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Signed up last night. Where / how do I find this community..?
LOL. I like it. I paid for it. Well worth $20 / year for the fun of it.
Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:55PM (#27223718)
iPad Pro 11 inch - I use it all the time. It's not perfect, but whether I like it or not, it gets used the most often.
I am using a HHKB Pro Hybrid as a daily driver at work and a Realforce 104-u at home.

There is no such thing as the perfect keyboard, but HHKB Pro layout is something that stood its test of time (~10 years). And I don't see it getting replaced.

The Realforce may get benched, because I'm getting more used to wireless keyboards. So far it hasn't happened yet.

Re:Ask HN: Who doesn’t want to go back to the office? on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:25AM (#26981573)
I wish I had the flexibility to choose. I definitely find driving to work rather relaxing (only because I can take the back road).
Re:Ubuntu 21.04 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @10:15AM (#26903003)
Released, but can't find the download link..
This is frustrating. After realizing I can only afford a small condo in Metro Vancouver area, I moved to a low COL city (relatively) 3 years ago. While the prices are still somewhat affordable from the West Coast standard, prices have gone up significantly in the past year alone.
Re:FFmpeg 4.4 on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:17AM (#26751584)
Here is mine.

To screen capture every 600 frames:

  ffmpeg -i my_vid.mp4 -vf "select=not(mod(n\,600))" -vsync vfr -q:v 15 img_%03d.jpg
To make a montage that's 1024 px wide:

  for d in \*
  do
      (montage -mode concatenate -tile 4x -resize 1024x $d"/\* "$d".jpg)
  done
Re:VPN over SSH? The Socks Proxy on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:46PM (#26625519)
Aha! Ty!
Re:VPN over SSH? The Socks Proxy on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:31PM (#26625300)
If I set this up with Firefox, would DNS look-up also use SOCKS?
Re:Docker for Mac M1 RC on Friday March 19, 2021 @09:12AM (#26512880)
I wish there was CLI-only version of the Docker Desktop. I can't even launch Docker Desktop unless there is a monitor connected and a user logged in.
Me too. I've subscribed and unsubscribed to their digital plans a bunch of times in the past ~10 years and it was never difficult. Perhaps this is new?
Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:59AM (#26179850)
How hard / difficult is it to change the service address? For example, if I go on a week long vacation to Miami, can I change the address before I get on the flight, and have it ready to use when I check in to the hotel..?
Re:Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip” on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @03:49PM (#23705702)
I agree, but I was stressing it's there if I choose to recycle an old disk.
Re:Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip” on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @03:00PM (#23705114)
No doubt that RPi has been a game changer, but I can never convince myself to build a light file/media server with a Pi. Do I really want to spend $100+ buying a Pi and accessories, or should I just spend $300 on a Synology... which actually has an NVMe slot.
This means they want to suspend the processing of current queue of H-1B apps, right?
Re:Neiman Marcus files for bankruptcy on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:47PM (#23106642)
Haha I will try to find a copy. Anecdotally, the goods I saw were far from conspicuous. They all looked straight out of some music videos (heard of the "Ugly" shoes?).
Re:Neiman Marcus files for bankruptcy on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:41PM (#23106545)
Right, but I think EVERY sneaker is a Veblen good. A pair of $20 sneakers want to look like a $100 one and $100 sneakers want to look like $300 ones..
Re:Neiman Marcus files for bankruptcy on Thursday May 07, 2020 @01:34PM (#23105690)
I'm not glad these stores are doing bad, but I just never understood how a pair of sneakers can cost $700 - $900 when I can buy a decent laptop with that kind of money.
I only see Gradient and Core. Where is Workstream? Neat idea!
Re:Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Github Data Repo on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @01:13PM (#22477126)
Is it possible to view the number of tests ran? I keep seeing in the news that the current numbers for US are probably very off as very little tests are performed.
Good luck to the team on this endeavor. I have never had a chance to use a laptop / workstation from them, but they must be doing something right since they have been around for a while now and that the community has nothing but great things to say about them.
I've built bitstreams, but these days I build software for consumer electronics with screens running ARM Linux.
Ah great, thanks. It's actually very helpful. I was actually looking at the Passmark score a week ago, but couldn't tell if it's trustworthy. Nice to get an endorsement.
Thanks for the comparison. How do you know the 8850h is desktop equivalent to the i5-8400? I can't seem to find it in the chart.
Yes... a Mac Mini Pro with a workstation processor (doesn't have to be this particular beast) would be nice. Heck, even an i9 would be a welcome addition since it currently tops at i7 only.
Yes. I don't do nightly, but weekly. Some changes still trigger long builds that last multiple hours.
I suppose I should've provided more context. My build usually takes a few minutes only during the day, as the changes are small and they are broken into multiple packages / units. Once or twice a week, some changes trigger chain reaction and takes 4+ hours to build. This is painful because it eats up chunk of my productivity. And perhaps once a week, I build from scratch just to prove everything still can be built from scratch.
I wonder how fast I can compile my code base with this. On my hexa-core i7-8850h, it often takes more than 4 hours to build everything in full throttle. And I do this quite often, so pain is definitely present. Given the network and disk i/o aren't the bottleneck, having more than 5 times the cores should theoretically reduce the build time at least by 3 folds, conservatively?

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