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by gmueckl 9mo ago
This question sounds to me like you suspect some outright evil getting projected here. That would go too far. The wayland project tried to get the support of X developers early so that they could become a sort of "blessed" X succe
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by gmueckl 9mo ago
Not quite. Wayland was created in part to draw developers away from X. Seeking buy-in from Xorg developers specifically was a big part of it.
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by gmueckl 9mo ago
This argument is actually backwards: one of the goals of the wayland project is to draw development away from X. If wayland didn't exist, people would have worked on X11 a lot more.
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by gmueckl 9mo ago
Let's be clear that meddling means destroying freedom and democracy in Europe. That's the stated goal of the US at this point.
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by gmueckl 9mo ago
Wait a second... making a product that is safe and easy to use requires removing or mitigating potential hazards involving product. Building safeguards around a feature that can be used to hurt people in significant ways is exactly that, is
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by gmueckl 9mo ago
This is not simply an excuse. Android phones are prevalent in countries where smartphones offer the only realistic access to banking and cashless payments to the majority of the population. Scamming schemes targeting those users are also ve
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by gmueckl 9mo ago
I don't understand this take. There is no real way in which a private person can make law enforcement "more expensive". The government can always find means as long as it is supported by a sufficiently big fraction of its peo
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by gmueckl 9mo ago
Politely ask the scientists behind the studies for it. Most will respond.
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by gmueckl 9mo ago
It's still one or more PCBs, a battery, the LCD, the microphones, the microcontroller and the small components on the board. The capacity of the chip is besides the point. Each one of those components has a very deep production chain a
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
4 to 20mA signaling is only the start of a very specific rabbit hole. Someone had the brilliant idea to encode digital signals on top of the analog current loop. The result is the HART communication protocol, which is old, bloated, confusin
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
Not a smoker (never was), but it seems like these are emptied within a few days on average. I would consider that overly wasteful. Some countries have already enacted bans on dosposables. A EU wide ban might come soon.
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
I remember running into issues with link-style clickable text in some parts of the UI that was almost unidentifiable as clickable because it stood alone with no similar text in non-link style nearby for reference. There were other issues th
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
But no business is going to fix it. The market is captured. Only a radical change of insurance laws is going to have any impact. Mandate that insurance must be not for profit. Mandate at least decent minimal coverage standards and large ins
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
I wonder how many of these bugs are actually situations where the underlying algorithms are simply confronted with situations outside their valid input domains. This can happen easily with 3d surface representations of geometries.
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
Not necessarily. Sometimes, the desired final shape is clear, but the path there isn't when using typical parametric modeling steps with the desire to get a clean geometry.
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
I personally don't trust Republican members of congress to stand up against their administration in any meaningful and coordinated way. But I would love to see that happen as the start of a restoration of a functional balance of power.
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
Async/await should do a little more under the hood than what the typical OS threading APIs provide, for example forwarding function parameters and return values automatically instead of making the user write their own boilerplate struc
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
Other languages also have non-local qays of influencing compiler behavior, for example attributes in rust (standard) or compiler pragmas in C (non-standard). When reading working code, it doesn't matter whether the language mode allows
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
I can second that there are relatively small electronics manufacturers in Germany. I know a few myself, although I'm not working in that field.
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
I was looking at the roles of elected politicians in this, not the general public or the police force. I think I wasn't clear about this. A constitution should have peace and prosperity for the country as one of its goals. This means t
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
It is nearly impossible to argue for use of force and defend the current constitution at the same time. Those politicians would act against the one construct that gives them the legitimate power to act in the first place. On that path, the
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
Whatever these people do sets precedent due to the public exposure they get. If they start more (physical) confrontations, the more extreme among their supporters may see that as an invitation to become less peaceful. The administration wou
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
So you agree that font rendering had to be extended to support color modifiers as specified in Unicode? That is the kind of completely creep that I am pointing out. A bunch of control codes are historically part of character encodings, and
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
This isn't exactly true. Emojis and other symbols introduced new notions like colors that were not present before. I'm no longer certain that it is feasible to handcraft a font thwt contains all the symbols for codepoints affected
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
As much as I appreciate the expressiveness that comes from emojis and flags in Unicode, I am rather shocked by the growing technical complexity of decoding unicode into rwndwrable graphemes. Unicode was already worryingly complex before all
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
There are countries where the market for PCs and laptops is really tiny and the stores sell them at markups compared to US/European prices. Many of these countries are low wage countries, too, so these markups have a big impact on affo
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
The codification needs to become part of the process of passing acts. The government should be required to publish the updated code themselves along with any act that changed it. The whole concept that a commercial entity can have rights to
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
What's the source for this? Edit: just browsed some of the docs for current KDE libs and I see a lot of QWidget-derived custom widgets in there. I don't see how this stuff couldn't be used in a pure C++ codebase.
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
I do write and profile software of that kind and this experience is why I know this isn't a myth. Any mature program has a whole lot of code that actually isn't performance critical at all. For example, 3d software needs a really
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by gmueckl 10mo ago
The majority of a program's runtime is usually spent in only a tiny section of its code. That is where optimization benefits are. If it helps to separate out that code and compile it with different compiler switches, the additional ma

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