thekombustor

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by thekombustor 3y ago
I typically use "pass" for this exact case of having a stub function body (typically to be implemented later)
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by thekombustor 3y ago
I believe this is how firefox behaves.
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by thekombustor 3y ago
10Gbps mesh for only $48, assuming you already have very modern (expensive) USB4 capable machines. The article also seems to make the assumption that a server would be pulling 1000W all the time, 24/7, which is rarely the case (of cour
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by thekombustor 3y ago
It looks like this link is dead too.
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by thekombustor 3y ago
At the time of writing, accessing the link returns a bunch of prometheus metrics... interesting.
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by thekombustor 3y ago
I should be clearer - that drive is fake if it's an SSD, it's a normal price for HDDs. Cost per TB of HDD isn't linear, though, it's a bit of a bathtub based on drive capacity and feature set (e.g CMR vs SMR)
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by thekombustor 3y ago
That 10TB drive is 100% fake! Amazon is full of fakes. A good rule of thumb right now is $60/TB, significantly less and you're approaching fake territory.
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by thekombustor 3y ago
I'm running this laptop (the R5 variant) on Arch w/ i3 and it's been pretty great so far. High DPI screen isn't really a huge deal as long as you set Xft.dpi correctly and change your terminal/i3bar font size. If an
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by thekombustor 3y ago
The 'black strip' between enter and backslash is actually just a recessed part of the enter key. It's not a separate plastic piece. Source: typing this on my Framework 13 AMD right now :)
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by thekombustor 3y ago
Installing a tiling WM on macOS (in this case, Yabai) requires disabling system integrity protection. I tried Yabai for a while without disabling SIP (since I can't on my work machine) and it just did not work well. Not the fault of Ya
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by thekombustor 3y ago
Keeping work/private life separate is reason enough to me (also, we don't use Github - we use bitbucket - the decision was made for me!) Ultimately, I think having work-specific accounts is preferable, and I wouldn't be surpr
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by thekombustor 3y ago
My understanding is that an in-spec USB-C power supply will supply 5V by default - then, upon negotiation with the client, can go up to a higher voltage. In the case of the Zimaboard, this is basically a 12V barrel jack with a different sha
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by thekombustor 3y ago
The Zima Blade isn't actually USB-C powered - it's just a USB-C port carrying a raw 12V. No PD negotiation supported. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1bbD1kw334 Honestly, for me, total dealbreaker for a p
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by thekombustor 3y ago
I'm not sure I exactly follow your logic - do you think that price is insane(ly high)? or insane(ly low)? If it's high, why would you want to order it when you get laid off?
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by thekombustor 3y ago
Thanks for the reply. A quick comment on UX - my laptop is old (see: the aforementioned ancient processor), and these types of menus are extremely inefficient for screen real-estate. On a 1366x768 display, most modern webapps/applica
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by thekombustor 3y ago
This looks great, but it's using 50% of my CPU (i5-3320M) just for a menu and some visual flair. Not worth it.
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by thekombustor 3y ago
I think what he meant was, how do you accept the keyboard prompt if this is the initial keyboard connected to the system? Same goes for mouse. A bit of a chicken and egg problem, unless you blindly accept the first keyboard plugged into the
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by thekombustor 3y ago
Nvidia has no motivation to make a consumer card with lots of VRAM, that's basically the only (relevant) separator between the GeForce family and the Quadro lineup. There are restrictions on NVENC streams with consumer cards, but that
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by thekombustor 3y ago
I wonder why they put '/e/ OS' on this instead of standard AOSP or LineageOS. The UI looks like an attempt to be as close as possible to iOS - but I'd imagine the target market for a Fairphone 4 and the target marke
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by thekombustor 3y ago
I was able to set up ROCm on my Arch system w/ RX 6600 relatively painlessly, and that was a few months ago. Honestly, I had no idea the support was otherwise this bad (at least, according to other comments). Using stable diffusion,
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by thekombustor 3y ago
These are exactly the kinds of channels we need more of on YT, I'm glad someone else has also found his channel. I eagerly await more reviews of other USB-C PD chargers, e.g the 65W Lenovo ones you can get for pennies on ebay.
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by thekombustor 4y ago
I'd imagine more of it has to do with trying to beat every penny of those desperate to get more use of their $15k+ scanner, and less to do with it being a technically complex task. That's assuming it truly just being a port issue
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by thekombustor 4y ago
When I was learning programming, I had a very experienced friend holding my hand along the way. I felt that this was great for me as a beginner, although sometimes she would way over-explain something that was irrelevant as a beginner. As t
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by thekombustor 4y ago
Yep, you can get it on the higher end trims of the P-series Thinkpads.
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by thekombustor 4y ago
Nintendo is infamous for this, not only games specifically but mostly any "works" that relate to their content at all, including YouTube videos and also mods to long extinct games.
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by thekombustor 4y ago
I always find these footnotes in tech history quite interesting. I'd imagine for many arcades, this was simply too expensive (both up-front and with the seemingly required attendant for operation) alongside being effectively a puke gen
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by thekombustor 4y ago
Fellow 12700k owner, I am very impressed with the idle power consumption. Mine reports idle at ~7W, which is pretty close to my laptop's R7 4750U. Came from an R5 2600, which I'm almost positive idled higher. While the full-core p
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by thekombustor 4y ago
The price range across Taco Bell's taco is interesting. I've always wondered how their business can be profitable, but I have to remind myself not everyone only shops on the dollar menu. When the mexican pizza is around ~$8, I can
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by thekombustor 4y ago
It feels like this practice is becoming more common across the web in general. I'm not sure which I'd prefer - not showing a price before putting in cart, or changing the price after putting in cart.