bsdubernerd

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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
Rant ahead. I hate QtQuick controls with a passion. They don't generally feel better than Electron widgets. I say that as a linux user, which also happens to be a dev with tons of Qt experience, which understands the appeal of QML, but
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
You don't have direct control over caches, however if you have control over memory layout you can indirectly influence how the code performs by leveraging the proper cache sizes/lanes. If that's your goal, you cannot focus on
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I used to work with C++ almost exclusively, but accepted to use more interactive languages for most of my work mostly for faster iteration. C++ is definitely not my main choice anymore, but still use it daily. C++ has pretty much unmatched
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
Master is used in dozen of other contexts to mean "primary", "source", "original". I found the name to be perfectly apt for the purpose. Are people changing the name for master records too? Should we change the
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
The problem is not the self-signed cert or CA. The problem is managing trust on the devices themselves. Imagine you want to trust only _your_ self-signed cert or CA root for a specific service. Good luck making that work. This issue should
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
Wait.. wasn't the a good chunk of the "webextension" transition to allow better interoperability? After some time, it looks to me as if no real change has happened. The webextension model is still too weak in several areas to
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
Displaying gobs of output in a terminal is pretty much the most useless benchmark you can do for a terminal emulator. You never watch output that goes by faster than you can read, unless you're actively watching movies through aalib or
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
DDG always omitted terms as far as I can remember (definitely 1+y). I can't say for sure if this got more frequent in recent times or not.
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
DDG also omits search terms, sadly. It just does so a bit less blatantly than Google.
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I always used and use PHP because it gets the s$$$ done. But truth be told, the hate is deserved. It never was a particularly efficient language, which might not matter that much, but it was riddled with gotchas, warts and horrible soluti
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
You're absolutely right of course. But it's still a chicken-and-egg problem. YT is frequently the only platform where content creators publish because of network effects. I guess it's too easy for me to continue using YT for
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I'm happy to support content creators with patreon when they offer a way to do so. _Especially_ when they offer a way to see their videos off YouTube. I'd never pay a dime for YT itself due to their policies and overall platform.
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
The parent's post is spot on IMHO. The analog possibilities of the touchbar can really help in doing creative work, and I never thought of it this way. But it's still overblown though, since the same interface is available on the
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Git-assembler: update Git branches using high-level instructions(thregr.org)
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
The entire industry is broken regarding this fact. Old tested/working software developed for 10 years, dozen contributors spanning the entire history but with a last commit older than 12 months on github? Dead project. Heck reading on
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
Google munging the URL on it's own search results to look like a breadcrumb bar is among the primary reasons I do not use google.com as my default search engine anymore. I'm surprised they didn't do the same on the URL bar in
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I'd really wish there was a standard for large-size battery packs an a simple, open protocol for the battery to advertise charge/load limits as well as charging method. This would totally change the dynamic of EVs. Go to a station
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I've been using ThinkPads X1 for 5+ years, company provided, so I have no real attachment to the device, which is something which is hard to account for when doing reviews of items you buy. Currently on a X1 Yoga 3rd gen, I could run
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I'm pretty fond of Mantis, as mentioned, but I've seen effective usage of both github/lab issues with good usage of labels and a little bit automation. Since much more automation is required to integrate even a lean bugtrac
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
My first hot guess would be: "issues". Gitolite is just managing raw git repositories. I'm using gitolite for personal (read: non-public) projects, and I wouldn't want to use anything else. I love how minimal it is, and
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
Sigh. What about fixing backups so that I don't need this? There is always something absolutely odd with Signal. The obtuse insistence in creating it's own vault makes it annoying to use to share media and to make backups. Down to
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
If you don't support the platform somebody else will complain OR send you some code to do so, at which point you're going to be seen as bad if you don't include it anyway. It is cynic, but for platforms such as Android or iOS
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
Can I abuse an Audio Worklet to get around timeout throttling? What's stopping me to do so?
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
It also doesn't help that Rust keeps on pushing on the idea that "static linking is the only way to go". This is another cargo-cult which I wish didn't end up being engrained so deep in the toolchain because while it has
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I like the ephemeral nature of IRC. It's supposed to be for real-time communication, the "chat" in irC, not for keeping bouncers. Bouncers defeat the point of IRC entirely. I also use slack btw, and discord, and matrix too, s
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
Not with smartphones. There's a reason an old raspeberry pi, a device with a fraction of a smartphone power - and without a screen to booth, it an infinitely more valuable device. You can buy used smartphones on ebay for nothing. They
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
During the Amiga times, users would scold you for writing a dialog prompt with non-standard placement of buttons.
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
I absolutely do remember this. Horrible. I think, during that time, Windows was the absolute worst offender. I always used windows/mac and linux together during that time. Early versions of OSX on PPC were pretty consistent. I didn&#x2
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by bsdubernerd 6y ago
This is a major set back introduced with HTTP/2 and I'm not sure why this is not mentioned often. Under firefox you can set "network.http.sdpy.enable" to false to switch back to HTTP/1. The improvement I have with H
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by bsdubernerd 7y ago
Absolutely tangential but I love this style of illustration, especially all the technical drawings of the era. Works of art on themselves.

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