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by sim- 3y ago
Android does this with zram, and I think this is a big part of the reason why it tends to use more battery once you run low on RAM, since paging in and out requires (de)compression, which uses CPU.
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by sim- 3y ago
Imagine if Windows just allowed DeleteFile() even if the file was open, like unlink() on almost any other OS...
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by sim- 3y ago
It'd be nice if they didn't break, but for example, since around OpenSSH 7.7, the order argument parsing changed from last wins to first wins. This change broke all of my aliases where I used to be able to have an alias sr="s
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by sim- 6y ago
This is so cool!
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by sim- 8y ago
Has anybody noticed the new Gmail feels way less responsive as well? Composing a new email is affected (just hold down a key with a fast repeat speed and it will not update for long periods), but also the prelight when hovering the mouse ov
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by sim- 9y ago
Can you paste or describe your measuring technique?
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by sim- 9y ago
I used to use text consoles for work and X only for the browser for many years. I switched only to terminals in X when I hacked up a rxvt enough to be very close to the text mode console (including the font and pretty closely matching GPM f
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by sim- 10y ago
On the desktop, prelighting _used_ to be a functional aid: as the mouse cursor hovers between two items, the instantaneous lighting of the next and darkening of the previous provided immediate feedback that a click would reach that widget.
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by sim- 10y ago
While TCP is not ideal for this application by nature of it trying to be a fully reliable stream protocol, one often overlooked advantage of its congestion control is that it allows the stream to play nicely with others. For example, if you