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mariusmg··on How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
>I really don't understand why the industry seems to have lost sight of this.

Because the industry is full of people who are chasing trends and keywords and to which the most important thing is to add those keywords to the CVs.

mariusmg··on Slack is the opposite of organizational memory (2018)
"slack empowers your worst people to overwhelm your best."

Damn straight

mariusmg··on Elizabeth Holmes bought one-way ticket to Mexico after convicted of fraud
>I'm somewhat impressed

Read "Bad Blood" then...

mariusmg··on How Microsoft attempted to make the Xbox 360 dashboard load faster
Am I the only one which expected that loading from NAND would have been faster than HDD ?
mariusmg··on QBittorrent v4.5.0: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Legible Text
>Never Update a BitTorrent Client

Advice like this doesnt make any sense.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1617...

mariusmg··on QBittorrent v4.5.0: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Legible Text
I'm using the same theme (Breeze) on Windows and i don't have any problem.

Wonder what makes this specific to Linux/KDE ?

https://i.imgur.com/y4FgQ3P.png

mariusmg··on Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber
>start running desktop apps on cloud servers for remote work

Hopefully never.

mariusmg··on JPEG XL support has officially been removed from Chromium
>experimental nature of JPEG-XL

I wonder what exactly they mean by this because JPEG-XL is a ISO standard. So if it's already standardized, how the heck is still "experimental" ?

https://www.iso.org/standard/77977.html

mariusmg··on Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks
Got the email now (after retrying the subscription).

Thank you for the free book.

mariusmg··on Mona Sans and Hubot Sans
Everyone and their dog are making fonts these days. Not complaining about high quality free fonts, just find it a bit strange...
mariusmg··on Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks
How exactly do you obtain that ebook after giving away the email ? I've "activated" the subscription (sigh...) but i don't see any download link.
mariusmg··on SwiftUI Is Convenient, but Slow
The theoretical performance improvments of declarative UIs are just.....theoretical.
mariusmg··on Atlas OS: A Windows version designed for gamers
Calling a bunch of registry tweaks a pompous name like "Atlas OS" is funny.
mariusmg··on Atlas OS: A Windows version designed for gamers
>All this effort

Effort ? That repo consists of a few Windows Registry tweaks and some bundled 3rd party installers. Not exactly ground breaking engineering that could have been better deployed to improve SteamOS/Linux....

mariusmg··on Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation
>I would expect an OS capable of expending its swap file to try doing it before failing my malloc call though.

It takes A LOT of time to expand the swap file. So failing malloc immeditately seems, to me, the right way to handle it.

Maybe adding an optional callback to malloc to be notified when further allocations are possible would be a better way to handle this.

mariusmg··on How does Windows decide whether your computer has full Internet access?
Clippy ?
mariusmg··on The death of the key change
Pop music and (semi) complex music composition. Name a more unlikely duo.
mariusmg··on Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
Still missing Clippy ?
mariusmg··on From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin
>I dont really get why I would leave out the explicit types in the source code

One my pet peeves, shit like this sucks :

var f = MyStupidMethod();

mariusmg··on Write better error messages
>it could give direct advice: “PERFORM THESE STEPS: You must define ENVVAR. Go to <wiki link>. Set ENVVAR to a proper value and restart the service.”

Really, should logs also be documentation now ? Just mindlessly logging the same "advice" over and over again each time the error happen ?

mariusmg··on Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
>I understand that the current generation of new developers are intimidated by so much raw power at their hands ;)

The new generation is fucking things up for us. Text > icons.

mariusmg··on Allow disabling of motion or animation
>that the next ad mascot will be written in JavaScript

The horror....

mariusmg··on Unlaunching the 12GB 4080
Yes, back in August warehouses already has stocks of RTX 40xx cards.

This "reverse" has nothing to do with yields, nVidia (rightfully) realized it's better to avoid a shitstorm because this 4080 12GB version is ~30% slower than the "real" 4080.

mariusmg··on Unlaunching the 12GB 4080
Cards are already made, they will be launched in the future for sure as RTX 4070Ti.
mariusmg··on JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Preview Program
>It's leaps and bounds ahead of VSCode

It's also paid vs free. For some reason, some people are very reluctant to pay for tools, even though they use them every day in their job.

mariusmg··on The PS5 Has Been Jailbroken
> Gaming is already one of the cheaper hobbies.

In the West maybe. To keep up with Playstation example, in my country you can buy 6 new PS5 games with the minimum salary.

mariusmg··on The PS5 Has Been Jailbroken
Apparently the debug stuff are needed for servicing. Plus if someone manages to run custom code, having the debug options or not becomes irrelevant.
mariusmg··on Socialist Romania Computer Chips
CIP03 forever baby !!:)
mariusmg··on Cairo: Alternative Windows Desktop
I have a UW monitor. The correct position of the taskbar for me is vertical on the right side of the screen. And to occupy as little space as possible, here is how it actually looks

https://i.imgur.com/zhYnnKx.png

mariusmg··on Cairo: Alternative Windows Desktop
A "customizable desktop environment for Windows" but the taskbar is fixed at the top of the screen. :(
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