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qrobit

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    Comment #49185882

    https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2305

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    Comment #49045611

    Same can be said about loopback device in general. Why do you need to use networking when you are literally on the same device and can use binder/dbus and friends with native apps?…

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    Comment #48920962

    Arguably PCIe lanes the thunderbolt exposes are a differentiating factor, not the maxed-out specs that "plain" usb-c cables can have. Although to be fair, I've never used the PCIe …

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    Comment #48642236

    And it comes with tidyverse-like cheatsheet[1] that I confused with ggplot2 when first discovered plotnine [1]: https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/blob/main/plotnine.pd...

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    Comment #48572760

    Sort of, there're more posts about graphene in the year 2026 & they get much more attention. Aggregated some data and plotted it with my agent: https://boop.icu/Pr.png

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    Comment #48556481

    That's what I wondered as well, whether it is a new implementation, or perhaps they still use their version of cups? Or maybe they use the forked openprinting cups? Would be nice i…

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    Comment #48555896

    The repo got archived in march, I wonder whether it means that Apple uses something other than CUPS on their devices? Quick search suggests they still use CUPS, but why would they …

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    Comment #48492678

    previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906947

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    Comment #48375090

    On nixos they're not, there's a single executable in /bin -- /bin/sh, and a single executable in /usr/bin -- /usr/bin/env

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    Comment #48305572

    Both are non-deterministic, both have some metric to optimise, one is specific and efficient, the other is too broad and very expensive

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    Comment #48283574

    Much older? Wikipedia says[^1][^2] java appeared in 1995 (started in 1991), while python appeared in 1991 (started in late 1980s). 4 years doesn't seem too far apart, considering b…

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    Comment #48218984

    He doesn't have a role at Facebook anymore AFAIK, although I can't find the source now. I remember hearing it was mostly due to filtering engine at Facebook being rewritten in Hack…

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    Comment #48072906

    Secure boot ensures the image you boot was not tampered with. You can't install keylogger without tampering with the image. If you wanted to install physical keylogger, you would n…

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    Comment #48050003

    > you don't have a colourblind person's 'profile' Why not? As far as my understanding of color blindness goes, you just need to find a precise transformation matrix and offsets to …

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    Ask HN: How do you deal with color blindness?

    Hello, I am interested in how do technical folks deal with color blindness problems when using screens? Especially those of you who have rarer variations of it. There are some colo…

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    Comment #47904255

    There should still be privacy concerns, especially with their demo which sends a POST on "Generate". The author suggests the model is 85kB of weights, which could run perfectly wel…

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    Comment #47832094

    I personally like marimo[^1], the developers rely heavily on AI tools afaict [^1]: https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo

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    Comment #47715771

    Just a reminder that even if you managed to amend those commits and force-push, the commits would still exist and will be addressable given the hash is known.

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    Comment #47488060

    Hackage recommends using Haskell's PVP[^1], but does not enforce it. That's why many haskell packages are a four-places versions: 3 required and fourth optional (but popular) that …

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    Comment #47486439

    Mostly true, but I personally have it turned of for duckduckgo and it shows me some ads with [ad] label. Actually if you wanted to disable ads there, you wouldn't even need an ad b…

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    Comment #46952364

    It will be easy to check with devtools when the update is released

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    Comment #46777570

    I was surprised not to find cantata[1], another MPD graphical client, on the list. Used it for the past three years, despite it being unmaintained for quite some time now. The clie…

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    Comment #46629803

    Bubblewrap seems to be much more popular[^1], personally this is the first time I heard about landrun [1]: https://repology.org/project/bubblewrap/information https://repology.org/…