bsdubernerd

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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
Amber LED matrices are my favorite tech for signage. The individual LEDs are sunken into the black matrix to provide extra contrast from direct light exposure. There's nothing that comes close for public signage that needs to be placed
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
As I wrote before, I frequently go mostly with some gradation of grey nowdays. I keep a selection of fingernal varnish colors for finishing touches. They dry quick, cheap, are available in any shade you need in small volumes (so you can hav
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
What about the general experience writing code, or performing some seemingly mundane tasks such as ctrl/shift combinations for selections and commands? I would guess this would still work pretty fine with a modal editor such as vi, but
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
Mmh, I wouldn't have used copper-fill on something that goes directly in contact with skin. I had issues with light leakage with thin layers of poor-quality PETG (with light shining through as a dark-green halo), but I've printed
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
As someone that owns a 3d printer, I'd guess that was a filament that went either old or unused for too long. Ideal for personal projects where you don't care, or that you might want to post-process anyway (sand/paint). Happe
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
Not yet, gaze tracking HW was always beyond my economical reach in the past. But this project is super-interesting! Thanks for point this out
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
Kudos to the maker here. This looks gorgeous, and very close to the datahand ads I remember. The datahand was a keyboard fetish of mine, although I always wondered of actually usable it would be, especially considering the learning experien
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I know, I'm actually using kitty regularly.
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
xterm false 0.06s user 0.01s system 81% cpu 8Mb mem 0.090 total mlterm -e false 0.08s user 0.02s system 84% cpu 13Mb mem 0.125 total kitty -1 false 0.22s user 0.05s system 93% cpu 78Mb mem 0.290 total (and yes, there's a kitty insta
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
It's still an order of magnitude slower during startup than other terminals such as xterm, rxvt or even mlterm. On my intel laptop I can often see the gl context flashing before becoming the final background color, which is annoying. R
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I agree that theming was much more consistent a decade ago in linux-land. GTK2 + QT with GTK2-style would get you an almost seamless experience. The "dark or light" theme we have today is an absolute joke by comparison. Many Gtk-e
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
PyPy is definitely used behind the scenes in many places. IMHO you don't often hear about it because if you're ready to take the performance hit that comes with python you're probably not trying to squeeze the best out of it
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
> We are already accustomed to R, Python, Node, Ruby, etc. building C stuff at package installation time. I don't have a great sense of where to draw the line, but somehow I feel the Julia convention crosses it. I'm definitely
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I don't know. I also don't use pypy much, since python+numba is actually fast enough most of the time, and I always see pypy as a fallback to see if I can squeeze a little bit more performance before running a task.
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
Just for reference, my experience is mostly computational genomics. R is king of analysis, and most of the actual "meat" is implemented in C++. But I work with other teams as well, so the experience is a bit more varied if you loo
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I second this. Python is actually starting to get significant traction in the scientific community. Depending on the field, R, Fortran and Matlab (and even C++) still have a huge lead. It's nice that Julia is getting noticed, but it&
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
In my tests I frequently switch between cpython, pypy and julia (depending on the libraries/task I want to perform) and I haven't found the JIT overhead to be worse than pypy on average. Count me as one of the 1-based index haters
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I'm not sure if that's exactly the same, but certainly looks like a "lithophane" for which you'll be able to find much more information. Also the way this was printed also certainly looks like it was made by one of
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
It would work like it works for email. Most users will pick the default server. Over time other large (popular) providers will emerge and people will start to recognize the choice. Clients with branding will make that choice easy for non-te
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I'm not convinced. Leadership is somehow preventing these fixes to be merged with "design decisions".
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
As a dev I still have to interact with the file picker a huge number of times in a single day. The GTK file picker is perhaps one of the worst offenders that's irritating devs, power-users and plain regular users. Patches get dismissed
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
Not really. This is not the first or the last one fixing horrible behavior in the default file picker. Most of the time there's a deliberate reason the picker was designed this way, and the GNOME team won't accept your patch. I pe
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
That's all I see as well. Fortunately the direct CVE link works.
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I wouldn't complain if work from the community (which is just as important as the browser itself) wasn't artificially restricted. As a previous extension developer, an avid extension user, and also OSS contributor, it strikes agai
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I still use FF on a desktop, but on Android is not Firefox for me. It's just as dumb (if not dumber) than chrome, and serves no purpose whatsoever without addons. I also don't get the point of limiting addons to a vetted whitelist
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I was on the last PPC during the ppc->x86. My experience on it was that after a year it was starting to be hard to find new releases containing a ppc build already, and those who did very frequently were poorly tested. Although OSX relea
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
You could argue that with emacs modules nowdays you can implement a full compositor by linking-in parts of wlroots if you really wanted to. My point is that you don't have to do any of that in X11 since window-management is implemented
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
Having a separate window management service is perhaps the greatest blessing of X11. This is one area where X11 offers endless choice, with sometimes dramatic differences between each. Experimenting with different window managers is somethi
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
It's almost unthinkable to me that you consider/ed gmail to be better. mutt was miles ahead of gmail already back then, and the difference just grew with the various gmail redesigns. I'd like to know why you gave it up for gm
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
As if this was available 25 years ago. IMHO the real issue is embedded pngs in _fonts_, but YMMV. Feel free to start rewriting libpng and freetype in rust. See you in 25 years?

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