kvemkon

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by kvemkon 6d ago
Discussion of the corresponding blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553988
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by kvemkon 12d ago
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546284
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by kvemkon 13d ago
> since computers are getting new hardware features It's not possible to move forwards fast anywhere. > and removing features Yeah, this is indeed very unfortunate. They claim the GTK core team is about 2 devs, so tiny that we&#x
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by kvemkon 13d ago
> Lets say we are using batteries that are 300 wh/kg (0.3 kwh/kg) 400 Wh/kg are almost there [1]. [1] https://youtu.be/nM86DBOqgPM?t=541
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by kvemkon 13d ago
> more likely to be 50 kWh just for the take-off 1.6 MW power [1]. Would be 2 minutes for take-off realistic? [1] https://youtu.be/nM86DBOqgPM?t=475
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by kvemkon 13d ago
> so difficult to upgrade to new versions Perhaps, because GTK developers insist, that GTK2, GTK3, GTK4 are different toolkits. > Qt4 to Qt5 usually only involved ... I'd start with Qt3 to Qt4.
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by kvemkon 13d ago
I can still use and develop GTK2 software in Debian out-of-the-box, but not Qt3 or even Qt4.
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by kvemkon 17d ago
> to a newly-allocated part of the drive's LBA space Which is rather a case for home use, not practical for highly parallel access industrial use cases. That's why the issue became a research topic. For the first time I saw a p
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by kvemkon 17d ago
To visually inspect fragmentation of a partition on Linux, a tool exists since 15 years: https://github.com/i-rinat/fragview . Just in case.
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by kvemkon 18d ago
That's what I thought at first but then discovered: > universal clipboard is synchronized over internet, it is not done trough cable connection. it uses apple continuity service, what you put into UC is uploaded into apple cloud,..
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by kvemkon 18d ago
Is there an easy way to share iOS clipboard to Linux directly using local WiFi without going through any cloud? Edit: clarification in my reply later in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492003
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by kvemkon 22d ago
This is an interesting point of view. I've been thinking that only the moment counts, when the manufacturer has been made aware, regardless when the manufacturer has in fact actively become aware. Thanks!
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by kvemkon 23d ago
> Wine waiter Caroline Kraetzer earns $40 (£30) an hour Is this before taxes or what remains after?
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by kvemkon 23d ago
If the law wouldn't say 24 hours counting only working hours (3 working days for small business or even weeks during vacations), then it wouldn't be an exempt.
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by kvemkon 23d ago
> CRA Well, how small business can report anything during 24 hours through weekends, long weekends, 1-week Christmas, 3-4-weeks summer vacations?
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by kvemkon 24d ago
> Mythic Recently on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352470
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by kvemkon 27d ago
I fear to ask, how archive.org keeps up to catch all those events for archiving...
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by kvemkon 1mo ago
I mean the one of the commenters, since the maintainer asked for comments.
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by kvemkon 1mo ago
Zipped XML Preparation for the future XCF (24.09.2023) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/10076 Someone proposed newer ser-/deserialization approaches, but this didn't result in a
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by kvemkon 1mo ago
> Related work and future work > ao486 is the closest related open-source design and the CPU behind the established ao486 MiSTer core. ao486 from 2014 recently mentioned on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4914
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by kvemkon 1mo ago
And now their ghosts continue to live and serve in virtual machines like QEMU.
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by kvemkon 1mo ago
Delphi - almost effortless programming memories. > ... native Delphi apps for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. In early 2000s there was Borland Kylix for Linux. Thus today (25 years later), if I'd use Object Pascal, then with Lazar
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by kvemkon 1mo ago
> I think any empty Qt/GTK app eats 40 MB at least. Classic GTK is (much) better (RSS on Linux): GTK2 14 MB GTK3 24 MB Once it was decided that a desktop application must have fancy animation effects (like on smartphones) a
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by kvemkon 1mo ago
> bought myself a mini pc with an Intel N100 Instead of Raspi I've got a N100 uATX mainboard with N100 (120 EUR). Fortunately it does work with normal 32GB DIMM (55 EUR, those were the days!). But I'm still missing a pico-PSU,
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by kvemkon 1mo ago
> Take Hetzner as an example. Similar happened already with OVH Canada vs France. > In an affidavit, Xavier Barriere, corporate counsel at OVH in Paris, describes the dramatic situation: If the important proponent of European data sov
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by kvemkon 1mo ago
GTK4 is 98 MB RSS on Linux. Or just 24 MB for GTK3. example-0.c (fits both GTK3 and GTK4) from https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/getting_started.html
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by kvemkon 1mo ago
On news there was a message from Siemens about 500 t turbines, which can be transported best only by Rhine.
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by kvemkon 1mo ago
Ah, that's great! I remember, conditions somewhere were you receive the "treue" bonus after the first year for a 2 year contract. I'm watching how with more sun, oeko-energy price keeps growing (despite every summer befo
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by kvemkon 1mo ago
I see only basis (without any kWh consumed) costs: > Grundpreis: 15,54 € / Monat
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by kvemkon 5mo ago
> it slows programs down Interesting, how costly would be hardware acceleration support for Fil-C code.

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