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oplesson Ask HN: How to overcome chronic fatigue?

I was diagnosed with CFS, and it turned out to be coeliac disease.

I still occasionally run out of spoons, but historically I can often track it down to an accidental contamination event.

oplesson The Economist tracks excess deaths

Yeah, thanks to the other poster (who helped rather than those who downvoted) the link to the unpaywalled meat of the article is below.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fgr...

oplesson The Economist tracks excess deaths

Thanks for the link.

The paywall I was meaning was this.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fgr...

oplesson The Economist tracks excess deaths

Paywall

oplesson Ask HN: Why can't the Raspberry Pi be properly cloned?

It was. By odroid.

However Broadcom didn't appear to like where/how they sourced the components and refused to sell them any more chips.

https://hackaday.com/2014/07/30/a-real-raspberry-pi-clone-no...

oplesson Apache Guacamole

I've been using it for years, and it just works.

Though every so often you need to reinstall the remote access software

oplesson GeoWorks: The Other “Windows”

[OT] Lundukes writeup of desqview X https://lunduke.substack.com/p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1...

Was something I aspired to acquire, but never did.

Just running real-mode Win 3.1 in a window was a pretty awesome feat.

oplesson MacBook Air M1: the best laptop?

You've not noticed that windows has moved system settings dialogs each version since NT3.1?

oplesson Winamp source code leak

Try again, there's a redirect, and a very very slow download after.

oplesson Winamp source code leak

Did you not check 'code -> download zip' ?

oplesson MacBook Air M1: the best laptop?

Could it be that you're used to the increasingly stupidity of windows?

Win -> Mac conversion is annoying I agree. But once you've shrugged off the expectation of windows behaviours you'll be fine.

Cognitive dissonance is a thing with user interfaces.

oplesson MacBook Air M1: the best laptop?

I'm not sure about force touch, but my windows running Lenovo x230's touch pad is very good.

Just a little different from the apple ones I use but really quite usable.

Trouble with PCs is you're comparing Apple kit with anything from cheap consumer gear by Asus, Dell, and HP with hilarious results.

Whilst they're all running similar chipsets the materials used are all very different.

If fact do any laptops have the glassy feel of Mac trackpads?

I know if I were going from my Lenovo and using a Mac, I'd have very negative feelings about the Mac, until I had three months continuous usage under my belt.

oplesson France asks search engines and app stores to remove Wish

At least with Amazon you can get refunds easily, and even if they're out of their return windows.

I've managed to get a set of mis-sold harddrives refunded with a delayed return so I could transfer the files off them.

I very much doubt that wish would facilitate that!

oplesson UK to ban all in-hand mobile phone use while driving in 2022

Being distracted whilst driving is literally the definition of "driving without due care and attention", and explicit law doesn't actually make any difference, apart from sentencing.

oplesson Rust on MIPS64 Windows NT 4.0

Turbo Pascal 3 worked on the Apricot F10 (a similar non-PC MSDOS machine) if my memory serves it was a port of the CP/M version so you just had to tell it what display driver to use (vt100/vt52/adm12 etc)

oplesson Bayesian Optimization Book

Maybe off topic, but nevertheless the comment was not without utility.

oplesson Man from the Future – John von Neumann’s nuclear vision

Paywalled.

oplesson A little backtracking Prolog interpreter in Tcl (2010)

If you think that's cool, you should see what 9front cand do :)

oplesson The brain as a universal learning machine (2015)

Indeed.

oplesson On Storage Engines

How is 9P not a "real" filesystem API? Asking for a friend.

Fuse and, indeed 9P2000.u are both indeed complicated as hell, but appear to require it as their underlying FS is posix^Wlinux-based and thus a higgledy-piggledy API nightmare.

oplesson It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s

This. Absolutely this.

A good friend used to lament about the data they were entering was of very poor quality.

However the skews were somehow magically understood by the consumers of the data or maybe overall the day averaged out over time.

Data cleansing is a thing no?

oplesson First new VAX in 30 years?

or more likely the brand of vacuum cleaners :)

oplesson How to Draw Orbits – Kernel Space Program Dev Blog

Typo? Should be Kerbal, not Kernel

oplesson Women under 60 at far greater risk of rare clotting after AstraZeneca shot

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccinat...

> Given the very small numbers of events reported overall, there is currently a high level of uncertainty in the estimates of the incidence of this condition by age group.

oplesson SoftBank’s plan to sell Arm to Nvidia is hitting antitrust wall around the world

Have you noticed that there's a scramble to RISC-V?

oplesson Fish is not operational on a VT220 terminal (2015)

This is exactly my point!

If you put hardware designed to do the job of a terminal on a serial line, you expect software that is supposed to be command line based to just work (according to the issue in the post it doesn't work with the Linux VT console either)

Furthermore according to a similar issue; a contributor shows their hubris of ignoring terminfo.

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/3740

> Serial consoles basically date back to the days of hardware terminals, like a physical DEC VT220, when you could trust the information about columns and rows in the terminfo definition.

oplesson Fish is not operational on a VT220 terminal (2015)

So you agree, sending non-vt220 codes to a vt220 device is unacceptable? :)

oplesson Fish is not operational on a VT220 terminal (2015)

Continually repeating something does not make it true.

The default terminal size is 80 columns by 24 rows. Making an assumption the rows/columns of a terminal are zero is certainly surprising and unreasonable.

Some questions;

Why is fish not determining the defaults from termcap/terminfo?

Why is it using xterm codes indiscriminately?

According to https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/blob/a1fd9e1b851bd8... it knows what the defaults are, so it is obvious that the behaviour is overridden elsewhere.

So yeah. It's a bug.

oplesson Fish is not operational on a VT220 terminal (2015)

I'd say that this violates the "Principle of least astonishment".