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their video demos were surprisingly bad. Hard to understand what they were showing.

I found that info about the `discard` behavior quite interesting. And thank you for the kind, inspiring words -- cheers!

TIL, thanks for sharing. We ended up solving our problem another way by adding this `DisableControllers` stanza to the service's systemd configuration: https://gist.github.com/dasl…

Hi, I'm the author of the article! Thank you for the awesome description of the various vm.dirty_* sysctls. The problem described in my post was not _directly_ related to the kerne…

How does the Gemini OCR perform against non-English language text?

Yes, Con Ed now has smart meters that report electricity usage in realtime at 15 minute intervals. If you use Home Assistant, you can perhaps make use of the Opower integration to …

The email address responded with an automated message saying they are no longer checking the inbox. It directed me to submit my query at their contact for instead: https://www.gate…

What latency do you get? I'd be interested in seeing a demo video.

This allows you to use fzf with IRB. It works with anything that uses readline, which IRB uses. https://github.com/lincheney/rl_custom_isearch it works for me on linux, not sure ab…

gmail iOS app has no scrollbars. pretty annoying.

elevated youtube link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB0vBmiTr6o

> One of the downsides of the Linux cp command, is copying a file larger than RAM will destroy every existing entry in the file cache. Under normal circumstances this is a good thi…

youtube has recently been implementing download speed throttling on some video downloads. See: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326 . Youtube-dl does not yet have a …

Instead of having RF interference, if we have acoustic transmitters, would you have trouble getting a signal at a loud concert for instance (acoustic interference)?

Yes, those speeds are roughly consistent with what I got in my speed tests here :) You (and others in these comments) have suggested using OpenWRT as an alternative. I suppose one …

A couple of months ago, another setup for a wifi to ethernet bridge was posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26940521 I like Will Haley's setup better though, because …

I use zsh, and I have a thing in my profile that skips writing any `cd` command to history. Instead, it will rewrite the command using the absolute path of the directory I `cd`'d i…