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by dima55 10mo ago
Huh? I contribute to Debian; I don't aggressively patch anything. You can too.
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by dima55 10mo ago
Moving from a patch stack maintained by quilt to git is what this article is about.
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by dima55 10mo ago
Lots. Because many upstream projects don't have their build system set up to work within a distribution (to get dependencies form the system and to install to standard places). All distros must patch things to get them to work.
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by dima55 10mo ago
Yeah, have they ever actually used a garmin product? The hardware and the sound effects are excellent. Everything else is barely functional.
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by dima55 10mo ago
I use the `vnlog` and `feedgnuplot` shell tools HEAVILY to do data analysis and visualization. In emacs, these work well in shell-mode or in any buffer with `shell-command-on-region` (M-|). Not strictly emacs, but works great.
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by dima55 11mo ago
Maybe it's a fallacy and maybe it isn't. But I often hear people say "I don't use tool X because it doesn't actually increase my productivity". X is emacs or debuggers or profilers or Linux or version control o
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by dima55 11mo ago
The packaging is only one of ROS's numerous issues. Just do it yourself.
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by dima55 11mo ago
This is the ROS way: add more layers of crap on it until it sorta kinda works sometimes. If you want "reproducible package management", use Debian. ROS1 is already in stock Debian. Some of ROS2 is as well. If you actually want ros
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by dima55 11mo ago
Exciting. I just looked for docs about these new features, and can't find anything. Can you point us to these? Thanks!
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by dima55 1y ago
I like looking at these, but does why does it have to redline my cpu?
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by dima55 1y ago
This is HN. This thread is about data and backups. Yes.
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by dima55 1y ago
There are multiple cross-platform gui toolkits. What's wrong with QT?
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by dima55 1y ago
Does org-babel work? Do equations work?
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by dima55 1y ago
I blog with emacs using the long-abandoned o-blog generator. Anybody have something better? Using the org-mode exporter, with working org-babel and equations and all that. This article doesn't go into the details.
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by dima55 1y ago
I'm saying that all usage of docker that I have ever seen is as a laughably over-engineered schroot. Literally. It can probably do more stuff, but I haven't seen it.
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by dima55 1y ago
Are you referring to this Nix effort or to Docker? Because that largely applies to most usages of Docker.
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by dima55 1y ago
Eventually, yes I guess. But long before that the breaker and breakee both are notified, and the breakage hopefully is fixed. As it should be. I would hope the other aspirational software distribution systems (pip, npm, et al) ALSO do that,
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by dima55 1y ago
I'm also space and launch-vehicle adjacent. Using vnlog for data storage (like what you described, but with better tooling support) and feedgnuplot/gnuplotlib for visualization. Works great. The learning curve is really easy, you
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by dima55 1y ago
Important nitpick: this wasn't reported to the "Debian maintainers". In DEBIAN this was fixed long ago. The problem persists and was reported to people that work with Docker images, which is primarily people that don't w
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by dima55 1y ago
Because there are different use cases. About 100% of the people I talk to that use docker, are using it to make a separate set of dependencies available in a possibly-different distribution. For THOSE people, the ephemeral, stateless nature
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by dima55 1y ago
Kinda. Yeah. Ignorance really isn't a virtue, and at some point bending over backwards to support people that don't want to learn things is counterproductive.
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by dima55 1y ago
Look at "remake": a drop-in fork of GNU make, with an interactive debugger.
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by dima55 1y ago
Mine too. This is a feature :)
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by dima55 1y ago
Yeah. Thanks for writing all that up. I use TRAMP heavily, and any performance improvements would be welcome.
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by dima55 1y ago
But then you can't do other stuff. Remote LSP, gdb, etc, etc.
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by dima55 1y ago
Right. It kinda sucks for that purpose too, which gives Make a bad name.
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by dima55 1y ago
ROS is a collection of mostly-independent components, each of which is a not-as-good implementation of existing tooling. The implementers and the users mostly haven't grasped how to use the existing tooling, and the whole community is
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by dima55 1y ago
ROS usage is a great quick way to evaluate the doofusness levels of an org. It's such a dumpster fire on every level, no reasonable human should be going within a mile of that thing.
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by dima55 1y ago
Is there a single person in the world that LIKES the half-height up/down keys?
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by dima55 1y ago
LA and SF both have eruvs

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