Derbasti

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by Derbasti 2y ago
When I was working on desktop audio software, our rule of thumb was to keep CPU occupancy below 30%. More than that, and you'd be sure to get hitching in your audio stream. (This factors in thread contention, other background tasks ste
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by Derbasti 2y ago
The SSD is user replaceable, and has been for the last two generations of surface tablets, IIRC.
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by Derbasti 2y ago
A good, HBCI capable software that can list transactions and make transfers from and to multiple banks. Think Quicken or MoneyMoney. The browser will only ever log in to one bank per tab, and with different UI per bank. If you have more tha
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by Derbasti 2y ago
Photo editing is my last holdout. And a European-compatible banking software. Everything else works well on Linux. Gaming included. I've run Linux many years, in fact. But Capture One and Lightroom are not available over there, which i
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by Derbasti 2y ago
If someone pointed a weapon at me, I'd hand them my phone. There's nothing life-threateningly important on my phone. Whatever they do with it is better than death.
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by Derbasti 2y ago
You could perhaps drink and drive.
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by Derbasti 2y ago
This is one of the best technical computer books I have ever read. Thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a whole lot from it. And besides the great technical content, it is also well-written, funny, and well-illustrated. A monumenta
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by Derbasti 2y ago
Maybe in this case, because these are phone pictures, which are quite heavily processed (sharpening, denoising, tone mapping, local white balance, local contrast). The raw image may contain a bit less of that stuff.
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by Derbasti 3y ago
You're welcome! I find daily research/work notes completely indispensable at this point.
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by Derbasti 3y ago
Author here: the neat thing about Live Share in VSCode/MSVC is that both people can type at the same time, both can use the shared command line and shared debugger, and both can navigate the shared project files. Independently, of cour
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by Derbasti 3y ago
Author here: That's an important aspect actually. These days I'm just not excited any more to tinker with my development environment. I've got better things to do...
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by Derbasti 3y ago
I've taught programming at the university for a decade. There would always come the time when students would ask what text editor to use. This was an interesting and varied question for many years. But nowadays, it's just VSCode.
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by Derbasti 3y ago
Author here: I love magit. But at the end of the day, I mostly use it for simple stuff like committing, pushing, and the odd merge or blame. And these simple things also work very well with the IDE's git integration. For everything els
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by Derbasti 3y ago
Author here. Exactly right.
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by Derbasti 3y ago
I like the mapy.cz app (and website) a whole lot.
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by Derbasti 3y ago
I used to love LawnChair (also, best name), because it was simple and functional. Then it wasn't updated any longer, and at some point broke some Widgets. R.I.P. After much searching, I've settled on Hyperion instead. Essentially,
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by Derbasti 3y ago
This is not good faith. This is Samsung following the EU law that mandates this for every handset sold in the EU by (IIRC) the end of 2024.
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by Derbasti 3y ago
This is the new EU law, so every handset sold in the EU will be required to do this. This is just Samsung following the law.
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by Derbasti 3y ago
Man, that book was so good! What a tremendous achievement in clarity and insight. I loved it!
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by Derbasti 3y ago
> it seems like Darktable becomes more and more unusable due to a lack of good defaults and easy configurability. The funny thing is, in my personal experience, Darktable defaults and configurability have actually markedly improved in th
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by Derbasti 3y ago
Personally, I think he is wrong. Several of the features he removed are useful to me. Whatever performance issues he quotes do not seem to apply to my installation. And there have been rather useful additions to darktable after his fork. Fo
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by Derbasti 3y ago
Binders.
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by Derbasti 3y ago
I have never seen a box like this anywhere except in document storage closets in American movies. They are not a thing in Germany, as far as I can tell.
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by Derbasti 3y ago
Clusterfuq
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by Derbasti 3y ago
I built my own on top of org-mode: https://github.com/bastibe/org-static-blog And also various others, for various reasons. The thing about static site generators is that they are fantastically easy.
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by Derbasti 3y ago
And moreso for a cross-platform tool. Essentially it's forcing devs to spend money on the Windows platform only, where they might prefer to spend it in a way that benefits all their users.
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by Derbasti 3y ago
I could not disagree more vehemently. The old UI was ugly and clunky and anachronistic. I find the new UI much more readable, with a sensibly usable three-column layout, and much improved message list. To each their own, I guess.
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by Derbasti 3y ago
The point of the dissertation is to become certified as a PhD. Most supervisors are not open to the idea of stepping outside the norm. Which is downright tragic, as research should be all about that. My writing was actively criticized where
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by Derbasti 3y ago
I had a Fairphone 2 in Germany (where the next Apple Store was four hours away). I dropped it onto the metal blades of our radiator, which shattered the screen. I was due to go on vacation in two days. So I express-ordered the replacement s
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by Derbasti 3y ago
I mean, this was mandated by the EU recently, right? So we should expect ALL manufacturers switch to this soon.

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