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New comment by ggus in "Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM"

ggus — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:05:33 +0000

macOS too sadly. by the time you realise there's a problem the machine is already comatose and unresponsive

all these electron apps and invisible virtual machines (looking at you Claude) really don't help.

New comment by ggus in "Magnolias are so old that they're pollinated by beetles, not bees (2025)"

ggus — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:23:17 +0000

Around my location (southern brazil) there are hundreds of species of stingless bees, living in colonies. Many (most?) produce honey too. I don't dispute that there are also lots of solitary bees. Bees are wonderful and way more diverse than people usually think.

New comment by ggus in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

ggus — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:40:25 +0000

OTOH, if said dump happens during working (paid) hours...

New comment by ggus in "TADA: Speech generation through text-acoustic synchronization"

ggus — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:27:09 +0000

"Vocal fry", aka "creaky voice". It's stereotypically associated with irritating young women.

I like me a good rabbit hole that's interesting and also digs into stereotypes.

Turns out, like many memes, it's not just that. It's (also?) a normal speech pattern, used by different genders, ages, and social groups, in many languages.

This doesn't mean that vocal fry isn't used as social signaling. But complaining about it, well, isn't that social signalling too?

Geoff Lindsey - Vocal Fry: what it is, who does it, and why people hate it! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0yL2GezneU

New comment by ggus in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"

ggus — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:08:31 +0000

From what I understand it's the opposite, an android compatibility thing layered on top of a linux base.

New comment by ggus in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

ggus — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:16:54 +0000

My LG does just that.

The tv remote sensor stopped working (and broke again after servicing), so now the only way to use the TV is by the LG app on my phone.. which asks for permissions to Nearby Devices, Location, Camera, Microphone, Notifications, Phone, Music&Audio...

New comment by ggus in "Intricuit: A touchscreen add-on for Mac laptops"

ggus — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:25:33 +0000

This remembers me of the Modbook, back in... check notes... 2008? I'm old. They would take a Macbook, re-case it and transform it into a tablet. Super cool. Looks like they kept doing this for a few iterations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modbook

New comment by ggus in "Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?"

ggus — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 01:41:15 +0000

Not sure if it adds anything, but a factoid I know is that CD timing is expressed in minutes, seconds, and frames, where each frame is 1/75th of a second.

I'm not sure but I think this is also the smallest time resolution.

Then each frame is composed of samples, but they seem to be counted in groups of 1/75th os a second anyway.

New comment by ggus in "The MacBook Air 2025 Is Now Cheaper Than a Random Mid-Range Windows Laptop"

ggus — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:37:52 +0000

for me 16gig is definitely not enough.

I'm on a 36gb M3 and I have to reboot it every three to five days to have it behave again.

I have normal dev apps open: a browser with jira, another with testing, another with documentation, an ide, teams, calendar, zoom.. it adds up very, very quickly. 16gigs are gone in the blink of an eye

New comment by ggus in "From Hackathon to YC"

ggus — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:11:24 +0000

adults passengers can adapt the conversation to your needs, keeping quiet and even helping with decisions. screens, kids, dogs, people on the phone, etc can't do that

New comment by ggus in "So you think you've awoken ChatGPT"

ggus — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:57:52 +0000

Most times the idea is implied. I'm trying to solve a problem with some tools, and there are better tools or even better approaches.

ChatGPT (and copilot and gemini) instead all tell me "Love the intent here — this will definitely help. Let's flesh out your implementation"...

New comment by ggus in "So you think you've awoken ChatGPT"

ggus — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:28:18 +0000

It's very hard to have ChatGPT et al tell me that an idea I had isn't good.

I have to tailor my prompts to curb the bias, adding a strong sense of doubt on my every idea, to see if the thing stops being so condescending.

New comment by ggus in "Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling"

ggus — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:20:05 +0000

Even worse: If you have any complaints, call a number we won't publish anywhere on our site and a robotic voice will just laugh at you.

New comment by ggus in "Someone at YouTube needs glasses"

ggus — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:21:17 +0000

My YT mobile pet peeve is that when you toggle the captions, an useless "Subtitles/CC Turned ON" is shown for 5 seconds.. OVER THE CAPTIONS!

Most useless message ever, placed exactly where you do not want it to be.

New comment by ggus in "Mario Vargas Llosa has died"

ggus — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:28:38 +0000

Bolsonaro termed "far right" seems to be on the mark though. The guy praises military dictatorship, with many military figures in his government. He targeted the press and judiciary as enemies of the nation, and so on.

Lula hasn't nationalized industries, hasn't seized wealth, or even tried to, so "far left" doesn't seem to be as fitting. Where are the burnt churches?

Now, about corruption, I'm pretty sure neither shine, but that's Brazil for you. Wasn't the Bolsonaro family found to have bought around 50 properties in cash? Smells about as corrupt as the other side, sadly.

New comment by ggus in "EU to impose counter tariffs on $28 billion of US goods"

ggus — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:19:33 +0000

> And they are incapable of putting tariffs on online services and digital products.

This would be interesting. And worrying. Laws are easy to write, regardless of applicability.

New comment by ggus in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

ggus — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:53:47 +0000

Agree. TypeScript is primarily a programming language. Did they make the language faster? No. Hence, the title is misleading.

New comment by ggus in "Why I Wrote Data Science for Crime Analysis with Python (2023)"

ggus — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:36:08 +0000

Of course it is not that simple.

The more frequently you are stopped by the police, the greater the chance they will find something to charge you with. Since people of color are stopped more often by police, they face a higher likelihood of being charged.

New comment by ggus in "Windows 11 tweaks and usability improvements"

ggus — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:34:54 +0000

macOS also does show desktop and apps for half a second when I reopen the lid, before falling back to showing the login prompt. super annoying. (M3 MacBook Pro, so reasonably new)

New comment by ggus in "Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks"

ggus — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 21:26:17 +0000

Water is used to displace debris and to carry it up to the surface.

A cylinder of 30cm diameter and 10km deep would hold around 700k litres.