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New comment by 2ndbigbang in "Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)"

2ndbigbang — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:51:05 +0000

I'm the opposite. Anything other than pure white on pure black for dark themes gives me eye strain. If you use the dark reader web extension you can adjust the brightness and contrast to your liking.

New comment by 2ndbigbang in "Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)"

2ndbigbang — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:42:44 +0000

https://xkcd.com/3227/

New comment by 2ndbigbang in "Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why (2024)"

2ndbigbang — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:14:45 +0000

Unless there is a nuclear winter...

Tracking Down a Regression in Mesa 3D

2ndbigbang — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 11:16:40 +0000

Article URL: https://vkoskiv.com/mesa-regression/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633443

Points: 5

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New comment by 2ndbigbang in "The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade"

2ndbigbang — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:00:11 +0000

There is int_fast32_t and int_least32_t but it is probably less confusing to just use exact sized types (and would make porting to other architectures simpler).

New comment by 2ndbigbang in "The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t"

2ndbigbang — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:09:52 +0000

This is not the case for embedded systems where 32-bit ARM is still used.

New comment by 2ndbigbang in "Study on quality of sleep when pet cats choose location of slumber"

2ndbigbang — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 08:14:46 +0000

This is similar to some of the ideas in David Kadavy's "Mind Management, Not Time Management".

https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Management-Not-Time-Productivity...

New comment by 2ndbigbang in "Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)"

2ndbigbang — Tue, 04 May 2021 16:01:52 +0000

The post is from 2001. The spanking.com domain name was probably owned by someone else at the time and might not have been NSFW. The books are all going to be 20 years old at least.