Hacker News: lanius

New comment by lanius in "Pixel 8 Pro"

lanius — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:43:54 +0000

Do you have adaptive brightness enabled? For the longest time I did not realize that the screen doesn't achieve max brightness despite the brightness slider manually set to the max unless it's enabled.

New comment by lanius in "f.lux"

lanius — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 21:31:38 +0000

My previous monitor, even at minimum brightness with flux enabled, was still uncomfortable to view at night. I finally invested in a monitor with low minimum brightness (~0.5 nits) and couldn't be happier.

New comment by lanius in "A baby saved ‘Toy Story 2’ from near complete deletion (2021)"

lanius — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 16:44:59 +0000

How common was working from home in 1995?

New comment by lanius in "I Built My New Linux Gaming Desktop in 2021 with AMD (CPU+GPU) and GNU Guix"

lanius — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 17:05:41 +0000

750 W seems like overkill for a 5600x + 6700XT.

New comment by lanius in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

lanius — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 22:35:56 +0000

>Modern cars are far more efficient, performant and easier to drive than a 15 year one

Can you clarify what being "easier to drive" means?

New comment by lanius in "Diablo II: Resurrected"

lanius — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:22:45 +0000

I'll play this, but all these remasters make me wonder if Blizzard is running out of ideas.

New comment by lanius in "'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry'"

lanius — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 22:08:29 +0000

Still is in the K-pop industry.

New comment by lanius in "Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev environment"

lanius — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 05:12:30 +0000

Does going mouseless reduce risk of RSI?

New comment by lanius in "Association between egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular outcomes"

lanius — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 21:45:46 +0000

>Higher egg consumption (more than 1 egg/day) was associated with a significantly decreased risk of coronary artery disease

Is there an upper ceiling where the benefit goes away? I go through dozens of eggs a week.

New comment by lanius in "The MIT License, Line by Line"

lanius — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 04:21:53 +0000

I did not realize the MIT License had so many variants [1]. Compare that to Apache License 2.0, which has one canonical form [2]. For this reason alone, Apache seems like a plainly better choice (IANAL).

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT

[2] http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

New comment by lanius in "I no longer trust The Great Suspender"

lanius — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 23:52:23 +0000

I'm glad I decided to go with 32 GB of RAM for my current PC build. No longer need to close any tabs!

New comment by lanius in "Show HN: Thruhikes – A list of long distance hikes around the world"

lanius — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:36:26 +0000

Noob question: how does food work on these multi-month hikes? Are there stops along the way where you can resupply? Do you forage?

New comment by lanius in "GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL"

lanius — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:21:27 +0000

> Games are developed on cross platform engines. I can't remember the last game I played that was Windows-exclusive.

You may not play them, but a significant number of popular[1] games are Windows-only.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-played_video_game...

New comment by lanius in "Dash: Scalable Hashing on Persistent Memory [pdf]"

lanius — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 05:32:01 +0000

You can just read the conclusion.

New comment by lanius in "Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course"

lanius — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 19:28:44 +0000

You can start :)

New comment by lanius in "Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course"

lanius — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 19:04:24 +0000

Yes! How should we organize this? Maybe start with an IRC channel?

New comment by lanius in "Players Blame Skill-Based Matchmaking for Losing in Call of Duty"

lanius — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 22:41:37 +0000

I wonder why these complaints only seem to come from players of team-based games. I have never heard anyone call for an outright removal of skill-based matchmaking in 1v1 games like Starcraft or Super Smash Bros. Is it because the lack of teammates means you can only blame yourself for losing?

New comment by lanius in "These are called opportunities"

lanius — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 07:19:10 +0000

I once had to debug an online service from a cruise ship. The network connection was painfully slow due to being over satellite. SSH is practically unusable with that latency. After suffering through that ordeal, I now take much greater care when developing software that requires internet access. Perhaps others could learn from this experience.

New comment by lanius in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)"

lanius — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 04:48:46 +0000

I think you meant Snapcraft instead of Starcraft :)

It certainly caught my attention!

New comment by lanius in "New bike chain claims to be faster, more durable"

lanius — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 05:25:34 +0000

>Sure i shaved 4g on my $400 waterbottle holder.... but when i weight 80KG.. and have another 2kg of water with me, does that 4g really matter?

Plus don't cycling competitions set a minimum bike weight anyways?