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  • We have 128 bit stuff in some places where it's advantageous, but in most cases there's not really a need. 64 bits already provides a maximum integer value of (+/-)9,223,372,036,854,775,807. Double it if you don't need negatives and drop the sign. There's little need in most cases for a bigger number, and cases that do either get 128 bit hardware, or can be handled by big number libraries.

  • In my experience, nobody cares about experience. They care who you know. I came out of college with several years of experience dealing with Windows and Linux servers, and run Linux as a full time OS at home. Nobody cared.

    My friend in the military has a Senior Engineer looking to set him up as a developer at Microsoft once he leaves the Army, and he had to ask me what language/IDE he should start learning to code with.

  • I feel like you're limiting yourself a bit by saying anime songs specifically. There are tons of great Japanese bands who've never been involved in anime, or maybe you could start by looking into some other songs by the bands of those you mentioned above. I've found some of my favorite Japanese bands by checking out other songs by anime OP/ED artists. My personal favorite being Survive Said the Prophet of Mukanjyo (Vinland Saga S1 OP1) fame.

    Other artists I discovered through anime that I like, RADWIMPS, SPYAIR, MYTH & ROID, LiSA, MY FIRST STORY, EGOIST, and more. It's just a coincidence that my favorites all like to have their names stylized in all caps.

    Some that I discovered outside of anime, though may or may not have also done work in anime: The Winking Owl, Sawano Hiroyuki, ONE OK ROCK, BACK-ON, Reol, ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, MAN WITH A MISSION, and too many to list, because the number of these is far larger than the ones I've found through anime.

    I'll admit, basically all of these are rock bands. Reol and BACK-ON stray more into hip-hop territory, though BACK-ON in particular also does rock. The idea I'm moreso getting at is, you can find a lot of great artists by exploring what you already like and being led to similar works.

  • I mostly just use my phone for/at work. I already have a server that could operate as a pihole at home, but my PC already blocks everything under the sun, so it's not really needed.

    I get most of my stuff off f-droid unless I don't have any other choice, and use firefox with ublock+noscript on my phone as-is. But it is nice to not have to worry about getting ads in anything else when I do install an odd game or something, though.

  • When I originally moved to Arch, I had a 1:1 clone of my Mint experience. I installed Cinnamon and had backed up Mint's themes to just put them into the proper place again. Aside from not installing a number of applications on Mint that I didn't often use, there was no difference in UI at all.

    I only swapped off Cinnamon because I wanted to test other compositors to try and resolve my screen tearing issues which were probably actually NVIDIA's fault. These days I'm on KDE Plasma and don't get screen tearing anymore.

  • Someone did build an automated laser roach killing device once. Though I think it was fairly short range or had some caveat like that.

    IIRC there's a YouTube video of it somewhere.

  • Depends on the user's needs. If you need bleeding edge software, like for gaming, a just works distro can be more work. I loved using Linux Mint, but trying to use the latest kernel, drivers, wine version, and whatever else on a stable release distro becomes pain fairly quickly.

  • I use rooted LineageOS on my 4a 5G, though I do still have GApps on it. Next phone I buy I'm thinking I'll give GrapheneOS a try. Leaving behind my rooted system level adblocking would be difficult for me though.

  • There is actually a system in the works called FedNow that banks here can sign up to be a part of to allow national money transfer between any two people. Probably a lot of banks aren't taking part yet since it's barely a couple weeks old, but it's promising.

  • Additional hot take: get a laser printer for your normal documents and just get photos printed somewhere else. The money you'd spend buying 4x6 photos on someone else's ink and paper would probably be less than you'll pay for color ink unless you're an absolute photo printing maniac. And a laser printer toner cartridge will last you like 1,000+ pages.

  • Can't imagine how frustrating it must be to be Edward Snowden, give up a lucrative future in government work to do the right thing and put the word out, be hunted for the rest of your life by Uncle Sam. The collective response to your sacrifice was a big fat "meh"

  • Making a big international incident about it is just feeding the people doing it. Making international headlines is about the best outcome for a cause like that to achieve.

  • Except it's gonna cost you more like $499.99 to stay alive.

  • I like fortune. I have it piped to lolcat in my terminal rc. It adds a bit of flare to opening a terminal.

  • Thanks for the notice, I've upgraded my instance as well.

  • but being able to cache locally and have that information persistent between uses dramatically drops the initial page load time.

    This is already 100% possible through standard web methods. Heck, the web browsers often do resource caching for you.

  • Dude on the top looks ecstatic because he's gonna see his friends again soon.

  • then Chrome came along and touted their multi-threaded, isolated memory model

    And the idea that one tab could crash but the rest of your browser still functioned was pretty revolutionary. I remember being impressed at the idea and using chrome for that alone. All it took was one page with misbehaving JavaScript to cripple your entire web browser back then until the browser offered you to stop the offending script.

  • With any luck it'll provide the authentic sort of answers developers have come to expect from a quality site like stack overflow. Like telling you to read the documentation, use the search feature, marked as duplicate, why you're even using that programming language for this, or shilling it's new JavaScript framework that came out last week. All the while reminding you that it's superior and really can't be bothered with your stupid question.

  • I'm not any kind of professional and don't have any truly profound advice, but just remember that time continues to run on, and everything passes eventually. Until that time, focus on the things you can change and improve, and just keep thinking "This too, shall pass."