alxlaz

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by alxlaz 2y ago
The implicit social contract with gifts goes both ways. You got it as-is, don't expect a commercial relation. If you run into trouble with your gift, and you need it fixed by a particular deadline, either fix it or pay someone to fix
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by alxlaz 2y ago
Oh, I know. I took the "did the Russians struggle just as much?" question qualitatively, as in, yes, the Mig-21 was also notoriously unsafe and the Russians struggled with it, too. Their track records would be very difficult to co
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by alxlaz 2y ago
Make of it what you will, but Mig-21s used to be nicknamed "flying coffins" in some places behind the Iron Curtain. They were notoriously unsafe.
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by alxlaz 2y ago
As is usually the case with these things, I think the key to reading them is buried at the end of the article: > PepsiCo investor Green Century Capital Management has reservations about the company's time table for rolling out the S
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by alxlaz 2y ago
Some systems also had expansion cards with an x86 processor on them. A more recent example would be Sun's SunPC and SunPCI cards -- you plugged these in a SBus or PCI slot, and ran x86 code on a real x86 processor. IIRC that's act
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by alxlaz 3y ago
That is just idle semantics.
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by alxlaz 3y ago
> If you want to grow your user base: The latter. Prioritizing the needs of potential new users may bring you actual new users, but not prioritizing those of existing users may send some of them away. How do you know which group is big
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by alxlaz 3y ago
KDE had exactly that back in its 3.x era, actually. It had a first run wizard that allowed you to choose things like whether you open things with a single or a double click, and options were largely organised based on platforms with similar
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by alxlaz 3y ago
This is an excellent illustration of why "better defaults" is a gateway to endless bikeshedding. One person's "better defaults" are another person's "why?" The only "better" defaults are tho
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by alxlaz 3y ago
I use a more compact theme (QtCurve, at least with Plasma 5.27, I'm not sure if it's going to work with Plasma 6). IMHO if I have to disable UI elements to make an application usable, that just means they're too big. That&#x2
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by alxlaz 3y ago
> No it's not 1080p tall? No, it's nearly :-) as tall as a 1080p screen. It's 810px (edit: modulo some scaling?) but you also rarely get the full 1080p screen height on a Plasma desktop, since you've got a big panel a
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by alxlaz 3y ago
They do, but their resources are fairly limited so the methodology is abysmal. See https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/02/15/shell-ux-change... for an example. They don't so much test with end us
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by alxlaz 3y ago
I wish they'd at least made it thinner. Some of those screenshots on the release page [1] (Kate, Kdenlive) look awful, the actually useful content (code, clip problem list) is squeezed into a corner by UI elements that are mostly empty
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by alxlaz 3y ago
> Rosetta 2 was straightforward and surprisingly fast, requiring zero tweaking or user interaction. Most people never even noticed. Yes, but if you were a developer who had to make sure your application worked on the upcoming M1 models
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by alxlaz 3y ago
"Opinionated, not abrasive" is one of the top 5 excuses I've heard from people who just liked to be abusive. You're free to place the border between the two wherever you want. As far as I'm concerned, things like de
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by alxlaz 3y ago
Yeah, I meant up in this HN thread.
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by alxlaz 3y ago
There are quite a few abrasive replies upthread from some Rustaceans. They don't mention Rust by name, just like not every one of Drepper's mails contained the world "glibc", but they're in the same vein. This is p
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by alxlaz 3y ago
There are two things I have learned from this thread: 1. glibc has been handling things with a lot more civility post-Drepper, and while it's had as hard a time as any OS infrastructure project, that's helped a lot when it came to
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by alxlaz 3y ago
Indeed, there isn't -- you've provided pseudo-answers that miss the point completely.
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by alxlaz 3y ago
I'm sorry but I really don't understand the point you're trying to make. Yes, there's a difference in features, but my original point was > cartoon figures in professional applications (please explain to me how Octoca
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by alxlaz 3y ago
> You can complain about it on aesthetic grounds, but certainly not on UX grounds. It doesn't make Github any easier or harder to use. Neither did Clipit -- every function it offered was also accessible through the UI. It was a comp
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by alxlaz 3y ago
This article, like seemingly ever design-focused article in the last decade, parrots Fitts' Law but doesn't run any numbers: > An important law to be followed in UX design. In simple words, the larger and closer the touch or cl
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by alxlaz 3y ago
Yeah, I'm with you on this one. The author describes the past 15 years as a "golden age for UX Research". It's been the golden age of dark UX patterns, huge widgets for touch-inadequate applications running on platforms
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by alxlaz 3y ago
Also, "the kind of service that social media and privacy reformists have been asking for" is very much a stretch. There's been no substantial change to the Twitter policy, and the whole thing is still centered on an algorithm
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by alxlaz 3y ago
> so you end up transporting a bunch of pixel data slowly over the wire — VNCs are much better at this problem then the naive approach This technically correct caveat, which keeps coming up, is technically correct, but IMHO misses the po
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Yes! See the windowmove command!
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> After all the KDE family of applications in it's totality also represents some sort of ecosystem that one may use. Sorry I gotta ruin your day but KDE applications means something else entirely in the KDE branding parlance: https
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by alxlaz 4y ago
If you're on X11, you should be able to use xdotool, which doesn't depend on KDE doing anything in particular. No idea what the equivalent is if you're on Wayland.
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by alxlaz 4y ago
While I like the overall feeling of those themes for nostalgia reasons, they've got all sorts of quirks. E.g. toolbar icons aren't correctly aligned (you can see that in the screenshot, on the "forward" and "back&qu
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Having visited the third circle of hell before, and having actually gone as far as writing my own theme before giving up the whole charade, I would rather avoid revisiting the fourth circle of hell that GTK theming is. Edit: also, both Grey

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