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iMerNibor

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About iMerNibor

Generalist Software Developer

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    > the fans spinning at max speed This always confuses me - don't people want their computations to run as fast as possible and thus inevitably produce more heat that needs to be ve…

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    Comment #47587200

    It is apparently contaminated/not pure enough and refining it isn't financially viable compared to mining it from more pure deposits (according to the german wikipedia page)

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    Comment #45885897

    SourceGit comes pretty close to it for me (same situation)

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    Comment #45481579

    Hetzner cloud servers perform a lot better than ovh vps from my (limited) experience, ymmv though. (happy customer of both)

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    Comment #45359262

    I would assume they'd just decline and shut operations for that particular domain and create a new domain/account on cloudflare for the new site? Not sure how attached these sites …

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    Comment #43846856

    What gets me the thumbnails are now so big, they're blurry since the images need to be stretched to fit now! The preview is 530x300px on a 1920x1080 screen vs the image shown being…

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    Comment #41516348

    We could do this by sending a header to the website. What should we call this.. mmh.. "Do Not Track" is a bit long, maybe we just shorten it to DNT? Nah thats dumb. /s https://deve…

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    Comment #38156500

    To quote from the blog post: > Unity has a package called Entities Graphics, but surprisingly Cities: Skylines 2 doesn’t seem to use that. The reason might be its relative immaturi…

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    Comment #38156408

    > Maybe they could have gotten away with this with UE5's Nanite Exactly. If unity actually delivered a workable graphics pipeline (for the DOTS/ECS stack, or at all keeping up with…

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    Comment #37513995

    To give an example: user installs the game on their pc? unity wants the fee paid for that same user installs it on their laptop? pay again same user upgrades their pc and has to in…

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    Comment #36197589

    Being able to stop constantly keeping things in the back of your head and just trusting the compiler to complain if something is off was the biggest differentiator for me by far. L…

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    Comment #34317050

    I'm a customer of virgin's fttp connection, which is converted from fibre to coax on premise - so yes, actual fiber going to your house, but running docsis in some fashion or other…

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    Comment #33434637

    Of course at that point you're already bought into the ecosystem with physical samples (which are not cheap), monitor calibration and all, so it feels like a "double dip" for no va…

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    Comment #33434609

    From what I recall, its about phyiscal to virtual color matching, so pantone offers samples of say plastic with the exact matching color as the virtual ones, so you can pick a colo…

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    Comment #32243800

    cloud traffic pricing is a massive ripoff, especially in europe where bandwidth is cheap

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    Comment #32243783

    Thats how these unlimited offerings work though? The 99% pay for the 1% that actually uses the unlimited traffic Can't have your cake and eat it too.

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    Comment #29982434

    > while the mega corps get away with billions. The difference here is that megacorps use legal loopholes (and pay accountants and lawyers plenty of money to find those loopholes an…

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    Comment #28657940

    > And that's before you get into a proper SPF, DKIM and DMARC setup. only to be pushed into spam and plain rejected by "non-mainstream" email providers regardless

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    Comment #27142295

    It's easier on yourself. You don't have to stress about rushing to get a new job until the end of the month (or what have you). That'll also make you more relaxed during interviews…

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    Comment #26025242

    It should really just have been 3.0 for 5gbit/s, 3.1 for 10gbit/s and 3.2 for 20gbit/s - nothing hard to understand, same deal as usb 1 and 2 beforehand

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    Comment #26019498

    Lack of typed containers is a bit annoying for someone who touches go every now and then

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    Comment #25335384

    > Unity actually exports Linux binaries so most developers could do Linux natively. It'd be great if it was that easy, last time (been over a year to be fair) we tried we had weird…

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    Comment #24629582

    There is now beta (?) builds of a 64bit raspberry pi os (formerly known as raspbian) available: https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/ Not sure how well it works, …

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    Comment #24284512

    If it's moving it to a different drive/partition it'll have to copy it again Moving many (small) files can also be quite slow