remotebug's comments

On: Dijkstra was right – recursion should not be difficult

[remotebug]

Thank you so much for this!

On: Dell XPS 15 9560 Review

[remotebug]

That looks like an amazing machine. Is it the same as in this review https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-XPS-15-9560-i7-7700HQ-UHD... from 4 months ago?

I had lots of annoyance with a previous Optimus based notebook. How has the situation of bumblebee and primusrun and dualbooting improved in the past two years?

[pricechild → remotebug]

I've given up on bumblebee.

I have upgraded an Ubuntu laptop over a few years and every upgrade it broke, requiring some new incantation to fix it the next time. I don't think it's considered the future?

I believe the future is called "Prime Synchronisation", announced a few years ago. Good luck getting it to work though: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/957814/prime-and-pr... I gave up after a while.

We're probably nearing the time when I'll give all the methods another go, but currently I'm back into the "change setting and log out + in" camp.

As an aside, bumblebee also seems to break my i3 environment... I get hangs & magic sysreq won't recover. I've had to go back to the default DE.

[JoshTriplett → remotebug]

> I had lots of annoyance with a previous Optimus based notebook. How has the situation of bumblebee and primusrun and dualbooting improved in the past two years?

Very slightly, but you're better off getting a notebook that actually has FOSS graphics drivers, for a much more stable and reliable experience.

It's unfortunate that you can't upgrade the XPS15 to the 4K display or a quad-core processor without getting the nVidia graphics along with it. IIRC, some previous models included 4K configurations without that.

On: Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency of the Moment

[remotebug]

*the digital currency for speculation.

It seems just as unsuitable for every day use like Bitcoin or tulips.

On: Author illustrates book using MS Paint after spending 10 years mastering it

[remotebug]

Guy uses certain art style and supposedly bad image editing tool for marketing.

[supergreg → remotebug]

For marketing? Wasn't the whole book made in paint? The marketing part is talking about the tool used.

Not much different from programmers saying their software was done in X language for marketing.

On: Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page

[remotebug]

Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20170313124045/http://sangaline.c...

On: Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives

[remotebug]

Gather evidence instead of hoping you can convict someone of evil-doings based on their own records?

On: BaCon – BASIC to C converter

[remotebug]

A toy BASIC wrapper around a webkit window...

On: Intro to RenderMan for Blender

[remotebug]

Indeed, that is explicitly permitted. Weird how they consider it indirect. Reading through 11) I thought indirect meant other things.

[protomyth → remotebug]

Its indirect to their business model, and will just mean more talent ready to go for those buying it for movies / tv production.