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cyfex

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    Comment #49148589

    "GPU compute powering crypto for the last decade..." I keep hearing this lately. Also, that GPU compute has been re-purposed from crypto to AI. I had the impression that crypto was…

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    Comment #45739012

    > Greek being the only Hellenic one Are there really any other Hellenic languages besides Greek?

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    Comment #42286251

    Not USB, but there exist SFP DSL modems, like the Proscend 180-T. They are pricey and difficult to come by, but with something like a Turris Omnia as a host, you _can_ have a singl…

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    Comment #40263465

    He's also the author of elfeed [0] "An Emacs web feeds client". I've found his minimalist implementation very inspiring. [0] https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed

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    Comment #38975879

    It appears you can still make it return an Atom feed if you pass the 'Accept: application/xml' header. This is not to say that what they did was right.

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    Comment #37944418

    We have 30k year old statues? This is news to me, do you have a reference you can share?

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    Comment #37272270

    I have been using `duf` [1] for a while, as a "cleaner" alternative to `df`. [1] https://github.com/muesli/duf

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    Comment #37062179

    It's a really great calculator for all sorts of stuff. I use many of the following almost daily: - currency conversion: `x USD to EUR` or `BTC to USD` - time calculations: `now - 2…

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    Comment #37062074

    I have `$mod+c` bound to rofi-calc [1] which I find even more convenient. 1. https://github.com/svenstaro/rofi-calc

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    Comment #36947857

    > Sending myself emails feels a bit wrong but has so far been the best solution. Why does email feel wrong? I find it a pretty viable solution.

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    Comment #36602891

    I have never really understood the difference between a heat pump and an A/C myself. Any expert care to explain it in layman's terms?

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    Comment #33505557

    Is hibernation (is it called suspend-to-disk nowadays?) working with *BSD yet? For me, it is a prerequisite for using *BSD as a desktop OS, and what stopped me from migrating from …

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    Comment #31018582

    I have found https://github.com/denisidoro/navi very useful for remembering nifty one-liners. It's like a bookmark manager for commands. Also good for sharing them with the rest of…

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    Comment #30034715

    I always found the hurdle with self-hosting to be maintaining, not the initial setup. Things like upgrading, in order to keep getting security fixes, and verifying everything works…

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    Comment #29683239

    What kind of issues does "xeyes" help you troubleshoot?

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    Ask HN: GNU readline editing support in GUI frameworks

    Is there a way to use GNU readline motion and editing key bindings in GUI frameworks like GTK+, Qt, etc.? Over the years I have grown accustomed to readline's key bindings in the t…

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    Comment #18902042

    You can also delete old (older than 90 days) undo files with the following in your .vimrc: let s:undos = split(globpath(&undodir, '*'), "\n") call filter(s:undos, 'getftime(v:val)

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