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by dvdkon 1y ago
A pairing system as seen in e.g. Zigbee or BLE seems pretty good to me. Not everyone cares to implement it well and there's still no standard for web-based devices, but it's here and it works. I'd like to see more devices abl
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by dvdkon 1y ago
Same here. Django's was my first ORM, and at the time I didn't get all the hate directed at ORMs (except for making inefficient queries). Having used a few more ORMs since then, I still consider Django's to have found the bes
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by dvdkon 1y ago
Yes, and I agree that bad parenting is the real issue, but I also have to acknowledge that leaving children unsupervised will have better results if they don't have the option of just watching a screen. That said, I don't see any
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by dvdkon 1y ago
Sadly I don't think so, just because it looks "too functional". If comments on the web are anything to go by, being familiar to C and JS programmers is one of the main reasons for Go's success. I think it has plenty of i
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by dvdkon 1y ago
I'd take the middle road, provide a pad_left/pad_right function or method with keyword arguments for specifying things like the padding character. With how often I need to pad some string (often but not every day), this would be m
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by dvdkon 1y ago
Half an acre that you have to care about, mind you. And work is not the only place people go to in a city. Add all those other amenities other commenters already spoke about, and your half-acre would have to be in the middle of at least a m
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by dvdkon 1y ago
I don't see the problem. There have been lower-level APIs in the graphics stack for a long time (e.g. Mesa's Gallium), only now they are standardised and people are actually choosing to use them. It's not like higher-level AP
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by dvdkon 1y ago
I based my comment mainly on my knowledge of communist Czechoslovakia and other East Bloc countries. There the country was hardly lawless and the state was pretty efficient in its efforts to find and punish dissidents. Laws were being bent
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by dvdkon 1y ago
At a glance, it looks much better than all previous attempts I've seen. And I really appreciate that they're presenting technical documentation from the start instead of an opaque "trust us, it's safe". I'd sti
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by dvdkon 1y ago
> It's just a question of the severity of the punishment for violating regulations. A couple of small fines for an unlicensed networking and collaborating - and there will be no one left. I don't think you give people enough cr
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by dvdkon 1y ago
Less mad political culture? Walkable cities? A nicer place to live for your less-wealthy neighbours? I can't think of much else that would impress a rich or soon-to-be-rich person from the US especially. And I don't think offering
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by dvdkon 1y ago
Yes, and the devs' refusal to ever put the game on sale has led to me still not buying Factorio, despite hearing how good it is. I'm just not sure of the value when I buy most my games at 10 EUR or (much) lower.
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by dvdkon 1y ago
Where does that stop, though? Should people only ever explore their own city? Most people will only be able to move once every few years.
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by dvdkon 1y ago
The linked WebKit bug report seems to have some activity from today, so I'm hopeful this will be fixed at the source: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259787
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by dvdkon 1y ago
Where are you measuring the power consumption? I've recently started measuring the wattage of all the various electronics in my collection, and I haven't found any computer that's not underpowered and draws under 25W from the
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by dvdkon 1y ago
Except for the Pico (which is very different from the full RPi), you could do all that with a mini-PC. There are certainly usecases, especially using the RPi's low-level IO, where that's not possible, but as you yourself have show
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by dvdkon 1y ago
You should worry, system users are relied on to effectively separate privileges even in "single-user" desktops. This has led to privilege escalation before, not to mention the potential for browsers to access these ports [0]. That
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by dvdkon 1y ago
There's often no one to make them accountable. With a building, people know that having a supervisor that's not from the contracted company is valuable, but this hasn't caught on in software.
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by dvdkon 1y ago
Then you have to deal with port collisions when some other software wants to use that port. And keeping a port open without any authentication is terrible for security, even if it only binds on localhost, so you have to find some secure way
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by dvdkon 1y ago
It seems to be working for QGIS, where multiple consulting companies provide probably the majority of the project's manpower. It's certainly a change from fully-volunteer-driven FLOSS without deadlines or promised features, but I
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by dvdkon 1y ago
It's certainly technically possible. Phone motherboards have limited wired IO, but USB host mode is enough for a lot of things. The problem is how locked-down most phones are, and how hard it is to modify their software. Even for the F
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by dvdkon 1y ago
That's not the fault of Wayland, it's a GNOME problem. Wayland being just a protocol has the annoying effect that you get DE-specific bugs. It also means that after switching DEs, you might escape some GNOME-specific bugs. I'
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by dvdkon 1y ago
> I really have no other plausible explanation... I have a better one: They designed for embedded devices first, desktops second or not at all. The first users of Wayland were things like vehicle infotainment systems, which operate under
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by dvdkon 1y ago
KiCad seems to work fine under XWayland in my experience, with some severe bugs under Wayland (and not just window management & cursor warping-related, though that's a problem too).
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by dvdkon 1y ago
My first "real" usecase for Typst was a poster [0], since it was much easier than doing it in LaTeX. It's missing some features, like wrapping around figures and flowing text between boxes, but TeX doesn't have the secon
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by dvdkon 1y ago
Sure, I'd settle for self-driving trams, but it doesn't seem like we're even close to self-driving trains, and they encounter far fewer pedestrians. Self-driving metro trains are here, though, but those are way more expensive
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by dvdkon 1y ago
If you're going for a small EXE, I'd recommend telling GCC to optimise for size with "-Os". Link-Time Optimisation with "-flto" might also help, depending on how the libraries were built.
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by dvdkon 1y ago
A paid service/app would surely never pull such a trick, right? It sadly requires a lot of vigilance not to fall for these "petty deceptions".
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by dvdkon 1y ago
Digikey has the modules for under 4 EUR in unit quantities, but they aren't the friendliest to integrate, since they only have pads on the bottom. I also found some boards with the bare chip for just over 4 EUR there, you can also find
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by dvdkon 1y ago
I suppose making yourself more than an immediately replaceable cog in the machine is part of what the author is advocating, ideally in a societally beneficial position. Moreover, many businesses operate under the "everyone is replaceab

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