paulbgd

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by paulbgd 1mo ago
One underrated thing is how easy it is to get credentials for sending emails. If you self host a lot of stuff it's quick to get going.
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by paulbgd 2mo ago
Unfortunately it's not just dense cities, and all it takes is 1 neighbor to ruin your night.
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by paulbgd 3mo ago
We’ll skip it based off other signals (referrals notably) of course, but if we offered an interview to every candidate based off their resume we’d never get around to interviewing the good candidates. I don’t like the idea of a technical ch
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by paulbgd 3mo ago
As an engineer working on my company’s top of funnel it’s tough. Currently we’ve switched to a short (15-30m) technical problem that we hand grade before candidates get a call. Async technical challenges are obviously gamed but you’d be sur
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by paulbgd 4mo ago
As I was reading the start of your argument, I thought you were gonna call the models a depreciating asset! Totally agree about GPUs too, but literally everything they’re spending money on has to be rebuilt to stay competitive. They have to
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by paulbgd 4mo ago
Yep, I do all of those on gnome without issues now. HDR too!
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by paulbgd 5mo ago
The article mentions several TUI programs that rendering in an accessible way for screen readers.
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by paulbgd 6mo ago
I honestly prefer the ars article here just because there's no onscroll fancy animation, just an actual textual description of what's being reported.
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by paulbgd 7mo ago
As someone who is a maintainer of a few packages, it’s actually really hard to find references for this stuff! The wiki is pretty bare when you start looking for specifics, and like you say there’s tons of crap pkgbuilds when you try to loo
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by paulbgd 8mo ago
It helps that the major cell carriers have convinced people to pay multiple times more than the budget carriers, to offer free phone upgrades every few years or when switching carriers. Makes me wonder how much cheaper phone plans could be
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by paulbgd 8mo ago
The article doesn’t talk about whether immigration enforcement is good, instead focusing on the side effects of the current federal deployment in Minnesota.
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by paulbgd 9mo ago
kinda similar experience with my thinkpad t14s gen 2 amd (what a name.) I like framework's philosophy, but there's so many refurbished business laptops out there (many unused) that I like upgrading every few years to a 3-4 yr old
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by paulbgd 9mo ago
Super cool, I'm definitely going to have to grab a pi and set this up. Now if we could also solve the ps5/switch/etc not turning off the TV, my setup would be perfect!
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by paulbgd 9mo ago
pcie expansion cards? SATA isn’t free and takes away from having potentially more PCIE lanes, so the only real difference here is the connector
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by paulbgd 10mo ago
Reading it closely, that's a bit of an oversimplification. The article focuses pretty heavily on functionality over style, where doing the equivalent thing in macos is either silly or near impossible to achieve
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by paulbgd 10mo ago
I like plasma as well, my main complaints with it rn are - configuring stuff like the task bar has always been buggy, the drag/drop frustratingly won't drop stuff in the right place, I've even had to completely log out to fix
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by paulbgd 10mo ago
Totally agree. Lots of friends who game have been asking for advice on linux now that they don’t want to update to windows 10. I’ll show them both gnome and plasma, and they’ll usually try kde then switch to gnome because it’s so darn easy
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by paulbgd 11mo ago
Totally agree, but it seems like competitive games have solved it. CS2 (VAC), The Finals (EAC), and Overwatch 2 (Warden) all run flawlessly on Linux.
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by paulbgd 11mo ago
On Wayland+gnome/plasma I’ve had great luck with games, Firefox is almost there with some bugginess, and video playing apps that use mpv like plex work great. It’s definitely not perfect and you may dive into configuring per app flags
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by paulbgd 11mo ago
Super cool! I wonder if the same technique could be useful for video encoding too.
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by paulbgd 1y ago
There’s always Sony too, who still put out pretty good receivers.
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by paulbgd 1y ago
I'm going to guess they voted 2016 and 2020, prior to January 6th & Project 2025
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by paulbgd 1y ago
Check out sweep. Completely unaffiliated, their only offering is the jetbrains plugin so it gets a lot more focus than windsurf. Only downside is that Claude code is still a better agent, but at least its tab complete is some of the best
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by paulbgd 1y ago
I’ve used fsr 4 and dlss 4, I’d say fsr 4 is a bit ahead of dlss 3 but behind dlss 4. No more vaseline smear
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by paulbgd 1y ago
Not this but similar, Sony’s acoustic surface audio for their displays uses actuators behind the screen to vibrate it. it’s not crazy bass but I’d say it’s on par with regular built in tv/laptop speakers
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by paulbgd 1y ago
The CTO is the president of the VideoLAN non-profit, so it seems accurate. Supposedly from their about page they’re the primary maintainers of vlc.
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by paulbgd 2y ago
As a user of a crt pc monitor and a 240hz oled, the motion clarity of the oled is pretty darn close now. I’d bet 480hz is the point where the smoothness of modern panels finally catches up to the crts.
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by paulbgd 2y ago
You’re assuming that they only have the power to show the user propaganda, but I think the real power is in hiding content they don’t want people to see.
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by paulbgd 2y ago
It’s on the article before this one. The tldr is that no, this doesn’t reduce latency so there’s no chance of making the original light guns work without modifying either them or the game.
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by paulbgd 2y ago
It’s impressive but even more interesting, it could still be faster! Java is JIT at #3, so theoretically any of these languages could get there.

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