hallettj @ hallettj @leminal.space

Just a basic programmer living in California

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There are other galaxy clusters. Gravitational binding is not unique to the local cluster. From Wikipedia,

Notable galaxy clusters in the relatively nearby Universe include the Virgo Cluster, Fornax Cluster, Hercules Cluster, and the Coma Cluster.

The expansion of the universe is very tricky to explain. Oversimplifying can lead to an explanation that seems to be contradictory.

I think you want to remove the c because that means "create" an archive, and you're missing a z which applies gzip decompression/compression

This is why I switched to labelling USB sticks with two-character codes, and I keep a file that lists the current content of each stick.

I think this is good advice. Don't over-think it!

I've often thought that the people working on herpes treatments probably don't get the credit they deserve

Thanks for the reply! Yes I have been trying WineGE. I didn't realize it had special media support, that's good to know.

Good to know! I'll put the Ibis and fruit bat on my Australia bucket list, along with a Huntsman. Although the latter are so widespread that I've probably already seen some living in America. But I'm guessing the Australian Huntsmen are a bit different from the North American ones.

Anyone else read these newsletter titles in Pixlriff's voice? "This week, in Hermitcraft Gnome!"

Sourcehut is already federated! The workflows use a combination of email (which is federated), and git clones (which are decentralized)

It's great that the system is so efficient. But things do come up. I once worked with an LSP server that was so hungry that I had to upgrade from 32 to 64gb to stop the OOM crashes. (Tbf I only ran out of memory when running the LSP server and compiler at the same time - but hey, I have work to do!) But now since I'm working in a different area I'm just way over-RAMed.

Modern frameworks like Playwright do a good job of avoiding those waits. So the tests are less flaky, and are faster.

That's a good one, and also the first thing I thought of.

There's also a remake that's not bad that features Hugh Laurie using his native accent.

There's a relevant community post, NixOS is not dying, please don’t spread fear actively

I'd go with Nix, but I may be biased by my enthusiasm for Nix

I tried Linux in college because it was a hot thing there. Been hooked ever since.

I'm not a distro hopper. I used Debian Testing for many years. Last year I switched to NixOS because it was a compelling value proposition for me. I'm very happy with it!

It's likely a myth that Rasputin was sleeping with the czarina. (Although there's no proof either way.) He had a very close relationship with the czar and czarina because their son had hemophilia, and Rasputin's presence seemed to help his condition. It was a serious illness, and the parents were desperate for anything that could help. But the hemophilia was a secret so nobody outside the family knew why the czar and czarina kept Rasputin so close despite dangerous rumours that Rasputin was the one running Russian policy. The idea that Rasputin was sleeping with the czarina was a popular theory because Rasputin was a well-known horny motherfucker.

Yes, I meant Overwatch 2. They switched all the servers over so it replaced Overwatch 1. In my mind it's an update (albeit a big update), not really a different game.

Basically all Overwatch for a while for me. I group up with my kids and my brother which is a lot of fun!

As for upcoming games, I'm interested in trying Space Simulator if it ends up running on Linux.

FYI I've been running Steam and Wine games in Gamescope because I'm using a window manager that doesn't implement XWayland. I don't know if that would help with Nvidia, but might be worth a try. It works ok; Gamescope has a Steam integration switch that helps.

I think Electron apps mostly switch to native Wayland mode if you set an environment variable, ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=wayland. The one I don't have working in Wayland mode is Discord. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/wayland#Electron

A commit followed by a reset or commit --amend later is one more step than a worktree --add. Plus there have been lots of times when I've had some changes staged, and some unstaged debugging or experimental changes that I want to make sure not to commit, and thinking about how to pack all that away neatly so I could get back where I was seemed sufficiently obnoxious that I avoided doing whatever would have required a quick branch switch. Worktree would have let me pick up where I left off without having to think about it.