Hacker News: elmindreda

New comment by elmindreda in "“CPUs are optimized for video games”"

elmindreda — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 09:20:02 +0000

This one is quite good too: http://gdcvault.com/play/1021926/Destiny-s-Multithreaded-Ren...

New comment by elmindreda in "Minimal OpenGL 3.3 Core Profile Demo"

elmindreda — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 00:10:35 +0000

Since the demo now uses GLFW it could call glfwGetTime, which uses clock_gettime where available.

New comment by elmindreda in "UCLA, Cisco and more join forces to replace TCP/IP"

elmindreda — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:08:21 +0000

xkcd 927.

New comment by elmindreda in "DuckDuckGo Regex Search"

elmindreda — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:08:14 +0000

I guess it's too much work to start a REPL.

New comment by elmindreda in "TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?"

elmindreda — Wed, 28 May 2014 22:48:25 +0000

On a day like this, compare the entire key.

New comment by elmindreda in "FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video]"

elmindreda — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 17:11:19 +0000

Proper 16-bit support is the big thing for the next release and it's significantly less slow since it got multithreading support in 2.8. Still slower than Photoshop, though.

New comment by elmindreda in "Microsoft backs off on Metro"

elmindreda — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 00:38:28 +0000

Pretty much. With Classic Shell I finally have the perfect start menu; a combination of 95, 98, XP and custom traits. I doubt anything Microsoft does will surpass it.

New comment by elmindreda in "An experimental Vim fork with multi-threading capabilities"

elmindreda — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 02:22:01 +0000

I wish more people understood this.

New comment by elmindreda in "Linux only needs one 'killer' game to explode, says Battlefield director"

elmindreda — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 20:38:16 +0000

Games generally use far less of it than a normal GUI application would.

New comment by elmindreda in "Why do RET instructions have a REPZ prepended on x86?"

elmindreda — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:00:31 +0000

This is why I like having compilers.

New comment by elmindreda in "On why removing features makes people unhappy"

elmindreda — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 12:44:41 +0000

Yes, this. I'm not angry over the removal of compact list mode from Nautilus because of "loss of freedom", but because it's the mode I find superior to all other view modes.

New comment by elmindreda in "Elon Musk's mission to Mars"

elmindreda — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:17:27 +0000

> inspiration for Iron Man's playboy superhero Tony Stark

...except Iron Man was created eight years before he was born.

New comment by elmindreda in "Firefox 22 released"

elmindreda — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:49:24 +0000

Cool, it worked. Thank you!

New comment by elmindreda in "Firefox 22 released"

elmindreda — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:37:04 +0000

I really don't like the way Vimperator works nowadays. It's why I moved to Pentadactyl.

New comment by elmindreda in "Firefox 22 released"

elmindreda — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:57:45 +0000

Lots of nice changes, but Pentadactyl won't work with it. If you're using that, you may want to wait a few days.

New comment by elmindreda in "Poll: Which is your primary text editor?"

elmindreda — Mon, 20 May 2013 09:49:15 +0000

vi != nvi != Vim

Try using heirloom vi or Solaris vi sometime. Even nvi adds a lot of convenience.

New comment by elmindreda in "Yahoo 'to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn'"

elmindreda — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:11:41 +0000

Well, there goes that service.

New comment by elmindreda in "Linux is not about choice (2008)"

elmindreda — Wed, 08 May 2013 00:08:40 +0000

It has worked for me on every system I've ever had, most of which have been laptops. Nowadays, I use Ubuntu, and nearly everything works out of the box on every system I have. Currently, the only issue is the backlight on a very new gaming laptop. I had to download and compile a third-party kernel module for that, which while not a big hassle for me is clearly unacceptable from a usability perspective.

I suggest that some of the problems people are having stem from using distros that either don't care about or have the resources to support desktop use.

New comment by elmindreda in "Git? tig"

elmindreda — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:56:11 +0000

tig was the reason I moved from monotone to Git.

New comment by elmindreda in "Geary: New lightweight email reader for GNOME designed around conversations"

elmindreda — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:51:08 +0000

It wouldn't let me add accounts with unencrypted transports, so I can't evaluate this program. The 'Continue' button just led back to the account setup dialogue.