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by buserror 1y ago
Grub is like a turd that won't flush. It's been completely unnecessary for years, is massively overcomplicated, pretty much unusable as a shell with it's 1995 idioms, and there are much, MUCH lighter (and as useful) replaceme
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by buserror 1y ago
At home I have a 48xLTO5 changer with 4 drives (I picked for a song a while back! I actually don't need it but heck, it has a ROBOT ARM), and at work I'm currently provisioning a 96 LTO 9 tape drive dual-rack. With 640 tapes a
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by buserror 2y ago
Funny that, I was looking recently for a small, local smtp server to get notifications from my printer and other stuff and... there isn't. All you get are the ginormous ones with decades of crud attached. So I ended up writing my o
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by buserror 2y ago
Oh I agree it is not foolproof, in fact I never understood why saturated math isn't 'standard' somewhere, even as an operator. Given we have 'normalisation' operator there's alway a way to find a natural lookin
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by buserror 2y ago
I used to do quite a bit of SIMD version of critical functions, but now I rarely do -- one thing to try is isolate that code, and run it in the Most Excellent Compiler Explorer [0]. And stare at the generated code! More often than not, the
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by buserror 2y ago
If your code is compartimented properly, a lower layers (sub objects) doesn't have to have to do all kind of preparations just because a higher layer has "special needs". For example, pseudo code in a sub-function: if (that)
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by buserror 2y ago
I played quite a bit with MessagePack, used it for various things, and I don't like it. My primary gripes are: + The Object and Array needs to be entirely and deep parsed. You cannot skip them. + Object and Array cannot be streamed whe
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by buserror 2y ago
The day is still young. Wait for it, there'll be one (or 3) soon. With 865 dependencies pulled in by cargo :-)
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by buserror 2y ago
I use for pairing etc and it's great, but the rule editor is just completely bonkers. I tried several times to add a gesture move for the 'gesture' button on my 3S, and eventually gave up! Seems you need to know the exact key
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by buserror 2y ago
More importantly, what do you use for toolpath generation? I haven't found anything open source that really works...
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by buserror 2y ago
Having had a play with both Supermicro and ASRock Rack boards for workstations (admittedly, only H12's so not the "most recent" but from my cursory glance and newer boards, nothing has changed that much), SuperMicro board fee
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by buserror 2y ago
IPMI is such an improvement on the old ISA-style iochips, and not even sure they are more expensive these days! It's not just the remote/web access which is great, plain 'introspection' with tools like ipmiutil and ipmit
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by buserror 2y ago
Haven't played with these yet, but they do look interesting. Might have also to add support for the new IO blocks in my AVR simulator simavr[0] -- I still use the AVR a lot, since they have no pipeline and other fancy CPU optimization,
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by buserror 2y ago
Wish it'd preview RAW files. We've been spoiled on Mac for 25+ years with GraphicConverter, and since I switched to Linux desktop more or less full time, that is one of the tool I miss the most.
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by buserror 2y ago
Aahhh, I still have my set of floppies for MacMinix! I ran than on a Powerbook 140 back then, it was quite cool! This predates Linux by quite a bit, having any way to have a shell on MacOS back then was incredible.
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by buserror 2y ago
I've been building distros for years, and the most wasteful part of it is running zillions of auto . process that waste most of the build time of each projects looking for mostly the same things. I always thought it was insane. Perhap
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by buserror 3y ago
The IIgs UI is not simplified at all, it had pretty much all the toolkits the Mac had in terms of user interface. It had all the graphics bits, the IPC bits, even networking, layered filesystem etc etc; it is often overlooked how far they h
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by buserror 3y ago
No, not until quite a few versions later.
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by buserror 3y ago
Extra memory and performance is invariably passed down to people who will come up with lovely bloat to fill the void :-) I find it quite horrifying in many ways to see how much resources are used for so very little in terms of user benefi
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by buserror 3y ago
Yes there are a few tweaks to make -- I worked in 'passes' in the code, and my last 'pass' at the menus was a little while ago, normally I go and fix the little nags as I go along. Last (big) pass was the text editor, wh
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by buserror 3y ago
Aqua was something else when it came out wasn't it? BUT -- fun fact, that pulsing "OK" button was using 30%+ CPU on my iMac DV back then... The price you had to pay for lickable UIs :-)
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by buserror 3y ago
It is not terribly difficult to make 'crafted' UI localizable, there are a few rules to follow that's all. I worked for apple back in the day and shipped software translated in countless languages, and the same 'crafted&
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by buserror 3y ago
I was pondering using Chicago as default font, but it is pretty 'typecast' (no pun intended, this time ;-)) -- Charcoal (that was used in System 8.x onward) is a lot less 'known' and also, I think, a significant improvem
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Show HN: Libmui is a macOS Classic widget lib for Linux(github.com)
300 points by buserror 3y ago|82 comments
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by buserror 3y ago
Thanks for that post, I wish people stopped pushing ever so more complicated build systems, opaque, non-backward compatible between their own versions when a 2 pages Makefile would work just fine, and still work in 20 years time.
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by buserror 3y ago
All of this work for buttons that toggle on a mouse/finger DOWN. How irritating that there is no intermediate state on the mouse DOWN and the toggle on the mouse/finger UP. Because it allows you to /cancel/ the action..
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by buserror 3y ago
I can confirm that IRC still works! Pfewwwww..... /me takes his coat.
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by buserror 3y ago
You could try Dave Brubeck "time out" as an introduction to jazz, it is awesome in many ways and has quite a few catchier tunes. Also Bill Evans Trio and listen to that first. Only problem is that you'll be addicted for life
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by buserror 3y ago
It's all a US ploy to make you spend money. In europe nobody changes their oil every year it's absolutely bonkers when I read that. My new BMW X5 manufacturer first service is set at 18000 miles that's likely 2+ years of
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by buserror 3y ago
Same here, I use tilix as my new favourite, it has panes & tabs that are just there without having me to remember a complex combo... If I'm remote well I do it the old school way with gnu screen! I tried a few times to see if I cou

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