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by aa-jv 2y ago
Ah, I understand - this is happening as part of Apples' crusade to rid the world of popup menus. Thanks for the details - I encounter little fiddly issues like this with my own apps, so its good context. Just to confirm - this happens
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Sorry for the dumb question, but what is the significance of this issue, "popups are windows"? Has something changed in Wayland which makes child windows unworkable?
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by aa-jv 2y ago
What are some of the issues?
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Plenty of people have written books that confirm/deny the efficacy of the Waterfall model. But in the meantime, there are far, far many more folks - by significant orders of magnitude - who have written software with the Waterfall mo
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I long ago gave up any faith in the "ADHD"/"Autism" religion, which has all the mechanics of a cult, and just decided to live my life without the labels given to our society by Nazi scientists. It has been a huge re
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I recently built an always-on recording device, primarily for recording audio consistently and constantly - this is not for surveillance purposes, but rather for musicians and creatives who don't want to have to remember to press the R
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by aa-jv 2y ago
>trying to hire mediocre people It should be "always retain A-players". You can hire as many ABC's as you like - some of those C's will become B's and A's, and some of the B's will become A's, and
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Try to think about why you might want to do that. It makes a lot of sense, but if you're not doing it, that might be enlightening...
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by aa-jv 2y ago
On the flipside, IDE's can turn you into lazy, inefficient programmers by doing all the hand-holding for you. If your feelings are anemic when tasked with doing a grep, its because you have lost a very valuable skill by delegating it t
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Likewise, it was an instant-close for me ..
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Vienna, Austria: doing fine.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
>I don't like how this whole article is framed as how obvious it was that Intel made a huge mistake. Hindsight is 20/20, there was no such data available. Intel is a big reason things are so great, but also so crap, in computin
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by aa-jv 2y ago
>"Apple makes their own chips anyway!" Apple can only do that now, because of the billions they have made on the iPhone, plain and simple. And - more importantly - they were well geared to do that, since the beginning of compu
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by aa-jv 2y ago
> Runaway AI models The greatest danger is that humans will forget how to verify that we aren't an AI. If the AI is sentinent, and somehow attempts to prevent us from talking to each other, unless we are talking through it , then
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Whats the antipode to this, where, as a programmer going to investigate a user bug, my mere presences makes the bug disappear, and the user frustrated at trying to reproduce it for me? Because this happens a lot to me these days, no kidding
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by aa-jv 2y ago
True fact, I have Bre's first Roboexotica shot-glass, sitting on my junk bowl.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
>Again, I just don't get it. The point is, ship it. Seriously, nobody is lugging a GPU around to interact with their most frequently used micro-computing platform, their headphones, which right now, already represent a new and extr
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by aa-jv 2y ago
A GPU is useful, but DSP's are also still useful - for example there is a compelling case to have frameworks around such as AudioFlux, JUCE and others, in order to support portability and also realtime analysis competitively, which
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Along the same lines, I have a near-terabyte of videos I have downloaded from Youtube, of my own vast and multivariate interests, and having it on random, with a simple pause/next/prev-style interface, is also a compelling viewer-
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by aa-jv 2y ago
>a neutrino beam cutting straight through the earth, in a chord hundreds of miles long In my copy of this mental image, I wondered if Earths' gravity, and indeed our movement through the cosmos, bends that chord, and what it would s
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by aa-jv 2y ago
There are plenty of track-side boxes in the rail industry which could benefit from this. See also point-of-presence installations - if you have to drive 2 hours to flick a switch, it'd be nice to have the LOC properly configured for th
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I work for a manufacturer of audio gear and we have a product with capacitive controls .. which we thought was quite nifty when released, but .. given the customer demand for a mode which completely disables capacitive control over the audi
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Would you use a distribution that doesn't prioritize the use-case for which you intend? Use a Linux distribution that is intended for professional audio use. >Once I hook up some midi devices, want things to be recorded, run a synth
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by aa-jv 2y ago
This is great, now we just need a way to host it on our mobile phones.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
>snake oil So much software - especially in the 'operating system' sphere of things - really is just snake oil . Its just, very functional oil, in many cases - and highly toxic and slippery in many, many other cases. >cyber
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by aa-jv 2y ago
> It puzzles me why this isn't the case for software In my anecdotal experience, its because corporate software projects are not typically run by people who are good at building safe things - but rather, just building things quickly
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Yeah, its fine, I know these things exist. I just wish they didn't. :)
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I use tools such as Google Maps and Open Street Maps, and I cut/paste, mostly just by eyeball, with the relevant things I might be interested in - the train stations of Rome, for example, and so on. Google Earth is also great for this
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by aa-jv 2y ago
>walking in new cities I do enjoy digital life, but you know what else rocks, apropos walking in new cities[0]? Custom maps, printed. Its fun to look at the little piles of maps I've made for myself over the years, from Frome to Rom
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I currently build commercial and b2b audio products, and have had to explain far too many times, that .. yes indeed .. there are only 2 USB ports on your laptop which will work properly with the device .. and yes .. I know you have 5 USB po

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