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clircle

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About clircle

Professional statistician, amateur computer person.

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    Comment #49220781

    Very neat. What's the power draw on this machine?

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    Comment #49086453

    efficient mathematics hypothesis? What's that?

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    Comment #49038018

    Thanks, dired-hide-details-mode is particularly neato. I also learned a few things about marking.

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    Comment #49009979

    My first thought as well. drag-and-drop is also fantastically useful for data you cannot Cut (e.g., moving an email attachment from one draft message to another)

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    Comment #48860004

    Emacs users (myself included) would feel less like cramming every aspect of our work into Emacs if more tools embodied the freedom and hackability that comes with using Emacs. It's…

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    Comment #48848373

    Cool, I don't have to set my clocks back this December.

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    Comment #48335126

    Pro motion and battery life for me

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    Comment #48195173

    Is Gentoo an outlier or do all Linux distributions deal with this problem?

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    Comment #48136400

    I was gaming on Linux when steam first came out for that platform, but there were too many broken games. Tried again with Proton debute, and more problems. I switched back to Win10…

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    Comment #48054770

    There's nothing appealing about costco to me anymore. Living is suburban DC... The parking lots are packed and dangerous, there's too many people in the store, the produce quality …

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    Comment #47961155

    Here's some good configs https://github.com/podiki/dot.me (nonguix maintainer) https://codeberg.org/hako/Testament (guix and nonguix maintainer) https://codeberg.org/cmargiotta/dot…

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    Comment #47956551

    Yes, separately. At home i run guix system but at work i use Guix package manager on Ubuntu wsl. My dots are private but Ill share some good repos to learn from when i get back to …

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    Comment #47909968

    I’m moving slowly in the direction of Guix home for dotfile management, but until it covers all my bases, I’m fond of the gnu stow method

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    Comment #47488646

    +1 for FreshRSS (recommended at the bottom of the PC Gamer article). I just started my mass migration to self-hosting (it's way better in 2026 than it used to be), and I'm very ple…

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    Comment #47155328

    > Synctrain Good tip, I'm going to check that out!

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    Comment #47140474

    > overkill for a single personal user compared to a kdbx file on a webdav share. Maybe. I'm looking into VaultWarden for my personal passwords because keeping a KBDX file up to dat…

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    Comment #46950835

    The standard of living that one could afford with a "living wage" looks to be very very low. Like, 0 vacations and no house low, for my metro area.

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    Comment #46804860

    Neither is xfce

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    Comment #46783152

    I resisted Wayland for a longtime, but I'm sold now that I see how well it does on old hardware. I have an old Thinkpad. Firefox on X is slow and scrolls poorly. On wayland, the sc…

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    Comment #46734447

    Guix is the combination of so many cool things: declarative OS, lisp programming, hygenic development, bootstrapping. I'm totally sold on Guix, and have been using it on an old lap…

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    Comment #46691888

    You need a new job to feel energized again (and so do I)

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    Comment #46457892

    Is this less buggy than UTM on apple silicon?