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by benley 7mo ago
> awful Rendezvous with Rama sequels. Were those so awful? I remember rather enjoying them when I read them many years ago - though the last book got pretty weird, as 4th-book-in-trilogy installments tend to do.
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by benley 1y ago
Mailman 3 is acceptable, imho. It's been a few years since I worked with it, but I was able to design a reliable public instance of it ( https://mailman.haskell.org ) with a few days of effort, including the migration from m
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by benley 1y ago
Interesting - this could actually be good functionality to add to tailscale-manager ( https://github.com/singlestore-labs/tailscale-manager ), which currently just handles AWS prefix lists and DNS lookups.
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by benley 1y ago
Khat will wreck your teeth if you chew the leaves. And it's about on par with caffeine as far as stimulants go, so personally I'd stick with coffee or tea instead of khat.
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by benley 1y ago
There are indeed nvidia drivers for Linux and they're reasonably good for gaming, but the feature set sometimes lags far behind windows. There is no DLSS 3 for Linux, for instance. (as of a few months ago anyway - I haven't check
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by benley 1y ago
How does that compare to the typical cost of electricity to power a 3090 for a month? I honestly have no idea, this isn't a gotcha question.
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by benley 1y ago
I posted a reply to another subthread with some of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43647368 > * Does it work well? Very well! There are some limitations (see link above), but what's implemented is reliabl
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by benley 1y ago
there are a bunch of them: https://headscale.net/stable/ref/integration/web-ui/?h=web The one I've deployed is https://github.com/gurucomputing/headscale-ui , which is basic but
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by benley 1y ago
> - How much effort do you put into key management compared to plain WireGuard? Less effort than plain wireguard; the only key management I do is for non-human clients > - How automated is the onboarding process; do you generate and h
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2025 xkcd "April 1": Push Notifications(xkcd.com)
10 points by benley 1y ago|2 comments
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by benley 1y ago
I've done exactly that: headscale in production at work, a few hundred client devices, infrastructure mostly powered by nix. What would you want to hear about it?
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xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine(xkcd.com)
165 points by benley 2y ago|14 comments
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by benley 3y ago
Thanks for the response. Is there much hope for this to change at some point? I would love to eventually use Haiku on actual hardware, and the lack of video acceleration is the main thing that discourages me from giving it a go.
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by benley 3y ago
Does that mean they have some accelerated video drivers now? Last I checked (maybe a year ago) there were none at all.
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by benley 3y ago
It's not easy to find from the linked website, but this appears to be the most recent code on github: https://github.com/rayarachelian/lisaem There is also this repo which was last updated in 2018: https:/&#
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by benley 3y ago
I was about to be like "surely you mean the S/390 series" but nope, you are correct! Apparently 3090 came in between the S/370 and S/390 series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3090
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by benley 3y ago
Click the home button in the lower right of the frame, it will reset your position!
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by benley 3y ago
We're looking into this, but I'm not sure how easy it will be to fix. You probably ought to use Safari/Firefox/Chrome for now, sorry.
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xkcd: Escape Speed(xkcd.com)
73 points by benley 3y ago|23 comments
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by benley 5y ago
I'd recommend checking out some of the "smart relay" devices that let you reuse your existing light switches. e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Compatible-SmartThings-Philips-ZBBrid... - this one says "2 way&q
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by benley 5y ago
You're welcome <3 Here's hoping Google doesn't get mad about it - though after 12(ish) years there's really nothing secret in that video.
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by benley 5y ago
Regarding the phrase "I don't know how to count that low", here's the video where it originated. Frankly I'm astonished this hasn't been shared before, and I hope I don't get in trouble for posting it (it
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by benley 5y ago
These days people most frequently seem to mean "without a hypervisor" when they say bare-metal. In this case I guess it's "without containers", which isn't far off. Since it's not a formally defined term
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by benley 5y ago
I'm finding that I like using Nord theme for much of my system UI where low-contrast reduces distractions (window decorations, buttons and other widgets, terminals, etc), but for my code editor I want something with slightly more contr
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by benley 5y ago
This is an excellent metaphor but now I am curious, is it literally true?
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by benley 6y ago
Can you elaborate on this? I thought Metafilter was alive and doing just fine - in fact I still visit it regularly
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by benley 6y ago
Sure, but I think a more apt comparison in this context would be to Windows NT, given that Android and Fuchsia are both made by the same company: the ability to run win16 apps was crucial to its initial success. If every existing Windows 3
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by benley 6y ago
I can't speak to bugginess in general, but they're not supposed to be slow. I've used emacs with lsp modes for Haskell, Elm, Bash, and Python and they've all seemed very quick and responsive to me; if your setup is slug
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by benley 6y ago
> - find definition > - find usages > - rename Emacs has these covered, especially when using LSP modes > - extract method I don't know what this is, sorry > - detect code duplication > - highlight unused symbols(vars
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by benley 7y ago
Antidepressant medications do not "cause happiness". They make it somewhat more possible (when they work at all, which is not a guarantee for a given drug in any individual) for a person to find ways of becoming less depressed.

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