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New comment by arglebargle123 in "Marc Andreessen wants you to stay in school"

arglebargle123 — Wed, 29 May 2024 00:35:29 +0000

And/or he wants a greater glut of degree holders to drive down employment cost further.

New comment by arglebargle123 in "FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994)"

arglebargle123 — Sun, 26 May 2024 23:18:19 +0000

ANSI art was usually separate IIRC, nfos had ASCII art headers but I don't remember ever seeing color in them

New comment by arglebargle123 in "Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography"

arglebargle123 — Fri, 24 May 2024 21:58:10 +0000

One of the University of Iowa B schools runs a futures market that'll let you bet on predicted event outcomes

https://iem.uiowa.edu/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_Electronic_Markets

New comment by arglebargle123 in "High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98"

arglebargle123 — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:15:32 +0000

For a couple of years I had a Linux NAS box under my desk with like 8 Samsung 850 pros in a big array connected to my desktop over 40GbE. Then NVMe became a common thing and the complexity wasn't worthwhile.

New comment by arglebargle123 in "Polar bear fur-inspired sweater is thinner than a down jacket – and just as warm"

arglebargle123 — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 18:26:26 +0000

I have darn tough hiking socks that are 10y old and look pretty close to new.

New comment by arglebargle123 in "Linux: Ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1"

arglebargle123 — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 07:23:10 +0000

It would have been really funny if they reported that one as:

Severity: `

New comment by arglebargle123 in "Sony debuts first PS5 controller for disabled gamers"

arglebargle123 — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 04:14:27 +0000

That's the point of the controller being a kit thing that can be built a bunch of different ways

New comment by arglebargle123 in "Reel Inequality: Charting the Vanishing Middle Class of Movies"

arglebargle123 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 23:07:06 +0000

You should see the book requests posted to communities like r/printsf now. We have genre readers that have evolved into "I only read material containing this exact set of tropes" it's straight up weird.

New comment by arglebargle123 in "I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH'd data on power loss (2022)"

arglebargle123 — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 11:09:13 +0000

Meanwhile I'm over here jamming Micron 7450 pros into my work laptop for better sync write performance.

I have very little trust in consumer flash these days after seeing the firmware shortcuts and stealth hardware replacements manufacturers resort to to cut costs.

New comment by arglebargle123 in "Should I replace my 56k modem with a 28.8K Modem? (2001)"

arglebargle123 — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 02:19:54 +0000

That's a name I haven't heard for a very long time. Central Computer was a fantastic shop.

New comment by arglebargle123 in "Press Reviews of the AMD Ryzen 7040 Framework Laptop 13"

arglebargle123 — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 01:09:19 +0000

Now that Intel's on the chiplet train too I think we're going to see a significant reduction of AMD's lead there.

IME Intel is a bit better at the whole power optimization thing when their chip designs aren't gobbling watts to boost performance.

New comment by arglebargle123 in "Ian's Shoelace Site"

arglebargle123 — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 21:48:16 +0000

Hey, it's the Ian knot guy! I taught myself the Ian knot like 20y ago and it's one of the best small life skills I've learned. My shoes haven't come untied since. I think I tried to tie a traditional shoelace knot a few years back and I barely remember it.

New comment by arglebargle123 in "Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader"

arglebargle123 — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 01:06:42 +0000

I spent a year reading on my 10.5in amoled tablet, it worked really well for night time reading at low brightness with the night filter on and KOReader in dark mode. In some ways that setup actually worked better for me than KOReader on an eink device because dark mode amoled contrast is much better than the front light on my actual eink reader.

That said, I wouldn't want to read anything except PDFs on a laptop and I'd much rather read them on a large high-refresh-rate amoled tablet.

New comment by arglebargle123 in "Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader"

arglebargle123 — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 01:02:01 +0000

You can always dump your licenses from the web interface, pull down the books with the Adobe fulfillment software and then strip the DRM using calibre.

New comment by arglebargle123 in "Windows on Btrfs"

arglebargle123 — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 16:10:27 +0000

Now that the new NTFS3 driver is out in the wild there's also not much need. The number of people who boot windows and need to access an ext4 partition is tiny compared to the number of people booting Linux who need to access NTFS.

New comment by arglebargle123 in "Scientists developed simple way to cook rice that cut calories absorbed by half"

arglebargle123 — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 03:58:36 +0000

Likely only if the rice was prepared with oil as mentioned above.

New comment by arglebargle123 in "An EEVDF CPU Scheduler for Linux"

arglebargle123 — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 09:31:53 +0000

The multi-gen LRU swap patchset helped a lot with this issue but didn't entirely resolve it. I think it was merged a year ago or so and it's worth checking out if you haven't yet—it makes a pretty significant usability impact during swap pressure.

New comment by arglebargle123 in "An EEVDF CPU Scheduler for Linux"

arglebargle123 — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 09:27:18 +0000

For some time now I've been spawning intensive multicore jobs with nproc-1 or even nproc-2 workers on my Linux laptops. It's too easy to end up with an unresponsive machine when you spawn an all core test/build/compute job - and as nice as enforced "my code is compiling" breaks are people tend to get the wrong idea when they see you on your phone or with a book in hand while you wait.

New comment by arglebargle123 in "Consider Phlebas Published by the Folio Society"

arglebargle123 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 18:48:47 +0000

My favourite plot twist in the entire series is our friend wih a need for speed in Excession. That book is one of my all time favourite reads.

New comment by arglebargle123 in "Consider Phlebas Published by the Folio Society"

arglebargle123 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 18:47:16 +0000

I do most of my reading on a high end eink device these days and I still get excited when I can buy sub press epubs. Even their digital releases are great quality.