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SloopJon
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
I built a PC this year in a Meshroom S V2[1]. The NF-A14x25 G2 fans I used for the AIO didn't seem so expensive when I was spending $600 on RAM, and I was happy that they were available in black.

Not every quiet PC is built in a dense box. Good airflow with big, slow fans is working for me to cool a 9800X3D and a 5070 Ti quietly under load.

[1]: https://ssupd.co/products/cases-meshroom-s-v2
SloopJon
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
I held my nose and bought an RTX 5070 Ti for $100 over MSRP in January. The very next week the same model was up $200. It turns out that NVIDIA had been subsidizing retail graphics cards with its Open Pricing Program. Not the whole story, but it may help explain the relative flatness of the graph until the end of January.

The other part of it is that the MSRP already baked in a substantial increase from the previous generation. While RAM was near rock-bottom pricing when this hit, current-gen GPUs definitely were not.
SloopJon
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
An editor that tries to be layout agnostic is almost certainly going to be a nightmare for people like me who set the layout in the keyboard itself. I downloaded the editor (I'm on Windows at the moment), and tried it with my keyboard set to Dvorak, which was plainly broken. I'm sure there's a way to fix the mapping, but when software thinks it's smarter than you, you end up feeling pretty dumb.
SloopJon
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
The article links to a YouTube mini-review of USB enclosures from UGreen and Acasis, neither of which he loves.[1] I've been happy with the OWC 1M2 as a boot drive on a Mac Studio with Thunderbolt 5 ports.[2] I just noticed that there is an OWC 1M2 80G, based on USB4 v2.[3] I didn't know that was a thing, but I guess it's the USB cousin to Thunderbolt 5.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaV-O6NPWrI

[2] https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-express-1m2

[3] https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/US4V2EXP1M2/
SloopJon
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
The article links to the opinion[1], which notes more than once that "the quoted language does not appear anywhere in the opinion," and "Goldstine appears to be a fabricated case." I don't know whether it's easy to get a copy of the complaint in question.

[1] https://www4.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/B331918.PDF
SloopJon
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
The blog post announcing the PSP Security Protocol as open source:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/ann...

HN discussion at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31437033
SloopJon
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
I found the idea of a password generator appealing, mainly due to vault anxiety. I didn't (and still don't) like the idea that I can't access a resource without this precious vault. If I'm home with my tools, great. Otherwise, give me the right hash function, and I can MacGyver my way to PBKDF2 and generate my password.

However, once you introduce metadata (e.g., to deal with password rules), the idea loses most of its appeal. I wouldn't feel any more comfortable posting such a thing publicly than I would a vault.
SloopJon
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
I don't see anything in the post or the linked tutorial that gives a flavor of the user experience when you supply an invalid option. I tried running the example, but I've forgotten too much about Node and TypeScript to make it work. (It can't resolve the @optique references.) What happens when you pass --foo, --target bar, or --port 3.14?
SloopJon
·l’année dernière·discuss
This is a better link for the actual feature, as opposed to the process that led to its prioritization:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-tab-groups/
SloopJon
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Very promising: supports macOS 10.8 and later, last updated in 2021, and it read my whole CD collection in just a couple of minutes. Thank you for the suggestion.
SloopJon
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
Years ago, I had most of my music ripped to AAC in iTunes, easily accessible, browsable, and shuffleable.

I now rip each of my CDs to a single FLAC and cue sheet (using XLD on Mac), on the theory that it's the most accurate way to archive a disc. However, I haven't found anything that offers the same accessibility to such a collection as iTunes did. I look through folders, and drag a few cue sheets at a time into Foobar 2000.

Any tips?
SloopJon
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
See issue 1580 for a description of the change that displays floats using the shortestish decimal expansion that round trips:

https://bugs.python.org/issue1580

I thought there was a PEP for it, but evidently not.

Although this is generally an improvement, it can contribute to confusion.