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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
The libsixel website lists several that support it. Xterm can support this in VT430 emulation mode, but support needs to be enabled at compile time.
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I think I agree generally with the thesis of this article. In my view, the value of these types of tools (Suckless & friends) doesn't come from simplicity per se, but more from the fact that they can be debugged at all when they br
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
Every time I see these things, I wish Sixel graphics[0] were better supported, or else some more modern alternative. Being able to use GNUPlot with Sixel output or tools like lsix[1] is really cool! I think if support / libraries &#x2F
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
While I'm not super up on these newfangled app distribution systems, I've had mostly negative experiences with both Snaps and Flatpaks. As someone that administrates a small handful of workstations and a server or two, I just don&
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
As others have noted, this doesn't seem to collect the full article text, just stuff that you would get from an RSS fee. From the title, I expected something more like newspaper3k[0]. I used that for an NLP class during undergrad to co
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
This one, as I recollect: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I'm not a Windows user... but didn't they already do this with OneGet? Did that get deprecated? Is this just a re-branding?
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
Joplin[0] supports code highlighting and TeX math. I assume you just need TeX for equations, not for the whole document. It's also open source, and works with several different sync back-ends. I've been using it for some time and
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I'll take your word for it; I haven't worked in that field. I do still think it would interesting to see a comparative benchmark though. I know the Go compiler tries to use AVX and friends where available. I doubt it will ever bea
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I would expect Rust to be faster. I never claimed Go would be faster than Rust, but that it would be faster than Python. I think for rust, the barrier of entry is high in that it is a difficult language to learn. Admittedly, I don't kn
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I would definitely agree that it depends on what kind of scientific computing you are doing. For big numerical stuff and things that need to run on supercomputers, C/C++/FORTRAN are definitely very relevant and I don't see th
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I would be curious to see what the performance is like in Go. I've been experimenting with it a bit lately, and coming from a mostly C and Python background, I have thus far found it easy to pick up. I haven't tested the performan
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
FPGAs can achieve very compelling performance when programmed properly, but usually not for compute bound workloads. Most interesting problems are memory bound these days, and that's where FPGAs shine, since you can design your hardw
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
Agreed. I can’t think of the last time I had to use FTP.
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
I use it from time to time to download ISOs or source tarballs. It's handy not to have to use an external program for that.
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
Slackware still lives. I'm running it on my daily driver right now. I actually just started using Slackware a few months ago too, so it's gained at least one new user in the last 12 months. Many updates are pushed to https:/
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
> No need of proprietary code and apps Joplin is open source, which is a big part of the sell to me. It definitely isn't the best of all possible note taking systems that could ever exist, but it's the best open source one I&#x
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
Shout out to https://joplinapp.org/ I was an Evernote user when I was on macOS. When I switched to Linux, a proper web clipper was something I really missed. I'm now on Joplin and it does everything I used to use Evern
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
> This is extremely ironic, since Google originally rose to popularity because it was much better at "real" search than the competitors. Here's a thought I had while reading your comment... what about a hybrid of HN/l
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
I use Joplin[0], mostly because it's the only thing I've found that has a client that works offline on Linux. (There's also TagSpaces, but the UI never really clicked with me). I've often wished to have a "graph&quo
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
I would be curious to see to what extent it supports error recovery. Perhaps I missed it, but I didn't see anything that specifically addressed that. This seems like it would be very compelling, especially for small scale stuff. Being
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
> One of the biggest problems with IRC is that there is no immediately obvious way to jump into a channel and browse or search the history. There are many solutions available to do this. Many channels publish chat logs publicly, which ca
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
Not with type C. But I’ve seen friends break the very similar wafer in HDMI ports. All it takes is for one fragment if debris to get wedged in the wrong way, and now that port on your expensive device is broken irreparably. It may have that
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
Personally, I have only ever had negative experiences with type C (touchbar MacBook pro, Nintendo Switch). Type C was one of the main reasons I sold my MBP and switched to Linux. It was just impossible to find peripherals / cables that
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
Looks interesting. Shell can be a good tool for this type of thing, as long as rigorous care is taken to maintain good quality. I view it kind of like PHP, Perl, or JavaScript... you can definitely write good code in these languages, but it
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
> We can't do this for the memory wall however You're changing the effective throughput weather you do it by upping the clockrate or deepening the pipeline. Using half the data per cycle at twice the clock rate will cause the s
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
> Most of the transistors in a modern computation environment are just sitting there waiting to be touched by an instruction True, but it's important to note that if all the transistors in a modern CPU switched on at once, it would
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
I was curious and looked up some sources... Here is the source on Google being 4% of US GDP: [0] Rockefeller being worth 1-2% of US GDP is sourced from [1] on his Wikipedia page. Math checks out. More fun facts: Apple is also around 4% [2].
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
A GTX770 is the only special peripheral. I guess I can't rule out motherboard issues though, other than that when it used to dual boot Linux, the Linux side always ran just fine.
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by charlesdaniels 7y ago
I'm not going to sit here and defend Linux on the usability front (from the perspective of usability to a typical layperson at least). Laptop support is definitely hit-or-miss, though it's come a long way in the last few years. Bu

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