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I didn't expect they are running Windows up there. Shouldn't be specialized and curated ... smthing else?
Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @02:32AM (#46215124)
Suspend/Resume simply nvidia bug: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/cant-resume-from-suspe...

Dozen of packages, official packages, you need bunch of, like, 590.44.01-1 packages installed: https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/deb...

Lags: sorry, I have no more nvidia and can't record video.

(edit: formatting)

Re:Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @11:58AM (#46207315)
Suspend/resume was broken in nvidia since release on aug 2024. I have internal bug id for it. And dozen links with suspend scripts. No more drivers I mean I don't need to install dozens of packages. While it not big deal by itself, but reverting broken driver is huge deal. Laggy desktop -- this is my experience until nov 2025 when I dumped nvidia. Desktop on both intel and amd feels like magic after nvidia.
nvidia on linux [for desktop] is utterly broken. I ran nvidia cards for almost 15 years (shame on me): laggy X11 compositing, fragile and broken wayland. Broken suspend/resume. Too many moving parts (selected drivers, modprobe quirks, suspend/resume scripts). Moved to amd: slick x11, reliable wayland, NO MORE DRIVERS AT ALL, works like charm. And yes, I do playing in Linux.
Re:Prime Number Grid on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @03:48AM (#44949245)
Nice patterns are reveals when cols is prime.
Re:The Jagged, Monstrous Function That Broke Calculus on Friday January 24, 2025 @02:57AM (#42811338)
They even don't let you select and search the word. What a ... strange choice of ui/ux.
Re:Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation on Thursday January 16, 2025 @12:21PM (#42728129)
Physically based book?
Re:Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video] on Thursday January 16, 2025 @08:37AM (#42724908)
Yeah, all zeldas, marios and pokemons will be there by default. Still no new info ;)
Re:Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video] on Thursday January 16, 2025 @08:28AM (#42724816)
No sepcs. No games. We need it, Nintendo, WE NEED IT.
Re:Why Are Cancer Guidelines Stuck in PDFs? on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @03:46AM (#42500591)
Because writers don't think about readers. PDF is one of the worst formats for science/technical info, but yet. I've dumped a lot of papers from arxiv because it formatted as 2-column non zoomable PDF.
Re:Charset="WTF-8" on Monday November 25, 2024 @05:34AM (#42235003)
Wow, that's neat.
Re:Charset="WTF-8" on Monday November 25, 2024 @05:19AM (#42234906)
Well, the labels of input fields are written in English yet user enters his name in native language.

What's the reason of having name at all? You can call the person by this name. But if I write you my name in my language, what you (not knowing how to read it) can do? Only "hey, still-don't-know-you, here is your info".

In my foreign passport I have name __transliterated__ to Latin alphabet. Shouldn't this be the case for other places?

It's not UTF-8 characters but Unicode.
I think it's wrong metrics: gameplay vs woke culture. You can't sit on two chairs at moment. Choose one.
Re:The "email is authentication" pattern on Sunday September 08, 2024 @03:51AM (#41478875)
And then you are blocked by google.
Re:Strange Attractors on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @06:18AM (#41433302)
Me -- proudly drawing sin(x) plot. Guys -- doing astonishing graphics.
Re:Visual explanation of saml authentication on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:09AM (#41065620)
I used onelogin's java-saml-toolkit. But at first I reproduced all process by hand until I groked it. And then I hated it. To be hones, it's not such pain in the ass.
Re:Visual explanation of saml authentication on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @12:34PM (#41058796)
Implemented SAML sso last month. SAML protocol and formats look so fragile and confusing. XML looks outdated in modern days and XML signatures/encryption are hard. Protocol requires deflated base64 on some step, but you can't enflate/deflate easily with cli tools. On other step only base64 is required (why?). All seems error prone and inconsistent. And I feel it can be done much much much simpler.
Re:Pseudo Scheme: Scheme Implemented on Top of Common Lisp on Thursday July 18, 2024 @01:40AM (#40992801)
Defmacro isn't hygienic, while syntax- is. Is there way to use arbitrary names in hygienic syntax- macros?
Re:Java string interpolation feature has been cancelled on Friday June 21, 2024 @05:33AM (#40747816)
Can you share plugin for NetBeans? Last time I checked it was some outdated plugin from JetBrains (who, obviously, aren't interested in any other IDE).
Re:Java string interpolation feature has been cancelled on Thursday June 20, 2024 @10:32AM (#40739196)
Because Kotlin as a mess language and have poor IDE support.

  $ kotlin
  Welcome to Kotlin version 1.6.10 (JRE 21.0.1+12-Debian-2)
  Type :help for help, :quit for quit
  >>> val b=ByteArray(1);
  >>> b[0] == 0;
  error: operator '==' cannot be applied to 'Byte' and 'Int'
  b[0] == 0;
  ^

  $ jshell
  |  Welcome to JShell -- Version 21.0.1
  |  For an introduction type: /help intro

  jshell> byte[] ba={0}
  ba ==> byte[1] { 0 }

  jshell> ba[0]==0
  $2 ==> true
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Re:Google releases smart watch for kids on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @02:58PM (#40515505)
In next year: Google EOL watch for kids, closes servers rendering watches useless.
Re:PLang – Next evolution in programming languages on Saturday March 23, 2024 @02:19AM (#39797862)
Please, no.
Show him Scratch. My 8 years old started to discover Scratch and in few month developed small funny games (like Clickers, Maze walkers or Side scrollers). Games are full of nonsense from programmer's point of view, but 1. It's working! 2. It gives fun! 3. Supports interest in programming.
Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions on Thursday January 11, 2024 @10:09AM (#38953168)
jeez, i didn't know humor is not welcome here.
Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions on Thursday January 11, 2024 @05:45AM (#38950449)
Fire engineering since it is expenses. Hire sales since they earn money.
Re:QOwnNotes on Friday December 22, 2023 @09:07AM (#38734232)
Tried QOwnNotes for a long time with sync to home nextcloud. Tired of cluttered interface and switched to Obsidian.
Microsoft neither focus their OS on desktop nor user. They focus on selling users tool spies on users. Almost any progress on Windows is microsoft centric.

Even their main weapon (API) now is holstered.

"Optimized" what a strange choosing of word.
I'm not sure is it safe to rely documentation on nodejs based software. In my humble opinion JavaScript world evolves so fast and obsolete so many things that writing reliable software (in term of availability and sustainability) is very very very hard task.

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