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At 60 Hz, there are 16.6 ms between frames, so the ~3 ms improvement from not using XWayland would be very hard to notice visually. Where it can make a difference is that some comp…

Rather disingenuous to call slamming on the brakes "it was crashed into". Rule #1 of the road is to be predictable -- if a human slammed on their brakes and caused a crash on their…

The presence of the "Do Not Track" header was a pretty clear indicator of the intent of the user. Fingerprinting persisted exactly in the face of such countermeasures.

Alpha waves refer to the measurable 8-12Hz waves in the electromagnetic field coming out of the human head. They are the clearest "signal" we can read out with eeg ("electro" "ence…

A free and open society is a prerequisite for the rights EFF fight for. We cannot enjoy the freedoms of digital privacy in a an authoritarian regime. The rights to fight for EFFs c…

Wtf!? Is this an early April's fools? I've been recommending astral tools left and right, Looks like I'm out a good chunk of social capital on that. Who's organizing a fork, or is …

And every time the issue is side-stepped by chatbot proponents. Accuracy and reliability are necessary to know real productivity. If you have produced code that doesn't work right,…

Water vapour absorbs the thermal radiation (heat trying to escape earth) better than it absorbs sunlight (heat trying to enter earth). Therefore, the more water vapour in the atmos…

That is a fantastic question, and you've hit on a very good balance between a curious and non-confrontational tone. The key to getting good responses on the internet is to say some…

In your quote, the number is "<1 per week", not "<1 per day"

Would git commit --fixup and git rebase -i --autosquash do what you need? Random blog link explaining it: [1] [1] https://fle.github.io/git-tip-keep-your-branch-clean-with-fi...

I wonder if hn (or wherever else this was posted) is big enough to register on the ads-vs-adblocker war. Ads are 509 pixels wide coming in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

Maybe you would find it useful to read a textbook on bayesian stats for inspiration. I can recommend Richard McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking" which makes it very clear how infl…

I think your comment misunderstands the comment you're responding to. The point is that while LLMs can solve the puzzle when the constraints are unchanged -- as you said, there are…

Noun class is a benefit for reliable communication, and that's why most languages evolved (and kept) those mechanisms. Languages are optimized firstly for the people that speak it …

One time Windows 10 wiped the boot loader on my desktop and threw a fit until I formatted the whole disk so it could place itself first unlike the partition I thought I had assigne…

It's better to just look for a game /you want to play/. Chances are, it'll "just work" via proton even if there's no native version. Right click game -> Properties -> Compatibility…

Looks cool. I like that you're focusing on the usage that's important when planning / running an adventure: In the moment, you need to be able to look up things fast , AND you also…

> https://youtu.be/Ao9X1GsUPys?t=125 > 1988 presentation where Alan Kay [...] I'm getting no sound throughout the whole video, and youtube lists it as having music from a particula…

A popular counterpoint in the R community is that in many data cleaning tasks, the bottleneck is human understanding / coding time, not comptutation time. In other words, we'd rath…

Using the hammer already in my hand, I would write a small R script to do the joins. Example script: library(tidyverse) old = read_tsv("path/to/old/db.tsv") new = read_tsv("path/to…