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by ezst 3y ago
Anything that's not XMPP or based on it is inferior, IMO. And I'm not saying that for the troll (although it's easy to be dogmatic about such things). Facts are XMPP has awesome server implementations that scale to billions o
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by ezst 3y ago
There are more than a few decent Java GUI apps out there, some built with swing, some with JavaFX, some with SWT, maybe we will soon see some using jetbrains compose. I would say that the developer experience isn't bad at all, but if y
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by ezst 3y ago
You've been able to package your java apps so to not require that from your users for a very long time, and in the more recent years, with the compartmentalization of the JDK, you've been able to ship a very striped down version o
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by ezst 3y ago
I've been wanting to use LO's flatpacks on my fedora for a while, but I recently gave up and resorted to using the distros' RPMs even though they often lack behind. Global menu, Hi-DPI and kf5 VCL theming just don't work
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by ezst 3y ago
I'm glad that zulip exists, though I was only mildly impressed by its threading model. The complexity of dealing with threads doesn't magically disappears with it, instead of specific discussions being organized as one-off sub-cha
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by ezst 3y ago
There's also the http://prosody.im/ XMPP server that's written in Lua, and it's very successful there. The other major XMPP server implementation is in Erlang and they are equally praised, so that should tell
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by ezst 3y ago
Perhaps, but it doesn't mean that it's not the greatest for engineers, of does it? I've used a little bit of both and I don't see myself using anything but a prime nowadays. The new licensee (after HP completely dropped
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by ezst 3y ago
I mean, it's funny that you say so, because with the exception of "more environments", I've observed the exact opposite :) I'm a simple user with simple needs, though apparently that's already pushing the limit
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by ezst 3y ago
Is it, though? Wayland has solved a bunch of problems that I had become used to under Xorg to the point of not noticing anymore, and even though I bumped into new issues on Wayland at first (and tbh there are still few open out there), goin
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by ezst 3y ago
How ironic, the very thing OP warned against happened to Chrome: being now a monopoly it pushes very uncool stuff and no amount of geeks can undo that.
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by ezst 3y ago
> But none of these tools have ever really been expanded out or utilized to the same degree that the DOM has been utilized. I think you got the history backwards: the DOM was never designed to hold rich applications, controls and contain
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by ezst 3y ago
> I don't care about HTML and CSS and JS in specific, but yes, holy crud I want my native OS to be based on a user-inspectable XML-like tree. Yes please. I mean, that's been the case for most GUI toolkits I know of, for decades
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by ezst 4y ago
>> What makes you think those results would be neural, and not sponsored/SEOed the same way everything is these days? > Because it would be the less profitable bussiness. How so? Considering that almost everything on the web r
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by ezst 4y ago
> When people give Apple Music a cut of their song sales, or when people give Apple a cut of their iOS in game spending, it is not called advertisement. That's assuming the song or app you purchase isn't the result of heavy pro
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by ezst 4y ago
What makes you think those results would be neural, and not sponsored/SEOed the same way everything is these days? What makes you think the machine works for you and not the advertisers? Also, to this day, LLMs/ANNs are not capabl
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by ezst 4y ago
> Tax the rich and they go somewhere else (see recent discussions about the wealth tax in France) Let them go, then, the earlier the better and threat them as pariah. What good do you expect to gain from them at that rate?
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by ezst 4y ago
> Your understanding is very outdated. And yours may be very optimistic. LLMs are not knowledge bases, and ChatGPT has proven it times and times again by dreaming stories when asked for facts. Even though you could engineer a way to stru
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by ezst 4y ago
It already does some amount of features detection and targetted enhancing. Things like making this face smoother, or this sky bluer, or this grass greener, etc. From there, I wouldn't be too surprised if some details get added beyond w
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by ezst 4y ago
Not OP, but that sounds unnecessarily harsh. FreeCAD is much more approachable now than it was few years ago. It's definitely far from perfect, but it's getting substantially better and we should collectively encourage that. I als
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by ezst 4y ago
Not disagreeing with any of that, I was just thinking that very little of what's generally useful in blender for making art transposes well into something useful or convenient for CAD. The whole mindset is different: you generally don&
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by ezst 4y ago
Agreed. I have no problem with this looking and feeling like a rebase operation in a version control system: fix the "conflict" to continue re-applying the sequence of changes linearly, drop steps along the way that are irrelevant
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by ezst 4y ago
Things have improved quite a bit in the latest freecad versions, and I remember reading somewhere that the next one promises to solve whatever's left over. My biggest gripe with freecad isn't necessarily that (it's easy enoug
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by ezst 4y ago
I'm super glad this exists, this space definitely needs compelling open source alternatives to bring back the hobbyists scene from proprietary offerings (mostly fusion360), and every effort should be encouraged since this is a very dif
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by ezst 4y ago
Plus the fact that no AI of this kind can explain why it produced the output it did, it denies any amount of accountability/dependability. Maybe it's my academic/scientific background that shaped me this way, but using an inf
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by ezst 4y ago
It's a good question to ask nonetheless, if the answer is "we can't tell you exactly why we exposed you to this information preferentially, oh and by the way, we have no way to prove that pushing divisive and sometimes assume
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by ezst 4y ago
There's also Heptapod: https://heptapod.net/ > Heptapod is a community driven effort to bring Mercurial SCM support to GitLab™, started by Octobus, a company providing professional services around Mercurial.
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by ezst 4y ago
IMO it makes much more sense to do the opposite, and follow mastodon posts in the UX of a RSS reader. I personally haven't been liking any content aggregation outside of RSS/reddit because I can't take the timeline model of u
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by ezst 4y ago
Wow, what a pretty aggressive response. > That's completely made up on your end. I've been doing FOSS for 17 years and the vast majority of people were barely competent with any of them at all beyond whatever their chosen ponys
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by ezst 4y ago
I'm not aware that you can
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by ezst 4y ago
just type `hg serve` and that will spin-up a web UI like this one: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/graph/tip , seems to have been included since 2005 :)

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