamn··on Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011
Sorry if it's a bit unrelated to the article, but does anyone have any recommended material for getting someone with 0 knowledge to know more about blockchains?

My goal is to learn both how the tech works and what key issues are people trying to solve with crypto/blockchains

ludamn··on Dutch designer drives his car on the plastic waste he collects
TFA aside, this website is so simple and beautiful it makes me wish more websites were like this, nowadays it's rare to find pages that you can delightfully read on mobile unless you have adblocking installed, and even if you can block the ads many times you'll be spammed with sticky videos or other annoying widgets that just scares the reader away from the content -- which is not the case on this website
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