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by eddieh 5y ago
Okay, but builds can require additional python modules. Mesa requires Mako and won’t build without it.
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by eddieh 5y ago
Had to deal with this recently, Homebrew on macOS though. Meson build failed. Had to manually install Mako with pip, which also installed MarkupSafe. Then bitched that Homebrew (or Linuxbrew) will break in the future for some reason. So nex
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by eddieh 5y ago
Building X was already complex and annoying. While I hate autotools, I didn’t find Meson to be particularly better. If anything this is a lateral change. Instead of m4, shell, and makefiles, Meson has python, some python packages (managed w
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by eddieh 5y ago
Here he is talking about UNIX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54hrLTpsO5g
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by eddieh 5y ago
I pronounce it maggot despite knowing the “proper” pronunciation. I don’t care—it is maggot and that’s that.
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by eddieh 5y ago
My contrarian view: I pronounce it maggot. I think Mag-it sounds weird. That said, I’ve financially backed Magits development (Kickstarter iirc) and I use it almost everyday, but I don’t do merges with it. I’ve had some large merges go real
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by eddieh 5y ago
That’s outdated, not about tcsh, and mostly nonsense.
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by eddieh 5y ago
> If you've ever had a passing interest in Blender or 3d modeling I recommend checking out the donut tutorial, which is fast becoming the "hello world" of blender - > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T
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by eddieh 5y ago
Yes! I remember a bunch of shareware developers I respected used it. I chose to use eSellerate, because the fees were lower.
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by eddieh 5y ago
> Your docs belong in the code repository This is essential. If developers have to hunt down the documentation it will never be updated. It needs to be generated from plain text files in the same repository. Way to many times have I
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by eddieh 5y ago
Actually, I wish more projects had installable documentation. Obviously, I don't want WinHelp, but man pages, HTML, and PDFs easily installed to a discoverable place, yes please.
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by eddieh 5y ago
I think there's a huge amount of value in bringing more of the Linux and UNIX experience to the Mac. That way I can still use my iPhone and I can still us Logic and Pages, but I can run a window manager that I can modify and customize.
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by eddieh 5y ago
I'm always shocked to find major projects that use parser generators. A hand-written recursive descent parser is easier to write, read, understand, and modify. It's almost trivial to translate a language specification's gramm
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by eddieh 5y ago
That, perhaps, explains the sometimes unexpected anti-business/capitalist comments and sentiment here.
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by eddieh 5y ago
I see a bunch of posts about the iPad being a "consume" only device and that's totally totally wrong. I've had an iPad since day one, generation one and took notes with an aftermarket stylus. I used Keynote and OmniGra
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by eddieh 5y ago
> I can only suspect that MacOS becomes less power-user friendly That's pretty much been the trend for years now.
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by eddieh 5y ago
I downloaded a copy to keep handy, but my 30 year old Macintosh still works and has never needed to be repaired. It has survived 8 or 9 major moves and 3 different climates.
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by eddieh 5y ago
I love retrocomputing, but for whatever reason that font and color combo on my display is fuzzy and strains my eyes. I get the design aesthetic, but maybe a little modernization or deviation for readability might be in order.
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by eddieh 5y ago
If consumers start relying on niche subs en masse, then it is only a matter of time until Reddit is overrun with shills and sock puppets.
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by eddieh 5y ago
I don't think its overstated. The web is broken and search especially so. Now days I look for curated list to find interesting webpages and topics. Google ruined itself years ago, or maybe "we" ruined it.
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by eddieh 5y ago
The ZZ Top cameo in Back to the Future III was one of the best band cameos in history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcDylz37bnY
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by eddieh 5y ago
I've been toying with an idea like this too. I set my browser to never delete history items years ago, so I have a huge amount of daily web use that needs to be indexed. The browser's built in history search has saved me a few tim
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by eddieh 5y ago
I agree. That’s why I mostly use Eshell in Emacs, but if for some reason I’m in a stand-alone terminal emulator and need some advanced editing capabilities ^X ^E saves the day by firing up Emacs on the current input.
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by eddieh 5y ago
At the shell prompt type Ctrl-X Ctrl-E to edit in your $EDITOR
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by eddieh 5y ago
Are you kidding? If I produce any creative work, don't copy it without my permission, full stop. © 2021
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by eddieh 5y ago
Okay I had to look up what Flatpak was since the link doesn't begin with a summary, abstract, thesis statement, or overview of whatever the subject is. Would it be so hard to start with "Flatpak, a cross distribution package form
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by eddieh 5y ago
You're right. I can not fathom anyone trying to argue that readability is subjective. I guess some people will argue any point.
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by eddieh 5y ago
http://buildbot.net/
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by eddieh 5y ago
Ah, I don't have line wrapping enabled by default.
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by eddieh 5y ago
With nearly a million lines (some >100 MB) of dependencies, I can't believe it's not Electron.

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